Guide to the Papers of Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2862-M2877
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd.
- Title
- Papers of Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1881 - 1979
- Collection Number
- M2862-M2877
- Extent
- 50 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, financial papers, account statements, balance sheets, minutes and reports of various companies including Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Ltd and Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd, Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd, Independent Wool Dumpers Pty Ltd, Booth Newman Pty Ltd, and Fred W. Heap Ltd.
Correspondents include David Knight, Price Waterhouse, Hargreaves Felton, Baillieu Bowring Superannuation Services, Bank of New South Wales, Bank of Adelaide, Australian Mutual Provident Society, New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, Walter Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd, Harry J. Brigden & Co, and Newcastle Wool Processing Co Ltd.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1993 (AJCP Reels: M2862-M2877). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford. 15 Canal Road, Bradford BD1 4AT, England. Collection reference: 35D91.
For further information see the West Yorkshire Archive Service catalogue (https://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/CalmView/Default.aspx?).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn835649] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
The Miscellaneous Collections at Bradford have been listed and filmed separately on reels M2857-M2861 (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn830754).
Administrative History
The first Sir James Hill was born at Harden, the son of Mr William Hill, a wool merchant. In 1875 he entered into a business partnership with a Mr John Reddihough. In 1891 he established his own business, initially importing wool and then adding woolcombing and topmaking to the business. Sir James Hill was one of the leading textile magnates of the period. In addition to his business interests in textiles he was the first chairman of the Bradford and District Newspaper Co Ltd in 1898 and in 1909 became one of two partners who owned The Yorkshire Observer. Sir James Hill also held public office, being a Mayor of Bradford in 1908 and representing Bradford Central as its MP for 3 years from 1916. He received a Baronetcy in 1916 and was made a Freeman of the City of Bradford in 1921.
His two sons Albert Hill and Arthur James Hill were taken into partnership. In 1922 the firm was incorporated into a Limited Company under the title Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. The eldest son, Arthur James Hill died in 1935, and Sir James himself a year later in 1936. He was succeeded in turn by his son Sir Albert Hill, the second Sir James Hill and Sir James Frederick Hill.
The firm had strong links with Australia and New Zealand. Two firms, Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Ltd and Sir James Hill (New Zealand) Ltd were created in 1949 to act as buying agents in Australia and New Zealand. These activities had formerly been carried out by Mr N.Hill in Melbourne and Messrs H. and R.H.Hill in New Zealand. The Australian Company was amalgamated with Booth Hill and Sons, Pty Ltd in 1968.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australia; Australian Mutual Provident Society; Baillieu Bowring Superannuation Services; Bank of Adelaide; Bank of New South Wales; Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd; Booth Newman and Sons Pty Ltd; Brigden, Harry J. & Co; Business records; Felton, Hargreaves; Great Britain; Heap, Fred W. Ltd; Hill, Sir James and Sons (Australia) Ltd; Hill, Sir James and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd; Hill, Sir James and Sons Ltd; Hill, Walter and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd; Independent Wool Dumpers Pty Ltd; Knight, David; Mercantile firms; Merchants; New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd; Newcastle Wool Processing Co Ltd; Price Waterhouse; Wool merchants
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 219, p82.
Item Descriptions
Series 1/4. Administration, 17 February 1922 - 1 July 1977
5 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M2862-M2864.
Early business papers, 17 February 1922 - 22 October 1936 (File 1/4/1)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Miscellaneous administration, 31 March 1948 - July 1962 (File 1/4/2)
Transcripts of cables re purchasing Australian and New Zealand wool. References to prices, quality of wools, state of market, competition from China, Japanese purchasers, some personal messages at back.
(1206p.)
Miscellaneous administration, 3 October 1958 - January 1964 (File 1/4/3)
Transcripts of cables re purchasing Australian and New Zealand wool. References to prices, quality of wools, state of market, competition from China, Japanese purchasers, some personal messages at back.
(556p.)
