Guide to the Papers of Donald MacKinnon
MS 1846
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- MacKinnon, Donald, 1892-1965
- Title
- Papers of Donald MacKinnon
- Date Range
- 1949-1965
- Collection Number
- MS 1846
- Extent
- 30 metres (2 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes and some printed material. Most of the papers relate to the development of the pastoral industry and the activities of the Liberal Party's Federal Rural Committee between 1960 and MacKinnon's death in 1965. There is some correspondence relating to McKinnon's term of office as Ambassador to Brazil.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available for reference.
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Donald MacKinnon, National Library of Australia, MS 1846, [series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Library by Mrs Mary MacKinnon in 1967.
Related Materials
Manuscript notes by MacKinnon on Brasilia are held at MS 1703.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged into 18 files.
Biographical Note
Donald MacKinnon was born on 30 April 1892 in Melbourne. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Ormond College and New College, Oxford. His studies were interrupted by the First World War during which he served in the the King Edward Horse in France. After the war he worked in the meat industry in Britain and during 1930s and early 1940s managed Vestey's meat interests in Argentina.
In 1946 MacKinnon returned to Australia to manage the Marr Y Estate in Terang, Victoria. He was a member of the Victorian Inland Meat Authority; State President of the Liberal Country Party of Victoria 1949-1950 and Chairman of the Liberal Party's Federal Rural Committee 1948-1959 and 1962-1965. MacKinnon was the Australian Ambassador to Brazil between 1958 and 1960. He was leader of an Australian trade mission to South America in 1962. MacKinnon was awarded the C.B.E. in 1958.
MacKinnon died on 2 May 1965.
Item Descriptions
Correspondence from Rio de Janeiro, 1958-1960 (File 1)
Copies of official letters written by MacKinnon while he was Australia's Ambassador to Brazil. Some of the correspondence, addressed to ministers, heads of departments, and members of legations, is marked confidential and restricted
Correspondence relating to pastoral industry, 1962-1965 (File 2-3)
Letters, many with enclosures, dealing chiefly with wool and meat industries and activities of the Liberal Party's Federal Rural Committee
Correspondence relating to Camperdown Sewerage Authority, 1960-1965 (File 4)
Copies of letters concerning the Authority's negotiations for financial assistance to complete the sewage system of Camperdown.
Papers relating to Wool Marketing Committee of Enquiry, 1961 (File 5)
A copy of Wool Marketing Committee Submission by Graziers Association of Victoria and related papers
Papers relating to Land Tax, 1963-1964 (File 6)
Correspondence, reports, notes, copies of Acts concerning assessment of Victorian land tax
Reports Of Australian Primary Producers Union, 1964-1965 (File 7)
Reports and agendas for meetings of various committees and sections of the Union
Papers relating to Australian Trade Mission to South America,, May 1962 (File 8)
Itineraries and a letter concerning the mission led by MacKinnon
Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Secretariat, 1949, 1963-1964 (File 9-10)
Memoranda, reports and agendas for meetings. Research notes, most of which were requested by the Federal Rural Committee (see below), concerned with agricultural matters
Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Rural Committee, 1951, 1963-1964 (File 11)
Statements of rural policy, reports of conference on rural policy, minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports
Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Victorian Division, 1964-1965 (File 12)
List of State Executive, minutes of meetings of Committee on State Platform, reports of Labour and Industry Committee and Rural Committee
Miscellaneous typescript notes and reports, 1965-1965 (File 13)
Various typescript notes and reports dealing with finance and primary industry
Miscellaneous reports, 1964-1965 (File 14-15)
Roneoed reports from a variety of sources relating to aspects of primary industry, irrigation and water supply
Press Cutting Book, 1942-1964 (File 16)
A collection of newspaper articles either by or about MacKinnon. They relate primarily to his involvement in the Liberal Party and the pastoral industry and to his South American interests