19. Miscellaneous Internal and External Matters., 1914-1920

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Box 8, Box 9

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Series

Content Summary:

In order, subjects include: preservation of wild life on Macquarie Island with memoranda from Douglas Mawson (1916-1920); conservation and release of shipping tonnage (1915-1919); acquisition of extra shipping for 1915 wheat crop and meat in 1919; general problems with Australian shipping (1917-1919); declaration of peace and celebrations (1919); external problems (1917) with Woodrow Wilson, the war, shipping, Japan and Solomon Islands, Argentine wheat; Dr GE 'Chinese' Morrison's report on Sino-Japanese relations with relevant letters and memos (1915 and 1918); congratulations to Queen of Tonga on her accession (1918); to Secretary of State on problem raising loan monies in Britain and repayment (1914-1919); refusal by New South Wales to allow Federal Government to raise all State loans; problem with Supply when parliament dissolved in 1914; role of Australian Trade Commissioners (1919); WA Watt's protests about Hughes' defiance of Cabinet opinion (1919); appointment of W Lennon (1920) as Lieutenant-Governor, Queensland and correspondence with Sir Pope Cooper, Chief Justice of Queensland, about fears that Lennon might swamp the Queensland Upper House; Re Cross presentation to Lady Helen Munro Ferguson (1919-1920); Isaac Isaacs' information on Russian Revolution (1917); precedence of Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Grant and Chief Justice of Australia during visit of Prince of Wales (1920); failure to hold a joint levee in Melbourne (1919); visit of Lord Jellicoe (1920) including his reports on wireless communication stations in Pacific and the German Observatory in Samoa plus his report on Australian Navy and Defence Forces; Sir Arthur Stanley (1915) on transfer of State powers to Commonwealth and constitutional practice; Sir William Irvine on personal matters, political events and wartime recruitment (1914-1919); Sir Pope Cooper on allegations about Sir William McGregor. Comprises 6232-6615.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received in 1961 from Mr A.B.L. Munro Ferguson and the Trustees of the late Viscount Novar. Thirty photographs copied from the Novar albums in the possession of Mr Munro Ferguson were added to the collection in 1985. Subsequent additions include five illuminated manuscripts purchased from a dealer in 1990 and transcripts of extracts from Novar's diaries donated by Professor John Poynter in 1997. Six volumes of diaries, on long-term loan from Mr Ronald Munro Ferguson (great nephew of Lord Novar), were added to the collection on 12 January 2004. The diaries were kept by Lord Novar while he was Governor General of Australia between 1915 and 1920.

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