Guide to the Papers of Cecil R. Hall
MS 8686
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Cecil R. Hall
- Title
- Papers of Cecil R. Hall
- Date Range
- 1909-1972
- Collection Number
- MS 8686
- Extent
- 3.2 metres (23 boxes + 1 folio)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence, printed materials, notebooks, notes, business papers, photographs, menus, programs, and invitations relating to Hall's career and his book The Manufacturers.
Photographic subjects include: Adamson, John; Beale, Octavius C.; Buckley, F. S.; Burnett, John M.; Denniss, Jeffrey; Dixson, Sir Hugh; Farleigh, J. G.; Ferrier, Sir Grant; Forsyth, Archibald; Gordon-Bennett, H; Hardman, R. R.; Hendry, James; Hendy, H. J.; Hoskins, C .H.; Hurley, Sir John; Hutcheson, George I., Captain; Jones, J. Gordon; Kerr, F. G.; Kneeshaw, F. P.; Love, Sir Clifford; Ludowici, Charles E.; MacTaggart, M. I.; Marks, R. A.; Nerford, H. N.; Newlands, S. F.; Orr, Basil R.; Parry-Okeden, R. G.; Pettingell, W. W.; Potts, Charles V.; Pratten, Herbert E.; Sevier, Harry B.; Tivey, Sir John; Vicars, Sir William; Walker, Arthur D.; Walker, J. N.; Webster, Sir Robert; Willington, W. T.; Wright, J. P.; Wunderlich, Alfred.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn347155).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Cecil R. Hall, National Library of Australia, MS 8686, [series and/or file number]'.
Biographical Note
Cecil Riley Hall was born in 1891 at Glebe, Sydney, the son of G.H. Hall, San Francisco, U.S.A. He began his working life as a telegraph messenger with the Postmaster General's Department. He undertook a theology course with a view to becoming a Church of Christ minister, but did not take up the ministry, partly because of the beginning of World War 1.
During World War 1 Hall served in Mesopotamia, Persia and Kurdistan in the 1st Australian Wireless Squadron. On returning to Australia he married Amy Balmer on 22 May 1920.
Hall did some broadcasting work with radio stations 2FC and 2BL in the late 1920s, writing his own scripts. In 1926 he was appointed Industrial Officer to the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures, becoming Director in 1936 where he remained until his retirement in 1960. He was also acting Secretary for the Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia in 1939.
In 1939 Hall was sent to the New York World Fair as the Commonwealth Government Representative and in 1955 to Geneva as adviser to the Australian Employers' Delegate to the International Labour Conference.
Cecil Hall died in 1974.
Reference: Who's Who of Australia 1959 pp. 346.
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Correspondence, 1909-72
This series contains letters, letter copies, telegrams, cards and memos (business and personal) correspondence. Correspondents include Sir Robert Menzies, Sir William McMahon, Sir Robert Webster, Sir Daniel McVey, J. J. Dedman, Professor Arthur Dunstan, Davis Sisson, other Chambers of Manufactures, and Government departments. The personal correspondence includes letters relating to his retirement from the Chamber of Manufactures.
Series 2. Chamber of Manufactures of NSW
Subseries 1. General correspondence 1925-72
This subseries comprises correspondence Hall collected in his capacity as Industrial Officer, Acting Secretary and Director of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales. Correspondence with Australian companies and Government departments include Australian Mines and Metals Association Inc., General Motors Holden, Motor Traders Association of NSW, and the Department of Trade and Customs. Hall continued to correspond with the Chamber of Manufactures after his retirement.
Subseries 2. Chamber of Manufactures in other states
Correspondence, notes, printed materials, minutes of meetings, and reports are in this subseries.
Subseries 3. Biographical files
This subseries includes newspaper clippings, invitations, menus, correspondence and notes.
Subseries 4. Tariff Board
Various paper such as annual report policies, correspondence, newspaper clippings and printed materials in relating to Commonwealth Tariff Board.
Subseries 5. Metal Trades Employers' Association
This subseries contains correspondence, reports and newspaper clippings dating from 1954-56.
Subseries 6. Nuclear Research Foundation
Papers relating to the foundation, such as correspondence, financial reports, are in this subseries 1958.
Subseries 7. Lendlease
This subseries contains papers relating to the procurement of Lend-Lease supplies from United States of America in 1941-43.
