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Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated from Monday 20 November 1939 to Tuesday 28 June 1960 at various locations in Cairns.

Inaugural meeting of newly elected Hambledon Cane Disease Control Board was held on Monday 20 November 1939 at 2.30pm.
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, allowances for board members, Nanemo cane, gumming disease, Cato cane plants, amalgamation of cane disease and pest control boards, downy mildew, fertiliser, carbon bi sulphide, weedicide, experimental varieties, rat baiting.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated from Tuesday 26 July 1960 to Tuesday 24 September 1968 at various locations in Cairns.
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, allowances for board members, warfarin rat bait, wild pig bonus, grasshopper plague, location and control of giant sensitive plant, long service leave conditions applying to Hambledon Mill, black beetles, hot water treatment plant, arsenic sprays.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated fromTuesday 29 October 1968 to Wednesday 25 September 1974 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, warfarin supplies, pig shooters permits, aerial rat baiting, hot water treatment, cicada damage, wild pig destruction, pig scalp bonuses, abandoned cane.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated from Wednesday 30 October 1974 to Tuesday 30 October 1979 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, insurance, sensitive plant, hot water treatment, electric pig traps, rat baiting, two way radios, superannuation, ratoon stunting, rust disease, pig fences, navua sedge.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated fromTuesday 27 November 1979 to Tuesday 3 July 1984 held at 14A Aplin Street, Cairns and 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns.
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, insurance, superannuation, rust disease, rat bait losses, phase contrast microscopes, aerial spraying - farm classification, giant sensitive plants, formation of Hambledon Agricultural Chemicals Consultative Group, itch grass.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated fromTuesday 31 July 1984 to Tuesday 31 July 1990 held at 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns.
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, insurance, superannuation, rat baiting, itch grass, Eraticator use, milkweed, trading of chemicals, wireworm, armyworm, poor plant strikes in the Hambledon area.

Minutes of Hambledon Cane Pest Disease and Control Board meetings dated fromTuesday 28 August 1990 to held at 23-27 McLeod Street, Cairns.
Items included in Minute Book:
Correspondence, financial statements, levies, insurance,
dissolution of Hambledon Cane Protection and Productivity Board as of 31 December 1991.