Australia, 1932-1933

Component identifier:

File 2

Content Summary:

Correspondence, memoranda and fortnightly letters from Governor Commonwealth Bank of Australia giving Australian political and financial news. (Indexed).

Subjects include: federal election, 1932; Australia's financial position; government financial policy; New South Wales debts; defeat of Lang government in New South Wales; banking statistics; reduction of interest rates; Sir Ernest Clark's appointment as Governor of Tasmania.

Correspondents include: EC Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); EMH Lloyd (Empire Marketing Board, London); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); ET Crutchley (Canberra); Sir Ernest Clark (London).

Includes:

27 July 1932. A previous depression: familiar features: Ulysses returns to Ithaca, by AH Lewis.

(Parable on Australia's economic circumstances).

(348p.)

Processing information:

M2947

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