Guide to the Papers of Jack H. Kelly
MS 8083
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Collection Summary
- Creator
- J. H. Kelly
- Title
- Papers of Jack H. Kelly
- Date Range
- 1924 - 1984
- Collection Number
- MS 8083
- Extent
- 9.9 metres (66 ms boxes + 10 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
MS 8083 includes material about Kelly's farm in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, War Service Land Settlement Scheme, 1945-1947, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1948-1960, and the Beef Roads Scheme, 1961-1964; also photographs, newspaper cuttings, articles, interviews and Kelly's writings on his life. Several series cover published and unpublished works on all aspects of his careers. Research material for unfinished works is also included. Although described as the political father of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, very few papers are available to record his interest and involvement in this scheme (66 boxes).
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3036197).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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], MS 8083, National Library of Australia, Papers of Jack H. Kelly, MS 8083, [series and/or file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The first consignment of these papers was received by the Library in 1972, and was originally accessioned at MS 3039. This consisted of a 1966 lecture and a research proposal.
The second consignment was deposited in the ANU Archives of Business and Labour in 1968 while Kelly was attached to the ANU Department of Economic History. It was transferred to the National Library's custody in 1990. The ANU's deposit number was P49.
The third consignment was received after Kelly's death in 1983 and included many papers previously removed by Kelly from the ANU Archives for further use.
This guide now incorporates all consignments of Kelly's papers.
Arrangement
Arrangement
The papers have for the most part been stored in Kelly's original file covers, and file titles are mostly his own. Item numbers refer to files, volumes, folders, or tapes, according to the nature of the series.
In some cases, Kelly had drawn together material from diverse origins to form resource material for his proposed publications; this material has been left in the order in which Kelly had kept it (Series 30-32). Notes indicate where related material is to be found.
Bibliography
1952: Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia.
1958: Beef Industry Studies in Northern Australia: Economic Survey of Queensland's Gulf Region.
1959: The Beef Cattle Industry in the Leichhardt-Gilbert Region of Queensland: An Economic Survey.
1966: The Struggle for the North.
1966-67: Human rights for aborigines: a prerequisite for northern development.
1967: Northern Australia's Beef Cattle Economy: A Major Field Study in 1967.
1971: Beef in Northern Australia.
Works in progress at time of death included: 'Down to Earth: Rural Reconstruction in New South Wales'; 'World War II Rehabilitation of Ex-Servicemen: War Service Land Settlement Scheme: Anatomy of Investigation'; and 'Cattlemen of the North'.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 8083. Original Consignment
Series 1. Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
After his war service with the Australian Imperial Force, Kelly took up a farm in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, where he grew rice. Very few papers record the part he played in changing the original settlement scheme. Its success was endangered by the uneconomic size of the allocated holdings. See Series 21 for Kelly's account of this period, which influenced his participation in the land settlement scheme after the Second World War.
'Non-Irrigable Purchase No. 8, various papers re T. Darchy power of attorney' [Kelly's file title]: includes agreements, correspondence and accounts re water supply and rice-growing on Kelly's property, 1936-50 (File 1) - Box 1
Series 2. War Service Land Settlement Scheme
In 1943, Kelly prepared a report for Eastern Command Headquarters on possible postwar land settlement schemes. After his discharge from the Army, Kelly worked for the War Service Land Settlement Scheme, from New Year 1945 to December 1947, where he was responsible for the inspection of properties throughout Australia for potential land settlement of ex-servicemen, under the direction of J.G. (later Sir John) Crawford. See 11/27 for a brief account of this period by Kelly, and Series 27 for a full history by him. See 11/20 for other WSLS papers from 1945.
Land Settlement Board, New Zealand: memoranda and circulars re settlement of ex-servicemen, 1943-45 (File 2) - Box 1
Land Settlement of Servicemen, Conference of Commonwealth and State Officers, February 1945 (File 6) - Box 1
Series 3. Northern Australia Development Committee, 1945-48
The Northern Australia Development Committee, with members from the Commonwealth, Western Australian and Queensland governments, was established in 1945 to promote the development of Northern Australia. At its penultimate meeting in 1947, the NADC recommended the taking of an economic survey of the cattle industry in Northern Australia. See 11/27 for a brief account of this period by Kelly, and Series 23 for a full history.
Series 4. Bureau of Agricultural Economics:Correspondence, Files, Reports
The survey recommended by the NADC was entrusted to Kelly by J.G. (later Sir John) Crawford, Director of the BAE. Kelly worked on economic surveys of the cattle industry in Northern Australia from April 1948 until his retirement in 1960. He presented major reports in 1950, 1952, and 1959. See 11/27 for a brief account of this period by Kelly, and Series 28 for a full history.
