Guide to the Records of the Bank of England (as filmed by the AJCP)

New Zealand government debentures convertible into 3.5% consolidated stock, 1940 (File 486)

Documents and prospectus for 3.5% four years convertible debentures, 1910, 3.5% five years convertible debentures, 1910, 4% seven years convertible debentures, 1904.

1904-1910.

(25p.)

New Zealand government 4% inscribed stock, 1933 - 1943 (File 490)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: Inland Revenue; Sir James Allen (New Zealand High Commissioner).

(31p.)

New Zealand government 5% bonds (7p.), 1932 - 1934 (File 498)

Comprises: prospectus, 1931.

Queensland government 4% inscribed stock, 1884 - 1929 (File 549)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: Inland Revenue; T Bilbe Robinson (Queensland Agent General); Charles Dicken (Queensland Government Office); Sir James Garrick (Queensland Agent General); Thomas Archer (Queensland Agent General).

(162p.)

Queensland government 3.5% inscribed stock, 1924 (File 550)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: Thomas Archer (Queensland Agent General).

(68p.)

Queensland government 3.5% inscribed stock, 1930 (File 551)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: JH Pike (Queensland Government Office); Sir Horace Tozer (Queensland Agent General); Charles Dicken (Queensland Government Office); Sir James Garrick (Queensland Agent General).

(103p.)

Queensland government 4.5% inscribed stock, 1920 - 1925 (File 558)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Bilbe Robinson (Queensland Agent General); Inland Revenue.

(37p.)

Queensland government 6% inscribed stock, 1930 - 1940 (File 559)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: LH Pike (Queensland Agent General); Official Secretary (Australia House).

(34p.)

Queensland government 5.5% inscribed stock, 1926 - 1929 (File 560)

Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock.

Correspondents include: T Boothly (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); LH Pike (Queensland Agent General); Patrick Dillon (Queensland Agent General).

(43p.)

Original documents re creation of New Zealand Government 4% stock, and 4% convertible debentures and conversion of 5% debentures, 1929 (File 65)

Includes prospectus, correspondence from New Zealand High Commissioner and declaration for Inland Revenue Commission, 1914.

(43p.)

Dominion and India Funds in London - Australian, 1934 - 1955 (File 174)

Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Bank of England memoranda.

Subjects include: London funds of Commonwealth Bank of Australia; CB of A investments and purchases of defence bonds; Australian borrowing; possible Bank of England assistance in case of shortage of Australian funds in London; underwriting of Australian issues.

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); AH Lewis (London); LU Rusden (London).

(180p.)

Dominion Government Stocks, 1908 - 1925 (File 213)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings, publications.

Subjects include: terms for management of New Zealand stock; modification of terms for management of Queensland. stock; modifications for issue and management of New South Wales stock; proposal to transfer New South Wales stocks to Sydney Register.

Correspondents include: WP Reeves (Agent General New Zealand); AB Paine (Queensland House); Sir Horace Tozer (London); Sir Joseph Carruthers (Agent General New South Wales); CG Wade (Sydney); TA Coglan (New South Wales House).

Includes: Budget speech, 1906/7 by Sir John Forrest;

Memoranda on Colonial government stocks:

modification of terms;

Budget speech 1908/9 by Sir William Lyne;

Case for opinion of Sir Robert Finlay re New South Wales

Loans, 14 December 1906.

1908-1925

(289p.)

Dominion Government Stocks, 1894 - 1929 (File 214)

Correspondence with New Zealand High Commission and Bank of England memoranda on management of New Zealand stock and the review of management terms.

Correspondents include: Sir James Allen; GF Copus; WB Perceval; J Mackenzie; E Toms.

(145p.)

New Zealand Government Loans, 1927 - 1936 (File 282)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and notes on meetings between High Commissioner and Bank of England officials. (Index at back).

Subjects include: conversion of loans; sale of New Zealand stock; New Zealand borrowing requirements; New Zealand financial problems; proposal to suspend sinking fund on New Zealand debt; New Zealand loans Act, 1932; local bodies interest reductions; management of New Zealand stocks.

Correspondents include: E Toms (New Zealand High Commission); Sir James Parr (New Zealand High Commissioner); Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commissioner); Chas A Bunn (New Zealand High Commission); AR Mackay (New Zealand High Commission).

(367p.)

Australia, 1935 - 1952 (File 291)

Correspondence, memoranda.

Subjects include: Australian exchange on London; advance to Commonwealth Bank of Australia to cover Australia's defence programme; Sydney City Council's proposal to raise money in Holland; financing Australia's imports; Westralian Farmers Transport Ltd.; London borrowing by Australian private banks.

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); J Scott (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); A Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); EG Wilson (English, Scottish and Australian Bank Ltd., Melbourne.).

(223p.)

Australia, 1952 - 1957 (File 292)

Correspondence, memoranda, notes on meetings.

Subjects include: Warrambool power station; loans to be raised on London market for Australian industries; problems due to lack of Australian federal government control over financial dealings of State governments; Blair Athol coalfield; Australian borrowing in London; State Electricity Commission of Victoria.

Correspondents include: LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); AW Fadden (Sydney); W Armstrong (Treasury); RG Menzies (London, to Chancellor); AR Hawke (Perth).

(455p.)

Australia: London market borrowings, 1958 - 1960 (File 293)

Correspondence, memoranda, notes on meetings with Australian treasurer, Holt, re Australian loan requirements.

Correspondents include: AW Taylor (Treasury); W Armstrong (Treasury); RJ Randall (Australia House).

(85p.)

Gold held for the Bank by Commonwealth Government in Australia, 1914 - 1923 (File 317)

Correspondence and memoranda re gold sovereigns purchased by Bank of England and held in Australia; shipment of gold to America.

Correspondents include: Muirhead Collins (Australia House); RW Jeans (Bank of Australia, London); London Managers of National Bank of Australasia, Bank of Adelaide, Union Bank of Australia, Royal Bank of Australia, Commercial Bank of Australia.

(133p.)

Gold shipped from Australia to New York, 1916 - 1917 (File 342)

Correspondence and memoranda re shipment of gold sovereigns by Commonwealth Bank of Australia on behalf of HM Government to JP Morgan & Co. of New York. Gold was carried by Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: Andrew Fisher (London); Shaw Savill & Albion Co.; Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand Ltd.; Morgan Grenfell & Co.; C Campion (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir John Bradbury (Treasury).

(330p.)

Gold shipped from Australia to New York, 1917 - 1918 (File 343)

Continues correspondence from file 342 and also concerning shipment of gold from New Zealand to India. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: C Campion (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); JM Keynes (Treasury).

(106p.)

Gold shipped from Australia and New Zealand to India, 1917 - 1919 (File 344)

Correspondence and memoranda re shipment of gold from Australia and New Zealand to India. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: Sir Robert Chalmers (Treasury); CAB Campion (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); JM Keynes (Treasury); India Office.

(269p.)

Sovereigns for Egypt and gold from South Africa to Australia, 1917 - 1922 (File 349)

In October 1917 the Treasury informed the Bank of England that the subsidy to the King of Hedjaz could no longer be met from stock of gold held by Egyptian Treasury. The Bank were asked to provide £400,000 in sovereigns. This was supplied by shipping sovereigns from Australia against an equivalent amount of raw gold from South Africa to Australia. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: Sir John Bradbury (Treasury); Royal Mint, Sydney; Munro Ferguson; Royal Mint, Melbourne.

(326p.)

Gold shipped from New Zealand to London and Chile, 1914 - 1920 (File 352)

Correspondence re shipment of gold purchased from National Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of New Zealand to Chile by New Zealand Shipping Co. and to London. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: A Willis (National Bank of New Zealand, London); Sir John Bradbury (Treasury); G Copus (New Zealand High Commission); New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd.; Treasury, Wellington; Bank of New Zealand (London and Wellington).

(250p.)

Gold shipped from Australia to London, 1919 (File 354)

Correspondence re shipment of gold from Australia via Bombay by P and O Line. (Index at back).

Correspondents include: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.; C Campion (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Munro Ferguson.

(87p.)

Borneo Gold, 1915 - 1921 (File 356)

Correspondence with Borneo Co. Ltd., London re gold from Sarawak mines. (Index at back).

Subjects include: advances by Bank against raw gold; weight of gold bars; details of shipments; loss of gold shipments due to enemy action; increased insurance during war; delivery of gold at Ottawa Mint; draft agreement between the Bank and the Company.

(348p.)

Borneo Gold, 1921 - 1922 (File 357)

Correspondence with Borneo Co. Ltd., London.

Subjects include: details of shipments; insurance.

Includes: Annual report, 1921/22.

(61p.)

Pacific Shipping, 1936 - 1938 (File 530)

Memoranda and press cuttings re proposal to loan Canadian Australasian Line £2,600,000 to build two new ships to operate in the Pacific.

Parties to the discussion: HMT, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji.

(61p.)

Official Malayan Banking Agency, 1943 - 1944 (File 1033)

Memoranda re plans for an official Malayan Banking Agency, not proceeded with when official of Chartered Bank, Hong Kong Bank and Mercantile Bank decided to return to Malaya.

(27p.)

GLF Bolton's Scheme for exchange controls in Dutch Colonial Empire, 1940 - 1944 (File 14)

Correspondence and memoranda re exchange control in Dutch East Indies and action taken by Netherlands authorities to prevent funds being used against national interest.

Correspondents include: GLF Bolton (Bank of England); J Hardeman (Dutch Colonial Office, London); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); De Javasche Bank, Batavia; D Crena de Longh (Dutch Colonial Office, London).

(400p.)

Account in Australia, 1941 - 1956 (File 267)

Correspondence and memoranda re gold held by Commonwealth Bank of Australia; future disposal of Australian gold production during war; receipt of gold shipped from Singapore; transactions over Melbourne no. 1, Perth no. 1-2 and Sydney 1,2 and 3 accounts; salvage of gold lost in aircraft crash at Lae, New Guinea, July 1951; sale of Australian gold to Bank of England at instigation of Prime Minister Menzies.

Correspondents include: HT Armitage (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(273p.)

Account in Australia, 1959 - 1960 (File 268)

Correspondence and memoranda re gold purchases from Australia; Australian payments to IMF; shipment of gold from Perth, which arrived in poor condition.

Correspondents include: ES Eyers (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Walker (Reserve Bank of Australia, London).

(102p.)

Account in New Zealand, 1942 - 1958 (File 269)

Correspondence and memoranda re gold held in New Zealand salvaged from Niagara and shipped to United Kingdom on Gambia; details of gold held on Wellington no. 1 account.

Correspondents include: A Ross (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); Fussell (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington).

(76p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand: gold, 1934 - 1958 (File 399)

Correspondence with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand re forward sale of sovereigns; shipment of sovereigns on Akaroa, Port Hobart and other ships; purchase of US and Canadian dollars; exchange control; exchange of gold for sovereigns.

Correspondents include: Chief cashier (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington).

(277p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1935 - 1960 (File 558)

Correspondence with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia re shipment of gold to United Kingdom; Australian gold production; shipment via San Francisco during war; insurance for shipments; dollar balances; forward exchange; Swiss Francs 60 million loan to Australia; reopening of London gold market; Fiji and New Zealand gold productions.

Correspondents include: T Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); HA Fuller (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); JB Wright (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(208p.)

Silver, 1947 - 1948 (File 595)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: New Zealand government's adoption of cupro-nickel coinage; Bank of England to purchase all or substantial part of silver production from Broken Hill Association Smelters.

Correspondents include: L Williams (New Zealand House); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); WS Robinson (Australia House).

(241p.)

War Measures, 1940 (File 618)

Correspondence with Treasury and National Bank of Egypt making arrangement for the financial requirements of New Zealand forces in Egypt.

(7p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1924 - 1959 (File 41)

Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia (London and Sydney) and memoranda.

Subjects include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia new constitution, 1924; new bank notes; telegraphic codes; conversion of New South Wales 4% inscribed stock; exemption from income tax; treasury bills in Australia.

(92p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1917 - 1921 (File 42)

Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London office, regarding encashment and cancellation of Bank of England notes and currency notes in Australia, especially those presented by returning servicemen.

(132p.)

Central Bank of Malaya, 1958 - 1959 (File 174)

Correspondence with WH Wilcock, Treasury (Kuala Lumpur) re establishment of Central Bank of Malaya and opening of account with Bank of England

(102p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1934 - 1959 (File 182)

Correspondence with Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Wellington) and memoranda.

