Gigoomgan Station records

Station diaries recording the daily activities for Gigoomgan Station, which initially ran sheep, but was later converted to shorthorn cattle.

[Item OM79-10/1 to Item OM79-10/62]

This series contains many forms of financial records maintained by Gigoomgan Station, they include:

• Accounts, Cash and Day books, 1871-1935
• Journals and Ledgers, 1890-1908
• Bank books, 1873-1910
• Stock books which include cattle and horse returns, 1885; 1926-1938

[Items OM79-10/63 to OM79-10/90]

Letterbooks containing copies of correspondence relating to Gigoomgan Station, from 1894 to 1920.

[Items OM79-10/79 to Item OM79-10/82]

Loose correspondence: letters, accounts, envelopes, receipts.

The include:

Letter dated 7 May 1873 from John Malbon Thompson, (1830-1908) in regards to a petition about Aboriginal reserves.

Letter dated 24 December 1873 from William Leworthy Goode Drew (1826-1898), Undersecretary of The Treasury, Brisbane in regards to the gathering of information on the 'Aboriginal question'.

Three letters dated: 21 May, 17 July and 1 August 1873 from merchant John R Gosling, Brisbane to [George Francis] Bridgman (1842-1923) on varioius matters including obtaining immigrant labourers, including those from the Pacific Islands, to work on his sugar plantation.

Letter dated 23 September 1873 from [James Chapman?] of Creek Street, Brisbane to Mr Bridgman.

[Item OM79-10/94]

Acts of the Queensland Parliament:

• Cattle Slaughtering Amendment Act, 1877
• Act to Regulate the Fending of Land in Queensland, 1861
• Crown Lands Alienation Act, 1876
• Public Works Resumption Act, 1878
• Settled Districts Pastoral Leases Act of 1878, Amendment Act, 1882
• Wages Act, 1870

Booklets:

• Coates herd book containing the pedigree of improved short-horned cattle, 1863
• New South Wales herd book containing the pedigrees of improved Durham and Hereford cattle, 1873
• The Australian cane sugar: its development in Queensland : a lecture delivered on 17 June 1936

[Items OM79-10/93; OM79-10/95-97]