Australia - Financial position, 1930-1932

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File 48

Content Summary:

Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda and statements re Sir Otto Niemeyer's mission.

Subjects include: Commonwealth Treasury Bills in Australia; reception of Niemeyer's speech to Loan Council; how the Bank should receive Scullin on his visit in October 1930; wage costs in relation to Australian economic situation; letters of appreciation re his visit; State Savings Bank of New South Wales; suggested remedies for Australia's financial problems; National Debt Conversion Loan; exchange rates; Australian economic and financial position, 1929-1932; devaluation.

Correspondents include: Ernest Hale (Canberra); Niemeyer (Canberra, Sydney); JH Scullin (Canberra); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney); C de Bernales (Gold Campaign, Perth); JR Collins (Australia House); JA Lyons (Canberra); FA Maguire (New South Wales Constitutional Assoc., Sydney); HJ Sheehan (Canberra); JE Fenton (Canberra); CH Reading (Sydney); LG Melville (Sydney); RN Dalton (HM Trade Commissioner, Sydney); Treasury; Dominions Office.

Includes:

Carbon copies of letters from Niemeyer (Canberra) to Scullin. Appreciation of Australia's financial position [by Niemeyer], 5 August 1930. Resolutions of Conference of Commonwealth and State Governments, Melbourne, 18-21 August 1930. Report of Under Treasurers and Economists upon the possibilities of reaching budgetary equilibrium in Australia. Report of Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers, Melbourne, 18-21 August 1930. Memorandum by Prof. Melville. Report of the Committee appointed by the government of the Commonwealth of Australia to make a preliminary survey of the economic problem, 1932.

(568p.)

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