Subjects include: cable codes; opening of drawing account; balance to be kept in account; opening of New Zealand Dairy Industry Account; printing of Bank notes; Money Employed Account; Treasury Bills.

(92p.)

Money markets in Canada, Australia, Rhodesia, South Africa, June 1953 - February 1963 (File 297)

Money market in Australia.

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda.

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Ernest Eyers (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

1954-1959 (29p.)

UKTSD Australia - vesting, 1940 - 1942 (File 53)

Correspondence between DGM Bernard and TJ Carlyle Gifford re Australian decision to instruct nationals to sell holdings in 19 specified American securities.

(13p.)

War Measures: Dominions and Colonies, 1939 - 1940 (File 15)

Correspondence and memoranda between Bank of England, Treasury and Colonial Office concerning extension of exchange control to the Dominions and Colonies. (Indexed).

Also includes:

List of countries comprising sterling area.

List of authorised banks in Colonial Empire.

List of authorised dealers in the sterling area.

List of British colonies which are not fully self-governing, of British protectorates and protected states, and of mandated territories administered under the authority of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Copies of circulars from C.O. to Dominions and Colonies.

(342p.)

War Measures: Dominions and Colonies General, 1940 - 1941 (File 16)

Correspondence and memoranda between Bank of England, Treasury and Colonial Office. (Indexed).

Subjects include: acquisition of securities, payments for imports; contingency measures if United Kingdom is invaded by Germany; insurance in sterling area; payment of oil imports; supply of fertilisers to Colonies.

Includes: Draft telegrams sent to Governors by C.O. and to Banks in Dominions by Bank of England.

(133p.)

War Measures: Dominions and Colonies: General, 1941 (File 17)

Correspondence and memoranda between Bank of England, Treasury and Colonial Office. (Indexed).

Subjects include: purchase of imports outside sterling area; imports of American motor cars into Colonies; extension of sterling area to French Colonies; trading with the enemy; sterling area demand for US dollars.

Includes: draft cables to Governors from C.O. and to Dominion banks by Bank of England.

(85p.)

War Measures: New Zealand, 1939 - 1941 (File 18)

Correspondence and memoranda re development of exchange control in New Zealand. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Treasury, L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); Dominions Office; HF Batterbee (United Kingdom High Commissioner, Wellington); MJ Savage (Prime Minister Wellington).

(251p.)

War Measures: Australia, 1939 (File 21)

Correspondence and memoranda re establishment of exchange control in Australia. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Geoffrey Whiskard (United Kingdom High Commissioner); RG Menzies (Prime Minister, Canberra); Dominions Office, Treasury; WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

(261p.)

War Measures; Australia, 1940 (File 22)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: restriction of imports; Australian dollar transfers; exchange control; enemy debts; control of foreign securities; currency arrangements for Dutch East Indies; dealings in French currency; transfer of profits outside sterling area; trade with Japan.

Correspondents include: Treasury; RW Dalton (HM Senior Trade Commissioner, Sydney); Sir Harry Sheehan (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); SG McFarlane (Treasury, Canberra).

(365p.)

War Measures: Australia, 1940 - 1941 (File 23)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: remittance of profits to foreign companies; ship warrants; purchase of New Caledonian nickel and sale to Inco of Canada; exchange control regulations; export of furs from New York to Melbourne; remittance to missionaries in Korea from Presbyterian Church of Victoria.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Ernest Fisk (Director of Economic Co-ordination, Sydney); WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Henry Sheehan (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(137p.)

War Measures: Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1939 - 1940 (File 37)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: establishment of exchange controls; sale of gold from Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. Ltd.; purchase of gold coins; financing of tin and rubber; transfer of profits; control of Chinese barter trade.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; TS Thomas (Government House, Singapore); Messrs Derrick & Co. (Singapore); SW Jones (Government House, Singapore).

(114p.)

Wool, 1939 - 1943 (File 106)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: sale of Australian wool to Japan; payment for Australian wool; sale of New Zealand wool to Canada; sales of Australian wool to Belgium.

Correspondents include: Wool Control (Bradford); Treasury; Ministry of Supply; WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

(364p.)

Wool, 1944 - 1946 (File 107)

Correspondence, press cuttings, and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Ministry of Supply (Wool Control) purchases of Australian and New Zealand wool; Australian wool surplus; terms of payments for shipments of wool from Australia to countries outside sterling area; wool shipments from Australia to United States of America; establishment of United Kingdom-Dominion Wool Disposals Ltd.

Correspondents include: Messrs. Brown and Shipley (London); WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Ministry of Supply; Bank of Adelaide (London).

(252p.)

Exchange Control Rubber, 1939 - 1940 (File 123)

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, press cuttings. (Indexed).

Subjects include: purchase of rubber from Dutch East Indies by Malay merchants; payments in dollars of rubber shipped to United States of America from Malaya; export control of rubber.

Correspondents include: Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank (Singapore); Treasury; Colonial Office; Rubber Growers Assoc.; Ministry of Supply; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (London).

(371p.)

Rubber, 1940 (File 124)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: list of approved dealers in rubber; regulation of export of rubber and tin from Malaya; list of approved dealers in tin; rubber shipment from Netherlands East Indies; British capital invested in various [commodities] in Netherlands East Indies; contingency measures for (unlikely) outbreak of hostilities in Far East; sale of rubber to United States of America to obtain dollars.

Correspondents include: Rubber Growers Assoc.; Rubber Trade Assoc.; TS Thomas (Governor, Straits Settlements); Doejan Samoedra Estates Ltd. (London); Bandjarsarie (Java) Rubber Co. Ltd. (London); Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (London); Colonial Office.

(386p.)

Exchange Control Rubber, 1941 - 1946 (File 125)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: remittance of profits of Malaya rubber companies export control; commodity war risk insurance in Straits Settlements; destruction of rubber stocks and machinery on estates under instruction from military authorities; Malayan Planters Provident Fund; fall of Singapore; re-opening of rubber market.

Correspondents include: Board of Trade; Rubber Trade Association of London; Rubber Growers' Association Trading with the Enemy Department; Treasury.

(356p.)

Export Control Australia, 1939 - 1946 (File 163)

Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia (London and Sydney) concerning payments for Australian exports, especially concerning dollar payments from United States of America. (Indexed).

(308p.)

Insurance Australasia, 1939 - 1944 (File 215)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed)

Subjects include: dollar securities held by Australian Insurance companies in United. Kingdom; transactions by Insurance companies; insurance with enemy companies; Australian money orders; admission of Australian and New Zealand Underwriters to Lloyds.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Ministry of Economic Warfare; Sir Charles Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(83p.)

Insurance Straits Settlements, 1942 - 1946 (File 234)

Correspondence and memoranda re insurance arising from Japanese occupation of Malaya, and resumption of business after liberation.

Correspondents include: North British and Mercantile Insurance Co. Ltd. (Chalfont St. Giles).

(32p.)

Australia, 1940 - 1942 (File 60)

Memoranda and statistics re Australian Currency Budget, forecasts of receipts and payments between United Kingdom and Australia; Australian sterling balance of payments.

(26p.)

New Zealand, 1941 - 1942 (File 63)

Memoranda and statistics re New Zealand budget, forecasts of balance of payments on current account between United Kingdom and New Zealand.

(13p.)

Indonesia, 1953 - 1960 (File 149)

Memoranda and correspondence re Indonesia balance of payments, foreign exchange, sterling deficit, currency, effects of Japanese occupation, United Kingdom investment.

Includes:

Notes on a visit to Indonesia, 6-19 November 1945, by Bank of England official.

Notes on visit of Dr Oez Beng To of the Bank of Indonesia, 26 September 1956.

(188p., pagination erratic).

External Trade: Empire, 1933 - 1939 (File 175)

Includes memoranda on following subjects:

Trade of British Empire with rest of the world, 1913-1931

Depreciation in New Zealand, 5 Feb. 1934

Empire trade before and after Ottawa, by Sir George Schuster, 1934

United Kingdom market for New Zealand Dairy produce, 25 Oct. 1934

Notes on Australian and New Zealand meat imports to United Kingdom for visit by Lyons, 23 March 1935

1933-1939. (107p.)

John Sly, 1810 - 1811 (File 76)

Correspondence concerning forger John Sly; his marriage to convict Elizabeth Flamston, transported on Canada;his petition to be sent to Botany Bay on Admiral Gambier; conditions on the hulks.

Correspondents include: John Sly (Zealand, Admiral Gambier Thomas Ashley (Zealand) and John Furlonger (Zealand).

(78p.)

Charles Beales and James Cross, 14 April 1815 - 15 June 1815 (File 78)

Correspondence and petitions concerning Charles Beales (or Bales) and James Cross, convicted at Thetford Assizes of issuing forged Bank of England notes and sentenced to 14 years transportation.

Correspondents include: Kay and Freshfield; Lord Wodehouse (London); Messrs Simpson and Rackham (Norwich).

(122p.)

John Peake, February 1808 - May 1808 (File 95)

Letters and petition from John Peake (Newgate), convicted for forgery at Old Bailey, February 1808, and sentenced to 14 years transportation.

Includes: record of court proceedings.

(53p.)

Robert Pearson, 28 May 1878 - 20 November 1878 (File 28)

Correspondence and papers re former bank clerk Robert Pearson. The Bank paid for him and his wife and six children to migrate to New Zealand on Yorkshire. Includes estimates for outfitting the family and the cabin on the voyage.

Correspondents include: Robert Pearson (Islington Workhouse); Edwin Shaw (Pearson's brother in law); Clifford Wigram (Messrs. Money Wigram & Sons, ship owners).

(81p.)

William Burgess, 1844 - 1845 (File 71)

William Burgess, a clerk at the Bank of England, conspired with Joseph Elder to utter forged transfers. They escaped to United States of America, but after the suicide of Elder, Burgess was brought back to England and tried at the Central Criminal Court in December 1844 and transported for life.

The papers include: copies of the indictments, brief and proofs, affidavits, warrant, minutes of evidence, correspondence with RM Blatchford in New York.

(374p.)

Loan to government of New Zealand, 1876 - 1878 (File 4)

Includes: Draft agreement, 15 June 1876, security, instructions, and opinions and correspondence between Crown Agents for Colonies, Freshfields, Bank of England, and Bank of New Zealand (London).

(109p.)

Sir Robert Farquhar (File 18)

Proposal by Sir Robert Farquhar to establish a bank in Mauritius, Ceylon, Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

Includes:

29 April 1825 Robert Wilmot Horton and John Charles Herries re plan.

18 May 1825 C K[ay] to Governor Bank of England re Bank's objections to Freshfields acting for Farquhar.

1825. (20p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1781 - 1812 (File 1)

Transportees include: Ann Macarthy, Sarah Whiley, Thomas Rushton, John Wood, John Sly, Elizabeth Ware (who had returned after serving 7 years of 14 year sentence), John Bellars, Elizabeth Leach (Newgate, William Pitt, Royal Admiral, Indian, Retribution).

Edgcumbe and old letters were not copied by the AJCP.

(c.300p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1813 - 1819 (File 2)

Transportees include: William Chrisford, Henrietta Gregory, Hannah Hearson, Catherine Watson, Edward Abell, John Veysey Lowe, John Hopgood, Charles Games (Retribution, General Hewett, Woolwich, Newgate, Broxenberry).

(c.250p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1814 - 1816 (File 3)

Transportees include: Elizabeth Wright, Ann Downs, Mary England, Charlotte Dixon, Rachael Sladen, William Webb, Edward Tayler, Mary Beavitt, Elizabeth Hayselden, William Cuthbert, Elizabeth Fisher (Newgate, Northhampton, Justitia, Mary Ann).

(c.244p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1815 - 1817 (File 4)

Transportees include: Samuel Hale, Mary Ann Blackston, J. James, Grace Blaker, John Smith (Retribution, Lord Melville, Newgate, Justitia, Friendship).

(c.152p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1817 - 1818 (File 5)

Transportees include: Ann Storey, Margaret Spires, John Marris, Susannah Wilson, Maria Wilkes, William Belcher, Francis Morris, William and Maria Wilkes (Newgate, Maria, Justitia, Alonza).

