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=== Kirribilli wool store and wharf ===

=== Kirribilli wool store and wharf ===

Work began on excavations for a new warehouse facility, in Kirribilli, around May 1890.<ref name=”:0″ /> The keystone of the building was officially laid in a ceremony in December 1890,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1890-12-20 |title=AN IMPORTANT MOVE IN THE WOOL TRADE. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111119025 |access-date=2025-12-05 |work=Freeman’s Journal |pages=20}}</ref> and the new facility was officially opened in October 1891.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1891-10-16 |title=PASTORAL FINANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227251737 |access-date=2025-12-04 |work=[[Australian Star]] |pages=8}}</ref> It was adjacent to [[Admiralty House, Sydney|Admiralty House]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=1921-12-21 |title=THE GREAT SYDNEY FIRE: DESTRUCTION OF THE P. F. A. STORES |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162034359 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Sydney Mail |pages=5}}</ref> extending to Beulah Street,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-27 |title=Family Life on Kirribilli Point in the 1860s: The Enigma of Elizabeth’s Birthplace – Elizabeth von Arnim |url=https://elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/uncategorized/family-life-on-kirribilli-point-in-the-1860s-the-enigma-of-elizabeths-birthplace/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en}}</ref> and at its rear to Campbell Street. Along the waterfront, the building stood seven storeys high. Due to the slope of the land, at its rear, it stood three storeys high.<ref name=”:11″>{{Cite news |date=1921-12-14 |title=SYDNEY’S BIGGEST FIRE |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239706372 |access-date=2025-12-09 |work=[[Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |pages=9}}</ref> The site had area of six acres.{{Citation needed|date=December 2025}}

Work began on excavations for a new warehouse facility, in Kirribilli, around May 1890.<ref name=”:0″ /> The keystone of the building was officially laid in a ceremony in December 1890,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1890-12-20 |title=AN IMPORTANT MOVE IN THE WOOL TRADE. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111119025 |access-date=2025-12-05 |work=Freeman’s Journal |pages=20}}</ref> and the new facility was officially opened in October 1891.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1891-10-16 |title=PASTORAL FINANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227251737 |access-date=2025-12-04 |work=[[Australian Star]] |pages=8}}</ref> It was adjacent to [[Admiralty House, Sydney|Admiralty House]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=1921-12-21 |title=THE GREAT SYDNEY FIRE: DESTRUCTION OF THE P. F. A. STORES |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162034359 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Sydney Mail |pages=5}}</ref> extending to Beulah Street,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-27 |title=Family Life on Kirribilli Point in the 1860s: The Enigma of Elizabeth’s Birthplace – Elizabeth von Arnim |url=https://elizabethvonarnimsociety.org/uncategorized/family-life-on-kirribilli-point-in-the-1860s-the-enigma-of-elizabeths-birthplace/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en}}</ref> and at its rear to Campbell Street. Along the waterfront, the building stood seven storeys high. Due to the slope of the land, at its rear, it stood three storeys high.<ref name=”:11″>{{Cite news |date=1921-12-14 |title=SYDNEY’S BIGGEST FIRE |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239706372 |access-date=2025-12-09 |work=[[Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |pages=9}}</ref> The site had area of six acres.{{Citation needed|date=December 2025}}

[[File:Kirribilli, NSW – Aerial view of Pastoral Finance Ass. before fire in Dec 1921 (Sydney Mail, 21 Dec 1921, p.10).jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Kirribilli Point, with PFA at centre foreground.]]

[[File:Kirribilli, NSW – Aerial view of Pastoral Finance Ass. before fire in Dec 1921 (Sydney Mail, 21 Dec 1921, p.10).jpg|thumb|Aerial view of Kirribilli Point, with PFA at centre foreground.]]

