Australia Paper Mill Company Ltd

Component identifier:

Series 13

Content Summary:

This company formed a considerable part of the inheritance received by the Brookes family from their father in 1910. Herbert was elected a director in 1913, and from 1915 until 1922 was Chairman of Directors. There are a small number of letters concerning its management and policy during that time, as well as letters until 1938 concerning the family interest in the Company which later became Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd. There are notes dated 1915 and 1917, printed material including memorandum and articles of Association of the Australian Paper Mills Company Ltd (1910), and Rules of the Australian Paper Mills Employees Mutual Benefit Society (1918), annotated copies of the annual report of 1919. Reference to the families' interest in the Paper Mills appear also in Series 1.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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