J.H. Kelly, 'Investigation of Stock Losses in Northern Australia: Interim Report', 1948 (File 2) - Box 8
Regional Land Use Study: Reconnaissance Survey of the NSW North-West (Namoi) Region, by J.H. Kelly and W.D. Hardy, 1948 (File 4) - Box 8
Regional Land Use Study: Reconnaissance Survey of the NSW North-West (Namoi) Region, by J.H. Kelly and W.D. Hardy: manuscript and typescript draft, 1948 (File 5) - Box 9
Regional Land Use Study: Reconnaissance Survey of the NSW North-West (Namoi) Region, by J.H. Kelly and W.D. Hardy: draft, notes correspondence, 1948 (File 6) - Box 9
Regional Land Use Study: Reconnaissance Survey of the NSW North-West (Namoi) Region, by J.H. Kelly and W.D. Hardy: report, 2 April 1948 (File 7) - Box 9
The State-Commonwealth Kimberleys Development Committee, Development of the Kimberleys, draft, September 1951 (File 13) - Box 10
The State-Commonwealth Kimberleys Development Committee, Development of the Kimberleys, draft with inserts, September 1951 (File 14) - Box 10
The State-Commonwealth Kimberleys Development Committee, Development of the Kimberleys, 1 November 1951; Comments on the Report, 1951 (File 15) - Box 10
Northern Territory Pastoral Leases and Grazing Licences, 1951. Northern Australia Cattle Population and Turnoff, 1956 (File 16) - Box 10
Economic Utilisation of the Beef Production Potential of Northern Australia: Kimberleys (WA) - NT - QLD: draft, April 1950 (File 17) - Box 11
Material for Cattle Survey Report, including submissions on Northern Australia Authority, 1951-52 (File 19) - Box 11
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, BAE, January 1950. [See also 30/7] (File 21) - Box 12
'Economic Survey of the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia': typescript, n.d (File 22) - Box 12
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, BAE, unabridged draft, September 1952: Copy No. 1. [See also 30/8-9] (File 23) - Box 12
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, BAE, unabridged draft, September 1952: Copy No. 4, annotated (File 24) - Box 12
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, BAE, November 1952 (File 25) - Box 13
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, BAE, November 1952 (File 26) - Box 13
Bass Strait Islands Investigations: King Island 1953: including report by J.H. Kelly on the Tasmanian Government Proposal for the Establishment of Abattoirs on King Island (File 28) - Box 13
Northern Australia Beef Cattle Survey, Queensland Gulf Region: responses to survey questions, 1954 (File 31) - Box 14
Northern Australia Beef Cattle Survey, Queensland Gulf Region, Key to Report: typescript of responses, 1954 (File 32) - Box 14
Northern Australia Beef Cattle Survey, Queensland Gulf Region, typescript responses, 1954 (File 33) - Box 14
Northern Australia Beef Cattle Survey, Queensland Gulf Region: investigator's comments, 1954 (File 34) - Box 14
Station Surveys - Northern Australia: Ord-Victoria Region including Victoria River Downs, ca, 1954 (File 35) - Box 14
'Australian Beef Production - Integration of Breeding and Fattening Resources', drafts, 1956; 'Queensland - The Beef State', drafts, 1956 (File 40) - Box 15
'Beef Industry of Australia', Reconnaissance Survey of the Queensland Gulf Region: draft chapters, ca, 1956 (File 41) - Box 15
Department of Agriculture and Stock, Survey of Beef Cattle Industry, blank questionnaire, 1958 (File 45) - Box 16
J.H. Kelly, Beef Industry Studies in Northern Australia: Economic Survey of Queensland's Gulf Region, BAE, September 1958: master copy. [See also 30/12] (File 46) - Box 16
Beef Industry Report: Movement of Cattle in Northern Australia: correspondence and reports, ca, 1958-61 (File 47) - Box 17
Northern Australia Beef Cattle Survey, Queensland Gulf Region, Comments: correspondence, 1958-59 (File 48) - Box 17
J.H. Kelly, The Beef-Cattle Industry in the Leichhardt-Gilbert Region of Queensland: An Economic Survey, Canberra: BAE, April 1959 (File 49) - Box 17
Beef Industry in Australia: manuscript and typescript notes and references, ca, 1963 (File 50) - Box 17
Cold Storage Capacity of Export Meatworks, Bacon Factories and Cold Stores, 2 pp., n.d (File 51) - Box 17
Series 5. Bureau of Agricultural Economics: General/Personal Files - Box 18
A series of files kept by Kelly during his period at the BAE, containing correspondence, minutes and reports; most correspondence is with members of the BAE, such as J.G. Crawford and R.A. Patterson.
