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1983.0136 Unit 0038
Unit TypeA1 Brown IdentifierUMA-UN-000038904Accession[1983.0136] Records of Edward Dyason & Co.Date Range1915-1949DescriptionFolder 1/3-1/11 Agreement of tenancy between Edward C Dyason Esq and ES&A bank for 82 Queen St, 24/8/25; Agreements of tenancy between ES & A bank and Edward Dyason & Co 1925-1957; Folder - Case for Counsel's Opinion 20/8/1921 A Phillips solicitor, JG Latham Counsel re question of whether using the words 'Investment Bankers and Brokers' brings the firm into the province of the 'Banks and Currency Act 1915'.; At this time Edward Dyason and Norman Picot were partners; Folder 1/1/-1/2 - Certificate of Registrar General on Original Registration of a firm name of firm Edward Dyason & Co, member of firm, Edward C Dyason [no Picot]; Folder 2/3/2 letter 10/10/16 with letterhead Edward C Dyason Pty Ltd [ECD - MD and N Picot Sec] to Minister of Mines writing on behalf of 'a group of the largest holders of shares in companies operating in the central area of the Bendigo goldfield to ask for the Department's support for proposal to re-establish gold mining industry. Includes a copy of ECD's report on the Central Area of the Gold Field. Proposed to form a company to take over about 40 of the mines in this area in an amalgamation of existing companies with the aim of achieving economies in operating mines.; Also a document listing the companies involved and their value etc.; Undated cutting re gold from Sunday Telegraph; Folder 2/8 Reprint 'Valuation of gold in Boreholes in Testing Alluvial Dredging Areas' by AH Flowerdale, from Chemical Engineering and Mining Review, Sept, 1939; Folder 2/7 4 mining leases in name of Arthur Stewart James McClure at Castlemaine forfeited 1934-37Lease in ECD's name at Beechworth No 7572; Various share certificates; Folder 2/8 Sheet on 'Cyanide Process of Gold Recovery' published by Victorian Department of Mines, 1939[?]; Typed paper by Dr GL Wood, University of Melbourne, 'Should Equities or Bank Deposits be Held?’; Typed paper dated September'41, 'Gold and Currency', no authority; Booklet issued by Philip Pring & Co, Sharebrokers, Sydney, 'Leading Australian and New Guinea Gold Shares', 1932. Refers to revival of gold mining in WA, Qld and NG; Cutting from un-named newspaper 'Big Hoax on Bombay Markets', 22/10/35 fake letters circulated rescinding customs duty on silver and imposing a fee on exports of goldfield; Cutting from The Age 5/7/41 re Victorian gold mining worries about possible man power restrictions affecting industry; Typed page headed 'Federal income Tax on Gold Mining Dividends', 15/1/41; Leaflet calling on shareholders in gold mines to respond promptly to calls on shares to encourage government in supporting gold mining industry; 2 notes re call on shares in Hogs Reef 30/10/40; 2 copies extract from The Economist 11/5/40, 'Mr Morgenthau on Gold'; 3 page extract from National City Bank of New York Bulletin June 1940 on gold; Second copy of Bulletin with commentary - perhaps by ECD from NY and cutting 'Gold plays important part in WA War Effort'; Cutting from The Argus 19/3/40 'Gold Production Vital to Australia' … survey of Sir Colin Fraser; 2 copies 'Questions and Replies Regarding Gold' Economic Society, August 1937, Prof. Hall's talk; 2 typed foolscap copies 'The Future of Gold and handwritten version - possibly a talk given by ECD; Copy 'Gold and the Price Level: A Memorandum on the Economic Consequences of changes in the Value of Gold' by Henry Strakosch, London, Supplement to The Economist 5/7/30 [compare with copy with additional information by ECD in State Library - it is possible the notes that accompany this document are for his contribution]; Several Sheets of statistics re Gold and notes; Folder 2/9 'Future for Metals'; Sheets of graphs re metal production and consumption worldwide; What appear to be notes for a talk/paper on commodity production and sales; Several copies of a reprint, 'The Future for Metals' by G.L. Wood, from The Stock Exchange Official Record, Feb 1937; Newspaper cutting [no name, ? NY paper] 28/7/37, 'Seasonal Trend in Metal Prices, How Investors Can Benefit'; Folder 2/10 'Lead use Spelter' 2 letters re shareholders in Taranaki Goldfields 1926 and 1927 [Ed D & Co held shares in this]; Multiple sheets recording buying/selling lead and rubber 1938 for e.g. Pool Ed D & Co, Dr CN Atkins, T. Buesst, Vivian Younger, AHP Moline; Folder 2/11 'Bendigo Mines' 3 Share certificates Goldfields of Australia, March 1937; Prospectus - Consolidated Gold Sands Limited; Draft - 'Use of Gold Tailing Dumps'; Proposal 'first systematic effort to treat Victoria's vast tonnage of gold sands …'; 'The Use of Cyanide'; Directors list - Richard V Knox, Crawford Vaughan, Robert Oswald, Charles Ives [SA] Henry Witt - of company formed to acquire Gold Tailings Dumps situated in the mineral areas of Victoria'; Booklet 'Bendigo Mines Limited, Technical Committee's Report, No 1, 4/5/34; Geological Survey Map; Copy of 'Report on The Bendigo Goldfield 'Central Area' by Edward Dyason, Commonwealth Chambers, 1916; Letter [copy] 9/5/34 re Bendigo Mines and Casley; Letter 15/5/34 re Healey and Bird's Reef leases, from JG Stanfield and sale to ???; Large sheet header 'Exploration Syndicates NL Options'; Letter 17/4/34 to Manager Bendigo Mines from Arthur Robinson & Co re appointment of technical committee and copy of resolution to establish same; Correspondence and notes reformation of Company - Bendigo Mines including reference to overseas connections - NY and London; From WS Robinson 23/2/34 - rough draft of structure of Bendigo Mines Limited - Directors: E. Dyason, Colin Fraser, Sir Walter Massey-Greene, Thorold Field; Technical control to be exercised by the Board through technical Committee of Lindsay Clark, H. McKinstry and J. Stone; Proposed scheme for large scale mining enterprise by AJ Moore, 30/7/33; G.L. Clark's notes on above, 4/8/33; Notes 'On the Bendigo District' by HE McKinstry; Undated Memo 'Bendigo Pegging'; Map Virginia Mine, Garden Gully Line of Reef, Geological Survey of Victoria, Bulletin No 47; Prospecting Napoleon (BML) Mines No Liability, Legal Manager J.G. Stanfield; 7/6/34 whole issue of shares underwritten by Bendigo Mines Limited; Auditor include A. Capper Moore and Sons; Bendigo Lease Plan Sheet No 1; May - Section Across Bendigo Gold Field, Bulletin No 47, Victoria Geological Survey; 2 Untitled maps of mines; Typed 'History of Bendigo Reef Mining' signed by AJ Moore, 30/5/31; Letter to G. Lindsay Clark from AHP Miline from Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co, Queenstown, Tas. 30/6/33 re questions on Bendigo Amalgamated Mines; Statement of Account and Reports Dergy and Carshalton Reefs, No Liability, Bendigo, 30/6/34; Map Long Gully and Hustler's Line of Reefs; Handwritten draft of report New Whip and Jersey Co, by AJ Moore, 16/1/40; AJ Moore's scheme for large scale mining at Bendigo 4/8/33Access StatusOpen for public accessEMu IRN99500
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