Corporate entry: Sugar Mills - Ayr. Pioneer Sugar Mills Limited, Pioneer MILL, BRandON, via Ayr, 4807
Summary
Established as a plantation in 1882, it passed to Drysdale Brothers and Company in 1883. A public company was established in 1960. The same company operates Inkerman Mill at Home Hill. Records held in the administration block include the following. A collection of correspondence, taxation records, ledgers and cash books, from ca. 1922.
Land lease records, Drysdale Brothers, 1935-1944, 1 volume.
Architects plans, Inkerman mill, n.d.
Architects plans, employee's cottages, industrial buildings and sheds, on Pioneer Estate, 61 buildings. The office safe holds wage records, from 1885, 10 volumes.
Ledgers, from 1929, 4 volumes.
Farmers' cane payment sheets, 1945-present. See also Delamothe Collection of North Queensland History, James Cook University.