Series 6. Bureau of Agricultural Economics: Diaries - Box 20
Other diaries were stored by Kelly amongst his research material for his autobiography, and will be found at 30/2-4.
Series 7. Notebooks and Fieldbooks
Notebooks containing diaries, rough notes on surveys, copies of telegrams, and research notes, for the War Service Land Settlement Scheme, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and private purposes. Each number represents one volume.
Land Settlement of Servicemen, Interdepartmental Committee, Rough Notes of Minutes, 1945 (File 1) - Box 21
Notes on Goulburn, Crookwell, Berriquin, Wakool, Tulla, Murray Valley (VIC), also first Northern NSW tour, 1945. [See also 27/1] (File 2) - Box 21
South Australia, Murray River Irrigated Areas, Record of Visits by J.G. Crawford and J.H. Kelly, n.d (File 22) - Box 21
Series 8. Memoranda Books
Memoranda books containing carbon copies of manuscript minutes, letters and reports to the BAE by Kelly during his survey trips. Each number represents one volume.
Series 9. Beef Roads Scheme, 1961-64
After his retirement from the BAE, Kelly undertook a private survey with the intention of becoming a consultant. However, late in 1960 he was invited to return to the BAE in order to evaluate proposals for road construction under the Beef Roads Scheme in Northern Australia. These thin files contain calculations, correspondence, and reports.
Series 10. Northern Australia's beef cattle economy: a major field study in 1967
In 1967, Kelly received a grant administered by the Australian National University, and began a research project under the aegis of the Research School of Social Sciences. Correspondence deals with the obtaining of the grant, and the organisation of the project with both farmers and industry leaders.
Series 11. Lectures, Articles and Interviews
'Expansion could mean 50,000 cattle for M.I.A. and boost of sheep numbers to one million', Farmers' Newsletter, September 1953, 2-3 (File 3) - Box 26
J.H. Kelly, 'Movement of cattle in Northern Australia: problems of the remote areas', AGROS (Magazine of the Melbourne University Agricultural Students Society), 1959, 13-15, 69-71 (File 4) - Box 26
H. Hirst, 'Kimberley Research Station and the development of the Ord River Valley in Western Australia', 16 May 1960 (File 6) - Box 26
J.H. Kelly, 'Problems of transporting beef cattle in Northern Australia', Australian Society of Animal Production NSW Branch, 22 March 1961. (File 7) - Box 26
J.H. Kelly, 'Beef cattle resources and transport needs in Northern Australia', The Proceedings of a Symposium on Beef Production, Australian Society of Animal Production, 1961 (File 8) - Box 26
Papers by J.H. Kelly: (File 9) - Box 26
'Property investment opportunities in the beef industry of Australia', Canberra, 21 May 1961.
'Beef potential in North-Western Queensland', [ca 1961?].
'Northern Australia's beef cattle economy: a major field study in 1967', Adelaide University, 30 August 1967.
'Northern Australia's beef economy: twenty years of research and investigation', Work-in-Progress Seminar, Australian National University, 8 December 1967.
'Australian beef potential: role of Townsville lucerne in Northern Development', Brisbane, 20 May 1968.
R.A. Patterson, 'Economic aspects of transport co-ordination in Northern Australia', Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Melbourne, 1962 (File 10) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'The transport of cattle in Northern Australia', The Australian Quarterly XXXV/2 (June 1963), 16-31 (File 12) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'Town and country: Northern Australia potential', ABN Channel 2 interview, 6 August 1963 (File 13) - Box 27
R.A. Patterson, 'The new role of government in Northern Australia', Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Perth, 10-12 February 1965 (File 15) - Box 27
R.A. Patterson, 'Positive action for development of Australia's Northern Resources', Symposium on the Development of Northern Australia, Sydney, 15 February 1965 (File 16) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'The captive North', ANU, sponsored by the Capricornia Society, 9 May 1966 (File 17) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'The beef industry in Northern Australia', Australian Aerial Agricultural Association, Sydney, 10-11 November 1966 (File 18) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'Beef roads in the North', Australian Territories 8/2 (April 1968), 16-23 (File 19) - Box 27
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University: papers on the Work-in-Progress series, including: (File 20) - Box 27
Kyra Suthern, 'Imperialism and William Cooper in the nineteenth and early twentieth century', 24 May 1968.
R.W. Archer, 'Sydney central business district redevelopment: the prospect for the Southern sector', n.d.