(c.178p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1818 - 1820 (File 6)

Transportees include: Thomas Owen, Sarah Ward, Elizabeth Rhodes, David Crawley, John Branley, William Jasper, Elizabeth Brown Owen, Lydia Esden, (Newgate, Woolwich).

(c.152p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1819 - 1820 (File 7)

Transportees include: Elizabeth Brookes, Elizabeth Winfield, Hannah Polly, Jean Wilson, Susan Fasmilo, Maria Wilkes, David Austin, Thomas Arnold (Newgate, Horsemonger Lane Gaol).

(c.132p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1819 - 1821 (File 8)

Transportees include: David Sharpe, Sarah Orton, Ann Dicken, Mary Ann Bradney, Catherine Gorman, Mary Smith, Louisa Thorn, George Thorpe (Newgate, Lord Wellington, Horsemonger Lane Gaol).

(c. 120p.)

(c.156p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1818 - 1827 (File 9)

Transportees include: Sarah Carter, John Wilkinson, William Morris, James Holman, Phyllis Johns, Elizabeth Gould, Ann Prince, Rachel Herbert, Mary Jones, Mary Howard, Ann Layshaw, Maria Williams, (Newgate, Justitia, Mary Ann, Mary).

Prison Correspondence, 1801 - 1813 (File 10)

Transportees include: John Rimes, Richard Westcott, Mary Burn, William Peters, Jonathan Forbes, Thomas Gulley, Simon Boutell, John Gilbert, William Simpson Henningham, Isaac Newland (Fortune, Exeter, Gloucester, Portland, Captivity, Zealand).

(c.170p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1813 - 1817 (File 11)

Transportees include: Joseph Jennings, Isaac Wise, Thomas Slater, Elinor Tomlinson, Thomas Smith, William Allen, Ann Harris, Thomas Roberts, Mark Brown, William Sharpies, Josiah Allen, Anthony Halliwell, Benjamin Dicken, William Doyle, George Morris, Samuel Gilbert, George and Grace Baker, (Portland, Laurel, General Hewitt, Earl Spencer, Wanstead, Captivity, Fame, Sir William Bensley, Elizabeth, Morley Bay, Bellerophon, Retribution).

(c.334p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1816 - 1820 (File 12)

Transportees include: WH Crampton, Robert Grey, James Walker, William Shaw, John Outridge, Ann Agnew, Mary Ann Bradney, James Jelly, John Moore, (Retribution, Captivity, Bellerophon, Laurel, Battavy, Bedford, Lancaster, Warwick).

(c.216p.)

Prison Correspondence, 1819 - 1840 (File 13)

Transportees include: James Moxham, John Fear, Thomas Porter, John Jackson, Isaac Howard, John Gregg, William Styles, Retribution, Leviathan, Dincan).

(c.168p.)

Second copies of indexes to Pieces 1 - 13, (115p.), 1781 - 1844 (File 14)

Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1925 - 1933 (File 286)

Correspondence and memoranda concerning the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Index at back).

Subjects include: Issues by Australian states; opening of agency in New York; cooperation between Bank of England and Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Australia's loan requirements; Australian tariffs; New South Wales default on interest payments; depreciation of sterling; gold standard; London advisory committee for Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Correspondents include: JS Scott (London); EC Riddle (Sydney); RW Knox (Australian Association of British Manufacturers, Melbourne); Sir Granville Ryrie (High Commission, London); Jack Collins (High Commission, London); Sir Robert Gibson (Melbourne); SM Bruce (London).

(234p.)

Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1934 - 1936 (File 287)

Correspondence and memoranda concerning Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (index at back).

Subjects include: death of Sir Robert Gibson; functions and position of Commonwealth Bank of Australia; funds in London; exchange of confidential cables; open market for Treasury Bills in Australia; visit to London of Bertrand Latham; Governorship of New South Wales; Australian Banking Commission; Union Bank of Australia - relations with Bank of New South Wales.

Correspondents include: EC Riddle (Sydney); SM Bruce (London); Sir Claude Reading (Melbourne); John Scott (London).

(282p.)

Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1937 - 1952 (File 288)

Correspondence and memoranda concerning Commonwealth Bank of Australia (index at back).

Subjects include: death of John Scott, London Manager; codes for use in weekly confidential cable; Casey's views on current economic conditions and gold question; financing of Australian defence; appointment of AH Lewis as London Manager; retirement and death of Sir Ernest Riddle; Australia's gold reserves; notes on Sir Ernest Harvey's visit to Australia in 1927; United Kingdom credits to Australia.

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); RG Casey (London, Canada, Australia); AH Lewis (London); SM Bruce (London); Lady Riddle ; Sir Harry Sheehan (Sydney); LF Giblin (Sydney).

(289p.)

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Sir Ernest Harvey's Mission, 1927 (File 289)

Memoranda and correspondence from Sir Ernest Harvey (Sydney) re his trip to Australia and discussions with Commonwealth Treasurer and Commonwealth Bank of Australia officials on Australia's loan programme, role of central banks, political control in Australia.

(61p.)

Australia - Miscellaneous, 1929 - 1936 (File 290)

Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings. (index at back).

Subjects include: diminishing of Australian funds in London; problems of international companies remitting funds from Australia; shipment of gold from Australia; visit to Australia of Kershaw and Jackson, 1936, for 'secret' talks on Australian economy, problems keeping visit from press.

Correspondents include: EC Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Sir Henri Deterding (Shell Co. of Australia Ltd., London); JS Scott (London).

(74p.)

Sir Otto Niemeyer's Mission, 1930 - 1931 (File 291)

Correspondence, reports and memoranda on Sir Otto Niemeyer's trip to Australia, 1930. (index in middle).

Subjects include: London financial position of Commonwealth Bank ; Australia's loans; Conference of Commonwealth and State governments, Melbourne, 18-21 August 1930; Niemeyer's impression of Australia and Australians; notes on private meetings in London with Scullin, 1930; Niemeyer's notes on discussions held in Australia with banking and government officials; Niemeyer's memoranda on Australian financial position.

Correspondents include: JS Scott (London); Sir Robert Gibson (Sydney); J Collins (Australia House); Sir Otto Niemeyer (Sydney); JH Scullin (Canberra and London).

(432p.)

Australia - Debt issues, 1932 - 1941 (File 292)

Correspondence, tables, press cuttings, and memoranda on Australian loans and proposed programmes for conversion and redemption. (index at back).

Correspondents include: JR Collins (Australia House); SM Bruce (Australia House); British High Commissioner in Australia (telegram); JP Morgan (New York); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); JS Duncan (Australia House); Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); RG Casey (Australia House).

(221p.)

Australia - Debt Issues, 1940 - 1945 (File 293)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Australia's loans and proposed programmes for conversion and redemption (index at back).

Correspondents include: SM Bruce (Australia House); Sir Richard Hopkins (Treasury); WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

(225p.)

Australia - Sterling Reserves, 1935 - 1939 (File 294)

Correspondence with Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney) re Australia's sterling reserves and Bank of England memoranda thereon and on other Australian economic problems.

(118p.)

Australia - Sir Claude Reading's visit, 1936, 1936 (File 295)

Includes:

10 March 1936. Gilbert Jackson (Melbourne) to Bank of England with report on visit to Australia; his opinions on Commonwealth Bank of Australia officials (including Bell and Tait), Casey, Earle Page and Australian politics.

Memoranda on Australian loans, trade, Australian sterling holdings; economic conditions; Commonwealth Bank; Banking Commission and other matters by Henry Clay, 1936, prepared for Sir Claude Reading's visit.

Notes on meetings with Sir Claude Reading - subjects include: Treasury Bills; devaluation; control over overseas funds; position of Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Central Bank.

Note by R Kershaw on meeting with RG Casey, 7 April 1936.

(156p.)

New Zealand General, 1930 - 1937 (File 335)

Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda and records of meetings. (Indexed).

Subjects include: visit to New Zealand by Sir Otto Niemeyer, 'New Zealand.….makes a general appearance of solidity'; sterling exchange; taxation; Bank of England request that New Zealand refrain from short term borrowing; conversion of loans; proposed formation of a Central Bank; visit by AD Park; suspension of sinking funds; views of Walter Nash and his visit to London; Labour Government's programme; New Zealand trade policy.

Correspondents include: Sir Otto Niemeyer (SS Cathay); Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); GW Forbes (Savoy Hotel); Treasury; Wm Downie Stewart (Dunedin); Bank of Australia (London); L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); RB Bennett (Melbourne); Walter Nash (London); DF Reid (Bank of New Zealand, London); TR Aicken (London).

(323p.)

New Zealand General, 1939 - 1951 (File 336)

Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda, records of meetings. (Indexed).

Subjects include: application for defence loan; New Zealand economic conditions 'overspending for non-productive purposes'; visit to London of Walter Nash, 1939; shortage of sterling; possible default; United Kingdom-New Zealand commercial relations - discussions with Nash; raising loan in United States of America; export credits; conversion loan negotiations with Nash 'especially trying and difficult.'

Correspondents include: L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); Sir Henry Batterbee (Wellington); Treasury; Walter Nash (London); Dominions Office.

Includes: 5 March 1951. Cobbold (Government House, Auckland) to Holland re term as Governor General; impressions of New Zealand; functions of a Prime Minister.

(468p.)

New Zealand Municipal Issues, 1922 - 1937 (File 337)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings.

Bodies include: Auckland City Council; Southland Power Board; Thames Valley Power Board; Auckland Transport Board.

Correspondents include: A Mackay (New Zealand House); Bank of New Zealand; GC Rodda (London); Stock Exchange (London); Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); Treasury; Sir James Parr (New Zealand High Commission); L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington).

(162p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1933 - 1935 (File 338)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: appointment of Leslie Lefeaux as Governor of Reserve Bank at recommendation of Bank of England; Lefeaux's first appointments at Reserve Bank; New Zealand exchange rate; stability of currency; gold coin; visit to London of Coates, Minister of Finance; relations between Reserve Bank and New Zealand government.

Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); Sir James Parr (New Zealand High Commission); L Lefeaux (Wellington); A Mackay (New Zealand High Commission); DA Ewen (London).

(183p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1935 - 1951 (File 339)

Correspondence between Bank of England and Leslie Lefeaux, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington; Bank of England memoranda on position of the Reserve Bank and New Zealand financial policy.

Subjects include: Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Stocks; visit to London of Forbes and Coates; contact between the two Banks; problem of distance; prejudice against Reserve Bank 'recommended by 'expert' from London' as established by previous government; Lefeaux's relations with New Zealand government; changes to be made by new government; public debt; Lord Barnby; proposed visit to New Zealand by Kershaw (1936), 'how unfortunate is the present time for anything savouring of an official visit'; visit to London by James Begg (includes correspondence); Reserve Bank of New Zealand amendment bill making bank a state bank under government control; other Labour Government policies; influence of Social Credit movement; New Zealand trade with Germany; revisions that the Bank of England considers should be made in statutes of Reserve Bank of New Zealand (1938); New Zealand financial conditions, 1938, due to over-importing; exchange control; termination of Lefeaux's appointment (1940); appointment of WFL Ward as Governor; Nash's opinion of Lefeaux.

Includes: (a) Page from Cobbold's letter to Holland (see 336) re Reserve Bank; (b) 11 March 1951. Sidney Holland (Prime Minister, New Zealand) to Cobbold thanking him for two 'timely' pieces of advice; the Board of Reserve Bank is to be strengthened; his burden of office. (380p.)

Governor's visit to Australia, New Zealand and United States of America, 1951, 1950 - 1951 (File 408)

Correspondence, itineraries, papers for discussion re visit by CF Cobbold to Australia.

Correspondents include: LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); EC Fussell (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); GC Cowan (Bank of Australia, London); Sir Sidney Parkes (National Bank of New Zealand, London).

Discussion papers include: Devaluation by Cobbold;

Inflation by Fussell;

Australian economy by Coombs;

Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

(386p.)

Preparations for the conference, suggested discussion topics, administrative arrangements and Dominion papers. (Index at back), 1936 - 1938 (File 501)

Dominion papers include:

Review of Australian economic conditions, March 1937;

Labour plans in New Zealand by Prof. Melville;

Economic and financial conditions and problems of New Zealand.

Correspondents include: Leslie Lefeaux (Wellington); Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); AH Lewis (London).

(404p.)

