Party records, 1945-1952

Component identifier:

Subseries 49-2

Content Summary:

A general grouping of party records follows. They include roneoed sets of minutes of minutes of meetings of the New South Wales Division State Council 1945-1952; minutes of meetings of regional conferences held at Bowral, Hornsby and Wagga Wagga; minutes of the Constitutional Session of State Council, 1948-1950; and agenda for the New South Wales Division's Annual General Convention (1948 and 1950). Finally there are copies of W. S. Bengtsson's report on his overseas trip made to Federal Council (1950) and H. B. Turner's report on the Organisation of the Conservative Party, 1948.

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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