NRS-179 | Correspondence files (including Special files)

Full description

These files, which include correspondence and papers dating from 1929, relate to such matters as: export of fruit, vegetables, seeds and plant material overseas and interstate; border inspections; irrigation schemes; plant quarantine; effects of insecticides; monthly production trends; prosecutions of fruit growers; surveys on fruit-growing districts; experimentation with sprays, fertilisers and improved growing methods; misdescription of fruit offered for sale; field tests and variety trials; conferences, committees and boards (copies of minutes, correspondence, etc.); secondhand fruit cases; control of and investigations into fruit fly; regional extension services; monthly reports from District Fruit Offices; publicity and press statements; overseas visits by Divisional officers; and annual reports of the Division.


(7/374-76, 10/42487-95, 10/31482-90, 7/7260-65, 10/38268-75, 4/7845 part, 4/7827, 4/7792-94, 7/7591-92, 13/10410-30, 4/7843 part, 4/7844, 8/1373, 7/7583, 10/10706-09, 36/242, 10/25247-60, 10/31699-714, 12/9164-75, 12/5374-77, 7/10837, 7/5845-46, 3/16847, 19/8185-95, 12/28, 14/5466-78, 12/1068-69, 12/1212, 10/46790). 148 boxes (part).


Note:

This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.