Australia, 1907, 1926-1931

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File 1

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Correspondence, press cuttings, and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: proposed banking and note acts, 1907; Australian debts, 1924/5; budget; loan requirements; note issue; exchange rates; Commonwealth government takeover of states' debts; proposed central bank; London balances of Australian banks; financial problems, 1930; borrowing requirements; threatened default on government debt; by-election in Parkes; Gibbons Plan; plan by Australian Gold Industry Council to solve Australia's economic problems; Casey's thoughts on Australia's economic problems.

Correspondents include: Sir John Forrest (Treasury, Melbourne); Mr Justice Parsons (RMS Scythia); Edward W Knox (Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., Sydney); RN Kershaw (Sydney); Treasury; LH Reading (Sydney); JM Hunter (Brisbane); Claude de Bernales (Australian Gold Industry Council, Melbourne); RG Casey (Melbourne); TS Gordon (Birt Co. Ltd., Sydney).

Includes:

c. 31 January 1928. RG Casey (London) to SM Bruce re influence of loans from a wealthy country (ie America) on a poorer country.

Memoranda and correspondence with Casey that international rationalisation of industry should tend towards international peace and that it is difficult to quantify any political influence wielded by a lending country.

(356p.)

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