Corporate entry: Sugar Mills - Ingham. C.S.R. Limited, Victoria Mill, Victoria Estate, via Ingham, 4850
Summary
Victoria Estate the largest Australian sugar mill was established by C.S.R. in the Herbert Valley in 1883; it has remained under the control of that company. A considerable quantity of historical material is held at various locations in the administration sector.
Main office: Letter books, to head office, November 1925-January 1936, 1 volume. January 1936-October 1940, 1 volume.
Inward letters and reports, December 1907-April 1934, 1 volume, records held to present.
Wages books, July 1917-June 1942, (missing 1919), 28 vols.
Tramway agreements, 1900-1910, including:
1. Repairs East Ingham to Sandy Creek.
2. Conditions of lease, Lucinda Jetty.
3. Purchase of Council tramways.
4. Specimens - 5% receipts.
5. Lucinda - stone tramway, headquarters letters.
6. Correspondence headquarters to Hinchinbrook Shire Council, 20 July 1911, copy.
7. Draft agreement H.S.C. and C.S.R. Co. reply.
8. Agreement H.S.C. and C.S.R. Co., 1900.
9. Copy of letter in agreement, 12 December 1906, 1 package.
Technical Field Department, Rainfall Records, Meteorological Bureau records, 1894-present, 3 sheets.
Production Department: Letter books, head office in, December 1929-1976, 18 volumes.
Letter books, head office out, July 1949-December 1955, 1 volume.
Cutting book 'industrial matters', November 1945-December 1949, 1 volume.
Engineers Section: Correspondence, head office, January 1939-October 1941, 1 volume. April 1947-September 1948, 1 volume.
Memos to general manager, January 1942-May 1947, 1 volume.
Miscellaneous 'Industrial Matters, Overseas Orders, Reports, Engineering Matters, Transport and Tramlines', from ca. 1940, several folders.
Engineering data books, 1923-1940, 1 volume.
Engineers mill reports, 1942-1945, 1 volume.
Cane Inspectors Office: 'History books, farm books with details of year, area farmed and harvested, weight, gross value, C.C.S., description, 1946-present, 5 volumes.
Correspondence, inward, April 1949-April 1953, 1 volume, April 1953-May 1957, 1 volume, June 1957-November 1959, 1 volume, January 1962-March 1965, 1 volume.
Cane Inspector's reports, January 1932 December 1946, 1 volume, 1947-1957, one volume.
Cane Inspector's field books, No. 1 Victoria Estate, Gairloch, Cordelia, Ingham, Yuruga, 1929, 1 volume,
No 2. Leach, Long Pocket, Lannercost, 1929, 1 volume
Also 3 undated volumes, similar age to the above.
No. 1. Stone River, Trebonne, Lannercost Extension.
No. 2. Fairford, Beeva.
No. 3. Trebonne, Fairford, Ingham, Gairloch.