Board of Trade 1918-1928

Component identifier:

Series 22

Content Summary:

Brookes represented the Associated Chambers of Manufactures on the Board of Trade, set up in 1918 to act under the Minister for Trade and Customs. The series has been divided into two parts, with the small amount of the Board's correspondence between Brookes, W. Massy Greene, Sir John Elder and R. MCK. Oakley, and typescript copies of minutes of many of its meetings between 1920 and 1928, being placed first.

The second subseries contains papers of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry and the Board of Trade. It consists of correspondence with W. Leitch and Stirling Taylor concerning the formation of the Bureau in 1918, a report on its functions and activities in 1924, a report of a conference between W.M. Hughes, the manufacturers and the State committees in 1920 concerning the future development of the woollen manufacturing industry, a typescript copy of an article The Commonwealth Fleet c. 1922, and printed material.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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