Subseries 8. Women's Employment Board
Papers relating to working conditions for women in Australia, the disputes, and the abolition of the Women's Board are in this subseries. Also included are the statutory rules and regulations under the National Security Act, the code of working conditions for women war workers and women unionists.
Subseries 9. Ottawa Trade Negotiation Conference 1938
Contains mainly correspondence with some newspaper clippings.
Subseries 10. Conferences and addresses
Various conferences and addresses associated with the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales.
Subseries 11. Business papers
Meeting minutes, addresses, speeches, conferences, financial papers and reports relating to the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW are included in this series.
Subseries 12. New Guard
Correspondence and notes relating to the New Guard request for support from the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW, 1934-35.
Series 3. The Manufacturers
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971.
Subseries 1. Correspondence
Original letters and copies of letters relating to the writing of the book.
Subseries 2. Research notes
analysis of early minute books and early Metal Trades Employers' Association notes (File 7_8) - Box 9
notes on standard working hours, launching of book speech; photocopies and copies of book reviews from various journals (File 9) - Box 9
Subseries 3. Biographical files
Subseries 4. Chamber of Manufactures of NSW and Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia
Subseries 5. Photographs
Subseries 6. Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings
A variety of scrapbooks and newspaper clippings relating to the Chamber of Manufactures.
Series 4. Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia
This series contains a variety of papers relating to Hall's work at the A.C.M.A as acting secretary.
draft memorandum on proposed basis of subscription (n.d.) and appraisal of operations of A.C.M.A. 1969 (File 4) - Box 17
annual meeting reports 1931,1941; report copy of preliminary conference of the undermentioned organisations 1945; executive meeting 1945; letter copy to R. G. Menzies 1951; A.C.M.A. development report 1961; survey of industrial trends 1963 (File 5) - Box 17
annual meeting 1934; presidential addresses 1941, 1943; Rupanyup Goulburn diagram 1943; conference with Commonwealth Government 1945; (File 6) - Box 17
"A Political Platform Acceptable to Manufacturers" 1929; presidential addresses 1959, 1967; "A Brief History of the A.C.M.A." 1960 (File 7) - Box 17
statements by H. G. Ferrier February and July 1965, L. H. Waite 1968, and W. W. Pettingell 1968 (File 8) - Box 18
Chamber of Manufactures of NSW declaration of policy 1929, 1931, 1932; Chamber of Manufactures of NSW annual report 1950-51; report by Rupert Lockwood 1954 (File 9) - Box 18
Series 6. New York World Fair
Reports, letters of Hall's trip to America for the New York World Fair in 1939 as Commonwealth Government Representative for industrial section.
Series 7. Radio broadcasting
Newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs and adaptation for radio of "Menin Gate at Midnight".
Series 9. Personal interests
This series contains papers such as correspondence and reports on the Sydney City Mission, Civil Rehabilitation Committee, Churches of Christ, the Science Foundation for Physics and the Depression Conference at the ANU in 1969.
Series 10. Printed material
Various printed and published materials.
Advocate 1905; Bulletin 1930; West Australian 1934; Manufacturers Bulletin 1943, 1954, 1960; Electricity Commission of NSW 1952; (File 1) - Box 20
Manufacturers Journal 1910, 1912-14, 1925; Iron and Steel Industry in Australia 1929; The Growth and Development of Australian Iron and Steel Limited 1930; Training for Industry and Commerce 1971 (File 2) - Box 20
Australia and New Zealand Today 1940; Proposals for Legislation on Restrictive Trade Practices and Monopolies 1963 (File 3) - Box 21
NSW University of Technology 1949; Bedding 1956; The Secretary 1960; Commonwealth Outlook 1963; Journal of Industry 1971; M.M.I. / W.A.I.C.O. News 1971; NSW Obscene and Indecent Publications Act (n.d.) (File 4) - Box 21
Souvenir of Manufacturers Day 1910; Sir Joseph H. Carruthers Complimentary Dinner 1919; Australian Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association's first general report 1924; Victorian Centenary Gazette 1932; Harvest 1968 (File 5) - Box 21
Series 12. Notebooks
Two small notebooks on trade agreement between Canada and United Kingdom at Ottawa in 1937 and review of United Kingdom and Australia trade agreement (n.d.). Also contains index of names and subjects with references (n.d.) and notes on New York World Fair.