Overseas Settlement. Original Correspondence, 1925-1936

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Component identifier:
Series DO 57
Extent:
561 items
Content Summary:

Correspondence of the Overseas Settlement Department and Office and minutes of the Overseas Settlement Committee. Subjects of records filmed selectively by the Australian Joint Copying Project include British Government Representatives in Australia, training and settlement schemes relating to Australia, Canada, Southern Rhodesia and New Brunswick.

This Series is a continuation of CO 721. In 1925 the Overseas Settlement Department and the Overseas Settlement Committee were transferred from the Colonial Office to the Dominions Office. In 1936 the department ceased to exist as a separate entity and the committee was replaced by the Overseas Settlement Board.

Minutes of the meetings of the Overseas Settlement Board 1936–1939 are in D.O.114/89–90, also filmed by the AJCP.

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Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/)
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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