Newspaper syndicate, 1930

Component identifier:

Series 47

Content Summary:

This small series is concerned with a syndicate formed to purchase the Sunday Times Newspaper Company and to publish a new evening newspaper and a new Sunday and/or Saturday evening newspaper. R. Windeyer and T. E. Rofe were the provisional directors and among those concerned with the venture were Latham, Sir Henry Braddon, J. M. Dunlop, H. S. Nicholas, B. S. Stevens, David Maughan and Charles Lloyd Jones. The papers comprise typescript notes concerning meetings and the organisation of the syndicate, and correspondence between Latham and Sir Adrian Knox, H. S. Nicholas, Sir Samuel Hordern and Sir Kelso King, in which Latham appealed for support for the venture (April-July 1930).

Comprises Folders 1-2 (Items 1-77)

Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the collection was presented to the National Library by Sir John Latham in December 1963, a few months before his death. In November 1974 the Library purchased some further papers from a secondhand book dealer. They comprised family letters and photographs, some diaries and papers relating to the High Court. These papers have been amalgamated into the original collection.

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