Governor's visit to Australia, New Zealand and United States of America, 1951 (File 516)

Correspondence, itineraries, invitation lists to receptions, notes concerning visit to Australia and New Zealand made by CF Cobbold and Lady Hermione Cobbold and RH Barkshire, January - February 1951.

Correspondents include: RH Barkshire (Australia and New Zealand with reports on visit); John Bonython (Adelaide); BKS Chevallier (Killara); JA Taplin (Government House, Melbourne); KM Hay (New Zealand Broadcasting Service) L Brinkman (Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch); HC Coombs (Sydney); EC Fussell (Wellington).

Includes:

Notes on senior officers of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

'Thank you' letters by Cobbold.

Notes by Cobbold on talks with Dr Coombs and Mr Richardson in Australia. Papers brought back from Australia on Australian economy.

(347p.)

Governor's visit to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, 1959 - 1960 (File 533)

February - March 1960

Correspondence, itineraries, guest lists, press cuttings re visit to Singapore, Australia and New Zealand by C Cobbold and Lady Hermione Cobbold, 1960.

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney); RJ Familton (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); PWS Gresson (National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland); Alex Entrican (New Zealand Forest Service).

(240p.)

Commonwealth Central Banks Cooperation, 1934 - 1960 (File 34)

Includes: (a) Extracts from Minutes of Committee of Treasury, 1934-1960, includes request from Chairman Commonwealth Bank of Australia for confidential information to be sent weekly to him by cable. (b) Programme for Empire Central Banks meeting in London in 1937. (c) 17 October 1956 CF Cobbold to Chancellor of Exchequer re meeting of Governors of Central Banks of Commonwealth held 1956, refs to possible devaluation of sterling during Suez Crisis, and United Kingdom relations with European Free Trade Area. (38p.)

Commonwealth Central Bank, circular letters to, 1928 - 1939 (File 35)

Correspondence and memoranda re circular letters sent to Empire Central Banks.

Includes memoranda on relations between Bank of England and London officers of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

(25p.)

Australia: stock issues, 1923 - 1951 (File 89)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: Queensland government loan; shipment of sovereigns between Australia and San Francisco; visit to Australia of Sir Ernest Harvey in 1927; centralization of reserves of Australian trading banks with Commonwealth Bank; international rationalization of industry and political control.

Correspondents include: J Huxham (Agent General Queensland); EC Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); RG Casey (Australia House); Sir Robert Gibson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, Cables).

(104p.)

Reserve Bank of Australia, 1934 - 1943 (File 90)

Correspondence between the Bank of England and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney and London.

Subjects include: London funds of Commonwealth Bank of Australia; cooperation; open market for Treasury Bills in Australia; visit to London of GM Shain; Australian balance of payments; request for Bank of England to provide temporary sterling funds in London for Commonwealth Bank of Australia; health of Sir Ernest Riddle; financing of Australian defence programme; visit to London of LA McWatters.

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading; Sir Ernest Riddle.

(127p.)

New Zealand, 1932 - 1950 (File 282)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings.

Subjects include: proposal to suspend operation of sinking fund; gold held by New Zealand trading banks; Bank of England opinion on matters arising out of local Reserve Bank Bill; Lefeaux's impressions of New Zealand; stabilisation of currency in relation to sterling; problems of New Zealand banks operating in London; position of Reserve Bank under Labour Government; trade relations with United Kingdom; New Zealand loan; visit of Walter Nash to London and New York (1935), 'his determination on the economic slaughter of the Dominion'.

Correspondents include: L Lefeaux (Wellington).

(151p.)

Colonial Loan issues, 1888 - 1925 (File 182)

Correspondence and memoranda re New South Wales loan, 1888; Queensland Government Loan, 1891; New Zealand Midland Railway Co. Ltd.; protest re New Zealand Government's intention to float a loan (1895); Australian colonial stocks; Queensland renewal of 1924 maturities; note on an interview between the Governor, the Prime Minister of Australia (Bruce), and others concerning the obligations of the Australian government maturing in Australia in 1924.

Correspondents include: Sir James Garrick (Agent General Queensland); FD Bell (Agent General New Zealand).

(243p.)

New Zealand Reserve Bank, 1934 - 1949 (File 26)

Details of assets and liabilities.

(92p.)

New Zealand, Parliamentary control over public expenditure, 1930 - 1931 (File 24)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: powers of New Zealand Treasury; public debt system; public accounts; parliamentary control; New Zealand financial system; powers of Controller and Auditor-General.

Correspondents include: EA Ransom (Wellington); G Campbell (Audit Office, Wellington); Niemeyer (Wellington) to Ransom; A Park (Treasury, Wellington).

(261p.)

Australian Mission. Miscellaneous, 1930 (File 287)

Newspaper cuttings, speeches made in Australia and New Zealand, notes on personalities, diary/letters re trip to Australia and New Zealand. (Melbourne, Adelaide, Mount Cook, Timaru, Melbourne, Ilparran, Brisbane, Auckland, Fiji).

(172p.)

Visit to Australia. Unofficial Correspondence, 1930 (File 288)

Letters to Niemeyer while in Australia, some carbon copies of Niemeyer's replies.

Subjects include: invitations to meetings and to give lectures; messages of welcome; suggestions and comments on Australian financial situation; sending papers and press cuttings.

Correspondents include: Sir John Higgins (British Australian Wool Realisation Assoc. Ltd., Melbourne); GB Sheridan (Assoc. Banks (South Australia), Adelaide); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney); JC McPhee (Hobart); Douglas Ogilvie (Glen Innes); Earle Page (Canberra); R Butler (Adelaide); Frank Rich (Adelaide); Murray Angus (Sydney); J Hume Cook (Australian Industries Protection League, Melbourne); Frank Russell (Herald, Melbourne); Keith Murdoch (Herald, Melbourne); EL Hale (Granville Electorate Unemployed Committee); Justice C Davidson (Sydney).

Includes:

Eucalyptus oil industry: report by F Rich

Australia's economic troubles by FW Wright

Report of State Finance Conference convened by Victorian Employers' Federation, 1930

Petition to….Parliament from representative of Primary Industries

Sir Otto Niemeyer's Report Bond or Free. Reply by WM Hughes. (451p.)

1 July - 30 Sept. 1930

Visit to Australia. Unofficial Correspondence, 1930 (File 289)

Letters to Niemeyer while in Australia, some carbon copies of Niemeyer's replies.

Subjects include: solutions for Australian financial situation; evasion of income tax by British Imperial Oil Co. Ltd.; invitations to meetings and to lecture; New Zealand economic problems.

Correspondents include: James Martin (Flinders); A Frood (British Empire Union, Melbourne); Sir Mungo MacCullum (Sydney Univ.); D Hope Johnston (Australasian Pioneers' Club, Sydney); ED Ogilvie (Ilparren, Glen Innes); James Jelly (Adelaide); FA Maguire (New South Wales Constitutional Assoc.); LG Melville (Adelaide Univ.); W Downie Stewart (Dunedin); S Leah (Auckland); Sir Charles Reading (Sydney); TR Bavin (Sydney); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney); Sir William Morris (Oxford); Sir Philip Game (Sydney).

Includes:

Memorandum issued by the Council of Combined Empire Societies regarding the appointment of Australians as Governor-General.

A suggested method of alleviating the present troubles of Australia through a managed currency by JP Abbott.

Melbourne Harbour Trust Commissioners. 17 years of progress, 1913-1929. Australia's economic crises and the £55,000,000 interest bill by John Curtin.

Oct. 1930-1936

(347p.)

Visit to Australia. Financial position, 1930 (File 290)

Memoranda, notes of meetings, reports, statistical tables.

Subjects include: Australian financial position; budget; income tax revenue; expenditure; interest liability; New South Wales railways; Queensland budget; South Australia budget and railways.

(333p.)

Visit to Australia. Financial position, 1930 (File 291)

Memoranda, notes of meetings, reports, statistical tables.

Subjects include: Tasmanian budget; Victorian budget and railways; Western Australian budget.

Includes: correspondence from HA Pitt (Treasury, Melbourne); EJ Hogan (Melbourne); Sir James Mitchell (Perth); Sir Hal Colebatch (Canberra).

(274p.)

Visit to Australia. Trade and other statistics, 1930 (File 292)

Correspondence, notes of meetings, memoranda, and statistical tables.

Subjects include: value of Australian imports and exports; overseas credits and debits; national income; unemployment; standard of living; taxation; war burden; banking.

Correspondents include: C Wickens (Canberra); J Heathershaw (Treasury, Canberra); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Perth); EW Causland (Cronulla); W Maloney (Melbourne).

Includes:

Commonwealth and state problems speech by SM Bruce, 1929.

Report upon certain aspects of existing credit conditions in New South Wales by Hungerford, Spooner & Co.

Speeches by Niemeyer at Canberra and to Prime Minister's Conference, Melbourne, August 1930, on Australia's financial position.

(c.500p.)

Australia, 1907, 1926-1931 (File 1)

Correspondence, press cuttings, and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: proposed banking and note acts, 1907; Australian debts, 1924/5; budget; loan requirements; note issue; exchange rates; Commonwealth government takeover of states' debts; proposed central bank; London balances of Australian banks; financial problems, 1930; borrowing requirements; threatened default on government debt; by-election in Parkes; Gibbons Plan; plan by Australian Gold Industry Council to solve Australia's economic problems; Casey's thoughts on Australia's economic problems.

Correspondents include: Sir John Forrest (Treasury, Melbourne); Mr Justice Parsons (RMS Scythia); Edward W Knox (Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., Sydney); RN Kershaw (Sydney); Treasury; LH Reading (Sydney); JM Hunter (Brisbane); Claude de Bernales (Australian Gold Industry Council, Melbourne); RG Casey (Melbourne); TS Gordon (Birt & Co. Ltd., Sydney).

Includes:

c. 31 January 1928. RG Casey (London) to SM Bruce re influence of loans from a wealthy country (ie America) on a poorer country.

Memoranda and correspondence with Casey that international rationalisation of industry should tend towards international peace and that it is difficult to quantify any political influence wielded by a lending country.

(356p.)

Australia, 1932 - 1933 (File 2)

Correspondence, memoranda and fortnightly letters from Governor Commonwealth Bank of Australia giving Australian political and financial news. (Indexed).

Subjects include: federal election, 1932; Australia's financial position; government financial policy; New South Wales debts; defeat of Lang government in New South Wales; banking statistics; reduction of interest rates; Sir Ernest Clark's appointment as Governor of Tasmania.

Correspondents include: EC Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); EMH Lloyd (Empire Marketing Board, London); AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); ET Crutchley (Canberra); Sir Ernest Clark (London).

Includes:

27 July 1932. A previous depression: familiar features: Ulysses returns to Ithaca, by AH Lewis.

(Parable on Australia's economic circumstances).

(348p.)

Australia, 1933 - 1935 (File 3)

Correspondence, memoranda and fortnightly letters from Governor Commonwealth Bank of Australia giving political and financial news. (For later letters see Pieces 52-59). (Indexed).

Subjects include: conversion loans; The world we live in - speeches by RG Casey; economic conditions in Broken Hill; recent legal decisions regarding the payment of principal, interest and dividends - Broken Hill Prop. Co. Ltd.; Adelaide Electric Supply Co. Ltd.; 1934 gold shipments; Australian debt in London; British investments in Australia.

Correspondents include: RG Casey (Melbourne); Philip Game (Sutton Forest); AC Davidson (London).

(241p.)

Australia, 1936 - 1937 (File 4)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: visit to Australia by Kershaw and Jackson; Australian loans; Kershaw's meeting with Casey, 7 April 1936; Steven's visit to London; Rural Bank of New South Wales; Review of Australian economy, 1936/7; Japan and Australian wool trade; visit to Australia by Noel Hall, economic adviser to Bank of New South Wales.

Correspondents include: GE Jackson (Melbourne); P Liesching (Canberra); LG Melville (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); N Hall (Melbourne, extract, copy).

(138p.)