Certificate, 28 August 1964 (File 1/4/9)
Sydney Greasy Wool Futures Exchange Ltd. Certificate of Associate Membership for Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (1p.)
Notes re Australian Investments, 1971 - 1977 (File 1/4/19)
Rough notes on Sir James Hill and Sons investments in Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia), Booth Hill, Sons Pty Ltd., Independent Wool Dumpers Pty Ltd. 1971-1977. (23p.)
Includes: Notes on sale to Dieter Vollstedt of part of Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. shareholding in Booth Hill. 1 July 1977.
Series 1/5. Business Correspondence, 1949 - 1979
39 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M2864-M2875.
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1961 - 1965 (File 1/5/30)
Quarterly accounts, September/December 1961 - March/June 1965. (100p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1949 - 1963 (File 1/5/31)
Directors' reports, balance sheets and accounts and related papers, 1949/50-1962/63. (170p.)
Includes:
Normand Hill (Melbourne) to B.Selby re cost of living in Australia; wages paid to Bank General Managers, 6 June 1955.
Draft agreement appointing Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) agent in Australia to buy wool for Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. G.B., 1949.
Suggestions for formation of Australian company, [1949?]
K.L.Paroissien (Melbourne) to F.Heywood (Melbourne) re matters to be considered when incorporating a company in Victoria, 31 May 1949.
Plan of superannuation submitted to Normand Hill by National Mutual Life Association of Australia Ltd., 18 September 1951. (Faint)
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1963 - 1968 (File 1/5/32)
Quarterly accounts June/September 1965 - August/September 1968.
Directors' reports and financial statements 1963/64 - 1967/68.
(162p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1968 - 1972 (File 1/5/33)
Directors' reports and financial statements, 1968/69 - 1971/72
Minutes of 20th, 22nd, 23rd Annual General Meetings, 1969 - 1972
(62p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1972 - 1977 (File 1/5/34)
Directors' reports and financial statements, 1972/73 - 1975/76.
Current account statements and related correspondence, October 1968 - November 1977.
(224p., some faint photocopies)
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., December 1962 - September 1975 (File 1/5/35)
Statements of freight rebates and wool shippers commission, October 1964 - May 1970.
Quarterly accounts, December 1962 - September 1975.
(116p.)
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Australia), 1963 - 1977 (File 1/5/38)
Booth Newman Pty Ltd. (Sydney), balance sheet, 1963/64.
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Australia), balance sheet, 1964/65-1970/71, 1972/73-1976/77.
Fredk H.Booth and Son (WA) Pty Ltd., financial statements, 1969/70-1970/71.
Miscellaneous financial papers and correspondence 1963-73.
(248p.)
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Australia), 1973 - 1976 (File 1/5/39)
Financial statements and papers (122p., some faint photocopies)
Includes: Minutes of Directors' meeting, Melbourne, 3 April 1974, re relations between Booth Hill and Sons and Sir James Hill and Sons.
Independent Wool Dumpers Pty Ltd. (Australia), 1967 - 1977 (File 1/5/44)
Directors' reports and balance sheets, 1967/68, October 1971, 1971/72-1972/73, 1974/75-1976/77. (130p.)
Independent Wool Dumpers Pty Ltd. (Australia), July 1974 - September 1976 (File 1/5/45)
Minutes of Directors' meetings and monthly financial figures. (84p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., September 1950 - September 1954 (File 1/5/64)
Particulars of shipments of wool and financial statements. (110p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., 1954 - 1965 (File 1/5/65)
Financial statements, 1954/55-1962/63.
Statements of rebate primages and wool shippers commission, 1954/55-1964/65.
Miscellaneous financial statements, September 1955 - September 1963.
(129p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1955 - 1961 (File 1/5/66)
Quarterly accounts, September/December 1955 - June/September 1961. (135p.)
Includes: Loyalty rebates statements, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1958/59, 1959/60.
