Trade and Customs, 1903-1911

Component identifier:

Subseries 15_5_2

Content Summary:

Correspondence, memoranda, press clippings and other printed material. The correspondence includes letters to Deakin on tariffs, trade with New Zealand, trademarks, manufacturing industries, the sugar industry, British preference, trade with Canada, the shipment of fruit from Tasmania, the export of possum skins and several trade bills. The principal correspondents are Octavius Beale, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Sir John Forrest, Moreton Frewen, William H. Irvine, J.H. Keating, Sir William Lyne, D.H. Ross, Sir John Seddon, David Syme, Lady Tennyson and Sir Joseph Ward.

There are also papers on the Royal Commission on the Tariff, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Secret Drugs, reciprocal trade between Australia and New Zealand, tariffs in general, 'New Protection' and trade discrimination against the Cape of Good Hope. Minor subjects include duties on imports from Britain, reciprocal trade with Canada, the 1909 petition of employees in the agricultural implements trades and the Agricultural Implement Makers' Union.

This subseries contains Items 15/2568 - 15/2933a.

Immediate source of acquisition:

On 3 December 1965 Ivy Brookes, the eldest daughter of Alfred Deakin, formally presented the Deakin Papers to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, for permanent preservation in the National Library. After Deakin's death in 1919 his papers remained in the possession of his widow, Pattie, until her death in 1934. They were used extensively by Herbert Brookes, and by Professor Walter Murdoch while he was working on the first biography of Deakin, published in 1923. In 1945 the Deakin Papers were examined by an officer of the National Library and it was agreed that the papers would ultimately be deposited in the Library. In 1948 Professor R.M. Crawford of the University of Melbourne became custodian of the papers on the understanding that either an extensive selection of documents or a biography would be based on them. Subsequently his colleague, Professor J.A. La Nauze, began Deakin's biography and the papers remained in his custody until the work was completed in 1965. From time to time other papers relating to Deakin were added to the original collection by Herbert and Ivy Brookes, Lady Rivett and Sir Thomas and Lady White. Professors Crawford and La Nauze also added letters or copies of Deakin letters that they had acquired from other sources.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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