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Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 25 January 1985 to Friday 31 July 1992 held at 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, cane prices, Sugar Industry Review Paper, Grocane merger, 100 Day Committee, disaster relief, mill rationalization, development of Cairns University, chemical use.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 26 March 1964 to Friday 27 September 1968. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, giant sensitive plant, pay sheet system, overhead power lines, economic position, nigt harvesting.

Hand written and typed minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from 8 September 1912 to 16 November 1926. Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, wallaby scalp payments, price of sugar, defence fighting fund, industrial disputes insurance scheme, pest destruction, harvesting conditions, disease control, restrictions on selection of canecutters, establishment of fighting and defence fund, constitution of the Cairns Canegrowers Association, amended rules and regulations of the Cairns Canegrowers Association adopted on 25 July 1930, control of bureau of sugar experiment stations.

List of names and mileage with signatures of attendees at Committee meetings held from 5 February 1970 to 29 November 1979.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 24 April 1980 to 4 May 1981.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 29 May 1981 to28 January 1983.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 18 February 1983 to 21 December 1984.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 25 January 1985 to 27 February 1987.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 31 January 1990 to 26 May 1995.

Hand written and typed minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from 26 August 1916 to 29 December 1921. Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, fighting and defence fund, wallaby destruction and payment for scalps, cane fires.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 25 October 1968 to Friday 26 May 1972 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, Gordonvale land and new building, sugar prices, division and distribution of sugar monies, pig eradication.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated fromTuesday 25th August 1992 to Friday 20 February 1998held at 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns and 29 Norman Street, Gordonvale. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, cane prices, fertilizer testing, family subdivisions, strategic planning working party.

List of names and mileage with signatures of attendees at Committee meetings held from 20 December 1979 to 26 August 1987.

List of names and mileage with signatures of attendees at Committee meetings held from 25 September 1987 to 20 March 1998.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Thursday 29 June 1972 to Friday 25 June 1976 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, Mulgrave River dam, fertilizer supplies, proposed industry expansion, proposed three tiered payment scheme, sugar price pools, japanese contract.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive and the Combined Mill Suppliers Committees dated from 14 January 1936 to 21 January 1939. Items included in Minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, levies, industrial awards, conference delegations, copy of strike policy of Queensland Cane Growers Council, oppostition to establishment of a trading department.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 31 October 1969 to 26 April 1974.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 30 July 1976 to Friday 28 September 1979 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, domestic sugar prices, casual labour taxation, future industry expansion, japanese sugar contract, fertilizer prices.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from 26 January 1939 to 21 September 1942 . Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, power alcohol, compensation for cutters, Weils disease, manpower and impact of war on sugar industry, signing on of canecutters.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 26 May 1972 to 28 September 1973.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 26 October 1979 to Friday 27 August 1982 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns and 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, election of members, industrial reports, board reports, development planning, construction of new building, Cape York wilderness area, sale of existing Cairns building, fertilizer prices, cane field arson, reduced working hours 38 hour proposal.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Tuesday, 13 october 1942 to Friday, 16 April 1948 . Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, rules for conducting growers' meetings, minutes of conference to consider questionnaire of the royal commission into the sugar industry, sugar rationing and financial losses, shortage of manpopwer, soldier cutters, establishment of trading department, construction of a mechanical cane harvester.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 30 January 1975 to 13 February 1976.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 24 September 1982 to Friday 21 December 1984 held at 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns. Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, election of members, industrial reports, reduced working hours, domestic and international sugar prices, sugar industry depression, industry restructure.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Friday 14 May 1948 to Wednesday 24 June 1953. Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, control of cane cutting rates, tractor school, tobacco shortage, establishment of pools of new Australians, disputes regarding cutting rates.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 26 February 1976 to 22 February 1977.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Saturday 13 June 1953 to Friday 12 December 1958. Items included in minutes:
Election of office bearers, correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, erection of power transmission lines across farms, industrial reports and disputes, tractor schools, price determinations.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 25 March 1977 to 10 April 1977.

Minutes of the Cairns District Canegrowers Executive dated from Monday 12 January 1959 to Thursday, 20 February 1964 Items included in minutes:
correspondence, finance, industrial awards, conference delegations, board reports, welding school, siltation of Mulgrave River, proposed sugar industry inquiry, Russell River diversion, tractor schools, mechanical harvesting contracts, cloud seeding, junior farmer project, industrial reports, aerial spraying.

Hand written rough minutes of meetings held from 15 August 1979 to 10 April 1980.