Corporate entry: Sugar Mills - Home Hill. Pioneer Sugar Mills Limited, Inkerman Sugar Mill, Bruce Highway, via Home Hill, 4806
Summary
Inkerman mill was erected in 1914 by Drysdale Bros and Co., of Pioneer mill via Ayr The two mills have been operated by a public company Pioneer Sugar Mills Limited, since 1960. Head office of the company is in Brisbane. The advice was that a considerable quantity of Inkerman mill records have been destroyed Current holdings include the following:
Main office: Ledgers, from 1916.
Photographs, including a small quantity of historical views of local farming, floods, railways and the Burdekin river.
Laboratory: Annual reports, field department, 1930-present.
Individual farm records. Field records, 1914-present.
Climatic records, August 1917-present.
Mill production statistical chart, 1915-present. Chart indicating major plant installations, mill stoppages, cyclonic disturbances, comments regarding chemical aspects of production.
Farm surveys and maps, 1934-present. Map showing chronological expansion of mill tramlines.
Engineers section: Production chart, comprehensive details, 1914-present, (a copy of the latter is held in the Delamothe Collection of North Queensland History).