Repatriation and social services, 1936-1952

Component identifier:

Subseries 48-22

Content Summary:

The collection has many scattered references to repatriation. Those dating after 1941 are in Series 48. Here are notes and drafts for speeches on the Australia Soldiers Repatriation Bill, 1943. There are also Repatriation Commission reports, copies of the Bill and subsequent Act, the Parliamentary Inquiry into repatriation chaired by R. T. Pollard and the Report of a Committee of the Society of Returned Medical Officers of Queensland (1942). The file also has newscuttings, press releases and speeches on child endowment and invalid and old age pensions.

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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