Dalgonally Station, 1,840 sq miles of good cattle country, was taken up by Donald McIntyre, brother of the explorer Duncan McIntrye, in 1866. Dalgonally Station became part of the Australian Estates Co. Ltd.'s pastoral holdings in the early 1900s. These documents were donated by Mrs. R. Ward whose husband was, for many years the manager of Dalgonally. Dalgonally Station Records
Name Index Index of the personal names which appear in these records.
Archive Location: 19L-19R
Detailed Listing
DAL/1/1 Ledger: Improvements 1901-1928.
DAL/1/2 Index to DAL/1/1
DAL/2 Ledger: Cattle return and accounts January 1912 to September 1922.
DAL/3 Ledger: Cattle return and accounts December 1922 to December 1935.
DAL/4 Veterinary Record Book. Undated.
DAL/5 Ledger: Accounts 1915-1933.
DAL/6 Queensland Brands Directory 1928-1939.
DAL/7 Employees accounts April 1933 - August 1945. Monthly timesheets and wages record.
DAL/8 Evaluations and improvements 1942/44. Included is a copy of the proposed improvements for 1940 given to the
Improvements Land Department in 1939.
DAL/9 Insurance schedule. Policy 5220456.
DAL/l0 Particular of bores of Dalgonally. Undated.
DAL/11 Memorandum of Agreement between John Nicoll, Manager of Dalgonally Station and John Miller, contractor, dated 24th May, 1913.
DAL/12 Letter from (N. Helpman) Byromine Station re. repairs to fencing, dated 27th February, 1913. Very fragile.
DAL/13 Letter from Byromine Station listing total cost of repairs, dated 31st December, 1913. Very fragile.
DAL/14 Letter from D. McKillop, Manager, Byromine Station re. inspection of fence, dated 14th January, 1914. Very fragile.
DAL/15 Occupation license issued to John Douglas Taylor, dated 24th March, 1915.
DAL/16 Occupation license issued to Edward Charles Lamb, dated 28th March, 1917.
DAL/17. Occupation license issued to Edwin John Beach, dated 7th May, 1917.
DAL/18 Occupation license issued to Hugh Reginald Lance Halloran, dated 4th June, 1917.
DAL/19 Occupation license issued to Bertie Brittain, dated 14th December, 1917.
DAL/20 Occupation license issued to Alfred William Sturtridge, dated 14th December, 1917.
DAL/21 Progress return. Statement in respect of Artesian well being constructed under Artesian Well License.
DAL/22 Resumption of Land notice, dated 28th October, 1926.
DAL/23 . Certificate of Registration of District Earmark, dated l8th July, 1919.
DAL/24 Certificate of Registration of Distinctive Brand, dated 17th May, 1922.
DAL/25 Total depth and strata details for bore.
DAL/26 Envelope with handwritten note added.
DAL/27 Plan of draining yards, Dalgonally Station,dated 15th September, 1921.
DAL/28 Aretesian Well License, dated 10th December, 1920.
DAL/29 Fireploughing distances.
DAL/30 S.G.I.O. Queensland, Workers’ Compensation policy, dated 16th February, 1948.
DAL/31 Letter to The General Manager (Australian Estates Co. Ltd.) re Insurance review, Dalgonally Station. Includes schedule, dated 10th June, 1949.
DAL/32 Australian Estates Co. Ltd. Allowances for expenses of illness, dated 10th February, 1950.
DAL/33 Schedule of Dalgonally Station.
DAL/34 Inventory of plant as at 31st December, 1948.
DAL/35 Plan of Earth Tank. 120,000 Gal. capacity.
DAL/36 Letter from H.M. Clarke, Fanning River Station, re 'usual inspection', dated 19th August, 1960.
DAL/37 Drovers Agreement, dated 28th April, 1963.
DAL/38 "Exploration of Julia Creek District" (by) S. Ulick Browne. Article in The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol. 6, no. 1, 1959, pp. 247-267. This article covers the history of Dalgonally.
DAL/39 Copies of letters written by Mrs. J. Ward, Dalgonally Station, Julie Creek during 1967/68 whilst doing research into the history of Dalgonally. 22p.
DAL/’40 Queensland map showing boundary only.
DAL/41 Short history of Dalgonally in the 1960s.
DAL/42 Short history of Julia Creek.
DAL/43 An envelope containing:DAL/43/1 Runs comprising Dalgonally in 1896.
DAL/43/2 Cost of various improvements over a period of years.
DAL/43/3 Description of Dalgonally.
DAL/43/4 Stock records 1912-1935.
DAL/44 Letter from Associate Professor F.H. Bower, California State College, dated April 12, 1967.
DAL/45 Letter from Duncan Maclntyre, grandson of Donald Maclntyre, Hereward Station, dated 8th March, 1967.
DAL/46 Ten letters in reply to DAL/39, all in separate envelopes. Banded together.
DAL/47 Letter from Jas. L. Stapleton, Public Library of Queensland re Dalgonally Pastoral Holdings dated 10th July, 1967,
DAL/48 Photograph of Duncan Maclntyre’s headstone. Inscribed on it Gus am bris an la, agus an teich na sgaileau from The Song of Solomon.
DAL/39-DAL/48 are in a folder marked Dalgonally History,
DAL/49 Christmas card to the Ward family, Dalgonally Station showing the first A.I.M. hospital In Birdsville.