Wool Import Costs, 1965 - 1968 (File 1/5/69)
Notes, financial statements and associated correspondence on cost of buying and importing wool from Australia and New Zealand. (120p.)
Wool Import Costs, 1969 - 1970 (File 1/5/70)
Notes, financial statements and associated correspondence on cost of buying and importing wool from Australia and New Zealand. (125p., some faint photocopies and pencil).
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1960 - 1966 (File 1/5/91)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Melbourne) and W & D Hill (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney). (376p.)
Correspondents include: Price Waterhouse (Melbourne); Walter Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd. (Christchurch); Bank of Adelaide (London); Harry J.Brigden & Co (Sydney).
Subjects include: accounts; Directors' fees; wool market; Australian export incentives; buying expenses; status of the Australian company; amalgamation of Australian interests; severing connections with auditors, Paroissien; visit to Australia and New Zealand by David Knight, 1962; telex; New Zealand wool market; share transfers.
Includes:
Yarra Falls Ltd. Annual report, 1965/66.
W and D Hill (Australia) Pty Ltd., list of shareholders, 1962.
W and D Hill (Australia) Pty Ltd., balance sheet, 1959/60.
Loyalty Rebates, 1962/63.
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1965 - 1967 (File 1/5/92)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., (Melbourne), 1965-67. (165p.)
Subjects include: bonuses; shareholdings; accounts; banking relations; double taxation agreements; loyalty rebates; shipping; adoption of decimal currency; buying expenses.
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1965 - 1969 (File 1/5/93)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Melbourne). (231p.)
Subjects include: Normand Hill's loan account; costs of telex; amalgamation of Australian interests; Normand Hill's retirement provisions; private wool buying in Western Australia; Michael Thornton's traineeship at Bradford; staff superannuation schemes.
Includes:
Agreement between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. and Normand Hill, 1966.
Report by Normand Hill on the Australian organisation, 9 May 1966.
Australian press releases on devaluation of sterling, 1967.
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1970 - 1973 (File 1/5/94)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Price Waterhouse and Co (Melbourne) re financial matters concerning Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1970-1973.
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Aitken, Walker and Strachan (Melbourne) and Beverley Thornton (South Yarra) re ill health, death and estate of Normand Hill (her father), 1970-1972.
Miscellaneous papers on Australian companies including valuation of property at 592 Bourke Street. 1970.
(269p.)
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., 1959 - 1963 (File 1/5/95)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Walter Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., (Christchurch), 1959-63. (208p.)
Subjects include: accounts; purchases of shares; freight costs; buying expenses; topmaking in New Zealand; relations with Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Co; loan accounts.
Includes: Albert (Melbourne) to Bill Selby (Bradford) re visit to Christchurch and situation in New Zealand, high cost of buying New Zealand wool, 13 February 1959.
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., 1964 - 1965 (File 1/5/96)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Walter Hill and Sons (NZ) Ltd., (Christchurch). (212p., some poor photocopies).
Subjects include: accounts; shares; loan accounts; freight costs; buying expenses; death and estate of Rawei Hill; New Zealand taxation; new accommodation; estate of Walter Lascelles Hill.
Sir James Hill and Sons, (New Zealand) Ltd., 1966 - 1968 (File 1/5/97)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Walter Hill and Sons (NZ) Ltd. and Sir James Hill and Sons (NZ) Ltd., (Christchurch). (244p., some faint photocopies).
Subjects include: accounts; taxation; shipping; articles of association; buying expenses; organisation of New Zealand companies; banking; estate of Rawei Harold Hill; New Zealand economic conditions.
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., 1968 - 1973 (File 1/5/98)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., (Christchurch). (285p., some faint photocopies).
Subjects include: New Zealand revaluation; accounts; shipping costs; organisation of NZ companies; relations with Kaiapoi Company; NZ economic conditions.
Sir James Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., 1974 - 1979 (File 1/5/99)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (NZ) Ltd., (Christchurch), Walter Hill and Sons (NZ) Ltd., (Christchurch), and others. (220p., some faint photocopies).
