S. Purcell, Mareeba
Steven Purcell was an examiner with the Railway Department who, at the end of World War I, became a builder and contractor in the Mareeba district. The 1920s were boom years but the 30s brought depression. The effect of these economic changes on this business is shown in these records.
Archive Location: 1L
Detailed Listing
SP/1 Railway Department. Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of Employees, 1911”. Amendment to Rule II, dated 30th November, 1916.
SP/2 Railway Department. Schedule of Allowances to Employees Amendment to Clause 70, dated 23rd February, 1917.
SP/3 Railway Department Staff Regulations of 1915. Amendment to Clause 49, dated 1st March, 1917.
SP/4 Train notice no. 58, dated 6th June, 1917.
SP/5 Train notice no. 158, dated 7th June, 1917.
SP/6 Train notice no. 167, dated 14th June, 1917.
SP/7 Train notice no. 168, dated 15th June, 1917.
SP/8 Department of Railways The Railways Act of 1914. Amendment of By-Law 102, dated 19th October, 1917.
SP/9 Notice of Election of Employees Representatives (Northern Division), dated 2nd January, 1918.
SP/10 Election of Employees’ Representatives. Availability of Ballot boxes.
SP/11 Pamphlet: Staff Regulations. February 1916.
SP/12 Telegrams (Railway) 1917 – 1919. 15 in all.
SP/13 Memoranda (Railway) 1917. 24 in all.
SP/14 Circular memo no. 17/9, dated 16th February, 1917.
SP/15 Miscellaneous correspondence to Examiner S. Purcell from the Locomotive Superintendent, Cairns between 1917/1918. 37 letters in all.
SP/16 Handwritten train timetable.
SP/17 Circular memo no. 17/94, dated 11th December, 1917.
SP/18 Letter re transfer to Loco Branch, dated 5th May, 1917.
SP/19 Miscellaneous bills and receipts 1916/1919. 19 in all
SP/20 Miscellaneous accounts 1922 – 1929. Mainly business but some household accounts. 296 in all.
SP/21 Specifications. Building not identified.
SP/22 Workers’ Compensation Acts, 1916 – 1921. Notice of expiry, dated 1st June, 1923.
SP/23 Workers’ compensation Acts, 1916 – 1921. Notice of Acceptance, dated 15th June, 1923.
SP/24 Workers Compensation Acts, 1916 – 1925. Notice of Expiry, dated 1 June, 1926.
SP/25 Workers’ Compensation Acts. Notice of Expiry, dated 1st June, 1927.
SP/26 S G I O Queensland Workers Compensation (Policy) Department. Policy no. 70591, dated 14 September, 1927.
SP/27 S G I O Memo: Agency Instructions re Commission (Life Department), n d
SP/28 Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Co Ltd., Annual Bonus Certificate
SP/29 Dog Registration Certificate 1919 – 1920.
SP/30 S G I O Queensland. Statement of Adjustment.
SP/31 Receipt for donation to Mareeba District Hospital, dated 9 April, 1925.
SP/32 Letter from Woothakata Shire Council re tenders for demolition, dated 10 July, 1926.
SP/33 Letter from the District Land Office, Cairns re lack of compliance with the conditions of improvement to Perpetual Town Lease no 6185, dated 24 July, 1926.
SP/34 Surrender of all right, title and interest in and to the lease of Perpetual Town Lease no. 6185. In duplicate and neither signed nor dated.
SP/35 Statement of Votes Polled on the 9 April, 1927 for the election of two Councillors for Division No. 3. Woothakata Shire, dated 16 April, 1927.
SP/36 Notice re annual rent on Miners Homestead No 2594, dated 1 May, 1927.
SP/37 Receipt re SP/36, dated 3 May, 1927.
SP/38 Rate notice dated 21 May, 1928.
SP/39 Mareeba Water Authority. Arrears of Rates, dated 26 February, 1929.
SP/40 S G I O (Life Department) Bonus Certificate, 1928.
SP/41 S G I O (Life Department) Bonus Certificate, 1929.
SP/42 Shire of Woothakata. Unpaid rates. Final Notice, dated 26 February, 1928.
SP/43 Letter of attorney for sale of a hut, dated 25 August, 1919.
