Draft of autobiography: Volume 6. Australia (102pp.), 1923-1926
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- Topics include the Cocos Islands, Government House, Sydney, domestic staff, life in the outback, sheep stations, a visit to Yass (1924), the Ancient Society of Mariners, speech-making, the Southern Highlands, Dame Nellie Melba, visits of Anna Pavlova, Feodor Chaliapin, Jan Paderewski and Fritz Kreisler, speeches by de Chair and Lady de Chair, surfing and yachting, travels in western New South Wales including Tibooburra and White Cliffs, stories of bushrangers, Australian artists, a visit to Hobart, Australian Aboriginals, a visit to an Aboriginal mission at Taree (1926), the attempt by Jack Lang, the Premier, to abolish the Legislative Council (1925-1926), moves by Lang to have de Chair recalled, the resignation of the Government, the 1927 election, the question of a possible dismissal of the Premier, and the views of Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith on the New South Wales constitutional crisis. There are a few photographs.
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