N.G. Cassidy, 'A new means for the mitigation of drought in the pastoral areas of Australia', 3 pp, ca 1968 (File 21) - Box 27
J.H. Kelly, 'Role of Aborigines in the development of the cattle industry in the Northern Territory' (Aborigine Co-operative Summer School, Jan-Feb 1971): correspondence and notes, 1970-71. [See also 30/30-32, 32/18] (File 23) - Box 27
'Northern Territory land holdings', Conference on Foreign Ownership of Australia, Bankstown, 12 October 1973; and papers relating to the Australian Ownership Council, 1973-75 (File 24) - Box 27
Tribute to Paddy Grace, MLC [ca 1901-75]: includes manuscript and typescript obituaries, 1975; political leaflets 1949-64; Coleambally Progress Association, The Story of Coleambally, 1971; and other papers on Coleambally (File 25) - Box 27
Oral history interviews by the National Library of Australia: letters and transcripts, 1971-75 (File 26) - Box 28
Dictation for Sir John Crawford, 5 September 1982: two analogue cassettes and transcripts re War Service Land Settlement Scheme and the economic survey of the beef cattle industry of Northern Australia (File 27) - Box 28
Assorted journals containing articles by or about Kelly (one bundle): (File 29) - Box 28
Country Hour Journal: Oct 1951, June 1953, Dec 1955, Jan 1956
The Australian Hereford Journal: Mar 1956
The Australian Shorthorn: Aug 1952, Oct 1955, April 1956, July 1956, Oct 1956, Jan 1957
The Living Earth: Oct 1963, Dec 1963
Series 13. Hansard extracts, 1971-77
Series 14. Newspaper Cuttings
Rural Reconstruction, 1969-77; includes typed brief extracts on rural reconstruction, rural finance, wool industry, fertiliser subsidy, wheat industry, War Service Land Settlement, Western Division, water resources and irrigation, Northern Territory including Woodward Report, rural policy, outlook for primary industries, national rural bank, Aborigines (File 3-5) - Box 30
Series 15. Miscellaneous
Various notes typed during period of near blindness, including: (File 1) - Box 31
Water Transport
Barkly Tableland Transport
General Observations
Observations on the Disappearance of the Station Manager and Drover
Beef Cattle Industry
Beef Industry Development Survey: itinerary 1960, and notes on Brunette Downs, 1964 (File 5) - Box 31
Northern Territory Pastoral Leases, New Holdings: maps, gazette notices, Hansard extracts, 1964-66; Australian Labor Party policy speech: extracts, 1949 (File 6) - Box 31
Proposal for a Field Study in Northern Cattle Regions, letter to R.A. Patterson, MP, 18 July 1975 (File 10) - Box 32
Northern Territory History Unit: correspondence about oral history recordings, 1982-83. [See also 18/4] (File 11) - Box 32
Series 16. Photographs
Photographs mostly relate to Kelly's surveys of Northern Australia, and include Aborigines, scenes of farming life, travel, and cattle. All are in black and white, and date from the 1940s-60s. See also 32/20 for a photographic record of Rosewood Station.
Series 17. Maps - Box 35, 65
Various maps, principally of Northern Australia, either used or produced by Kelly (half a box plus two folders).
Series 18. Tapes
Analogue cassette tapes recorded by Kelly. No assessment has been made of their quality. Archivally preserved recordings by Kelly, including some of those here listed, are available in the National Library's Oral History section, and the Northern Territory History Unit.
Duplicate Interview at Townsville with Frank Rossiter re Burdekin Dam, 29 September 1981 (File 1) - Box 35
Duplicate Recording for Northern Territory Oral History program, 24 November 1982 (two tapes). [See also 15/11] (File 4) - Box 35
Interview at Townsville with Frank Rossiter re Burdekin Dam 29/09/1981, 29/09/1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013259) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, DISCO C60, Compact cassette tape
A. Malcolm - Rice History 2/82U, 1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013260) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, Gtape 90, Compact cassette tape
Start of Jack Kelly speaking at Rotary 23/03/1982, 23/03/1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013261) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, Scotch 90, Compact cassette tapeTaped by Maurice Condon [?] and given to Jack with love
For NT Oral History programme - 1, 22/11/1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013262) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, TDK C60, Compact cassette taperecorded by himself 22/11/1982
For NT Oral History programme - 2, 22/11/1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013263) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, TDK AD90, Compact cassette taperecorded by himself 22/11/1982
J Kelly Sides 1 & 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013264) - Cassette-Box 632
1 item, TDK AD90, Compact cassette tapeSeries 19. Bureau of Agricultural Economics: Publications
Published or semi-published material produced by the BAE.
