Boorooma Station Records

This series provides comprehensive evidence of station accounting practices, labour management, wool production, livestock operations, and meteorological conditions across a period of significant change in Australian pastoral enterprise including drought, depression, two world wars, and evolving agricultural technologies. 

Financial records form the core of the series and include ledgers (1922-1949, 14 volumes), cash books (1915-1949, 18 volumes); journals (1938-1939), stores and rations (1914-1915, later used for working accounts 1934-1940), and a store ledger (1925-1926). Operational records document the critical wool production processes with wool classer's books (1932, 1936, 1938) and wool presser's books (1936, 1938) providing detailed evidence of wool handling, classification, and preparation for market. Station diaries (1929, 1942) offer daily narrative records of property management, weather, livestock movements, and significant events. A monthly rainfall record (January 1897-November 1950) provides fifty-three years of continuous meteorological data. The comprehensive run of accounting records offers researchers exceptional opportunities for quantitative analysis of pastoral economics, wool production trends, labour costs, and the financial performance of a significant western New South Wales pastoral property across critical decades of 20th century agricultural history.