Australia, 1938 - 1939 (File 5)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include:wool; memorandum on Australian conditions by Professor Copland of Melbourne; movement of prices in Australia and New Zealand; Commonwealth Cash and Conversion Loan; banking legislation.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); LG Melville (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); EB Richardson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

(a) Report and notes on a visit to Australia in 1938 by Guy M Watson - Perth; rail journey from Kalgoorlie to Adelaide ('this train journey will always be linked in my mind with three very typical Australian features - a very great friendliness, a partiality to steak and two eggs for breakfast, and tea or coffee with the joint'); Adelaide; Victoria - coal mines at Yallourn, sugar beet factory at Maffra, irrigation works, fruit industry, Geelong, Mildura; rail journey to Sydney; Canberra; Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area; Newcastle; notes on Australian gold mining industry; notes on motor industry in Australia; notes on Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Prop. Ltd.; notes on tobacco industry.

(b) Second reading speech on the Commonwealth Bank Act Amending Bill by RG Cassey.

(175p.)

Australia, 1939 - 1940 (File 6)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Colonial stock acts; gold transactions; loans; wartime controls and regulations; 'Blind loyalty to England whether her methods are applicable here or not' (Rusden, 7 November 1939); Australia's economic position at outbreak of war; gold production; economic impact of the war on Australia; Japanese wool payments; restriction of imports.

Correspondents include: AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Henry J Sheehan (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); LU Rusden (Sydney); Treasury; RW Dalton (Sydney).

Includes:

Record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 29 December 1939 to discuss the export of wool from Australia to Japan. (attended by personnel from Foreign Office, Treasury, Board of Trade, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Dominions Office, Bank of England, Ministry of Supply).

(203p.)

Australia, 1940 - 1941 (File 7)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Australia's London funds; Australian wool purchases by Japan; loans; changes in Defence (Finance) Regulations; sterling assets of Australian trading banks; Australia's trade with Japan; financing of Australia's war effort.

Correspondents include: Sir Henry Sheehan (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Sir Claude Reading (Sydney); Treasury; AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

(108p.)

Australia, 1941 - 1942 (File 8)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: winding up of Yokohama Specie Bank, Sydney; use of material from confidential letters from Governor of Commonwealth Bank of Australia in memoranda prepared for Treasury; activities of trading banks; control regulations.

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); DB Murdoch (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); RW Dalton (HM Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia).

(99p.)

Australia, 1942 - 1943 (File 9)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Japanese assets; Yokohama Specie Bank; Australia's overseas balances; establishment of Bank of China in Australia; banking control regulations; Dalton's reports on Australian financial conditions; proposed Mortgage Bank; Social Security scheme; visit to London by Justice W Owen.

Correspondents include: Trading with the Enemy Department; AH Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); RW Dalton (Sydney); DB Murdoch (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); HT Armitage (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Mr Justice WFL Owen (London).

(149p.)

Australia, 1943 - 1945 (File 10)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: loans; Curtin's proposed council of the Empire; inflation; postwar development plans; proposed Mortgage Bank Department of Commonwealth Bank; banking legislation; Japanese government £1 note printed by Japanese for use in Australia; overseas income and outgoings; London visit by LJ McConnan.

Correspondents include: Treasury; Sir Alfred Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney) to John Curtin (Copy); RW Dalton (Sydney, copies of despatches); Essington Lewis (London); Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); LJ McConnan (London); H Armitage (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

(a) Transcript of broadcasts by LJ McConnan, Chief Manager National Bank of Australasia Ltd., 1945

(b) Cooperation in Industries, government and manufacturers; speech by J Curtin, 6 Feb 1945.

(266p.)

Australia, 1945 - 1948 (File 11)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: sale of Queensland stock; exchange control; termination of lend/lease; loan facilities to Netherlands East Indies government to pay evacuees and refugees; banking legislation; Bank of China operations in Australia; banks' cash reserves; external financial position of Australia; merger of Bank of Australasia and Union Bank of Australia Ltd.; Australian mission to Java; proposed nationalisation of commercial banks; trade with Japan.

Correspondents include: LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Harry D Giddy (National Bank of Australasia Ltd., Melbourne); EB Richardson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); H Armitage (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(216p.)

Australia, 1948 (File 12)

Memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: failure of proposed bank nationalisation; future value of Australian pound; capital movements to Australia; meeting between CR Price (United Kingdom High Commission) and Prime Minister Chifley; visit to Bank of F Wheeler, Assistant Secretary to Australian Treasury.

(59p.)

Australia, 1949 - 1951 (File 13)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Australian borrowing in New York; report by Atkinson on his and Kershaw's visit to Australia and New Zealand, 1950; Australian borrowing in Switzerland; trade agreement with Indonesia; government's financial policy; biographies of Australian political personalities; Commonwealth Bank of Australia's advance policy; Australian Loan Council; Economic Position Conference, July 1951.

Correspondents include: RH Atkinson (Auckland); LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); DW Kermode (British Embassy, Djakarta); W Garnett United Kingdom High Commission, Canberra); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

(a) Notes on the economic situation in Australia and sterling balances held by Australia by RN Kershaw, 18 Jan. 1951.

(b) A comprehensive plan for the control of inflation: address by Sir Douglas Copland, 16 March 1951, Sydney.

(166p.)

Australia, 1951 - 1952 (File 14)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: premium gold sales; budget; meeting with Roland Wilson, Australian Treasury; Premiers' meeting; banking legislation.

Correspondents include: Treasury; FR Wood (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London).

(103p.)

Australia, 1952 - 1953 (File 15)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: relaxation of credit policy; sterling balances; sale of Commonwealth government interest in Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd.; banking legislation; branches of Australian banks in London; meeting with HC Coombs re repatriation of United States capital investment in Australia.

Correspondents include: EB Richardson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Treasury; RC Griffiths (United Kingdom High Commission, Canberra).

(176p.)

Australia, 1953 - 1955 (File 16)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: banking legislation; centenary of opening of London branch of Bank of New South Wales; Commonwealth Treasury Bills; establishment of Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia; gold subsidy; trade with Japan; internal monetary control; federal election, 1954; public debt; Australian banks and the economy, 1954/5.

Correspondents include: A Clifton-Brown (Bank of New South Wales, London); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); HR Woodrow (Australia House); Treasury.

(107p.)

Australia, 1955 - 1956 (File 17)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: restrictions on imports; hire purchase finance; visit to Australia by DH Thomas, March - May 1955; Sir Arthur Rymill, Bank of Adelaide; Menzies' review of the economy; dollar loans; Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve; Menzies statement on the tax increases, 14 March 1956; export credit guarantee scheme; banking developments; import restrictions.

Correspondents include: LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); JM Garland (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(132p.)

Australia, 1956 - 1957 (File 18)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: gold policy; borrowing on London markets; monetary control; Australia's economic problems; United Kingdom-Australia Trade Agreement; banking legislation; import control relaxation; housing situation; budget, 1957/8.

Correspondents include: BC Harford (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Lord Carrington (United Kingdom High Commission, Canberra); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); TJ O'Brien (United Kingdom High Commission, Canberra); JB Wright (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

20 August 1856. Harold Macmillan to RG Menzies requesting Australia sell the United Kingdom some gold for sterling.

(296p.)

Australia, 1958 - 1959 (File 19)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: reform of Commonwealth Bank; overseas borrowing; Australian United Acceptance Pty. Ltd.; gold policy; Australian special account system; meetings with EB Richardson on visit to London; establishment of short term money market; report on visit to Australia by Gordon Eric Hall, 1959.

Correspondents include: AC McPherson (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(192p.)

Australia, 1959 - 1960 (File 20)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: meeting with Harold Holt, Commonwealth Treasurer, 8 September 1959; Australia/Germany trade agreement; capital inflow; short term money market; formation of Reserve Bank of Australia and Commonwealth Banking Corporation; International Development Assoc.; CF Cobbold's impressions of Australia; USA subsidiary companies in Australia; visit to Bank by Menzies and Nash, 13 May 1960; New South Wales Companies Act.

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Treasury; Neil Runcie (London).

Includes:

Briefs prepared by Treasury and the Bank for visit of Governor of Bank of England to Australia and New Zealand.

(224p.)

Australia, 1960 - 1961 (File 21)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Australian reserves; Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia; hire purchase and protection of depositors in New South Wales; note issue; Harold Holt's lunch at Bank, 16 September 1960; disinflationary measures; decimalisation.

Correspondents include: A Mutton (Reserve Bank of Australia, London); Harold Holt (Savoy Hotel); HC Coombs (Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney); AG Tyler (Australia House).

Includes:

Paper on banking by AC McPherson, Secretary of Reserve Bank of Australia (details of history of banking in Australia).

(112p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1949 - 1950 (File 28)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: conversion loan; dollar loan maturities; capital inflow; monetary reserves; meeting between B Chifley and Chancellor, 21 April 1949; Sydney Water Board Dollar Loan; RWB Clarke (United Kingdom Treasury) visit to Australia, 1950.

Correspondents include: Treasury; United Kingdom High Commissioner in Canberra; Commonwealth Relations Office; HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

Transcript of Chifley's broadcast on 30 October 1949 re International Monetary Fund.

(213p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1950 - 1951 (File 29)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Menzies visit to London - briefs prepared on Australian economic conditions; dollar borrowing; meeting between Menzies and Chancellor, 19 July 1950.

Correspondents include: Treasury; EJ Harrison (Australia House).

Includes:

Australia and International financial policy: a call for leadership; statement by Sir Douglas Copland, 10 December 1951.

(96p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1952 - 1954 (File 30)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Finance ministers' meeting, 1952; drawing on International Monetary Fund; meeting with Cope of IBRD re his visit to Australia; advice to Menzies on his visit to Washington; exchange control; IBRD loan; merchant banks in Sydney; sales of Fiji gold; Australian gold production and sales.

Correspondents include: AM Stamp (United Kingdom Treasury and Supply Delegation, Washington); Treasury; HL Jenkyns (United Kingdom High Commission, Canberra); HR Woodrow (Australia House).

(105p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1954 - 1955 (File 31)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Dorman Long and Sydney Bridge contract; legal aspects of United Kingdom/Australia sterling contracts; Adelaide Electric Supply Co. Ltd. v. Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd.; dollar repayments; Australian restrictions on repatriation of United Kingdom investment funds.

Correspondents include: Treasury; EM Wagner (London).

(47p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1913; 1923-1926 (File 32)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: establishment of branch in London; proposed take over of States' debts by Commonwealth government; reconstitution as a central bank; note issue; exchange rates; gold shipments; borrowing in New York; discussions with JJ Garvan, 1926.

Correspondents include: Sir George Reid (London); Sir John Forrest (Melbourne); Sir Joseph Cook (Australia House).

(311p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1926 - 1929 (File 33)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: visit to Australia of Sir Ernest Harvey to discuss development of Commonwealth Bank on Central Bank lines; banking statistics; shipment of sovereigns; circulation of forged notes; start of regular exchange of economic information Governor/Chairman letters, 1928/29; gold reserves in Australia.

(343p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1930 - 1931 (File 34)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: gold shipments; central banking; rates of exchange; note issue; banking statistics; suggestion that Bank of England intermediary be sent to Australia to 'see Australian [economic] position righted'; proposed personnel including Sir Otto Niemeyer; arrangements for Niemeyer's visit; monthly/fortnightly letters on Australian general economic conditions; plan submitted by Commonwealth Treasurer to Conference of Premiers 'National Emergency Plan' to avoid default in government payments; Lang's financial policy in New South Wales; beneficial effects in Australia of England's abandonment of the gold standard.

(371p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1932 - 1935 (File 35)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: banking statistics; Financial Agreements Enforcement Act; export prices; export of Australian gold reserve; Commonwealth Bank Act; visit to Bank of England by Prof. Melville; Treasury Bills and establishment of open market in Australia; Commonwealth Bank funds in London; opening of Advance Account; sterling assets; Commonwealth Savings Bank.

Correspondents also include: RG Casey (Melbourne); SM Bruce (Australia House).

Includes:

Memorandum on funding of Treasury Bills by Prof. Melville, 1935.

(447p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1935 - 1937 (File 36)

Correspondence and memorandum on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: repayments of advance; composition of the Board, 1935; gold shipments; banking statistics; revaluation of sterling; relation of imports to exports and to the Australian economy; Commonwealth Bank's sterling funds; visits by Commonwealth Bank personnel to London.

(268p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1937 - 1940 (File 37)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: appointments; publication of Statistical Bulletin; banking legislation; bank note register; Commonwealth Bank and finance for defence; overseas exchange transactions; United Kingdom import restrictions and control of capital issues; gold shipments during wartime.