The Development of the Beef Cattle Industry in Queensland (with Special Reference to the Significance of Killing Facilities, July 1955 (File 5) - Box 36
Survey of Beef Cattle Production in Victoria and Agricultural Districts of Western Australia, 1955 (File 6) - Box 36
Report on Progress of Australian Developmental Plans Concerning Meat Production and Export, February 1955 (File 7) - Box 36
The Economics of Crop Fattening of Beef Cattle in Southern and Central Queensland, 1958 (File 8) - Box 36
Report on Development in Australia to Increase Production and Export of Meat, 1958 (File 9) - Box 36
The Economics of Road Transport of Beef Cattle: Western Australian Pastoral Areas, 1958 (File 10) - Box 36
The Economics of Road Transport of Beef Cattle: Western Australian Pastoral Areas, 1958, 59 pp. (File 11) - Box 36
The Economics of Road Transport of Beef Cattle: Western Australian Pastoral Areas, 1958, restricted edition, 55 pp (File 12) - Box 36
The Economics of Road Transport of Beef Cattle: Northern Territory and Queensland Channel Country, 1959 (File 13) - Box 36
W.T. Allen and P. Duane, 'The Economic Importance of Rice as an Influence on Farm Incomes in the Riverina', draft, ca 1959 (File 14) - Box 36
'Meat Industry: Slaughter of Breeding Cattle', Standing Committee on Agriculture, Fifty-Ninth Meeting, 19 June 1959 (File 15) - Box 36
The Transport Problem of the Beef Cattle Industry, Report to the Advisory Committee appointed by the Standing Committee on Agriculture: draft, December 1960 (File 16) - Box 37
The Economics of the Development of Road Transport of Beef Cattle: Far North of South Australia, 1960 (File 17) - Box 37
The Economics of Crop Fattening of Beef Cattle in Southern and Central Queensland 1959, 1960 (File 18) - Box 37
Development of Water Transport for Beef Cattle: Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York Peninsula, 1961 (File 19) - Box 37
Cattle Movements between Queensland and New South Wales 1955 to 1961, 1961, and related papers (File 20) - Box 37
Development of Water Transport for Beef Cattle: Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York Peninsula, 1961 (File 21) - Box 37
P.A. Westerman, 'The Kimberley Beef Cattle Industry', Quarterly Review of Agricultural Economics XIX/4 (October 1966), 206-216 (File 23) - Box 37
Series 20. General Publications
A small number of commonly available publications were not retained.
Report of the Royal Commission into the Financial and Economic Position of the Pastoral Industry in the Leasehold Areas in Western Australia, Perth, 1940 (File 2) - Box 37
Royal Commission on Abattoirs and Meatworks, Queensland, 1945, and manuscript notes (File 3) - Box 37
Royal Commission on Pastoral Lands Settlement (Queensland), Brisbane: Government Printer, 1951, and manuscript notes (File 4) - Box 38
The Story of the Air Beef Project in North West Australia, Sydney: F.H. Johnston for Air Beef Pty. Ltd, 1951 (File 5) - Box 38
W.A. Beattie, A Survey of the Beef Cattle Industry of Australia, Pt I: Northern Australia, Melbourne: CSIRO, 1952 (File 6) - Box 38
F.G.G. Rose, 'The Pastoral Industry in the Northern Territory during the Period of Commonwealth Administration, 1911-53', Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand 6/22 (May 1954), 150-172. [See also 3/4-5] (File 7) - Box 38
R.B. Kelley, Native and Adapted Cattle [Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1959]: corrected typescript (File 8) - Box 38
W.B. Payne, Report on Progressive Land Settlement in Queensland, Brisbane: Land Settlement Advisory Commission, 1959 (File 9) - Box 38
F.H. Bauer, Historical Geographic Survey of Part of Northern Australia, Part I: Introduction and the Eastern Gulf Region, Canberra: CSIRO, 1959 (File 10) - Box 38
Prospects of Agriculture in the Northern Territory: Report of the Forster Committee, Canberra: Department of Territories, 1961, and typescript review by J.H. Kelly, March 1963 (File 12) - Box 38
Proceedings of Bankers' Residential Conference on Beef Cattle in Queensland, Held in Rockhampton, April-May 1962, Sydney, 1962 (File 13) - Box 38
