Development of Northern Australia

Component identifier:

Series 3

Content Summary:

Items 26-150. Printed policy speech of Andrew Fisher, 1909, with marginal notes by Pearce; Pearce's 1933 memorandum for Cabinet on the development and populating of northern Australia, and on defence preparations against Japan; 1935 memorandum by V.C. Lohan on the development of the Barkly Tableland; 1937 correspondence on the development of the north; correspondence, memoranda, and reports on the development of the cattle industry in north-western Western Australia, 1935-3; cables from Bruce, 1936-7, on British help for the development of the cattle industry in the Northern Territory; copy of statement made in 1935 by H.B. Marks to the Royal Commission on the extension of the railway into the Barkly Tableland.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The National Library's collections of Pearce Papers were received in three separate groups, the first of which was received in 1951 from Sir George himself. The other two groups received in 1966 and 1967 came from his son Philip, through Peter R. (later Sir Peter) Heydon.Other papers from Sir George's three terms between 1908 and 1921 as Minister for Defence, were lodged in the Australian War Memorial. A further set of papers are held in the Commonwealth Archives Office (CP 820) having been transferred there in August 1960 via a strongroom from Pearce's office in Parliament House. These include (i) personal papers while he was Vice-President of the Executive Council (1926-29) and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (1930-31) and (ii) private papers 1915-30 relating to private and business interests, chiefly property, taxation and legal matters.

Names:

George Foster Pearce

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