Guide to the Records of the Bank of England (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2924-M2970
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Series AC. Accounts' Department, 1875 - 1992
Filmed selectively.
Subseries AC 19. Stock Jackets, 1884 - 1992
Although listed, the majority of material in this Sub-series was not filmed by the AJCP. Files filmed are: 486, 490, 498, 549, 550, 551, 558, 559, 560. The other files were not available for filming.
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...
New Zealand government 4% inscribed stock, 1933 - 1943 (File 490)
Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock...
Queensland government 4% inscribed stock, 1884 - 1929 (File 549)
Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock...
Queensland government 3.5% inscribed stock, 1924 (File 550)
Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock...
Queensland government 3.5% inscribed stock, 1930 (File 551)
Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock...
Queensland government 4.5% inscribed stock, 1920 - 1925 (File 558)
Correspondence, memoranda and documents re issue and management of stock...
Series ADM. Administration Department, 9 February 1928 - 11 August 1974
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Subseries ADM 1. Commonwealth Central Bank Letters, 29 November 1928 - 11 August 1974
These letters were sent by the Governor, initially every fortnight to a number of Governors of central banks abroad. The first letter went to Australia, India, South Africa and Egypt. The same text was used for each recipient, but the letter was personal...
Subseries ADM 22. Professor Clay's Papers, 23 June 1933 - 31 December 1934
Correspondence, 23 June 1933 - 31 December 1934 (File 27)
Series C. Cashier's Department, 1883 - 1980
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Subseries C 40. Chief Cashier Policy Files, 1883 - 1969
Dominion and India Funds in London - Australian, 1934 - 1955 (File 174)
Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Bank of England memoranda...
Dominion Government Stocks, (80p.), 1883 - 1906 (File 212)
Correspondence between the Bank and the Agent General for New South Wales (Sir Saul Samuel, TA Coghlan) re management of New South Wales stock, 1883 - 1906 (Item 1.a)
Orders of Court and Committee of Treasury re inscription and management of New South Wales stock, New Zealand stock and Queensland stock, 1883 - 1898 (Item 2)
Opinion of Messrs Freshfields regarding the power of the colonial governments to remove the management of their stocks from the Bank, 4 November 1895 - 19 November 1895 (Item 3)
Unofficial correspondence between the Agent General for Queensland (Sir Horace Tozer) and the chief cashier re management of Queensland stock, 1904 (Item 4)
Bank of England to Coghlan re application made by Governments of New South Wales and Queensland for a reduction in existing scale of charges for management of their inscribed stocks, 16 August 1905 (Item [Bt. 4/5])
Dominion Government Stocks, 1908 - 1925 (File 213)
Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings, publications...
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...
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)...
Australia: London market borrowings, 1958 - 1960 (File 293)
Correspondence, memoranda, notes on meetings with Australian treasurer, Holt, re Australian loan requirements...
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...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
Borneo Gold, 1915 - 1921 (File 356)
Correspondence with Borneo Co. Ltd., London re gold from Sarawak mines. (Index at back)...
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...
Capital Issues Committee (File 753)
Subseries C 43. Gold and Foreign Exchange Files, 1934 - 1975
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Subseries C 44. Overseas Central Banks' Accounts with the Bank, 1917 - 1980
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1924 - 1959 (File 41)
Correspondence with Commonwealth Bank of Australia (London and Sydney) and memoranda...
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...
Series EC. Exchange Control Department, 1939 - 1947
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Subseries EC 4. Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939
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)...
War Measures: Dominions and Colonies General, 1940 - 1941 (File 16)
Correspondence and memoranda between Bank of England, Treasury and Colonial Office. (Indexed)...
War Measures: Dominions and Colonies: General, 1941 (File 17)
Correspondence and memoranda between Bank of England, Treasury and Colonial Office. (Indexed)...
War Measures: New Zealand, 1939 - 1941 (File 18)
Correspondence and memoranda re development of exchange control in New Zealand. (Indexed)...
War Measures: Australia, 1939 (File 21)
Correspondence and memoranda re establishment of exchange control in Australia. (Indexed)...