F.H. Bauer, Historical Geography of White Settlement in Part of Northern Australia, Part 2: The Katherine-Darwin Region, Canberra: CSIRO, 1964 (File 17) - Box 39
Report of the Committee of Investigation into Transportation Costs in Northern Australia, Canberra, September 1965 (File 19) - Box 39
Northern Territory Administration, Land And Survey Branch, Annual Report 1965-66. (File 22) - Box 39
Interdepartmental Committee, Report on the Vegetable Industry, Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas, October 1966 (File 23) - Box 40
Annual Report on the Northern Territory, 1967-1968, Canberra: Department of Interior, 1970 (File 25) - Box 40
Rural Credit in New South Wales: A Guide to Sources and Uses, United Farmers and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales, 1969 (File 26) - Box 40
Tom Connors, 'Closer Settlement Schemes', Australian Quarterly 42/1 (March 1970), 72-85 (File 27) - Box 40
Queensland Agricultural Industry, Livestock and Livestock Products, 1976-77 Season, Brisbane: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1978 (File 29) - Box 40
Australian Institute of Agricultural Science - North Queensland Branch, Innovative Technology and Research in Agriculture in the 1980s, Seminar, Townsville, 7 June 1980 (File 30) - Box 40
Series 21. 'Historical Development of Northern Australia: A Century in Retrospect', ca 1962
Series 23. 'The Northern Australia Development Committee 1945-48', 1973
Series 24. 'Northern Australia Development: The Beef Roads Construction Project 1960-64', [ca 1974]
Notes and resource materials (including Minutes of Evidence, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Hearings on the Top Springs to Wave Hill Road, Northern Territory, 1963) (File 2) - Box 43
Resource materials, including: (File 3) - Box 44
Newspaper cuttings, 1960-74.
The Air Beef Project: A Summary, 1952.
Commonwealth Advisory Panel on Air Transport of Cattle or Beef, Report, 1955.
Department of National Development, Beef Road Development in Northern Australia, 1965.
Department of National Development, Beef Road Development in Northern Australia, 1968.
'Beef Roads: A National Asset', National Development Quarterly 1/5 (September 1969), 26-29.
Department of National Development, Beef Roads: A Review of Progress, 1970.
Series 25. 'Down to Earth: Rural Reconstruction in New South Wales' [other title: 'The Case for Farm Reconstruction in New South Wales'], ca 1977
Series 26. 'Reflections and Recollections of a Soldier Settler in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas, 1919-1940'
Series 27. 'World War II Re-Habilitation of Ex-Servicemen: War Service Land Settlement Scheme, Anatomy of Investigation'
Basic Material, including: (File 1) - Box 47
Queensland Proposals Field Book, Notes of Tour by J.G. Crawford and J.H. Kelly, First War Service Land Settlement Investigation, April 1945.
Correspondence and reports, 1945-46.
Preliminary Investigation Reports: Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, 1945.
Progress reports, 1946.
Correspondence and notes, 1942-47.
Series 28. 'Cattlemen of the North' [original title: 'Adventure in Northern Australia: Economic Survey of the Beef Cattle Industry 1948-73']
Series 29. 'A Vision Splendid: History of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area', 1981
Chapter 5: 'The House of McWilliam' [story of the vintners]: corrected draft, 4 August 1981 (File 2) - Box 49
Series 30. Research Material for Autobiography
Kelly was working on his autobiography in the period before his death, but it is difficult to identify a single autobiographical work among the texts listed in this guide.
Barkly Tableland Railway Investigation, includes: (File 5) - Box 1
Newspaper cuttings 1951-80.
J.H. Kelly, Reconnaissance Survey of Northern Territory Cattle Holdings, Interim Report on Investigations, 22 March 1949.
Sir Harold Clapp, Standardisation of Australia's Railway Gauges, March 1945.
Report of Inter Departmental Committee, Construction of Railway from Dajarra (Queensland) to Birdum (Northern Territory), ca 1953.
J.H. Kelly, Expansion of the Northern Territory Beef Cattle Production, n.d.