(216p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1940 - 1945 (File 38)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: building society finance; interest rates; appointments; funding of Commonwealth war expenditure; sterling balances; employment of McWatters at the Bank of England for 3 years; loss of Australian notes in sinking of SS Ceramic.

(126p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1945 - 1949 (File 39)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.(Indexed).

Subjects include: banking legislation; changes in constitution of Commonwealth Bank; banking statistics; appointments; sterling balances.

(90p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1949 - 1951 (File 40)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: sterling balances; trading bank's special accounts; banking legislation; composition of Commonwealth Bank Board.

(112p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1952 - 1954 (File 41)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: sterling balances; visit to London by ES Eyers, Secretary of Commonwealth Bank; payment relations with Albania; appointments.

(51p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1954 - 1956 (File 42)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: sterling balances; Commonwealth Bank of Australia's schools; visit to London by JG Phillips.

(47p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia/Reserve Bank of Australia, 1957 - 1961 (File 43)

Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: death of LU Rusden; appointments; establishment of Reserve Bank; analysis of 1st annual report; visit by HC Coombs to China and Russia; visit of JG Phillips, Deputy Governor, to London.

(111p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Weekly Cables, 1934 - 1935 (File 44)

Correspondence and memoranda re weekly cable sent to Commonwealth Bank of Australia by Governor, Bank of England. [For text of cables see OV 181].

Subjects include: subjects to be included in cable; costs; words and phrases to be used.

(39p.)

Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Weekly Cables, 1936 - 1937 (File 45)

Memoranda re weekly cable sent to Commonwealth Bank of Australia by Governor, Bank of England.

Subjects include: costs of sending cables to be charged to Commonwealth Bank of Australia; comparison of Australian and New Zealand stocks.

(4p.)

Australia - Financial position, 1930 (File 47)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on the financial crisis before and after the appointment of Sir Otto Niemeyer as temporary adviser to the Australian government. (Indexed).

Subjects include: financial statistics; imports; Australian funds in London; suggestion by Bank of England that 'intermediary' be sent; gold exports; arrangements for Niemeyer's journey; arrangements for Professor Gregory to accompany Niemeyer; statements on visit by Prime Minister Scullin; Australian sugar industry; budget speech, 9 July 1930.

Correspondents include: JR Collins (Australia House); Sir Ernest Clark (London); Sir Granville Ryrie (Australia House); Lord Macmillan (Guildford); Sir Otto Niemeyer (SS Cathay, and Sydney); John Burnet (Australian Cheaper Sugar League, Belmore); JM Myers (London); EC Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

Includes:

Analysis of Australian Finances by JM Myers.

Notes on discussions with Australian bankers and Treasury officials.

(303p.)

Related Materials

For Sir Otto Niemeyer's files on his Australian appointment see OV9/287-292.

Australia - Financial position, 1930 - 1932 (File 48)

Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda and statements re Sir Otto Niemeyer's mission.

Subjects include: Commonwealth Treasury Bills in Australia; reception of Niemeyer's speech to Loan Council; how the Bank should receive Scullin on his visit in October 1930; wage costs in relation to Australian economic situation; letters of appreciation re his visit; State Savings Bank of New South Wales; suggested remedies for Australia's financial problems; National Debt Conversion Loan; exchange rates; Australian economic and financial position, 1929-1932; devaluation.

Correspondents include: Ernest Hale (Canberra); Niemeyer (Canberra, Sydney); JH Scullin (Canberra); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney); C de Bernales (Gold Campaign, Perth); JR Collins (Australia House); JA Lyons (Canberra); FA Maguire (New South Wales Constitutional Assoc., Sydney); HJ Sheehan (Canberra); JE Fenton (Canberra); CH Reading (Sydney); LG Melville (Sydney); RN Dalton (HM Trade Commissioner, Sydney); Treasury; Dominions Office.

Includes:

Carbon copies of letters from Niemeyer (Canberra) to Scullin.

Appreciation of Australia's financial position [by Niemeyer], 5 August 1930. Resolutions of Conference of Commonwealth and State Governments, Melbourne, 18-21 August 1930.

Report of Under Treasurers and Economists upon the possibilities of reaching budgetary equilibrium in Australia.

Report of Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers, Melbourne, 18-21 August 1930.

Memorandum by Prof. Melville.

Report of the Committee appointed by the government of the Commonwealth of Australia to make a preliminary survey of the economic problem, 1932.

(568p.)

Australian Reserve Bank, 1930 - 1935 (File 49)

Correspondence, memoranda, and draft bills re proposal by EG Theodore (Commonwealth Treasurer) to establish a Central Reserve Bank. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: JM Myers (Sydney); CW Wren (Associated Banks of Victoria); Sir Otto Niemeyer (Sydney); Sir Hal Colebatch (Senate, Sydney); Sir William Glasgow (Senate, Canberra); TE Gregory (Manchester).

(231p.)

Australia. 1936 Banking Commission, 1935 - 1936 (File 50)

Correspondence and memoranda on setting up of Royal Commission on the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia and on evidence given to Commission by Commonwealth Bank of Australia and others. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); WC Hankinson (Canberra); Sir Ernest Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); LG Melville (Sydney); D Geddie (Bank of New South Wales, London).

(486p.)

Australia. Banking Commission and banking legislation, 1936 - 1939 (File 51)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on evidence to and on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: LG Melville (Sydney); WB Gunn (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); Sir Ernest Riddle (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Sir Claude Reading (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney).

(241p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1934 - 1936 (File 52)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (for earlier letters see pieces 2-3). (Indexed).

Subjects include: wheat industry; London funds; retail trade; wages; political situation; bounties to primary producers; budgets; cotton industry; imports.

(483p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1936 - 1937 (File 53)

Letters and press cuttings from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed).

Subjects include: building permits; London funds; prices; banking; tariffs; motor trade; Premiers' conference; railways; states' budgets.

(484p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1937 - 1939 (File 54)

Letters and press cuttings from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed).

Subjects include: trade; prices; London funds; imports; unemployment; states' budgets; exports; fruit; National Health and Pensions Insurance Bill; Australian Loan Council; wheat industry assistance.

(418p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1939 - 1942 (File 55)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed).

Subjects include: retail trade; factory production; imports; borrowing; London funds; monetary control and other wartime emergency measures; budgets; war expenditure.

(591p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1942 - 1948 (File 56)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed).

Subjects include: retail trade; unemployment; overseas trade; effects of war on the economy; factory production; share prices; budgets; drought; uniform taxation; reestablishment of servicemen; social services; forty hour week.

(676p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1948 - 1949 (File 57)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed).

Subjects include: primary production; retail trade; employment; Banking Act, 1947; Commonwealth Loan Council; share prices; miners' strike, 1949; population increase.

(169p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1950 - 1953 (File 58)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments.

Subjects include: primary production; employment; share prices; overseas trade; migration; banking legislation; investment; wages; stabilisation of dairy industry; loan from International Bank; housing.

(466p.)

Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1953 - 1956 (File 59)

Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments.

Subjects include: primary production; gold production; retail trade; motor industry; employment; overseas trade; stabilisation plan for wheat industry; public authority loans; Commonwealth Arbitration Court; American cigarette factory in Melbourne; uranium production; Atomic weapons testing; population trends; searching for oil in Papua.

(428p.)

Group former secret papers, 1939 - 1953 (File 60)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Casey's visit to Treasury to establish Australia's minimum level sterling deposits in London; financing Australia's external war effort; Australian loans; Treasury Bills in Australia; Australian dollar loans; negotiations with International Monetary Fund; premium gold sales; Mr Menzies' visit, 1952; gold and dollar reserves.

Correspondents include: Treasury; SM Bruce (Australia House); FT Sponge (Australia House).

(350p.)

Group former secret papers, 1955 - 1960 (File 61)

Memoranda on sales of Australian gold on the London market.

(55p.)

South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia Central Banking Courses - general correspondence, 1957 - 1959 (File 44)

Correspondence and memoranda re organisation of courses and Bank of England participation.

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia); Alan Low (Reserve Bank of New Zealand).

(48p.)

South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia Central Banking Courses - 1957 course, 1957 - 1958 (File 45)

Correspondence and memoranda re 1957 Seanza course held at Kirribilli, including proposed agenda, syllabus of study, arrangements, list of participants and report on course by LJ Menzies. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Alan R Low (Kirribilli); Laurence Menzies (Sydney).

(298p.)

South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia Central Banking Courses, 1958 and 1960 courses, 1958 - 1960 (File 46)

Correspondence and memoranda re 2nd SEANZA course held at Kirribilli, 1958 and 3rd held in Bombay 1960; including proposed agenda, arrangements, list of participants, and report by J Bailey and GE Hall (2nd) and DG Cook (3rd). (Indexed).

Correspondents include: HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); DG Badger (Sydney); Gordon Hall (Kirribilli); Donald Cook (Bombay).

(252p.)

British Commonwealth Dependent Territories. Reports on currency Western Pacific, 1937 - 1961 (File 91)

Return of annual currency questionnaire by Governors giving details of circulation of notes, coins etc in Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, British Solomon Islands, Tonga, New Hebrides.

(181p.)

Colonial Office Currency Committee: Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, British Solomon Islands, 1931 - 1942 (File 101)

Correspondence and memoranda of Colonial Office Currency Committee. (Indexed).

Subjects include: circulation of notes in Fiji; trade relations; Australian currency to be made legal tender in BSI and Gilbert and Ellice Islands; local opposition to proposal to link Fijian currency with that of New Zealand; use of Australian currency on Ocean Island by British Phosphate Commissioners; commission rates charged by Fijian Currency Commissioners.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; M Fletcher (Suva); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney).

(203p.)

New Zealand, 1928 - 1936 (File 1)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and publications. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Zealand government inscribed stock, 1947; economic conditions in New Zealand; capital of New Zealand banks; central banking in New Zealand; sterling exchange; Latham's proposal to found an International Bank; New Zealand loans in London; debt conversion; New Zealand municipal issues; proposed National Mortgage Corporation; prices for primary products.

Correspondents include: H Latham (Napier); AD Park (Treasury, Wellington); Sir Thomas M Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); AC Davidson (Bank of New South Wales, Sydney); L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); AR Mackay (New Zealand High Commission).

(458p.)

New Zealand, 1936 - 1938 (File 2)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Zealand debts in London; Prof. Copland's memorandum on conditions in New Zealand; Labour government's programme; balance of payments; Labour's first term of office; imports into New Zealand.

Correspondents include: Governor General of New Zealand; E Fussell (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); J Hislop (Auckland); L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington).

Includes:

The Tragedy of the New Zealand £ by J Hislop, Auckland, 1937.

(240p.)

New Zealand, 1938 - 1941 (File 3)

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and publications. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Zealand import controls; exchange control; debts in London; letter allegedly written by JA Lee 'A letter which every New Zealander should read' [1939] re Labour Party's economic policies; United Kingdom-New Zealand commercial relations; Nash's visit to London, 1939; financing of New Zealand war contribution; gold exports.

Correspondents include: L Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); Governor General of New Zealand; Dominions Office; BC Ashwin (Treasury, Wellington); E Fussell (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); HF Batterbee (High Commissioner, Wellington); E Lascelles (London).

Includes:

Memorandum by Board of Trade on United Kingdom-New Zealand relations, 1939.

Economic policies in New Zealand, 1929-1939 by Randerson, Bank of New South Wales, 1939.

(491p.)

New Zealand, 1941 - 1955 (File 4)

Correspondence, publications and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Zealand war loan; freezing of Japanese assets; exchange control; nationalisation of Bank of New Zealand; sterling debt repayments; trade with France; export of gold; relations with International Monetary Fund; New Zealand application for £10m loan.

Correspondents include: AR Low (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); W Ward (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); BC Ashwin (New Zealand Treasury).

(555p.)

New Zealand, 1955 - 1960 (File 5)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Zealand loans; recent banking developments in New Zealand; economic development in New Zealand; New Zealand/United Kingdom trade agreement; Western Samoa - financial and banking survey; United Kingdom investments in New Zealand; financial assistance for New Zealand; banking legislation; report on Gordon Hall's visit to Australia and New Zealand, 1958/59; report on Lindsay Ryan's visit to New Zealand and Australia, 1960.

Correspondents include: EC Greensmith (New Zealand Treasury, Wellington); Treasury; EC Fussell (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); SC Parker (New Zealand High Commission).

