NRS-53 | Miscellaneous ("M") correspondence files (including senior personnel files) [Department of Agriculture]

These files deal with general administrative and staff matters as well as the Department's responsibilities for the control, research, production and marketing of primary products. Commonwealth/State relations; legislation; relief and assistance to the rural sector; stabilization of wheat; complaints of professional misconduct against veterinary scientists; grants; annual report to Parliament; employment of Aborigines in the New South Wales Public Service; exposure and effects of pesticides on staff and the environment; agricultural assistance to foreign countries; marketing of agricultural products; irrigation practices; fruit and vegetable grading standards; and agricultural apprenticeships are only some of the many matters dealt with in these files. The files include papers and correspondence dating from 1897. Boxes 10/42551-57 contain unregistered papers relating to the Australian Wheat Industry Research Council (1948-71). (4/7823, 5/3210.2, 8/1947, 8/1952A-B, 8/2142A, 10/3897-974, 3/794-95, 10/31909-89, 19/3524-26, 3/16589 part, 7/321-23, 7/317, 10/31479-81, 7/363, 3/8661 part, 3/16587-16588 part, 6/1035.2, 7/7589-90, 10/42539-57, 13/7935-46, 19/3411-55, 10/15031, 3/5953-54, 7/9212 part-9214, 12/3641-47, 3/2383, 7/4678, 7/6465.3-.7, 7/10835-36, 7/11891-93, 10/31475, 10/42499, 13/7978 part, 14/5450 part, 12/10705-26, 14/5522-24, 12/13516.2-13560, 12/3495-98, 7/9437-39, 12/1127, 19/8477-79, 12/13840-62, 12/4445-4452.1). 396 boxes (part), 2 cartons. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.