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Wanetta Pearling Company

The Wanetta Pearling Company came into existence in the late 19th century. The records held cover the period 1900 to 1927. They give a comprehensive coverage of day-to-day running of the Company and also convey the very personal, even paternalistic employer/employee relationship which existed.
Records of the Wanetta Pearling Company are also held by the Queensland Maritime Museum, Brisbane.

Archive Location: 73L - 75R

 

Detailed Listing

WPC/1 Accounts and correspondence: 1900 – 1905 (very fragile) 8p
WPC/2 Accounts (27p) letter (1p): 1910 28p
WPC/3 Accounts: 1911 23p
WPC/4 Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Co. bills of loading (4p), Accounts (67p), and eight letters
(9p); 1912 80p
WPC/5 1913
WPC/5/1 Accounts: 167p
WPC/5/2 Telegrams: 23p
WPC/5/3 Queensland Certificates of Discharge: 4p
WPC/5/4 Government/official correspondence re Aboriginal and/or Japanese employees: 9p
WPC/5/5 Company business correspondence: 23p
WPC/5/6

Company personal correspondence: 22p

WPC/6 1914
WPC/6/1 Accounts: 94p
WPC/6/2 Telegrams: 14p
WPC/6/3 Queensland Certificates of Discharge: 3p
WPC/6/4 Government/official correspondence re Aboriginal and/or Japanese employees: 9p
WPC/6/5 Company business correspondence: 66p
WPC/6/6 Company personal correspondence: 31p



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WPC/7 1915
WPC/7/1 Accounts: 12p
WPC/7/2 Telegrams: 3p
WPC/7/3 Company business correspondence: 27p
WPC/7/4

Company personal correspondence: 11p

WPC/8 1916
WPC/8/1 Accounts: 57p
WPC/8/2 Telegrams: 78p
WPC/8/3 Company business correspondence: 25p
WPC/8/4

Company personal correspondence: 40p

WPC/9

1917

WPC/9/1 Accounts: 58p
WPC/9/2 Telegrams: 61p
WPC/9/3 Company business correspondence: 39p
WPC/9/4

Company personal correspondence: 9p

WPC/10 Accounts (320p); Papua Native Labour Ordinance of 1916 Schedule (1p); Contracts of Service (10p); Receipts for fees (4p); 1918 335p
WPC/11

Account (1p), Letter (1p): 1919.
Miscellaneous undated accounts, letters and telegrams (54p).

WPC/12 Miscellaneous Xerox copies of documents (12p)
Handwritten copy (1p) 13p.


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WPC/13 Pamphlet: Reports of the Torres Straits Hospital for the Year 1911. 8p.
WPC/14

Wages book (index in back): 1907

WPC/15

Company accounts ledger. Feb 1913 – July 1915

WPC/16

Company accounts ledger. Aug 1915 – Feb 1921

WPC/17

Company accounts ledger. Jan 1919 – Feb 1921

WPC/18

Company accounts ledger. Mar 1921 – Aug 1922

WPC/19

Company accounts ledger Mar 1925 – June 1927

WPC/20

Miscellaneous accounts and correspondence. Mainly undated. 41p

WPC/21

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1913. 11p

WPC/22

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1914. 132p

WPC/23

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1915. 116p

WPC/24

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1916. 220p

WPC/25

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1917. 137p

WPC/26

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1918. 520p

WPC/27

Accounts, correspondence and telegrams, 1919. 9p

WPC/28

Company accounts journal May 1908 – December 1910

WPC/29

Company accounts journal. 1912

WPC/30

Company accounts ledger June 1927 – June 1929

WPC/31

Wages book 1903 – 1905

WPC/32

Wages book 1911 – 1912

WPC/33

Diary of the schooner Wanetta 1.5.14 – 26.9.14

WPC/34

Invoice ledger (incomplete) 1912

WPC/35

Union Bank of Australia Ltd. Brisbane. Current account book.

 

Archive Location

Box 1 WPC/1 – WPC/12

Box 2 WPC/13 – WPC/14

Box 3 WPC/17 – WPC/19

WPC/15 and WPC/16 are shelved with Boxes 1 – 3

Box 4 WPC/20 – WPC/27

Box 5 WPC/28 – WPC/30

Box 6 WPC/31 – WPC/35

WPC/29 shelved with boxes 4 - 6

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