Guide to the Papers of Wallace H. Smith

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MS 10627

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Created: June 2022

Collection Summary

Creator
Smith, Wallace H. (1873-1962)
Title
Papers of Wallace H. Smith
Date Range
1927 - 1978
Collection Number
MS 10627
Extent
1.2 metres (2 boxes) + 1 map folio
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Content Description

The collection primarily relates to gold mining operations in Fiji undertaken by Emperor Mines and to Wallace H. Smith, a Director of Emperor Mines. The collection includes Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines; publications relating to Emperor Mines and gold mining in Fiji; and three cross section maps detailing mine workings in Vatukoula, Fiji. The collection also includes photographs of mines, mining operations and mining employees in Fiji, New Guinea and Cracow, Queensland.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8646302).

Conditions Governing Use

Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn8646302).

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Wallace H. Smith, National Library of Australia, MS 10627, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.

Source of description

This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.

Item Descriptions

Collection. Papers of Wallace H. Smith

Class 1. Papers received 2022

Consigned from MS Acc22.044

Tavua Goldfields of Fiji, 1936 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 10627)

Photograph album. Title page inscription: H Wallace Smith Esq, Happy remembrances of a very pleasant trip June-July 1936 best wishes Ellis H. Davies.

Copra plantation, New Guinea, 1930s (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 10627)

7 black and white photographs.

Loloma Gold Mine, Fiji, 1930s (File 3) - Box 1 (MS 10627)

4 black and white photographs.

Golden Plateau Gold Mine, Cracow, Queensland, 1936 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 10627)

38 black and white photographs.

Material related to Wallace H. Smith and family (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 10627)

Copies of five photographs of Wallace Smith and family at 'Kilwinning'; copy of a newspaper article published in The Herald 1982 about Wallace H. Smith & Co.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1936 - 1939 (File 6) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 1 - No. 4.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1940 - 1942 (File 7) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 5 - No. 7.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1943 - 1947 (File 8) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 8 - No. 12 ; plus three letters to shareholders.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1948 - 1950 (File 9) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 13 - No. 15 ; four letters to shareholders.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1951 - 1960 (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 16 - No. 25.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1961 - 1970 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 26 - No. 35.

Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts for Emperor Mines, 1971 - 1978 (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

No. 36 - No. 43.

Other material relating to Emperor Mines Limited, 1938 - 1969 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

Booklet 'Emperor Mine and treatment plant'; Booklet 'High speed development work at Emperor Mine, Vatukoula Fiji : operations of the Emperor Gold Mining Co Ltd at Vatukoula' by O.H. Marshall; Booklet 'Mining for gold in Fiji' by H.H. Dunkin; Black and white photograph from Emperor Mines AGM in 1945.

Gold mining at Vatukoula : Colony of Fiji, 1953 (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

Book by H.H. Dunkin. Reprinted from a series of articles in Chemical Engineering and Mining Review July 1947-January 1948.

The inside story of some Queensland ventures and some notes on the British and American Oil industry, 1927 (File 15) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

Leather bound booklet with gilt embossed text and decoration. An address to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (QLD) by the Hon. A.J.Jones, M.L.A. (Minister for Mines, Vice President of the Society).

Mining in Fiji, 1953 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 10627)

The operations of: Emperor Gold Mining Co. Ltd. Loloma (Fiji). Proceedings No. 168-169.

Associated Mining Companies Vatukoula, Fiji., 1956 (File 17) - Map-Folio 3 (MS 10627)

Cross sections looking northwards showing actual and proposed workings and nature of ore occurences.

Emperor Gold Mining Company, Vatukoula, Fiji, 1962 (File 18) - Map-Folio 3 (MS 10627)

Cross section of eastern workings looking north.

Emperor Gold Mining Company, Vatukoula, Fiji, 1962 (File 19) - Map-Folio 3 (MS 10627)

Idealised section through Wren shaft and proposed Borthwick shaft looking generally north.


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