Guide to the Records of Citizens' League of South Australia
MS 1186
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- Citizens' League of South Australia
- Title
- Records of Citizens' League of South Australia
- Date Range
- 1920-1940
- Collection Number
- MS 1186
- Extent
- 2.38 metres 14 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The papers consist mainly of records of the Citizens' League, including minutes and financial records, 1930-1934, minutes of the inaugural meeting, 3 October 1930, and press cuttings, 1930-1940, relating to the League and to Federal Election campaigns. There are also miscellaneous items, including addresses and radio talks by members of the League, including Mr. Bagot, an address by E.J. Craigie M.P. on 'White Australia and Defence', attendance books for general conventions and some correspondence.
Another section contains the report of the Australian Trade Delegation to India, Ceylon and Burma, 1935-1936, records of the Conference representing Sugar Consumers, 1932, records of a meeting of the Australian Listeners' League and business documents connected with the following companies: Mt. Lofty Sports Park Ltd., Property Owners' Finance Ltd., Barclay's Syndicate Ltd. and the Progress Publishing Company.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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], Records of Citizens' League of South Australia, National Library of Australia, MS 1186, [series and/or item number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records were donated by E.D.A. (Alex) Bagot in 1965. Alex Bagot was the founder and General Secretary of the League.
Related Materials
Personal papers of Alex Bagot are held at MS 1754, MS 2603 and MS 4702.
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Minutes of meetings and financial records, 1930-1934
The series contains: minutes of the inaugural meeting of the Citizens' League, 3 October 1930, and of committees and conventions, 1930-1934 (items 1-9); financial records including balance sheets, revenue accounts, finance statements, and ledgers, 1930-1934 (items 10-18); and miscellaneous records including correspondence, attendance books, an address by E.J. Craigie on 'White Australia and Defence', addresses and radio talks by Bagot and others, and an anti-communist file (items 19-27).
The files are intended to reflect the organisational structure of the Citizens' League. It will be found that a file headed, for example, minutes of the General Council, may also contain minutes of various committees, etc. The contents of file have been maintained intact as they were received.
Minutes, 1930-1931 (Item 1)
Includes inaugural meeting, 3 October 1930; addresses etc. at public meeting, 14 October 1930; press cuttings; minutes of meetings of the General Convention of delegates from District Branches, 1 December 1930; minutes, reports, agenda for second General Convention, 16 March 1931 and for the Third General Convention, 10 June 1931.
Minutes of the General Council, 15 September 1931 - 17 December 1934 (Item 4)
Includes minutes of special meetings of the Executive Committee, 17 December 1934, when it resolved to go into voluntary liquidation and minutes of the General Council, 31 July 1934 and Policy Sub-committee, 19 February 1934.
Minutes of the Policy Sub-committee, 18 January 1932 - 6 March 1934 (Item 6)
Includes reports of committees, 18 January 1932 - 6 March 1934, a small amount of correspondence, August 1933 and Emergency Committee, 23 May 1933.
Minutes of Annual Convention, 15 September 1931 - 3 October 1933 (Item 9)
Includes Convention reports to General Council, and reports of Finance Committee to Annual Convention Executive Committee.
Financial records, 1930-1934 (Item 10)
Includes annual balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, revenue accounts (31 December 1930 - 31 August 1934), stationery, branch ledger balances, distribution of expenditure, list of furniture, list of sundry creditors, list of sundry debtors, trial balances, expenditure and percentages.
Weekly and fortnightly receipts of expenditure, November 1930 - 5 December 1934 (Item 11)
Includes a list of furniture and amounts brought in by collectors.
Monthly, fortnightly, weekly balance sheets, financial summary, receipts of expenditure, finance statements, and summary of petty cash, 19 January 1934 - 14 December 1934 (Item 12)
Monthly Branch Ledger and Trial Balances, 31 October 1930 - August 1932 (Item 15)
Includes branch balances.