(260p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1949 - 1950 (File 7)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: food; wool exports; devaluation of New Zealand £; New Zealand balance of payments; prices for long term contracts; New Zealand import licenses; Labour party policies; sales of Australian and New Zealand butter to Germany and France.

Correspondents include: Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Wellington); Office of High Commissioner (Wellington); Commonwealth Relations Office.

(211p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1950 - 1955 (File 8)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: meat prices; New Zealand London debt; New Zealand imports of American type cars; visit to United Kingdom by CM Bowden; exchange control; New Zealand trade with Japan; Canada/New Zealand meat deal; Murapara Project; Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Correspondents include: Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Wellington); Office of High Commissioner (Wellington); New Zealand Treasury (Wellington).

(174p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1933 - 1935 (File 9)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed).

Subjects include: setting up of RB and appointment of Lefeaux; RB account with Bank of England; gold; procedures for request for advice from New Zealand government; exchange rate; assets and liabilities of Reserve Bank.

(334p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1935 - 1938 (File 10)

Correspondence with and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed).

Subjects include: RB account with Bank of England; interest rates; Labour Party and exchange; Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill; government control of RB; issue of statistical summary.

(248p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1938 - 1950 (File 11)

Correspondence with and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed).

Subjects include: revision of statutes of Reserve Bank of New Zealand; Labour's first term of office; personalities as of May 1938; gold; advances to dairy industry; RB advances to government; RB amendment bill.

(236p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Empire letter inwards, 1935 - 1938 (File 13)

Letters from Leslie Lefeaux and W Ward (Wellington) on New Zealand economic and financial affairs. (Indexed).

Subjects include: funds of Reserve Bank; New Zealand banking statistics; mortgage finance; prices of commodities; unemployment; election, 1936; government financial policy; Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Act, 1936; overseas trade; factory production; State Advances Corporation Act; population; government legislation; budget estimates; trade with Germany; tariff changes, 1938.

(372p.)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Empire letters inwards, 1938 - 1951 (File 14)

Letters from Leslie Lefeaux, W Ward and EC Fussell (Wellington) on New Zealand economic and financial affairs. (Indexed).

Subjects include: legislation; government finance; trade; proposed social and welfare legislation; commodities; banking statistics; population; election, 1938; state forests; agricultural production; exchange control; defence; sheep farming commission; budget estimates; Finance Emergency Regulations 1940; banking legislation; money supply; election, 1946; employment situation; economic stabilisation; election, 1951.

Includes:

1) Social Security Act 1938: Social Security contribution: a pamphlet issued by Dept. of Land and Income Tax to each householder.

2) Import control regulations: questions to and answers by the Minister of Customs and Finance, W Nash, at Importers' National Conference, Wellington, 25 - 26 January 1939.

3) Licensing of imports, second period 1939

4) Report of Economic Stabilisation Conference, 1940.

(544p.)

Stabilisation of New Zealand, 1930 - 1931 (File 15)

Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings re invitation by Government of New Zealand to Sir Otto Niemeyer to visit New Zealand and advise on the banking and currency system of New Zealand. (Niemeyer's report led to establishment of a central bank in 1933).

Correspondents include: AD Park (New Zealand Treasury); GW Forbes (Wellington); CE Dowland (Wellington); Niemeyer (Wellington); EA Ransome (Wellington); W Leitch (Union Bank of Australia, Melbourne); Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); E Toms (New Zealand High Commission).

Includes:

Notes on meeting between Prime Minister, New Zealand, and Deputation from Associated Banks of New Zealand, 30 July 1930.

Press comments on Niemeyer's report.

Banking and Currency in New Zealand: report by Sir Otto Niemeyer, Wellington, GP, 1931.

(374p.)

Stabilisation of New Zealand, 1932 - 1933 (File 16)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on reaction to and results of Sir Otto Niemeyer's report, and establishment of Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); FJ Sandford (New Zealand High Commission); E Toms (New Zealand High Commission); W Downie Stewart (Dunedin); Sir Otto Niemeyer; AD Park (London, South Canterbury); Lord Bledisloe (Wellington).

Includes:

1) Professor Belshaw's memorandum re Bank of New South Wales's plan [on exchange].

2) Opinion on New Zealand exchange by Prof. TE Gregory, 1932.

3) Memorandum on New Zealand position by General Manager Bank of New South Wales, 1931.

4) Niemeyer report by Professor Belshaw, 1932.

5) National Bank of New Zealand's remarks on Reserve Bank Proposals, 1932.

6) Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bill, 1933.

(362p.)

Stabilisation of New Zealand, 1933 - 1934 (File 17)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Bank of England comments on Reserve bank of New Zealand Bill; gold coin; opposition of New Zealand banks to establishment of Reserve Bank; exchange; issue of notes; composition of the Board of Governors.

Correspondents include: AD Park (New Zealand Treasury); Sir Thomas Wilford (New Zealand High Commission); W Downie Stewart (Dunedin); GW Forbes (London); FG Conolly (Bank for International Settlement, Basle).

Includes:

1) Notes of meeting held to discuss some points raised regarding the establishment of a Reserve Bank, 30 June 1933 (attended by GW Forbes, GC Rodda, Governor of Bank of England, Sir Otto Niemeyer and others).

2) Reserve Bank of New Zealand Proposal by JG Coates, Wellington, 1933.

(269p.)

Malaya, 1929 - 1940 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda re currency reform in Malaya. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Colonial Secretary (Singapore); Bank of International Settlements (Basle); Colonial Office; Federal Secretary (Kuala Lumpur).

(103p.)

Malaya, 1942 - 1949 (File 3)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: exchange regulations; future of Malayan rubber industry; wartime measures adopted by Meru Tin Ltd. in expectation of Japanese occupation of Malay States; financial and economic reoccupation planning; Overseas Chinese Association; insurance; remittances from Malaya to China; currency in Singapore; currency agreement between Malaya and Singapore; exchange rates.

Correspondents include: Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; C Jackson (Meru Tin Ltd.); Tan Cheng Lock (Bangalore); Treasury; Currency Commissioner, Singapore; Colonial Office.

Includes:

Letter from Quek Kai Kee of Johore to Tunku Abubakar (son of Sultan of Johore), 27 June 1943 re conditions in Singapore detailed by a cousin who escaped from Singapore in Feb.

Reports on Malaya gathered from escaped Chinese, 1943.

(432p.)

Malaya, 1950 - 1956 (File 4)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: currency in Malaya; circulation of coinage; banking in Singapore; biographies of Singapore personalities; Malaya/Borneo currency agreement; Malayan loans; Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation; credit control; IBRD Report on Malaya; banking legislation; abandonment of exchange control in Singapore; constitutional talks on Malaya; proposed free US dollar market in Singapore; HS Lee's appointment as Minister of Finance in Federation.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; WR Cockburn (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London); Chief Secretary (Kuching); HS Lee (London).

(476p.)

Colonial Office Currency Committee, Malaya, 1931 - 1941 (File 8)

Correspondence, memoranda and minutes of meetings. (Indexed).

Subjects include: currency of Straits Settlements; gold reserves; establishment of currency commission; Malayan currency reform.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; TS Thomas (Governor, Singapore); Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Crown Agents.

Includes:

Report on Malayan currency by Sir Basil Blackett, 1934.

(322p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1955 - 1956 (File 9)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: currency and banking; IBRD mission to Malaya; proposed establishment of Central Bank; currency in Borneo; credit control; Malayan Currency Board.

Correspondents include: Sir Louis Chick (Knaresborough); Colonial Office; Treasury; HF Morford (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London).

(296p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1956 (File 10)

Correspondence, memoranda and working papers of visit to Malaya by GM Watson and Sir Sydney Caine. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Malayan Exchange Banks Association; reports on banks with branches in Malaya (ie. Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, Indian Overseas Bank, Bank of China); proposed establishment of Central Bank; banking statistics; reception of report by Watson and Caine.

Correspondents include: Guy Watson (Singapore); Sir Sydney Caine; Paul T Lee (Singapore); David Marshall (Singapore); Tom Hart (Treasury, Singapore).

Includes:

Report on the Establishment of a Central Bank in Malaya by GM Watson and Sir Sydney Caine, 1956. (Printed and drafts)

(393p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1956 - 1957 (File 11)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda.

Subjects include: movement of funds; reception of the report by Watson and Caine; visit to London by HS Lee, Minister of Finance; separate Borneo currency; proposed Malaya banking legislation.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; CJ Thomson (Treasury, Singapore); Bank for International Settlements (Basle); Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Tom Hart (Treasury, Singapore); HC Coombs (Commonwealth Bank, Sydney); Tan Chin Tuan (Singapore).

(286p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1957 (File 12)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: proposed Central Bank; separate currency for Borneo; banking legislation; future currency arrangements; B Wilcock's (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) appointment as adviser; membership of International Monetary Fund.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; GAP Sutherland (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Singapore); Tom Hart (Singapore); GE Bogaars (Treasury, Singapore); Laurence Menzies (Sydney); Tunku Abdul Rahman to United Kingdom High Commissioner (extract); DO Henley (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur).

(283p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1958 (File 13)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: membership of International Monetary Fund; currency legislation; proposed Central Bank; Borneo currency; constitutional arrangements; Malaya British Borneo currency agreement; minutes of working party on Malayan area currency problems; new Malayan Currency Board.

Correspondents include: AJ Brown (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur); Tom Hart (Treasury, Singapore); Treasury; Colonial Office; WH Wilcock (Treasury, Kuala Lumpur).

(416p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1958 - 1959 (File 14)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: minutes of working party on Malayan area currency problems; Malaya-Borneo currency agreement; visit to London by Humphrey, Sec. of Ministry of Finance, Kuala Lumpur; Malayan loans; Malaya/Borneo Currency Board liquidation.

Correspondents include: Treasury; Roland Hunt (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur); Colonial Office.

(365p.) (Some poor photocopies).

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1959 (File 15)

Currency and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Malayan area currency agreement; Malaya/Borneo currency agreement - comments on draft; request by Sultan of Brunei for separate representation on Malayan Currency Board.

Correspondents include: Commonwealth Relations Office; Colonial Office; Treasury; RC Hunt (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur); DO Henley (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur); WH Wilcock (Bank Negara Tanah Melayu, Kuala Lumpur); Abdul Jamil (Treasury, Kuala Lumpur).

(461p.)

Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1959 - 1960 (File 16)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Malaya/British Borneo currency agreement - comments on draft; Loynes' comments on initialing ceremony; Malayan area currency; future Borneo currency.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; Commonwealth Relations Office; John Loynes (Singapore); JL Rampton (High Commission, Kuala Lumpur).

(240p.)

Malaya reoccupation, 1942 - 1945 (File 20)

Correspondence and memoranda concerning plans for reoccupation. (Indexed).

Subjects include: supply of currency - coins and notes; order for paper quantities; Japanese notes issued in Malaya; issue of currency for military use; use of 'Hawaiian dollar' by troops in Pacific; new Dutch notes for Netherlands East Indies; draft Malayan moratorium proclamation; Malayan monetary and fiscal guide.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Crown Agents; W Cockburn (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London); Treasury; War Office.

(422p.)

Singapore, 1957 - 1961 (File 23)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: proposed establishment of clearing house; membership of International Monetary Fund; banking legislation; report on visit by RM Mays-Smith, 1959; biographies of banking personnel; run on Chung Khiaw Bank.

Correspondents include: GAP Sutherland (Chartered Bank, Singapore); WH Lydall (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp, Singapore); Treasury.

(239p.)

Borneo Dependencies, 1942 - 1957 (File 25)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: reoccupation; banking facilities; agreement for transfer of Borneo sovereign rights and assets from BNB Company to Crown; banking legislation; Sarawak Currency Fund; banking in Sarawak.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Governor of Sarawak; High Commissioner for Brunei.

(222p.)

Far East Reoccupation. General, 1942 - 1948 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: currency to be put in circulation or allowed to stay in circulation on reoccupation of Malaya; redemption of Japanese notes; compensation for war damage; currencies in Japan and in Japanese occupied territories; currency issued to military 'Hawaiian dollar'; returning staff to SE Asia; camp funds raised during internment in Changi and Sime Road camps; sterling cheques drawn by internees to pay for items on black market - may now be presented by Japanese guards or other profiteering internees; setting up of Economic Commission for Asia and Far East.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; Ministry of Economic Warfare; WR Cockburn (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London); H Fraser (Singapore); HC Reilly (Sime Road Internment Camp); Committee of London Clearing Banks.