The facility included a wool warehouse, meat cold store, and wharf.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-05-09 |title=THE Leading Wool Selling Houses of Sydney. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106782796 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW : 1899 – 1917) |pages=9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-05-17 |title=KIRRIBILLI’S GREAT FIRE |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18432613 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |pages=7}}</ref> It included generators for electricity, as well as large compressors for refrigeration.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1922-09-04 |title=PLANT WHICH COST £200,000 TO INSTAL |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245781782 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 – 1930) |pages=3}}</ref> Its capacity was 26,000 [[Wool bale|bales]] of wool and 60,000 sheep carcasses. There was a wharf of 20,000 sq. feet in area, with 40 feet of water depth, and a barge canal that ran 50 feet inside the building.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-05-09 |title=THE Leading Wool Selling Houses of Sydney. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106782796 |access-date=2023-11-07 |work=Sydney Wool and Stock Journal |pages=9}}</ref> Produce arriving at Darling Harbour goods yard by rail would be ferried across the harbour in barges, avoid in the need to used road transport. Punts could carry two rail wagons across the harbour, allowing these to be unloaded at Kirribilli.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1900 |title=Punt transporting railway wagons across Sydney Harbour to warehouse at Kirribilli |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4543915 |website=National Library of Australia catalogue}}</ref> Similarly, wool, meat or skins destined for export could be dispatched by barge to where waiting ships were loading cargo, or loaded directly to ships at the company’s own wharf.

The facility included a wool warehouse, meat cold store, and wharf.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-05-09 |title=THE Leading Wool Selling Houses of Sydney. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106782796 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Sydney Wool and Stock Journal (NSW : 1899 – 1917) |pages=9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-05-17 |title=KIRRIBILLI’S GREAT FIRE |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18432613 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |pages=7}}</ref> It included generators for electricity, as well as large compressors for refrigeration.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1922-09-04 |title=PLANT WHICH COST £200,000 TO INSTAL |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245781782 |access-date=2021-06-23 |work=Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 – 1930) |pages=3}}</ref> Its capacity was 26,000 [[Wool bale|bales]] of wool and 60,000 sheep carcasses. There was a wharf of 20,000 sq. feet in area, with 40 feet of water depth, and a barge canal that ran 50 feet inside the building.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1902-05-09 |title=THE Leading Wool Selling Houses of Sydney. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106782796 |access-date=2023-11-07 |work=Sydney Wool and Stock Journal |pages=9}}</ref> Produce arriving at Darling Harbour goods yard by rail would be ferried across the harbour in barges, avoid in the need to used road transport. Punts could carry two rail wagons across the harbour, allowing these to be unloaded at Kirribilli.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1900 |title=Punt transporting railway wagons across Sydney Harbour to warehouse at Kirribilli |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/4543915 |website=National Library of Australia catalogue}}</ref> Similarly, wool, meat or skins destined for export could be dispatched by barge to where waiting ships were loading cargo, or loaded directly to ships at the company’s own wharf.

Defunct company in Australia

Pastoral Finance Association, officially Pastoral Finance Association Limited, was a company operating in Australia from 1890 to 1924. It is now mainly remembered for the large fire that all but totally destroyed its woolstore, wharf and cold storage building at Kirribilli, in December 1921, and for an important principle of case law.

Origins, names, and ownership

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The origin of the company stems from J.H. Geddes and Company, originally fellmongers[1] and wool scourers, which in 1885 expanded its business to include wool auctions and other produce sales, from its warehouse in Phillip Street, Sydney.[2][3]

In May 1890, a decision was taken to incorporate the venture as, J. H. Geddes and Co., The Pastoralists’ Association, Limited. Land with a water frontage had been secured at Kirribilli, and a board of directors nominated, with J.H. Geddes as managing director.[4][5] Its other shareholders were mainly leading pastoralists, and from the outset had the nature of a cooperative.[6] The chairman of the board was George Cox (1824–1901) and the vice-chairman was Russell Barton (1830–1916).[7]

The company also would provide finance to pastoralists, using funds that the company would borrow from English sources.[5]

Later, the company amalgamated with two other ventures—Pastoral Finance Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, Limited—and the name of the combined entity changed to J.H. Geddes and Co., the Pastoral Finance Association, Limited,[6] In 1894, J.H. Geddes severed his connection with the company, selling his shares, and the company’s name changed to its final form, Pastoral Finance Association, Limited (PFA).[6] Barton became chairman after Cox’s death in 1901, and was briefly managing director in 1902.[8]

John Henry Geddes (1855—1909)—always better known as J.H. Geddes—was the son of Irish-born John Geddes (1823—1894), originally a fellmonger at Camperdown, but later a wool broker who also ran a wool scouring business, at what is now Bunnerong Road, Botany.[9][10][11] John Geddes handed over day to day management of the wool scour and tannery business to two of his sons, Alexander and John Henry. In 1880, they expanded it, by acquiring the Floodvale wool scouring works. Under the trading name, A. & J.H. Geddes, by 1881, they were employing 100 men and processing 80 to 100 bales of wool per day.[12]

By 1885, Geddes was in charge of the business by himself, [2] leading to his becoming key to the establishment of the company, in 1890, that would become Pastoral Finance Association, Limited.