Special Report to Finance Committee by E.D.A. Bagot with appendices, 15 March 1932 (Item 18)
Includes summaries of accounts, October 1930 - March 1932, and statements of membership finance as at 9 March 1932 in total and for each branch.
Correspondence and list of delegates, councillors and executives by Branch, 6 September 1933 - 25 September 1934 (Item 19)
Attendance Book For First Convention, , and for Second Convention,, 1 December 1930-16 March 1931 (Item 20)
Graphs covering total and local branch membership, 1930-1931, 1931-1932 (Item 21)
Includes expenditure records.
Conference representing the Sugar Consumers of Australia held at Chamber of Manufacturers Rooms, Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia, at 10.30 a.m., Friday 29 July 1932 (Item 22)
Conference representing the sugar consumers of Australia, 4 August 1932 - 19 December 1932 (Item 23)
Includes minutes, correspondence, etc., 4 August 1932 - 19 December 1932.
Series 2. Press Cuttings, 1930-1938
Books of cuttings, Federal campaign cuttings, private cuttings, of E.D.A. Bagot and other related matters (items 28-46).
Advertising book No.1, February 1931 - 5 November 1934 (Item 33)
Press advertisements of Citizens' League of South Australia.
File entitled 'General Statistics', May 1930 - 15 April 1931 (Item 36)
Contains press cuttings, typescript articles and a little correspondence.
Election Campaign Committee, 8 March 1934 - 21 December 1934 (Item 38)
Contains circulars and a few pages of press cuttings.
Series 3. Miscellaneous files, 1920-1940
Miscellaneous files including C.T. Hasse, press cuttings and correspondence, 1920-1932; report of Australian trade Delegation to India, Burma and Ceylon, 1935-1936; speeches by members of Parliament; minutes of Australian Listener's League, Mount Lofty Sport Park Ltd. director's files, 1934-1935; Hirsch Krantz and J. Beckett - Petty cash expenditure, 1934-1935; Property Owner's Finance Ltd Articles of Association, n.d.; Barclay's Syndicate Ltd Articles of Association; memorandum, January-July 1937; Progress Publishing Co. financial notes, prospectus and articles, etc. 1935-1937 (items 47-63).
E.D.A. Bagot - Profit and loss account, 1 July 1933 - 31 December 1935 (Item 47)
Also includes balance sheet; outstanding accounts; figures for advertising costs; trial balance.
C.T. Hasse - file consisting of press cuttings, typescript extracts from newspapers and some correspondence, August 1920 - January 1932 (Item 48)
Report of the Australian Trade Delegation to India, Burma and Ceylon, October 1935 - January 1936 (Item 49)
Also includes a file entitled Speeches by Members of Parliament.
Australian Listener's League - minutes of provisional committee, general committee and executive committee, including statements of receipt and expenditure, reports, etc., 8 June 1937 - 23 September 1940 (Item 50)
Mt. Lofty Sports Park Ltd. - Director's File. (H. Krantz), 2 February 1934 - 8 November 1935 (Item 51)
Mt. Lofty Sports Park Ltd. - Director's File. (H. Krantz), 2 February 1934 - 8 November 1935 (Item 52)
Mt. Lofty Sports Park Ltd. - Director's File. (J. Becket), 2 February 1934 - 8 November 1935 (Item 53)
Container List
Series | File | Box |
---|---|---|
1 | 1-11 | 1 |
1 | 12-23 | 2 |
1 | 24-27 | 3 |
2 | 28-29 | 4 |
2 | 30-31 | 5 |
2 | 32-33 | 6 |
2 | 34-37 | 7 |
2 | 38-43 | 8 |
2 | 44-46 | 9 |
3 | 47-52 | 9 |
3 | 53-63 | 10 |
4 | 64-81 (empty files) | 11 |
5 | 1-7 | 12 |
5 | 8-15 | 13 |
5 | 16-24 | 14 |