Guide to the Papers of Donald MacKinnon

MS 1846

National Library of Australia


Date completed: 1967
Last updated: October 2002


Table of Contents

Collection Summary

Introduction

Scope and Content

Access

Copying and Publishing

Preferred Citation

Provenance

Related Material

Biographical Note

Folder List

Folder 1 Correspondence from Rio de Janeiro, 1958-1960

Folder 2-3 Correspondence relating to pastoral industry , 1962-1965

Folder 4 Correspondence relating to Camperdown Sewerage Authority, 1960-1965

Folder 5 Papers relating to Wool Marketing Committee of Enquiry , 1961

Folder 6 Papers relating to Land Tax, 1963-1964

Folder 7 Reports Of Australian Primary Producers Union, 1964-1965

Folder 8 Papers relating to Australian Trade Mission to South America, May 1962

Folder 9-10 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Secretariat,, 1949, 1963-1964

Folder 11 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Rural Committee, 1951, 1963-1964

Folder 12 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Victorian Division, 1964-1965

Folder 13 Miscellaneous typescript notes and reports, 1965-1965

Folder 14-15 Miscellaneous reports, 1964-1965

Folder 16 Press Cutting Book , 1942-1964

Folder 17 Publications, 1962-1965

Folder 18 Map



Collection Summary

Creator: MACKINNON, Donald, 1892-1965
Title: Papers of Donald MacKinnon
Date Range: 1949-1965
Collection Number: MS 1846
Extent: 30 cm. (2 boxes)
Repository: National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Content

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.

Access

The collection is available for reference.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the Library by Mrs Mary MacKinnon in 1967.

Copying and Publishing

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissable 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Related Material

Manuscript notes by MacKinnon on Brasilia are held at MS 1703

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 folder number]'.

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.



Folder List

Folder 1 Correspondence from Rio de Janeiro, 1958-1960

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

Folder 2-3 Correspondence relating to pastoral industry , 1962-1965

Letters, many with enclosures, dealing chiefly with wool and meat industries and activities of the Liberal Party's Federal Rural Committee

Folder 4 Correspondence relating to Camperdown Sewerage Authority, 1960-1965

Copies of letters concerning the Authority's negotiations for financial assistance to complete the sewage system of Camperdown.

Folder 5 Papers relating to Wool Marketing Committee of Enquiry , 1961

A copy of Wool Marketing Committee Submission by Graziers Association of Victoria and related papers

Folder 6 Papers relating to Land Tax, 1963-1964

Correspondence, reports, notes, copies of Acts concerning assessment of Victorian land tax

Folder 7 Reports Of Australian Primary Producers Union, 1964-1965

Reports and agendas for meetings of various committees and sections of the Union

Folder 8 Papers relating to Australian Trade Mission to South America, May 1962

Itineraries and a letter concerning the mission led by MacKinnon

Folder 9-10 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Secretariat,, 1949, 1963-1964

Memoranda, reports and agendas for meetings. Research notes, most of which were requested by the Federal Rural Committee (see below), concerned with agricultural matters

Folder 11 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Federal Rural Committee, 1951, 1963-1964

Statements of rural policy, reports of conference on rural policy, minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports

Folder 12 Papers of the Liberal Party of Australia, Victorian Division, 1964-1965

List of State Executive, minutes of meetings of Committee on State Platform, reports of Labour and Industry Committee and Rural Committee

Folder 13 Miscellaneous typescript notes and reports, 1965-1965

Various typescript notes and reports dealing with finance and primary industry

Folder 14-15 Miscellaneous reports, 1964-1965

Roneoed reports from a variety of sources relating to aspects of primary industry, irrigation and water supply

Folder 16 Press Cutting Book , 1942-1964

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

Folder 17 Publications, 1962-1965

Annual reports, bills, acts, copies of journals, reprints of articles, and pamphlets most of which deal with the development of primary industry

Folder 18 Map

Annotated map of Parish of Kameruka, NSW