Scottish Australian Co. Ltd Archive
This collection consists of the records of four stations in North Queensland which became part of the holdings of the Scottish Australian Co. Ltd. in the early 1950s. They are Mt Emu Plains, Kynuna, Albion Downs and Lucknow. All were established in the 1860s mainly as separate runs which became consolidated into these properties.
Name Index. Index of the personal names which appear in these records.
Archive Location: 107L-118R, 128-129, 498
Series Listing
Detailed Listing
SAL/1 Diary 1909.
SAL/2/1 Diary 1911.
SAL/2/2 Diary 1911.
SAL/3 Diary 1943.
SAL/4 Diary 1947.
SAL/5 Diary 1948.
SAL/6 Diary 1949.
SAL/7 Diary 1950.
SAL/8/1 Diary 1951 (Includes store records).
SAL/9 Diary 1952.
SAL/10 Diary 1953.
SAL/11 Diary 1956.
SAL/12 Diary 1960.
SAL/13 Letter book 1930-1938.
SAL/14 Correspondence 1937-1958. Includes sundry accounts.
SAL/15 Register of draught and saddle horses 1907-1932. Incomplete.
SAL/16 Stock route map. Incomplete.
SAL/17 Specifications of Lucknow Station wool clip 1932-1947. Mainly undated.
SAL/18 Specifications of scouring of wool. Western Queensland Meat Co. Pty. Ltd., 14 September 1932 - 31st July 1933.
SAL/19 Specifications of scoured wool, despatched by the Alba Wool Scouring Co. Ltd. to Thomas Brown and Sons, Rockhampton, 1931-1939.
SAL/20 Accounts RE: sales by Moreheads Ltd., Brisbane, 10 March 1931 - 27 November 1934.
SAL/21 Accounts RE: sales by Australian Estates Co. Ltd., 1st February 1943 - 23rd November 1943.
SAL/22 Shearing analysis, 1931-1946.
SAL/23 Lucknow averages, 1935, 1938 and 1941.
SAL/24 Lambing table.
SAL/25 Ewes summary, 1946.
SAL/26 Wethers summary, 1946.
SAL/27 Droving contract dated 10 November 1954.
SAL/28 Crutcher's agreement dated 15 November 1954.
SAL/29 Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics, 1937-1939.
SAL/30 Envelope containing prices of wool clips, 1941 and 1943.
SAL/31 Rainfall registration records, 1924-1933.
SAL/32 Queensland National Bank Statements, 1935-1948. Incomplete.
SAL/33 Fortnightly reports to Queensland National Pastoral Co. Ltd., 12 May 1949 - 24 December 1957. Incomplete.
SAL/34/1- Invoice books. December 1913 - April 1966. Incomplete.
SAL/34/7
SAL/35/1- Employees' registers, 1925-1960.
SAL/35/2
SAL/36 Employees' statement book.
SAL/37 Ledger. Petty cash and accounts. December 1914 - June 1918.
SAL/38 Ledger. Petty cash and accounts. November 1920 - June 1957. Handwritten copies of fencing contracts in back.
SAL/39 Ledger. Accounts and wages. 1920-1924.
SAL/40 Ledger. Accounts and wages. 1928-1939.
SAL/41 Wages book. August 1948 - January 1959.
SAL/42 Sheep returns. 31 August 1920 - 31 March 1962.
SAL/43 1924-1958 bore costs.
SAL/44 1920-1940 cattle returns.
SAL/45 1924-52 stores, purchase orders and inventory lists.
Archive location:
SAL/1 - SAL/33, SAL/39 - SAL/41 108-118
SAL/42 498
SAL/43 129R
SAL/44, SAL/45 128R
Kynuna Station
SAK/1/1- Manager's diaries, 1936-1961. Two diaries for 1952 with slightly different
SAK/1/27 entries. Manager, Mr. D. Selkirk.
SAK/2/1- Book-keeper's diaries, 1939-1942. Book-keeper, Mr. T.H. Mann.