Geddes was credited with introducing and promoting the advantages of the Wolseley sheep-shearing machine—invented by Frederick Wolseley—to Australian woolgrowers, resulting in a huge increase in productivity over former hand shearing practice.[6][13][14][15]

Geddes was an advocate for oyster farming, during the 1880s.[16] He took up large oyster leases in Port Hacking, an estuary too saline to allow Sydney rock oysters to grow to marketable size. Around 1888, he translocated 100 bags of small oysters from Port Hacking, to his other leases on the Georges River estuary at Lime Kiln Bay, for fattening. However, that was soon after mudworm became a serious problem in the Georges River estuary, and the venture failed. He sold his leases at Lime Kiln Bay, which were later successfully operated by the Matthei family.[17][18] Translocation of immature oysters and spat to the Georges River estuary later became fundamental to the growth of the oyster farming industry there,[19] which survived until 2023.[20]

He saw the rapid progress In the export of refrigerated meat from New Zealand and became an advocate of increasing the trade from Australia—particularly in mutton—something which became pressing as Australia entered the long Federation drought. A cargo of frozen mutton and beef was loaded onto the refrigerated steamship, Star of Victoria, destined for London in June 1894.[21] However, having achieved his objective, he apparently fell out with his co-directors. Although PFA believed that it had covered his expenses while he promoted that scheme in England, the board came to understand that he had already began working on behalf of a new venture, with Birt & Co..[22] He was also exploring the opportunities in German and other continental markets for frozen meat exports from Australia, but such opportunities were diminished by protection of those markets.[23]

In 1894, he sold his shares in the company and severed all connections with it; an obituary described the circumstances as follows, “A man of indomitable energy and perseverance, he [Geddes] like most men of his temperament, was never supremely happy except when he had complete control of the work in which he was engaged, and that hankering for supreme control resulted in misunderstandings and ended by his selling out of the company”.[24]

He then changed his focus to Queensland, where he set up the company, J. H. Geddes, Birt, and Co.. His efforts resulted in a line of refrigerated steamers of (Birt and Co.), a freezing works at Hemmant, and freezing storage at South Brisbane. However, he also severed his connection with that new company, which reverted to be Birt & Co.. Moving to England, he set up four successful ventures there, London Markets Cold Storage Company, Imperial Food Supplies, Limited, Austral, Limited, and the General Produce Company, Limited.[24] He died on 22 March 1909 at Folkestone, Kent, England.[9]

Summarising his life and business career, an obituary stated, “Although he did not at all times work in complete harmony with his co-partners in the Australian companies originated by him—due mostly to his excess of energy—he worked unceasingly in the interests of the Australian producers.”[24] Another observer opined that he, “in addition, was a born organiser. A brilliant man in everything he connected himself with, and his character may be summed up by the remark of one who knew him all his life that he only just missed genius. He was ambitious and enterprising to a very marked degree, and like many more men of marked ability and great capacity, he fretted at having to moderate his pace to that of more slow-going individuals. Personally, he was an ideal comrade, open and generous to a fault, and all through his life he was ever ready to assist any who appealed to him. He gave away vast sums of money without fanfare or seeking recognition in his quiet unostentatious manner”.[12]

History of operations

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Kirribilli wool store and wharf

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Work began on excavations for a new warehouse facility, in Kirribilli, around May 1890.[5] The keystone of the building was officially laid in a ceremony in December 1890,[25] and the new facility was officially opened in October 1891.[26] It was adjacent to Admiralty House,[27] extending to Beulah Street,[28] and at its rear to Campbell Street. Along the waterfront, the building stood seven storeys high. Due to the slope of the land, at its rear, it stood three storeys high.[29] The site had area of six acres.[citation needed]

Aerial view of Kirribilli Point, with PFA at centre foreground.