J.H. Kelly and D.B. Williams, The Beef Industry In Northern Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1954 (File 6) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, Northern Australia Cattle Survey, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, January 1950 (File 7) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, November 1952 (File 8) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia, First Draft including covering submission, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, August 1952 (File 9) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, The Beef Cattle Industry in the Leichhardt-Gilbert Region of Queensland - An Economic Survey, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, April 1959 (File 12) - Box 1
Notes on the Payne-Fletcher Inquiry (Northern Territory Investigation Committee, 1937) (File 13) - Box 1
Agricultural Development Advisory Committee, Closer Settlement in the Northern Territory, 1973 (File 14) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, 'George Ashton: an appreciation', Canberra Historical Journal, September 1974, and G. Ashton, 'The Memoirs of George Ashton', Canberra Historical Journal, Sept 1973, Sept 1974 [he was an early member of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics] (File 15) - Box 1
Bill Hayden, review of J.H. Kelly, Struggle for the North. Labour History, 11, November 1966 (File 16) - Box 1
Report of the Snowy River Investigation Committee on the Utilization of the Waters of the Snowy River, Parliament of New South Wales, 1944 (File 17) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, 'The Captive North', lecture to the Capricornia Society, Australian National University, 9 May 1966 (File 18) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, 'Development of Northern Australia Valley Regions', lecture to Valley Region Conservation Planning Symposium, Men of the Land Society, Sydney, 29 July 1963 (File 19) - Box 1
War Service Land Settlement, Various Papers from 6 January 1945, including Hardy/Glenrock papers: broadcast by W.D. Hardy, 'That Australians are Committing Agricultural Suicide by Wantonly Exploiting the Land', 9 October 1946 (File 20) - Box 1
Australian Agricultural Company: Report from the Select Committee on Lands Granted to the Australian Agricultural Company, 1881; newspaper cuttings, 1963-80; Annual Report 1964 (File 21) - Box 1
Historical Notes, Northern Territory, 1862-1953, including Kriewaldt File, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1948-59, and first draft, Chapter 1: 'The Pastoral Industry - South Australian Period', n.d (File 22) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, submission to Industries Assistance Commission, Brisbane, 15 April 1973 [empty file cover] (File 23) - Box 1
Autobiographical material, including drafts of 'Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in Retrospect', 1973; personal references in newspaper cuttings, 1951-74; notes and reference material for oral history recording by National Library, 1971; notes on Snowy Mountains Scheme, ca 1971 (File 25) - Box 1
Tom Quilty [pioneer cattleman of Springvale Station, Kununurra WA], including correspondence 1967-81, photo 1954, survey notebook No. 2, 1968 (File 26) - Box 1
Newspaper cuttings, 1951-75, including Special articles JHK, Special articles Northern Australia, ABC, Queensland, Northern Australia - General, Kimberley, Miscellaneous, Northern Territory, Aborigines, Not of immediate relevance (File 27) - Box 1
J.H. Kelly, List of papers deposited in the Archives of Business and Labour, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University [these papers now form part of MS 8083], ca 1968 (File 28) - Box 1
Jack Kelly, Human Rights for Aborigines: Prerequisite for Northern Development, Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1966 (File 30) - Box 1
Series 31. Research Material on Rural Reconstruction
A series of files being actively used by Kelly in the period before his death.
C.J. King, 'An Outline of Closer Settlement in New South Wales', Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics 25: 3-4, September-December 1957; manuscript notes on King; 'Lands Department Building, Sydney, 1876-1976: brochure (File 2) - Box 1
Western Division, Department of Lands, including correspondence re draft of Down to Earth, 1975-76; Western Division survey, 1972; Fowler's Gap Field Station Annual Report, 1971; S.A. Hodgkinson and K.J. Munro, The Financial Situation of Landholders in the Cobar Area 1967/68 to 1970/71, NSW Department of Agriculture, 1971 (File 3) - Box 1
Rural Reconstruction in New South Wales, including draft research project, 1971; correspondence, notes and reports on field study, 1972 (File 4) - Box 1
'Down to Earth: Rural Reconstruction in New South Wales', paper delivered to the Work in Progress Seminar, Condobolin Branches of the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of NSW and the Agricultural Bureau of NSW, 1 March 1973: correspondence, drafts and working papers (File 5) - Box 1
Industries Assistance Commission, Inquiry into Rural Reconstruction: submission by J.H. Kelly, April 1975; includes also BAE submissions to the Industries Assistance Commission Inquiry into the Beef Cattle Industry, 1975; Industries Assistance Commission Report: Beef, September 1975 (File 6) - Box 1
K.L. Fry, 'Soldier Settlement and the Australian Agrarian Myth after the First World War', Long Research Essay, Australian National University, 1973, with notes by J.H. Kelly (File 7) - Box 1
Rural Reconstruction Board, Annual Reports, 1942-71; Rural Assistance Board, Annual Reports, 1972-81 (File 8) - Box 1
NSW Department of Lands, Annual Reports, 1968-73; Western Lands Commission, Annual Reports, 1973, 1975; Closer Settlement Acts, Regulations, 1972 (File 9) - Box 1
NSW Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, Annual Reports, 1914-36, 1961, 1969-74; Water Resources Commission, Annual Reports, 1976-80; Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust, Annual Report, 1912 (File 10) - Box 1
Irrigation and Water Resources, including Ord River Project: reports, 1960, 1964, newspaper clippings 1962-81 (File 11) - Box 1
Reserve Bank of Australia, Rural Credits Development Fund, correspondence re project on Rural Reconstruction ('Down to Earth'), 1971-73; special purpose accounts, 1972-73; WA/NT cattle station surveys, draft reports, 1960; Reserve Bank rural valuation guidelines, 1968, 1971 (File 12) - Box 1
Series 32. Research Material on the Northern Territory
A series of files being actively used by Kelly in the period before his death.
