NAME John Douglas Maclean FRASER
BORN Abt. 1898
DIED
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 92517
UNIT Composite Battalion
ENLISTED Sydney 8 July 1918
DISCHARGED Sydney 31 December 1918

John Fraser applied for a loan on 7 December 1919 to buy cattle. It was approved on 12 April 1920 .[2]   His block,  ‘Warrenfels’,  Ti-tree Creek,  consisted of 2100 acres.  It was a Crown Lease 19/9  and was located in the  Country of Drake, Parish of Drake, Land District of Casino. [3]

Inspector Nickless reported negatively about the holding –  ‘It would need some days and more men to muster.  The country is very difficult and the area large’. [4] By 26 September 1923 John Fraser was in some financial trouble as there were demands by the Department for overdues of interest and principal repayments amounting to £197.5.6.[6]  In October 1923 he asked for an extension of time to pay what was due.  On 10 March 1926 he again made a similar request, ‘I  am not in a position to pay as there was dry spell during 1926’.[7]

John Fraser had paid off his loan by 13 March 1935.[8]

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department;  NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/6903 File No. 3065] John Douglas Maclean Fraser, Application for Loan 7 December 1919.

[2] Ibid, Application for Advance 12 April 1920.

[3] Ibid, Application for Loan Op.cit.

[4] Ibid, Inspection of Holding cDec 1920.

[5] Ibid, J.D. Fraser to Under Secretary September 1921.

[6] Ibid, RSS Branch to J.D. Fraser 26 September 1923.

[7] Ibid, J.D. Fraser to Under Secretary 10 March 1926.

[8] Ibid, RSS Branch Report 13 March 1935.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department;  NRS 8058,  Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/6903 File No. 3065] John Duncan McLean Fraser.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers,  John Duncan McLean Fraser, online: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4024663