Papers relating to the career of Mr William Cottrell-Dormer as an agricultural scientist. Includes correspondence, reports, maps, publication darfts, photographs, 35 mm slides, from his time spent in Tonga, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock. Cottrell- Dormer also authored a series of instructional papers and books for agricultural extension purposes in Papua and New Guinea.

Minute books for the Queensland National Pastoral Company Limited.

Box 1
Directors' meetings 10 Mar 1915 to 20 Dec 1927; Directors' meetings 20 Dec 1927 to 7 Dec 1937.

Box 2
Directors' meetings 7 Dec 1937 to 11 Sep 1947; Directors' meetings 11 Sep 1947 to 17 Jan 1957.

Box 3
Directors' meetings 17 Jan 1957 to 31 Oct 1962; Special directors' meetings 3 Jul 1958 to 31 Oct 1962.

Box 4
Shareholders' meetings 10 Sep 1915 to 3 May 1962.

Correspondence, diaries, personal papers, scrap book, medallions, certificates and awards.

Newspaper cuttings collected for her thesis Graingrowers and freight rates M.A. (Qual) thesis for the Government Department, University of Queensland, in 1974 (THE5449). Some of the volumes and pages are labelled: Queensland Graingrowers' Association. These cuttings may have belonged to this Association at some time.

The newspaper cuttings cover various aspects of grain growing, marketing, export and tariffs, transport, etc. Grains covered in the cuttings include wheat, maize, barley, sorghum, linseed, safflower and soybeans. The cuttings also cover activities of marketing associations such as the Queensland Grain Growers' Association, Barley Marketing Board, Grain Sorghum Marketing Board and the Vegetable Oil Growers' Association. Newspapers clipped include: Courier Mail, Sunday Mail, Grain Grower, Toowoomba Chronicle, Land, Kingaroy Herald and Country Life.