Corporate entry: Sugar Mills - Goondi C.S.R. Limited, Goondi Sugar MILL, Goondi, 4860
Summary
The Goondi sugar mill and plantation was established by the C.S.R. Company in 1884, to the north of the present city of Innisfail The mill has been operated continuously by C.S R. from 1886. A substantial collection of mill records is held in the administration office; they include the following:
Correspondence, head office. in, January 1890-December 1890, 1 bundle, January 1891-December 1891, 1 bundle, January 1893-December 1893, 1 bundle, January 1895-December 1895, 1 bundle, January 1900-December 1900, 1 bundle, January 1902-December 1902, 1 bundle, January 1903-December 1903, 1 bundle, January 1909-December 1909, 1 bundle.
Letterbooks, general, June 1884-May 1885, 1 volume, May 1885-July 1886, 1 volume, October 1886-August 1887, 1 volume, May 1889-July 1890, 1 volume, September 1892-August 1894, 1 volume, March 1894-December 1902, 1 volume, January 1903-February 1909, 1 volume, October 1910-September 1931, 1 volume, October 1911-July 1918, 1 volume, September 1915-November 1919, 1 volume, pp. 69-113 of the final volume 1915-1919, contains statistical data relating to mill operations and production.
Papers regarding Royal Commission into the Sugar Industry, 1943. Including typescript duplicate of questionnaire completed by Goondi Mill, 3 bundles.
Newspaper cutting book. With extracts from Sydney Morning Herald, Cairns Post, Townsville Daily Bulletin, John-stone River Advocate, relating to employment of Pacific Islanders, 1919 Royal Commission into the Sugar Industry, new sugar award, June, 1919, housing and wages for mill workers,labour strikes, Babinda 1919, Goondi, 1920-1921, insect pests, molasses pollution of streams, 1926, 1884-1940, 1 volume.
Farm master plan. 1919-present.
Statistical charts. 1882-present.
Rainfall charts. 1882-present, 2 sheets.
Engineering notes. 1890, 1 bundle.
Engineering notes, Goondi. August, 1945, 1 folder.
Engineering and fuel notes. 1907-1930, 3 bundles, September 1933-August 1945, 1 bundle.
Workers' employment records. May, 1954-present, several volumes.
Union claims and labour matters. May 1940-June 1940, 1 folder.
Photograph collection including management and worker groups, scenes of Goondi mill, harvesting and railways, cyclone destruction 1918; single prints and albums in 1 carton.