SAK/2/4
SAK/3/1- Overseer's diaries, 1936, 1938, 1943 and 1944. Overseer, Mr. N.C. Horsfall.
SAK/3/4
SAK/4/1- Manager's personal diaries, 1943, 1944, 1946/51, 1953, 1958 and 1960.
SAK/4/11
SAK/5 Correspondence July 1953 - December 1959.
SAK/6 Horse register, 1883-1907.
SAK/7 Horse register, 1907-1913.
SAK/8 Shearing record and wool analysis, 1914 and 1915.
SAK/9 Wool book, August 1916 - June 1929.
SAK/10 Wool book, December 1929 - July 1942.
SAK/11 Stock returns, September 1937 - March 1945.
SAK/12 Stock returns, 31 March 1946 - 30 June 1955.
SAK/13 Stock register by paddocks, 1939-1940.
SAK/14 Stores, price list.
SAK/15/1- Stores, invoicing and costing ledgers, December 1929 - 8 January 1942;
SAK/1516 September 1945 - May 1962.
SAK/16/1- Stores, outgoing. Staff, 1947-1962.
SAK/16/13
SAK/17/1- Stores, outgoing. Station maintenance, 1948-1961.
SAK/17/9
SAK/18 Stores, day book January 1942 - September 1945.
SAK/19/1- Stores, accounts. Staff, 1930-1937.
SAK/19/2
SAK/20 Stores, accounts. Maintenance, January 1953 - November 1956.
SAK/21/1- Stores, journals, 1916-1956.
SAK/21/6
SAK/22/1- Stores, stock ledgers, 1913-1919, 1946-1954. Includes (a) index for 1916-1919;
SAK/22/12 (b) Albion Downs January-September in SAK/22/8.
SAK/23 Stores, stock ledger sheets (loose) 1954-1956.
SAK/24/1- Journals, 1913-1948.
SAK/24/8
SAK/25/1- Debit books, 1949-1962 (entries continued from journals).
SAK/25/6
SAK/26/1- Ledgers, 1913-1926.
SAK/26/3
SAK/27/1- Cash books, 1913-1959.
SAK/27/7
SAK/28 Account book, 1922.
SAK/29 Account book, 1948-1952.
SAK/30/1- Employees' statements, 1949-1962.
SAK/30/14
SAK/31/1- Ledgers, labour and wages, 1915-1946; September 1952 - February 1954; January
SAK/31/6 - October 1958.
SAK/32 Lucknow, Kynuna and Mount Emu Plains lease records.
SAK/33 1886-1938 rainfall at Kynuna.
SAK/34 1920s - 1930s accounts relating to stock and wool, valuations of plant, evidence submitted to Wool Advisory Commission. (Photocopies and originals).
SAK/35 1925-1929 Stores and Account Book.
SAK/36 1926-1935 general accounts ledger.
SAK/37 1928-1946 quarterly stock returns book.
SAK/38 1934 stock register by paddocks.
SAK/39 1935-1937 accounts and wages ledger.
SAK/40 1939-40 stores accounts book.
SAK/41 1940-41 stores accounts book.
SAK/42 1941-42 stores accounts book.
SAK/43 1942-43 stores accounts book.
SAK/44 1943-44 stores accounts book.
SAK/45 1944-45 stores accounts book.
SAK/46 1945-46 stores accounts book.
SAK/47 1942-48 accounts and wages ledger.
SAK/48 1952-59 contractors and personal accounts ledger.
SAK/49 1951-53 costing book.
SAK/50 1958-59 invoice and costing book.
Archive location:
SAK/1/1 - SAK/1/9, SAK/1/10 - SAK/1/18 107R
SAK/1/19 - SAK/1/27, SAK/2 - SAK/3 108L
SAK/4 - SAK/5, SAK/6, SAK/7, SAK/13 108 R
SAK/8 - SAK/12, SAK/14 - SAK/22, SAK/24, SAK/26 - SAK/29, SAK/31 110-118
SAK/23, SAK/25, SAK/30/1 - SAK/30/8 109L
SAK/30/9 - SAK/30/14, SAK/32 109R
SAK/33 - SAK/35, SAK/37, SAK/39, SAK/47 128L
SAK/36, SAK/38 129R
SAK/40 - SAK/46 129L
SAK/48 - SAK/50 128R
Albion Downs
SAAD/1 Journal, September 1942 - June 1950.
