Broadcasts, speeches, notes, newscuttings and printed items, 1935-1951

Containers:

Folder 90

Component identifier:

File 90

Content Summary:

Subjects include Anzac Day; arbitration; treaties; Australian industry and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Bill, 1949.

Printed items include a lecture on Eastern competitions: industrial, political and cultural (1936); an address Do the fittest survive? (1935); a speech by Scullin on Distribution of wool profits, motion of censure (1924) from Hansard and a Digest of decisions and announcements and important speeches by the Prime Minister, the Hon John Curtin (1942).

Immediate source of acquisition:

The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).

Names:

Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)

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