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- 1931-1934 (Creation)
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6 folders
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The Murray Island Fisheries Ltd. was formed in 1931 to develop an export business in sun-dried and salted fish in response to a crown grant for a 20-year lease being granted over the whole of the Torres Strait Islands of Devar and Waier Islands for the purpose of establishing a sardine factory. Fishing operations commenced in 1934 but the company failed in the same year after unsuccessful attempts to obtain a government subsidy. Newman Neville Lyons was Manager and Secretary of the company.
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Correspondence; financial records; articles of Association and Prospectus of Company; newspaper cuttings.
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Folder 1: Corresponsdence, outgoing, 28 Jan 1933 to Nov 1934 (Previously numberd as 49/1 to 49/42). 42 letters. Includes letters to J.A. Lyons (Prime Minister of Australia), G.H. Mackay, J. Francis (Assistant Minister for Defence), J.G. Latham, W. Forgan Smith (Premier of Queensland), Jack Williams, Giddy Williams, Geede Williams, Gidee Williams, Nani and Kabera, Kaberly, and The Protector of Aboriginals.
Folder 2: Correspondence, incoming 1933 to 1934. (Previously numbered as 49/43 to 49/111). 68 letters. Correspondents: Bakoi Baud, Jack Williams, Geede Williams, Kaberly, Nanai and Kabera, Gordon Brown, Joseph Silver Collins, Thomas Joseph Collins, J. Eyre Massy, Francis Michael Forde, E. E. Forth, Sir Josiah Francis, Roland Frederick Herbert Green, James Allan Guy, Charles Allan Seymour Hawker, William Morris Hughes, James Aitchison Johnston Hunter, John Greig Latham, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, John Valentine McDonald, G.M Mackay, Sir Charles William Clanan Marr, Sir Walter Massey-Greene, Earle Christmas Grafton Page, Thomas Paterson, Sir George Foster Pearce, John Arthur Perkins, Queensland Office of Director of Native Affairs, David Riordan, James Henry Scullen, Harold Victor Campbell Thorby, and Thomas Walter White.
Folder 3: Financial records, 1933. (Previously numbered as 49/112 to 49/119). 8 items.
Folder 4: Reports, 1933?. (Prevously titled 'Miscellaneous items' and numbered 49/120 to 49/121). Comprises: Directors' Report, Dec 1933, incomplete, pages 1 and 2; page 4 by E. E. Forth (chairman) and N. N. Lyons (secretary) (unnumbered); and extracts taken from the Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait, 7 leaves.
Folder 5: Company documents, 1931 to 1932. (Previously numbered 49/122 to 49/124). Articles of Association (1931); pamphlet Photographs from the Murragy Islands of the Murray Island Fissheries Ltd. (undated); *Propspectus of : "Murray Island Fisheries Limited" (1931, 1932).
Folder 6: Newspaper cuttings. (Previously numbered 49/125).
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Box 1
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- Murray Island Fisheries Limited (Subject)
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Created, Linda Justo, 19-Apr-2021.