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