(385p.)

Far East - General, 1948 - 1949 (File 2)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed). [p.1-43].

Includes: reports on visit to Australia and Far East by Patrick J Keogh and Young to attend 4th session of ECAFA; Commonwealth Bank of Australia's opinion on role of Hong Kong; report on Young's visit to Singapore - trade relations; membership of sterling area; report of visit by Keogh and Young to Malaya - awareness of seriousness of political position.

(43p.)

UNECAFE material at end of File was not filmed by the AJCP.

Far East Reoccupation. Individual countries, 1944 - 1945 (File 4)

Correspondence and memoranda re reoccupation of Borneo.

Subjects include: banking provision in Kuching; Dutch intentions re exchange control; exchange rates; currency; exchange rates for enemy currency; agreement of US Treasury to use of Malayan currency; issue of banking and currency directives; Malayan currency in Australia to be handed to Borneo Planning Unit; Borneo Civil Affairs policy directive (re financial affairs) to CIC South West Pacific (Drafts and final version); working of alluvial gold in Borneo; reports by Colonel Stafford on currency policy in liberated territories.

Correspondents include: War Office; Colonial Office; Treasury.

(224p.)

British Banks' staff position, 1944 - 1946 (File 5)

Correspondence with Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp and Mercantile Bank of India Ltd. re early release of employees from forces in order to return to banks' branches in Malaya.

Includes lists of personnel and service units. (Indexed).

(114p.)

Debtor-Creditor transactions, 1944 - 1946 (File 6)

Correspondence and memoranda re treatment to be accorded transactions made during Japanese occupation of Malaya, Hong Kong and Borneo. (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Treasury; Colonial Office; Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp.; Malayan Exchange Banks' Association (Singapore); Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.

(311p.)

Debtor-Creditor transactions, 1947 - 1949 (File 7)

Correspondence and memoranda re treatment to be accorded transactions made during Japanese occupation of Malaya, Hong Kong and Borneo. (Indexed).

Includes:

Model Debtor and Creditor Ordinance.

Bank of England memorandum on comparison of draft legislation for colonies with that of a Bill enacted by Philippine congress.

Malaya Report of Select Committee appointed to examine Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Bill, 1948.

Memorandum on Report….by members of Malayan Exchange Banks' Association which were forcibly subjected to liquidation during Japanese occupation and referred to as the Liquidated Banks.

Correspondents include: Colonial Office; Treasury; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp.

(239p.)

Dutch East Indies, 1931 - 1941 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: loans; judgement in case of Royal Dutch and Batavia oil company; currency and foreign exchange; German invasion - seizure of plates for Indies' notes; sales of Javanese produce.

Correspondents include: Netherlands Trading Society (East) Ltd., London; Javasche Bank, Batavia.

(206p.)

Dutch East Indies, 1942 - 1948 (File 2)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: arrangements agreed to by the trading with the enemy branch and the Bank of England in regard to sterling balances and other assets of the Batavian and Singapore offices of Dutch Banks, NEI Government account; reoccupation - financial aspects; economic conditions in December . 1945; currency, banking and finance during Japanese occupation; position of British banks in Indonesia; legal position of Netherlands East Indies Monetary Unit.

Correspondents include: J Hardeman (Netherlands Colonial Office); HFO Walsh (British Consulate, Batavia); WR Cockburn (Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London).

(394p.)

Dutch East Indies, 1948 - 1955 (File 3)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: United Kingdom companies in Indonesia; introduction of Republican currency; monetary situation; exchange regulations; currency reform; Djakarta stock exchange; sterling/dollar cross rate; complaints against Indonesian authorities over cheap sterling transactions; history of the currency; report on visit by Hogg, 1954 - economic conditions, communist activity, political climate, banking; foreign exchange regulations.

Correspondents include: British Embassy (Djakarta); Foreign Office; Treasury.

(282p.)

Indonesia, 1956 - 1960 (File 4)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: political conditions; textile trade; controls over commercial banks; report on visit by Hogg, 1958; economic report, 1958; monetary decree, 1959; British goodwill mission, 1960.

Correspondents include: Khouw Bian Tie, Bank of Indonesia (Amsterdam); PC Hogg (Singapore).

(300p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1950 - 1951 (File 8)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: foreign exchange control; trade discussions at Board of Trade; Singapore/Indonesia agreement; sterling balances; compensation for war damage.

Correspondents include: Javasche Bank (Djakarta); Treasury; Colonial Office; British Embassy (Djakarta).

(268p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1951 - 1954 (File 9)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Singapore/Indonesia agreement; pre-war debts; sterling balances; trade between Singapore/Malaya and Indonesia; Indonesia/Malaya rubber agreement.

Correspondents include: De Javasche Bank (Amsterdam, Djakarta); Treasury; Colonial Office; British Embassy (Djakarta); Bank Indonesia (Amsterdam).

(366p.)

Financial and trade relations, 1954 - 1956 (File 10)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: visit by PL Hogg to Indonesia; government's economic policy; discrimination by Indonesia against imports from United Kingdom; Indonesia and Netherlands Monetary Area; Singapore/Indonesia Agreement; International Monetary Fund staff report on Indonesia.

Correspondents include: British Embassy (Djakarta); PL Hogg (Djakarta); Bank Indonesia (Djakarta); De Nederlandsche Bank (Amsterdam); Colonial Office; Treasury.

(173p.)

De Javasche Bank, 1926 - 1936 (File 11)

Correspondence with and memoranda on the Javasche Bank, Amsterdam and Batavia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: assays of gold bars; agreement between the two banks; visits by personnel; shipment of bullion to London.

(156p.)

De Javasche Bank, 1938 - 1951 (File 12)

Correspondence with and memoranda on the Javasche Bank, Amsterdam and Batavia. (Indexed).

Subjects include: Dutch East Indies, currency and foreign exchange; accounts with Bank of England; Treasury Bills; specimen signatures; nationalisation of Javasche Bank.

Includes:

Correspondence with Dutch Ministry for Colonies.

17 September 1946. Lewis (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London) to Bank of England re gold held by Commonwealth Bank of Australia on behalf of Javasche Bank.

(223p.)

Bank Indonesia, 1952 - 1960 (File 13)

Correspondence with and memoranda on the Javasche Bank/Bank Indonesia (from 1 July 1953) Amsterdam and Djakarta. (Indexed).

Subjects include: nationalisation of Javasche Bank; visits by personnel; organisation and responsibilities of Bank Indonesia; political and economic conditions in Indonesia, 1959.

Includes:

Correspondence with British Embassy in Djakarta.

Correspondence with Indonesian Embassy in London.

(130p.)

Netherlands East Indies Reoccupation, 1942 - 1945 (File 16)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: currency measures to be taken; currency to be used by allied forces seeking reoccupation; exchange rates; recognition of Japanese issued currency; establishment of Bank Voor Nederlandsche Indie; rehabilitation of plantation industries.

Correspondents include: Treasury; Dutch Ministry for Colonies; Chase National Bank (New York); JM Graham (Sydney).

(108p.)

Miscellaneous French Colonies, 1939 - 1954 (File 18)

Correspondence and memoranda, 1939-1945.

Subjects include: currency in New Hebrides; Governor-General of New Zealand's visit to Tahiti, 1940 and financial assistance to be offered; nickel, chrome and phosphate industries of New Caledonia and Oceania - Free French demands.

Correspondents include: GA Joy (Vila); WL Fraser (Treasury); G Monod (Free French, London); R Pleven (Free French, London); TW Moore (Chrome Company, London).

(193p.)

New Hebrides, 1941 - 1959 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda.

Subjects include: currency problems re two legal currencies; economic conditions in French Oceania - conversation with M. Pleven, 1941; French national legislation for control of N.H. Francs, 1941; exchange control; proposed new protocol; report on interview with M. Jean Chanel, 1958, re currency; report on financial and banking arrangements by JSG Wilson, 1959; report on meeting to discuss report at H.M.T.

Correspondents include: Treasury; L Brian Freeston (Suva); Colonial Office; JSG Wilson (Shortlands, Kent, very poor xerox).

(309p.)

Fiji and Oceania, 1931 - 1940 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: currency; sugar exports; Gilbert and Ellice Islands' economic conditions, 1931; Nauru Phosphate Commission; shipment of gold sovereigns from Fiji to United Kingdom; Tongan currency.

Correspondents include: Treasury; Colonial Office; Bank of New South Wales; JS Neill (Tonga).

(87p.)

Fiji, 1941 - 1951 (File 2)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: shortage of currency and circulation of notes due to influx of US and New Zealand troops; visit to Bank by ARW Robinson, Fijian Financial Sec.; Fijian loans from Australia.

Correspondents include: Sir H Luke (Fiji); AG Grantham (Suva); Colonial Office; Royal Mint (London).

(125p.)

Fiji Companies Act, 1944. (Printed), originally in this File, was not filmed by the AJCP.

Fiji, 1952 - 1960 (File 3)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: circulation of coinage; repayment of silver to USA under lend/lease arrangements; establishment of Savings Bank; fiduciary issues; development finance, 1956/60; loan on London market; banking legislation; meeting with Bevington, Financial Sec. of Fiji (1960).

Correspondents include: Governor of Fiji; Colonial Office; Treasury.

(152p.)

Fiji, 1960 - 1964 (File 4)

Although listed, this File was not filmed by the AJCP.

British Commonwealth - Dependent Territories, Western Pacific, 1891 - 1968 (File 6)

Banking and Currency legislation.

Printed published material, originally part of this File, was not filmed by the AJCP.

British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Hebrides, Tonga, 1941 - 1958 (File 1)

Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed).

Subjects include: New Hebrides franc; currency in Tonga; necklace market operating on coral atoll occupied by New Zealand and American troops in 1942; position of New Hebrides in Sterling Area; banking in Solomon Islands - establishment of branch of Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Gilbert and Ellice Islands transfer rates; proposal to establish Bank of Tonga.

Correspondents include: RD Blandy (Vila); Resident Commissioner (Tulagi); Colonial Office; Treasury; W Rowan (Nuku'alofa); TJ O'Brien (High Commission, Canberra); Prince Tungi (Tonga); Deputy Governor (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney); Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Wellington).

Includes:

Kingdom of Tonga: banking survey. Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1958.

(277p.)

Tonga currency revaluation, 1948 - 1955 (File 3)

Correspondence and memoranda concerning proposed revaluation of Tongan pounds following revaluation of New Zealand pound; also considered in relation to Australian pound. (Revaluation was not carried out). (Indexed).

Correspondents include: Treasury; Colonial Office.

(64p.)

Confidential cables Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1932 - 1936 (File 7)

Carbon copies of confidential cables sent to and received from Governor of Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Subjects include: exporting of Australian gold reserves; raising loans; sales of Australian stocks; role of Central Bank; visit by Kershaw and Jackson - problem that visit will be 'interpreted as evidence of Bank of England influence or attempt to influence Australian monetary policy'; offer from Bank of New South Wales to absorb Union bank of Australia.

(128p.)

Confidential cables Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1934 - 1936 (File 10)

Carbon copies of confidential cables sent to and received from Governor of Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Subjects include: exchange policies; banking legislation; New Zealand Fruit Board's need to liquidate 300,000 paper pesos resulting from 1932 and 1933 season's exports to Argentina; gold standard; investment in Treasury Bills; Rural Mortgage Bonds; repayment of loans; relations between Reserve Bank and government; proposed registration of New Zealand Steel Corp. Ltd.; visit of Kershaw and Jackson to Australia and New Zealand; administration of Reserve Bank; meetings with Nash in London.

(183p.)

Proposed iron and steel industry in New Zealand, 1934 - 1940 (File 6)

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda.

Correspondents include: Leslie Lefeaux (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Wellington); A Mackay (New Zealand Government House, London).

(101p.)

Coal Distillates and By-Products (New Zealand) Ltd., 1933 (File 28)

Correspondence, abridged prospectus and proposal to form English company to take over the New Zealand company.

Correspondents include: John A Smeeton (London); WW Paine (Lloyds Bank, London); RJ Milbourne (Wellington, Shropshire).

(30p.)