The facility included a wool warehouse, meat cold store, and wharf.[30][31] It included generators for electricity, as well as large compressors for refrigeration.[32] Its capacity was 26,000 bales of wool and 60,000 sheep carcasses. There was a wharf of 20,000 sq. feet in area, with 40 feet of water depth, and a barge canal that ran 50 feet inside the building.[33] Produce arriving at Darling Harbour goods yard by rail would be ferried across the harbour in barges, avoid in the need to used road transport. Punts could carry two rail wagons across the harbour, allowing these to be unloaded at Kirribilli.[34] Similarly, wool, meat or skins destined for export could be dispatched by barge to where waiting ships were loading cargo, or loaded directly to ships at the company’s own wharf.

Freezing operations and frozen meat store

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Geddes was an advocate for chilled meat in 1892.[35][36] He made a tour to Europe to inspect and research the industry there.[36] The new freezing works was officially opened in 1893.[37] Livestock was slaughtered and reduced to meat carcasses, at the existing abattoirs at Glebe Island, then sent by barge to Kirribilli.[38][39] Around early 1893, meat freezing operations began, and the large cold store began to fill. A cargo of frozen mutton and beef was loaded onto the refrigerated steamship, Star of Victoria, destined for London in June 1894.[21] The facility and wharf at Kirribilli became part of a large supply chain to buyers in London, who had facilities which received large shipments of frozen carcasses and had developed techniques to defrost the meat.[40]

The generators of the huge meat cold store also supplied electricity—almost certainly direct current[41]—to some customers on the north side of the harbour, from January 1909 until around 1922.[42][43][44] It also provided street lighting for some of the major streets of North Sydney from 1913[45] to around 1922.[46][44] However, PFA failed in its objective to set up a larger power station (and garbage incinerator) to supply all the municipalities on the Lower North Shore, with alternating current electricity.[47][48]

Boiling down works, wool scouring?

Started (in 1914) by H.S. Chilton-Young, who became general manager in 1908, … upon the sudden death of the previous general manager.[49][50] Citation[51][52]

The magazine self-described its role as, “Devoted to the interests of the Country and dealing with matters of everyday usefulness to Woolgrowers, Farmers, Stockowners and Breeders”.

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Thwarted plans for relocation

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Around the turn of the 20th Century, Sydney was a major wool port, and terminus of a network of railway lines connecting it to wool growing areas. As well as PFA’s store, there were other wool stores, at Pyrmont, Millers Point, Circular Quay, and East Circular Quay.[53]

As the only one of Sydney’s wool stores that was on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour, impressive as the Kirribilli facility was, it suffered from a lack of direct access to the railway network of New South Wales. While the waterfront site reduced the need for road transport, it still necessitated a degree of double-handling due to transshipment by barge, from the site of the rail yards at Darling Harbour. While not alone in this regard, the operations at Kirribilli were at a disadvantage to those of some other wool stores. Without any road crossing of the harbour, east of Gladesville Bridge, PFA alone was totally dependent upon water transport.

There was some opposition to the presence of the woolstore at Kirribilli, which was a largely residential area. It was seen by some as an eyesore, inappropriate to be alongside Admiralty House, and ruining the view of Kirribilli Point. It is also very likely that the land value of the six-acre site, in a residential area, was also a factor favouring a relocation of the Kirribilli operation.

The company decided to relocate its operations to the southern foreshore, and in 1908 bought a piece of waterfront land on Jones Bay, at Pyrmont. In 1910, the NSW Government resumed the land for the construction of wharves, by the Sydney Harbour Trust. The company disputed the value of compensation that it received, leading to the protracted legal dispute, Pastoral Finance Association v. The Minister. By the time of the final decision from the Privy Council, in the company’s favour, the First World War had just begun. The plans for relocation were deferred indefinitely.

On 13 December 1921, the building at Kirribilli was destroyed by a catastrophic fire. The engine room, compressors and power generation equipment survived.[43] Some wool was recovered from the ruined buildings, but most of the contents of the building had been destroyed. The cause of the fire would never be known.[54]

Neighbours noticed the smell of burning wool, at around 6 a.m. on Tuesday 13 December 1921.[55] At around 7 a.m., Mrs Robertson, wife of the company’s engineer, noticed an odour of fire, but initially put it down to garbage being burned. Shortly afterwards, her son ran in and told her that the building was on fire. The fire was initially reported in wool on the second floor from the top at the rear of the building.[29] Flames first emerged from windows in the north-eastern corner of the building.[55] Within minutes, all floors were alight.[29] The internal structure of the building included wooden floors, which over the years had become coated in lanolin. As the wooden structure of each floor was consumed by fire and collaapsed, wool bales above fell into the raging fire, which gave off a choking dense black smoke.[29]

Naval personnel from Garden Island prevented the fire from spreading to the neighbouring Admiralty House.[29] Sydney Harbour Trust fire floats, Pluvius and Hydra, fought the fire from the harbour.[55] Fire engines, from the city fire brigades, needed to be brought by vehicle ferry, across the harbour, and so only arrived after the fire was well established.

