Australia, 1938-1939

Component identifier:

File 5

Content Summary:

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include:wool; memorandum on Australian conditions by Professor Copland of Melbourne; movement of prices in Australia and New Zealand; Commonwealth Cash and Conversion Loan; banking legislation.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); LG Melville (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); EB Richardson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

(a) Report and notes on a visit to Australia in 1938 by Guy M Watson - Perth; rail journey from Kalgoorlie to Adelaide ('this train journey will always be linked in my mind with three very typical Australian features - a very great friendliness, a partiality to steak and two eggs for breakfast, and tea or coffee with the joint'); Adelaide; Victoria - coal mines at Yallourn, sugar beet factory at Maffra, irrigation works, fruit industry, Geelong, Mildura; rail journey to Sydney; Canberra; Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area; Newcastle; notes on Australian gold mining industry; notes on motor industry in Australia; notes on Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Prop. Ltd.; notes on tobacco industry.

(b) Second reading speech on the Commonwealth Bank Act Amending Bill by RG Cassey.

(175p.)

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