Correspondents include: Desmond Wilson, Hunt Duthie and Co, (Christchurch); Hargreaves and Felton (Christchurch).
Subjects include: pensions; accounts; Desmond Wilson's trip to UK; death and estate of Graeme Hill; transfer of shares; New Zealand companies Act; exchange control.
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd., 1968 - 1979 (File 1/5/104)
Correspondence minutes of meetings, annual reports, and other papers re Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Sydney). (933p., some faint photocopies).
Subjects include: Farmers and Graziers' Co operative Co Ltd.; accounts; change of name to Booth Hill and New Pty Ltd.; share dealings; introduction of third shareholder Neues Wollkontor; shipping wool; insurance; exchange control.
Includes:
Deed of sale of shares to Wollkontor Australia Pty Ltd., 2 May 1979.
Articles of Association of Booth Hill and New Pty Ltd.
Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Co Annual report, 1978.
Articles of Association of Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd.
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd., 1968 - 1969 (File 1/5/105)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Frederick Booth of Frederick H.Booth and Son Pty Ltd. (Sydney) re reorganisation of Australian companies and purchase of part of WA company. (65p.)
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd., 1970 - 1976 (File 1/5/106)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Sydney). (197p., some faint photocopies).
Subjects include: purchase of share in NET Nucleonics Electronics and Telecommunications Pty Ltd.; visits to Bradford mills of graziers; wool sales and prices; wool support policy; economic situation of the company; bankruptcy of WA Country buying company; market reports.
Includes:
Minutes of Directors' meetings.
James G.Booth (Port Elizabeth) to Booth Hill and Sons report on trip to South Africa, 8 June 1971.
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd., 1968 - 1970 (File 1/5/107)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Sydney). (276p.)
Subjects include: accounts; directorships; payments due from Taiwan; loyalty rebates; sale of goodwill in WA company; containerisation; Newcastle Wool Processing Co Ltd.; merger of Australian companies.
Includes:
Report to shareholders, 1969
Profit and loss statements
Report of working committee on merger of wool interests of Frederick H.Booth and Son Pty Ltd. and Sir James Hill and Sons (Aust) Pty Ltd. within frame work of expanded Hill Booth Pty Ltd., 29 March 1968.
Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd., 1977 - 1978 (File 1/5/108)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Booth Hill and Sons Pty Ltd. (Sydney). (109p., some faint photocopies.)
Subjects include: Australian Wool Corporation sampling reports; Neues Wollkontor; accounts; economic condition of the company; containerisation; jumbo wool bales; wool selling season.
Rural Commodities Pty Ltd., 1968 - 1969 (File 1/5/109)
Correspondence and financial documents re proposed acquisition of Rural Commodities Pty Ltd., wool brokers, Sydney. (63p.)
Includes: Memorandum and articles of association of Rural Commodities Pty Ltd., 13 July 1962.
Booth Newman Pty Ltd., 1964 - 1965 (File 1/5/110)
Correspondence and financial documents between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Booth Newman Pty Ltd. (Sydney) re transactions on Sydney Greasy Wool Futures Exchange Ltd. (107p.)
Booth Newman Pty Ltd., 1966 - 1975 (File 1/5/111)
Correspondence and financial documents between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Booth Newman Pty Ltd. re transactions on Sydney Greasy Wool Futures Exchange. (110p.)
Allerton Woolscouring Co Ltd., 1949 - 1961 (File 1/5/160)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Allerton Woolscouring Co Ltd. (Christchurch) and the company's financial reports, 1949-1960/61, 1931-1961. (181p.)
Subjects include: accounts; Hill Family shares in the company; valuation of plant and tools in 1948; scheme for reconstruction; liquidation of the company in 1960; draft articles of association.
Newcastle Wool Processing Co., 1950 - 1957 (File 1/5/164)
Correspondence and documents re Newcastle Wool Processing Co, 1950-1957. (78p.)
