Guru Stories

A first hand account written and presented by Mr. Wayne Fischer Merchandise Division I joined Primac as General Manager Merchandise in late 1985 and had the pleasure of retaining the position for the next twelve years. During this time, we had the support of two CEO’s in Don Swan and Bruce Sneddon and the Board,

Primac Gurus 2021 Reunion saw attendees gathered at the City Golf Club Toowoomba, on Saturday the 30th October 2021, apprehension quickly turned to jubilation with some members catching up for the first time in over 40 years. Around 80 former employees and partners, of Primac Limited, and the mother companies of Primaries and Mactaggarts, gathered

Primac Gurus Association Inc management committee are pleased to announce that Mr. Robin Hart AM has accepted their invitation to be the Foundation Patron of the Association. Robin had been Chairman of the board of Primac for their last six years of the company’s existence. He followed Mr Alex Nason as Chairman, having previously been

Tracing back the timelines and history of Primac Branches and Primac Gurus leads to a number of Private Agency businesses that where merged or acquired by either Mactaggarts or Primaries. One of those Businesses is Farmer & Clarke Stock Agents which had 6 branches and a number of staff who went on to have distinguished

Mactaggarts 1968 Annual Report is a fascinating snapshot of the Macctaggarts Primary Producers Cooperative Association Ltd as at June 30th 1968. The screenshots of the report as supplied by Barry Dixon who has the original document. Barry was employed at Tara Branch at the time. The Mactaggarts 1968 Annual Report is posted below as a

Below is the Mactaggarts 1969 Annual report from Barry Dixon who has digitized it below for archiving it on the Gurus website. Earlier in the week, Barry published the digitized version of the Mactaggarts 1968 Annual Report. It is fascinating reading, and the 2 annual reports give an excellent snapshot of the Mactaggarts business over

Below is the Primac 1975 Annual report from Barry Dixon’s collection. This is a historically significant document as it is the first annual report after the amalgamation of the Primaries and Mactaggarts Primary Producers Cooperatives in the wake of the 1974 cattle crash. Note at this point the new entity is not Primac but in

What about livestock sale by description. I found the newspaper clipping below of the very first Primac teleauction sale. Remember John Higgins flying around the state with his TV crew. The first Primac Teleauction sale was held on the 7th March 1985. I can still remember John Erbacher doing a superb job, running the auction

This report was kindly sent in by Gabby Barron, “Clover Hills”, Roma, wife of Primac Guru Michael Barron and scanned to PDF to ensure the documents long term survival. Great to see Primac scooped the pool 1,2 & 3 in the annual QLD RNA Young Auctioneers Competition noted in this report, well done gentlemen. Bill

“Contributed by Valerie Weise Young” *Updated on 24/04/2021 RSS