Burns Philip Company Ltd:Correspondence with Walter H. Lucas, 1907-9, 1919-20
- Component identifier:
- Series 34
- Content Summary:
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Private and personal correspondence with W. H. Lucas, of Island Department of Burns Philp, concerning various matters, including: accommodation for Kanakas leaving Queensland for the New Hebrides; competition for New Hebrides cargo from European lines; British land claims in the New Hebrides; effect of Quarantine Act of 1908 on imports of New Hebrides produce; supplying of coal to Admiralty ships in the New Hebrides; proposed Commonwealth Government action regarding German New Guinea (1920).
Typescript copies of Cairns-Papua and Sydney Papua steamer services (undated).
Comprises Items 1606-1627
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated to the Commonwealth National Library by Hunt's daughter, Miss Marion Hunt, in 1936. Some other papers of Atlee Hunt, including three diaries, were donated by Mr Bruce Hunt in 1964 and are housed at MS 1100.
- Names:
- Atlee Arthur Hunt
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- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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