Career, 1948-1981

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

As a young man, Dix applied for a variety of academic and official jobs. In 1949 he was appointed an Archives Officer in the Commonwealth National Library in Canberra and worked on the arrangement and description of records of the New Guinea administration. In 1951 he was seconded to the South Pacific Commission and worked with H.E Maude as a research assistant. In 1956 he was appointed private secretary to the Minister for Customs, F.M. Osborne, and retained this position until 1959. The papers relating to these appointments mostly comprise applications, references and correspondence concerning appointments, duties, salaries and entitlements. The correspondents include H.L. White, H.E. Maude and Sir Brian Freeston.

There are no papers on the firm of Reckitt and Colman, where Dix worked from 1959 to 1983. In February 1979 he went to the United States as an Eisenhower Exchange Fellow. He spent four months travelling widely and studying the consumer goods industry, especially consumerism and the effects of government regulation on corporate activity. There are papers relating to the Fellowship and copies of Dix’s report. Papers relating to his later involvement with the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships are in Series 8.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were presented to the Library by Mrs Ann Dix in 2002.

Names:

Alexander Dix

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