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Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Wednesday 18 April 1973 to Tuesday 20 May 1975 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Extraneous matter negotiations, weighbridge clock, Sunday harvesting, harvesting tribunal, cane burning, aerial rat baiting, possibility of Cairns becoming a sub-artesian area, farm peak, Mill capacity, quota reductions, relative payment scheme, crushing rates, wholestalk provisions, wild samples, nil-zones, grouping and scheduling, report on discussion with CSR representatives from David North Laboratory, Brisbane regarding means of increasing productivity in Hambledon area, mill take-overs, superannuation, proposal to purchase Hambledon Mill, feasibility of amlagamating Mulgrave and Hambledon Mills as a joint co-operative venture, excess burning, harvesting rotations.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Thursday, 22 Febrary 1945 to Wednesday, 15 February 1950 at various Cairns locations.
Includes a copy of Circular Number "D"9 dated 22 January 1945 referring to rules for conducting growers' meetings.
Items included in Minutes:
Cane payments, meal allowance, establishment of a trading concern, eradication of foreign grasses, Weil's disease, permits for petrol and dieselene, action against government regarding new sugar agreement, approved cane varieties, substitution of areas, administrative levy, Toft harvester, Royal Commission inquiring into the settlement of servicemen on cane farms, cane cutter shortages, corn and fodder for horses, cane plant prices, prevention of bushfires, establishment of sugar refinery in North Queensland, protection of bird life, mechanical loading, dentist propaganda against the use of sugar.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Saturday 15th January 1927 to Thursday 10th January 1935. This inventory item also includes Minutes No 1 District 19 April 1926. Including a photocopy of the rules and regulations of the Hambledon Mill Cane Suppliers Association.
Items included in Minutes:
Purchase of the 1927 crop, delivery price of cane, relative percentage system, assignment of land, burnt cane penalties, regulation of varieties, fighting and defence fund, harvesting conditions, offer and terms by Hambledon Mill to purchase 1931 crop, cane values, reduction of wages for cutters, use of British cane knives, increased capacity at Hambledon Mill, 75% British cutters for 1932 season, transportation of cane, Tableland nursery cane, amendments to the sugar agreement, rats, fertilizer rebates, ambulance levy, variation to the sugar industry award, workers compensation, copy of CSR conference report 27-28 February 1933, delivery prices, co-efficient of work, election of Mr Browne as Chairman on 13 April 1933, compulsory signing on of cutters , AWU refusal of endorsementof tickets of cane cutters, experiment stations, purchase of 1934 crop, constitution of a cane pest board, cane pest fund.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Monday, 25 February 1935 to Sunday 19 February 1939 at various Cairns locations. Note that this inventory item contains minutes out of order for 25th March and 6 April 1939.

First meeting of the newly elected members of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee, Monday 20 April 1936, Chairman - Mr W Chapman, Deputy Chairman Mr W Thomson;
Items included in Minutes:
Administrative levies, cane testers, award prices and conditions, employment of youth, sugar industry award, local cane price board matters, illegal strikes, taxation, concessions, crop purchase, rats, truck registration, artificial fertilizer, approved varieties of cane, penalties for disapproved varieties, Meringa experiment station, giant toads, unassigned land, Cook highway, defence fund levy, cane burning, pests, complaints, honorary rangers, claims for payment, financial statements, Inkeman Peak enquiry, Weils disease, canecutter gangs, excess sugar subsidies, regular cane payments, suspension of plant pathologist, Mr Barke at Meringa, international sugar agreement, establishment of a trading department, equalisation scheme, Mackay Peak Scheme, 1929 Peak Year Scheme, gumming disease, workers accommodation, burnt cane penalties.