Correspondents include: Harry J.Brigden & Co (Sydney), W. & D.Hill (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney); Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd. Newcastle Wool Processing Co Ltd. (Sydney).
Includes:
Directors' Report, 1952/53.
Photographs of plant.
1951 Prospectus.
Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1959 - 1960 (File 1/5/178)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Melbourne) and others re future operations on the Sydney Greasy Wool Futures Market. (52p.)
Correspondents include: Lempriere (Australian) Wool Futures Pty Ltd. (Sydney); W. & D.Hill (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney); R.G. Bailey and Co (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney).
Includes:
John Hardy and Co (Bradford) Ltd. Memorandum on framework of Australian Greasy Wool Futures Market, 1959.
Sydney Greasy Wool Futures Exchange Ltd. A Guide to Growers on Futures Trading, n.d. (printed).
Fred W. Heap Ltd., 1960 - 1961 (File 1/5/179)
Correspondence and financial papers between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Fred W.Heap Ltd., wool buying brokers (Christchurch) re joint account. (138p.)
Fred W.Heap Ltd., 1960 - 1962 (File 1/5/180)
Financial papers re joint account with Fred W.Heap Ltd. (Christchurch). (16p.)
Nettl Booth Pty Ltd., 1963 - 1965 (File 1/5/186)
Correspondence between Sir James Hill and Sons Ltd. (Bradford) and Nettl Booth Pty Ltd. (Sydney) and others re purchase of shares in the firm and the Sydney futures market. (45p.)
Correspondents include: Nettl Dyson and Co Ltd. (Bradford); Bank of New South Wales (London); Frederick Booth and Son Pty Ltd. (Sydney).
Walter Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., January 1966 - December 1967 (File 1/5/193)
Reports on New Zealand wool sales from Walter Hill and Sons (New Zealand) Ltd., wool buying brokers (Christchurch), January 1966-December 1967. (400p.)
Includes:
Newspaper cuttings
Report by Sir James Hill and Sons (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney) on Goulburn wool sales, 4 December 1967.
Western Australian Wool Buyers' Association notice on Albany Wool Sale no. 3, 8 December 1967.
Series 1/6. Private Correspondence, 1960 - 1979
6 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M2876-M2877.
Subseries 1/6/112-116. David Michael Knight, Melbourne, 1960 - 1979
5 items
Correspondence with David Knight (Melbourne) and Inspector of Taxes (Keighley) re David Knight's taxation (47p.), 1960 - 1972 (File 1/6/113)
Various correspondence (429p., some faint photocopies), 1962 - 1979 (File 1/6/114)
Correspondents include: David Knight (Melbourne, Bradford); Price Waterhouse (Melbourne); Jowitt and Freeman (Leeds); Australian Mutual Provident Society (Melbourne).
Subjects include: insurance; remuneration; conditions of severance; resignation from Board of Sir James Hill and Sons and subsidiary companies; share transfers; investment in I.W.D.; financial position of Australian companies; Australian pensions; school fees.
Various correspondence (364p., some faint photocopies), 1968 - 1974 (File 1/6/115)
Correspondents include: David Knight (Melbourne); Price Waterhouse (Melbourne); Baillien Bowring Superannuation Services (Melbourne); Bank of NSW (London); Bank of Adelaide (Fremantle).
Subjects include: remuneration; loan accounts; housing; financial position of Australian companies; share transfers; his health; pension; investment in I.W.D.; fees at St Kevin's College, Toorak; removal to Australia and financial considerations.
Various correspondence (210p.), 1971 - 1975 (File 1/5/116)
Correspondents include: David Knight (Melbourne); Australian Mutual Provident Society (Melbourne).
Subjects include: his financial situation; housing; Australian visitors to Sir James Hill and Sons; financial situation of Australian companies; world wool trade situation; introducing Christian Le Gras; testing fibre samples at Leeds University; retirement of Harold Carter; Mermax Pty Ltd.