Shipboard diary of a young English lady, describing the social interaction, entertainments, and weather during the voyage. Last 3 pages of diary : poems 'sent to Frances from Blanche, Toowoomba'.

Includes significant dates in New Zealand history, list of Australian-New Zealand connections, lists of publications, tables, and sample pages.

The private letters contain instructions and advice about departmental procedures, work in progress, staff engagement and deployment, budgetary matters, parallel official correspondence. Most of the work was concerned with surveying for new roads.
Accompanied by reprint of article 'Archibald Campbell Macmillan' from Cummins & Campbell's monthly magazine, June 1934.

Letter reports author's arrival in Rockhampton and execution of instructions re road surveys.
Author could be A.C. Macmillan, but draft appears to be in a different hand.

Letters to Veronica Kelly from Federal Parliamentarians in response to her representations re funding for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and La Boite Theatre, Brisbane.
Six letters are dated 1976 from Queensland MPs and senators, and relate to T.E.A.S. funding ; two letters from Prime Minister's Office and Leader of the Opposition, dated 1981, relate to funding for La Boite.
Two letters enclose responses from Minister for Education.

Sheet of poems.

An open letter to fellow Aborigines to return to their ancestors' wisdom in dealing with problems instead of banners and placards.
Includes a poem entitled: Where is love by Nurunderi.

Records daily weather conditions, station activities, work undertaken. Written in a Week on a Page Invicta Australian Economic Diary No. 7 : 1959. For almost every day there is an entry giving the temperature for the day, wind direction, rain and weather details. Activities noted for each day include who went to do which farm repairs, what creeks were running, goods and mail deliveries, illnesses, arrivals and visitors. There is a brief entry on 17 March, saying Philip (Ted) Ward had died in Longreach. There are general references to Australian Aboriginal people employed on the station, without names. Daily entries have been written by several people, some in third person and some in first person. There are no financial or asset statements or lists of workers. Inside cover has contact details for selected friends and relatives, like DL and V Edwards.
Includes colour negative of painting of Banka Banka Station by Hilda Tuxworth.

In his diary, Kleinschmidt gave details of weather, wind direction, tidal levels of the Logan River, his routine work on the barge, and some special social events in the district.

Photographs taken during a world tour by G. M. L., an Australian.