Petrol rationing, 1946-1950

Component identifier:

Subseries 48-19

Content Summary:

The rationing of petrol was introduced during the war under the power of the Commonwealth National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations and was maintained after the war by the Chifley Government. The small file in this subseries includes roneoed press statements by Chifley, newscuttings, and the text of his letter, with attachments, sent to all Premiers in June 1949.

Comprises Folder 126.

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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