SAAD/2 Accounts book, July 1942 - June 1950.
SAAD/3 Stock returns, 30 June 1947 - 30 June 1948.
Archive Location: 107L
Mount Emu Plains
SAMEP/1 Manager's diary, 1955.
SAMEP/2 Manager's diary, 1960.
SAMEP/3 Manager's diary, 1961.
SAMEP/4 Manager's diary, 1962.
SAMEP/5 Book-keeper's diary, 1956.
SAMEP/6 Book-keeper's diary, 1957.
SAMEP/7 Book-keeper's diary, 1958.
SAMEP/8 Book-keeper's diary, 1959.
SAMEP/9 Book-keeper's diary, 1960.
SAMEP/10 Book-keeper's diary, 1961.
SAMEP/11 Stock book, 1945-1953.
SAMEP/12 Store book, 1960-1962.
SAMEP/13/1- Employees' statements, 1955-1962.
SAMEP/13/20
SAMEP/14 Cash book, July 1955 - June 198.
SAMEP/15 Cash book, July 1958 - February 1963.
SAMEP/16 Account book, January 1953 - June 1954.
SAMEP/17 Account book, July 1955 - June 1960.
SAMEP/18 Sundry contractors ledger, July 1958 - January 1960.
SAMEP/19 General ledger, July 1955 - June 1958.
SAMEP/20 Wages book, July 1957 - May 1960.
SAMEP/21 Invoices, 1960-1961. Includes stores, wages and sundry contractors accounts.
SAMEP/22 Invoice book, September 1961 - October 1963.
SAMEP/23 Monthly and quarterly returns, July 1955 - May 1961.
SAMEP/24 Envelope containing Company Annual Report and Accounts, 1955, 1957 and 1958. Copies of Mr. J. Norman Eggar's speech, 1955, 1957 and 1958.
SAMEP/25 Wages return, June 1960 - June 1962.
SAMEP/26 Telegram book.
SAMEP/27 Folder containing: list of station properties; manager's copies of monthly reports, 1956-1959; Inspector's Annual Report, 30 June 1958.
SAMEP/28 Monthly reports, October 1956 - September 1961.
SAMEP/29 Folder containing: employees' time sheets; miscellaneous grocery orders, 1962.
SAMEP/30 Folder containing: drovers agreements and miscellaneous contracts, 1956-1957.
SAMEP/31 Folder marked 'Personal letters' containing confidential company mail, list of station properties and miscellaneous circulars.
SAMEP/32 Wages book, 1955-1960.
SAMEP/33 Bank statements, 1959-1961.
SAMEP/34 Station reports, 1936-1941. Very fragile.
SAMEP/35 Correspondence, contracts and reports on bore sinking and maintenance.
SAMEP/36 Head office correspondence, incoming, 1955-1961 and invoices, 1957-1958.
SAMEP/37 Head office correspondence, incoming, 1959-1963. In folder.
SAMEP/38 Head office correspondence, outgoing, 1959-1961.
SAMEP/39/1 General correspondence, inwards, 1955-1958. In folder.
SAMEP/39/2 General correspondence, inwards, 1959-1961.
SAMEP/39/3 General correspondence, inwards, 1962 -1963.
SAMEP/40/1 Folder containing general correspondence outwards 1955-1958.
SAMEP/40/2 General correspondence outwards, 1959-1961.
SAMEP/41 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1951-1962.
SAMEP/42 Box containing miscellaneous accounts, 1962.
SAMEP/43 Box containing statistical returns, annual profit and loss account, and general station documents and business. Index of contents included.