6 April 1939, Chairman Mr W Chapman re-elected. Other members elected: Messrs Browne, Christensen, Ishmael, Maree Moody, Rutherford and Thomson. Items included in Minutes Royal Commission on the Sugar Industry, relative percentage system.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Friday 6 June 1975 to Monday 17 July 1978 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Suggested acquisition of Hambledon Mill, cane supply, Sunday harvesting, crop estimates, Hambledon Mill capacity, extraneous matter, wet weather harvesting, burning control, cane inspector complaint, flood damage, Japanese sugar sales, formulation of new farm peak scheme.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Saturday, 11 February 1950 to Friday 5 October 1956 at various Cairns locations.
Items included in minutes:
Royal Commission on sugar industry, harvesting the balance of 1950 crop, establishment of junior farmers society, growers affected by erection of new high tension power line in Hambledon Mill area, amendment to cane cutters agreement, chains on cane trucks, 12A hearings, harvesting committee, farm peaks, industrial dispute with the Australian Workers' Union.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Friday 18 August 1978 to Wednesday 22 July 1981 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Harvesting equity, Sunday harvesting, crushing rates, peaks, aerial spraying, trailer brakes, standover crushing, 1979 season crushing, 1980 local award and mill mud, industry expansion, bin deliveries, Smithfield drainage scheme, implications of the 1981 farm peak scheme.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Monday, 8 May 1939 to Monday 8 January 1945 at various Cairns locations.
Items included in Minutes:
Cane payment for 1939 season, cost of production, analysis of cane, "go slow" policy of loading sugar at Cairns wharf, special meeting held on 6 September 1939 regarding protection of the Mill and precautions due to declaration of war; fixation of mill peaks for 5 years, increase in cane price, farm peak scheme, approved cane varieties, disease control.
Parking in Cairns city, removal of shire office from Cairns to Gordonvale, sugar experiment stations, petrol rationing, patriotic fund, commonwealth war and works loan, red cross and support from patriotic fund, 1940 peak scheme, honorary rangers.
Signing on of cane cutters - British Nationals and friendly aliens, cutters from other gangs, AWU, Sivvyer sampler, estimates for season 1941, weekly averages 1940 season, special meeting held on 20 July 1941 to discuss canecutting labour issues, disrepair of cane trucks, special meeting held 19 December 1941 regarding danger of destruction of cane crops by incendiary bombs and ARP work amongst farms to protect Hambledon area. 1942: disrepair of mill crossings, census on manpower and materials,increase in price of sugar, Murray Island boys, mechanical harvesters, Air Raid wardens, payment of coloured persons,payment of Hindoos (sic), petrol rationing and allowances, unassigned cane.
Exclusion of the tropical North from daylight saving, Mr W Chapman elected Chairman, clothes rationing and coupons for cane growers, man power problems, army impressment of cars.
Road to Hambledon mill, cane cutters and harvesting position, extension of leave for soldiers after crushing, water dam and mosquitoes.
Abolition of sugar rationing, administrative levy.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Friday, 2 November 1956 to Friday 20 October 1961 at various Cairns locations.
Items included in minutes:
Mechanical harvesting project, truck shortages, 12A hearings, Edge Hill branch line, dirty cane penalties, points score system, truck waggoning, unassigned cane, Double Island tramline, accidental fires.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Monday, 30 October 1961 to Friday, 18 Febrary 1966 at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Expansion of Herbert River Co-operative Scheme, mechanical harvesting, farm peaks, crushing capacity, rat baits, wire rope on trucks, Thomatis Creek erosion, state of emergency to permit Saturday work, sugar quality, tramlines, bin hire, economic position and economic relief for sugar industry, week end harvesting, cane burning.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Monday 24 August 1981to Wednesday 8 February 1984 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Farm peaks, harvesting tribunal, crushing, aerial spraying, 1982 formation of Hambledon Agricultural Chemicals Consultative Group, extraneous matter, shorter working weeks, estimates and allotments, overtime harvesting, alternative use of sugar cane.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Tuesday 22 February 1966 to Tuesday 7 January 1969 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Bin hire, Saturday harvesting, Wright's Creek tramline, rail allowance, extraneous matter penalties, burning restrictions, sugar cane prices, harvesting tribunal, whole stalk harvesters, vote of no confidence in the Queensland Cane Growers' Council 1968, farm peaks, sale of sugar to US Armed Forces, night harvesting.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Monday 24 August 1981to Wednesday 8 February 1984 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Power line heights, electricity tariffs, estimates and allotments, aerial spraying, sugar industry review program, Sunday harvesting, financial position of growers, 100 day committee, de-regulation, proposal to determine cyclone damaged cane, dirt in cane, organochlorines.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from 17 February 1988 to Thursday 27 February 1992 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Itch grass, aerial spraying, future of Hambledon Mill, in principle support for the establishment of the Cairns University, chemical sprays, Green Paper, wet weather harvesting, extraneous matter scheme, opposition to daylight saving, Sunday harvesting, Hambledon Mill closure, Mulgrave Mill prospectus, share applications, shares calculations, continuous crushing agreement, Mill closure agreement,

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Tuesday 21 January 1969 to Wednesday 27 January 1971 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Special meeting held on Saturday 8 February 1969 with Premier, the Hon J. Bjelke-Petersen regarding miller influence on the Central Board, bins, night harvesting, Constitution and function of the Sugar Board and domestic price structure.
Allowances, bin supply, overloading, farm peak, opposition to night harvesting, termination of crushing in light of International Sugar Agreement, overloading of trucks,wholestalk growers, interim payments, extraneous matter deductions, investigation into purchase of Hambledon Mill by Hambledon growers, objection to daylight saving, reverse penalties, pig damage, vote of no confidence in the Central Sugar Cane Prices Board 1970.

Minutes of Hambledon Mill Suppliers Committee meetings dated from Friday 12 February 1971 to Friday 23 March 1973 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minutes:
Extraneous matter penalties, farm peak, harvesting tribunal, wild pigs, tractor prices, minutes of meetings of Hambledon wholestalk suppliers on various dates, support for continuation of Edmonton Fire Brigade sub-centre, wholestalk growers, overtime provisions, late roster harvesting, billet lengths, industry publicity, 100% chopped cane harvesting, mill mud distribution policy, diesel prices, economic situation of cane growers and division of sugar moniesl, Zappala's growing and harvesting of 21 acres of cane in excess of their assignment over the past 5 years, 100% chopped cane; report on compulsory conference held for purpose of preventing or settling a dispute relating to the harvesting of cane in the Hambledon Mill area, held 2.30pm 12 December 1972.