SP/44 Letter from Rev. and Mrs M McDonagh n d
SP/45 Letter to W P Montgomery, Solicitor, Atherton re claims against Jamieson’s Estate. n d
SP/46 Miscellaneous accounts, 1930 – 1934. 44 in all
SP/47 S G I O (Life Department). Bonus Certificate, 1931.
SP/48 S G I O Non-forfeiture Regulations Notice, dated 9 September, 1931.
SP/49 S G I O Non-Forfeiture Regulations Notice, dated 6 April, 1932.
SP/50 S G I O Life Policy No 695534. Outstanding premiums, dated 14 July, 1932.
SP/51 S G I O Worker’s Compensation Policy, dated 19 April, 1933.
SP/52 Further letter re SP/50, dated 8 May, 1933.
SP/53 Further letter re SP/50 and SP/52 dated 18 October, 1933.
SP/54 Letter from S G I O Cairns office re SP/53, dated 27 October, 1933.
SP/55 Letter from S G I O. Cairns office re interim payments.
SP/56 Further letter re SP/55, dated 9 March, 1934.
SP/57 Letter from S G I O. Cairns office re an order on the State Advances Corporation, dated 18 May, 1934.
SP/58 Specifications, Builder not identified.
SP/59 Memorandum from Apprenticeship Office re Ernest William Lepinath, dated 3rd August, 1934.
SP/60 Letter from the Electrical Workers Board and Apprenticeship Office re the indenture forms of Ernest William Lepinath, dated 4 September, 1934.
SP/61 Letter from B. McDonagh re timber quotes, dated 13 June, 1934.
SP/62 Further letter from B McDonagh re SP/61.
SP/63 Article: Federal Cabinet. The Reconstruction. Cairns Post, 27 September, 1934.
SP/64 Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia. Working card. Quarter ending December 1937.
SP/65 Draft. Specifications of work and materials required in the erection of a dwelling.
SP/66 Receipt from the Mareeba Water Authority dated 31 December, 1934.
SP/67 Notice of arrears of water rates.
SP/68 Shire of Woothakata. Rate notes and receipts. 6 in all.
SP/69 Letter from the Woothakata Shire Council re arrears of rates, dated 14 November, 1930.
SP/70 Letter from the Woothakata Shire Council re the proposed footbridge Basalt Gully, dated 20 January, 1934.
SP/71 Letter from the Woothakata Shire Council re the re-roofing of the Shire Office at Mareeba, dated 15 February, 1930.
SP/72 Letter from the Woothakata Shire Council re arrears of water rates, dated 26 March, 1934.
SP/73 Letter from the Woothakata Shire Council re quotations for sanitary cabinets, dated 20 April, 1934.
SP/74 Voucher for payment of SP/73 and credit towards SP/69 and SP/72 , dated 25 June, 1934.
SP/75 Letter from B McDonagh re patterns of gates, dated 5 September, 1934.
SP/76 P C items page 2. Unidentified and page 1 missing.
SP/77 Letter from the State Advances Corporation (workers’ dwelling) re Building Revival Scheme, dated 9 February, 1934.
SP/78 Letter from the State Advances Corporation re improvements to dwelling – M A Adams – Abbot Street – Mareeba, dated 5 April, 1934.
SP/79 Letter from State Advances Corporation re payment for SP/78, dated 29 May, 1934.
SP/80 Correspondence: Nine letters, both personal and business, which reflect the effect of the depression years on S Purcell as a Builder and Contractor. These letters span the years between 1931 and 1934.
SP/81 Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd. Renewal certificate, dated 8 November, 1930.
SP/82 Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd. Renewal notice, dated 28 October, 1933.
SP/83 Woothakata Shire Council. Rate notice for year ending 31st December, 1941.
SP/84 Receipt from Lawson & Son, dated 1 March, 1941.
SP/85 Pamphlet: The Mutual Provident Messenger. V 38, N 3, 1 March 1929.
SP/86 Pamphlet: The Mutual Provident Messenger. V 38, N 5, 1 May, 1928.
SP/87 Pamphlet: How to identify Japanese aircraft, by George B. Graham. Melbourne, National Press, 1942.
SP/88 Tritton’s Catalogue. n d (Brisbane)
SP/89 Coupon Furniture Co Ltd. Catalogue, n d (Brisbane)
SP/90 Mareeba Joinery Works. Catalogue of
doors, casements and French lights.
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