At around 8 a.m. the walls began to collapse, first the southern wall, which showered the water with falling bricks and ironwork, narrowly missing the fire floats. Then the northern wall along Campbell Street, last the side walls. Initially, the day had been windless, but around 9 a.m. as light breeze arose, increasing the danger to nearby houses and flats.[55]

The fire brigade managed to save the electricity generation equipment. There was an interruption to the electricity supply to the PFA’s consumers, but the power supply was restored by 1 p.m. on Tuesday, while the fire had yet to be extinguished.[54]

Despite the efforts of those fighting the fire little could be done other than to successfully prevent the fire spreading to nearby houses and flats; the Mount of water that could be directed onto the fire was not enough to prevent the almost total destruction of the PFA’s facility.[55][56]

During the morning of Saturday 17 December, smoke was still rising from the remains of the building. Three-shifts, each of ten firemen for eight hours, had been flooding saltwater onto a huge mass of smouldering wool, the top of which stood level with the third storey windows.[57] A property of wool is that it tends to repel water, meaning that wool covering the smouldering wool prevented the fire being totally extinguished.

The total damage was reported to be of the order of from £800,000 to £1,000,000, being around £400,000 for the building itself and another £500,000 to £600,000 for the 32,000 bales of wool—stored there in readiness for upcoming wool auctions—that were thought to have been destroyed by the fire.[29]

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The company’s operations at Kirribilli, of necessity, ceased with the fire. Only the electricity generation resumed for a short time. The focus moved to recovering the losses and paying creditors, many of whom owned wool that had been destroyed or damaged by the fire. The wool store building itself was completely burnt out and its remaining walls structurally unsound.

In 1922, North Sydney reached agreement with Sydney Municipal Council (the electricity undertaking of the City of Sydney Council) to supply North Sydney Municipal Council with electricity. The company’s electricity plant was put up for sale by auction, in early September 1922.[43]

In November 1922, a decision on the legal dispute involving the liquidator and the creditors was handed down.[59]

By mid 1924, the liquidator did not expect that there would be any distribution to shareholders, but 15 shillings and three pence in the pound had been paid to owners of wool.[60] In 1925, the sale of the land at Kirribilli realised xxx.[61] The land was sold off in 19 allotments, in 1925, and later redeveloped as blocks of apartments.[62] The business had been bought in January 1922, by New Zealand Loan and Mercantile,[63] with the goodwill realizing another xxxx. The total paid to all creditors was 500k, but this fell short of the total liabilities to creditors.[61]

The P.F.A. Quarterly continued being published, as N.Z.L. Quarterly, and was edited by PFA’s former general manager, H.S Chilton-Young, until his death in 1927. In 1925, the quarterly magazine was renamed The New Nation,[64][65][66] and continued to be published, until its last issue in December 1935.[67]

Legacy and remnants

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The seal of the Pastoral Finance Association and its hand-operated press, once used to emboss the company’s documents, is in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum.[68] Near the former site of the company’s building at Kirribilli, destroyed by fire in 1921, there is a commemorative plaque; it incorrectly states that the fire occurred on 15 December 1921,[69][70] which was actually two days after the fire broke out.[55] Otherwise, the building can now only be seen in photographic images[71] and in the painting, Kirribilli Point, by Tom Roberts.[72]

Few copies of P.F.A. Quarterly have survived, but two issues of its successor, The New Nation, are held in the collection of the National Library of Australia.[73]

The name of the company lives on in an important piece of case law—referred to as the ‘special value principle’ or ‘Pastoral Finance principle’—arising from a 1914 appeal judgement of the Privy Council, in the case, Pastoral Finance Association v. The Minister.[74][75][76][77]

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