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CSR Limited is a major Australian industrial company, producing building products and having a 25% share in the Tomago aluminium smelter located near Newcastle, New South Wales. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange.
From modest beginnings in the 1870s, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) grew into an industrial giant with headquarters and refining capacity in Pyrmont, mines in Western Australia, sugar mills in Fiji, Queensland and New Zealand, chemicals in Western Sydney, and building materials everywhere.
A large collection of images constituting a significant documentary record of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR), the Australian sugar industry, the lives of sugar industry workers, and the history of agriculture and migrant labour in Fiji and Australia.
Originally the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, CSR Limited operated sugar mills and refineries in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Fiji. The collection includes correspondence, operational and technical reports, financial and staff records, and a large collection of photographs.
In 1886, Rarawai mill in Fiji , built by CSR for the New Zealand Sugar Company, began crushing. From 1885-88, Dr G Knottman, CSR chemist, developed the POCS formula determining the “pure obtainable cane sugar” in cane.
A large collection of images constituting a significant documentary record of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR), the Australian sugar industry, the lives of sugar industry workers, and the history of agriculture and migrant labour in Fiji and Australia.
This is a large collection of images constituting a significant documentary record of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR), the Australian sugar industry, the lives of sugar industry workers, and the history of agriculture and migrant labour in Fiji and Australia.