Gunn file: correspondence with Sir William Gunn/Gunn Rural Management Pty. Ltd., 1959, 1967-68; report; newspaper clippings, 1953, 1966-82 (File 2) - Box 1
Tipperary Corporation/Sir William Gunn/U.S. Peninsula Holdings: newspaper clippings, report, land acquisition proposal, 1966-80 (File 3) - Box 1
Lakeland Downs: notes, article, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, outline of lease proposal, 1969-77 (File 5) - Box 1
King Ranch (Australia) Pty. Ltd./Brunette Downs Station , Northern Territory: correspondence, report, newspaper clippings, 1966-80 (File 6) - Box 1
Stanbroke Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.: correspondence, annual reports, newspaper clippings, 1967-74 (File 7) - Box 1
Starke Station, Cape York Peninsula: consultancy report by J.H. Kelly, correspondence, maps, notes, 1972 (File 8) - Box 1
'P.A. Cullen, E. McClintock': correspondence and reports on Coolibah Station, NT, 1948, 1963-65 (File 9) - Box 1
'Gulf Region 1954 Survey, Vestey Surrender NT, PAR submission to J.G. Crawford, Victoria River Downs Structural Improvement, Wroxham Park Survey Report, Victoria River Downs Gazette Notice': correspondence and other papers, 1952-56 (File 10) - Box 1
Conference between Administrator - Northern Territory, Director - Northern Territory Affairs, and Northern Territory Pastoral Lessees' Association: statement and transcripts, 20-21 Mar 1951 (File 11) - Box 1
Discussion between Centralian Pastoral Lessees' Association, Department of Territories, and Bureau of Agricultural Economics: notes, 8 Nov 1951 (File 11) - Box 1
Northern Territory Pastoral Leases - Minimum Economic Unit Size: correspondence and other papers, 1953-54 (File 11) - Box 1
Future of Northern Territory and of Northern Australia: copy of letter from General T.A. Blamey to Hon. J. Curtin, Minister of Defence, 21 Dec 1944 (File 11) - Box 1
Criticism of the Kelly Report by the Northern Territory Pastoral Lessees' Association: reply by J.H. Kelly, 1953 (File 12) - Box 1
Pastoral Review editorial on Report on the Beef Cattle Industry in Northern Australia: comments by J.H. Kelly, 26 Feb 1953 (File 12) - Box 1
Draft report on the Economic Survey of the Cattle Industry in Northern Australia: covering letter, 11 Aug 1952 (File 12) - Box 1
Northern Territory Crown Lands Ordinances and other ordinances and regulations, notes and newspaper clippings, 1949-72 (File 13) - Box 1
Bill Hayden, M.P.: questions in the House of Representatives and correspondence, 1966-72 (File 14) - Box 1
Aborigines: Typescript drafts, correspondence, 1967-81; newspaper cuttings, 1968-81 (File 18) - Box 1
Lecture: 'Aboriginal Labour in Northern Australia', Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, Canberra, 4 Feb 1969 (File 18) - Box 1
Lecture:'Role of Aborigines in Development of the Cattle Industry in the Northern Territory', Aborigine Co-operative Summer School, 2 Feb 1971. [See also 11/23, 30/30-32] (File 18) - Box 1
Northern Australia - Special references: (File 19) - Box 1
Cattle industry survey: letters, 1967.
Townsville Stylo (Lucerne) Development: letter, 1970.
Cattle properties for sale: 1971.
Series 33. Miscellaneous Research Material
Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme: copies of Murrumbidgee Valley Water Users Association booklet, 1945, and other material (File 1) - Box 63
Report by the Northern Territory Land Board on the Centralian Pastoral Industry under Drought Conditions, 4 December 1964 (File 2) - Box 64
Inquiry into Land and Land Uses of the Northern Territories of Australia (Payne-Fletcher Inquiry): draft typescript; also chapter titled 'Northern Australia Development Committee', n.d (File 4) - Box 64
'Notes and material for Northern Australia Chapter' [of an unidentified work]: (File 5) - Box 64
Reports on East and West Kimberley Districts, n.d.
Transcript of oral history interview, 7 December 1981.
'Origins and Development of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics', [J.H. Kelly or Eric Saxon?], ca 1977.
Newspaper cuttings, 1952-8