Corporate entry: Sugar Mills - Mourilyan. Howard Smith Industries Pty Limited, Mourilyan Sugar Mill, Mourilyan, 4858
Summary
The mill was founded in 1882 by the Mourilyan Sugar Company; it was acquired by its present owners in June 1964, following a takeover of the Australian Sugar Company Ltd Company advice was that a considerable quantity of records was destroyed when a move was made recently, into new offices.
Main office record holdings include: Register of assets. July 1914-June 1974, 1 volume (plant inventory).
Cash Book. May 1946-April 1973, 1 volume.
Ledger. February 1925-December 1954, 1 volume.
Cane purchase ledger. June 1917-July 1924, 1 volume, January 1924-June 1941, 1 volume.
Harvesting record. On cards, 1934-ca. 1960, 2 boxes.
Wage book. August 1915-October 1915, 1 volume.
Laboratory: Chemist report. Weekly, details of cane crushed, ratio of sugar to cane bulk crushed, purity etc., 1914-1950, 1 volume.
Laboratory office: Records of Robert Sloan. (Robert Sloan worked at Yarraville Refinery, Melbourne, and Macknade Mill. For a period he was manager of the Mourilyan Mill).
Letterbook. May, 1910-March 1913, 1 volume.
Notebook. 'Notes on Refining Work and etc. 15 March 1893', has details of refining methods, chemistry, statistics, including data on Macknade Mill, 1897-1899, 1 volume.
Notebooks. With random jottings of work projects, statistics, calculations, daily activities, from 1910, 4 volumes.
Notebooks. General administrative and laboratory data, n.d., similar age to the above, 2 volumes.
Store shed: An extensive collection of historical records was stored in the shed rafters. This included sign-on and wages books, production reports, mill statistics, field books etc., ca.1915-1957, some records damaged.