War Measures: Singapore, Straits Settlements, 1939 - 1940 (File 37)
Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed)...
Exchange Control Rubber, 1939 - 1940 (File 123)
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, press cuttings. (Indexed)...
Series EC 5. Exchange Control Act: Files, 1947 - 1949
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Liaison with Australian control in effort to ensure that Australian exports transhipped to United Kingdom were paid for in a manner appropriate to true destination, 1947 - 1949 (File 133)
Correspondents include: LU Rusden (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London); WM Forbes (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney)...
Series EID. Economic Intelligence Department, 1933 - 1968
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Subseries EID 3. Balance of Payments Estimates, 1933 - 1965
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...
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...
Series F. Freshfields Papers, 1781 - 1878
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Subseries F2. Forged and other imitation notes, 1797 - 1834
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...
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...
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...
Subseries F6. Bank Staff, 1844 - 20 November 1878
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...
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...
Subseries F 25. Prison Correspondence, 1781 - 1844
Correspondence and petitions from convicted forgers and transportees to the Bank requesting assistance to purchase stores and clothing for the voyage to New South Wales, requesting that transportation be expedited and that families be allowed to accompany them; some details of conditions on board hulks and allowances and provisions for voyage...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
Series G. Governor's and Secretary's Department, 1888 - 1967
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Subseries G1. Governor's Files, 1922 - 1967
Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1925 - 1933 (File 286)
Correspondence and memoranda concerning the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Index at back)...
Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1934 - 1936 (File 287)
Correspondence and memoranda concerning Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (index at back)...
Australia: Commonwealth Bank, 1937 - 1952 (File 288)
Correspondence and memoranda concerning Commonwealth Bank of Australia (index at back)...
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...
Australia - Miscellaneous, 1929 - 1936 (File 290)
Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings. (index at back)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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...
New Zealand General, 1930 - 1937 (File 335)
Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda and records of meetings. (Indexed)...
New Zealand General, 1939 - 1951 (File 336)
Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda, records of meetings. (Indexed)...
Subseries. Empire Central Bankers' Conference, 1936 - 1960
A conference for Dominion central bank governors was arranged at the Bank of England immediately after the coronation in May 1937. It was attended by Towers (Canada); Postmus (South Africa); Lefeaux (New Zealand); Taylor (India); and Lewis (Australia, Commonwealth Bank of Australia London manager). No record was made of the discussions, but the Bank's discussion papers and papers prepared by the Dominion central bankers have been kept.
Preparations for the conference, suggested discussion topics, administrative arrangements and Dominion papers. (Index at back), 1936 - 1938 (File 501)
Dominion papers include:...
Subseries G14. Committee of Treasury Files, 1919 - 1967
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...
Subseries G15. Secretary's Files, 1888 - 1925
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...
Subseries G30. Governor's Miscellaneous Correspondence Files, 1916 - 1925
A-C, 1916 - 1920 (File 1)
P-Z, 1921 (File 7)
'Queensland', 11 February 1921 - 11 October 1921 (Item)
Correspondence re Queensland financial conditions; includes memorandum on conversation with Mr J Hunter, 11 February 1921 re payment to Queensland for meat and 'financial tangle into which Mr Theodore's government is drifting' and copy of cable from Premier of Queensland, 11 October 1921 re loan floated in New York...
I-Z, 1922 (File 9)
'Peacock', 11 May 1922 - 9 November 1922 (Item)
Copies of correspondence between John J Garvin (Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Co. Ltd., Sydney) and JR Collins (Sec. to Treasury, Melbourne) and between J Garvin and ER Peacock (Bank of England) re issuing notes in Australia. (11p.)
Series OV. Overseas Department, 1891 - 1984
Filmed selectively.
Subseries OV 9. Sir Otto Niemeyer. Papers, 1927 - 1940
New Zealand, Parliamentary control over public expenditure, 1930 - 1931 (File 24)
Correspondence and memoranda...
New Zealand Land Development. (75p.), 1930 (File 25)
Lord Bledisloe (Wellington) to JW Beaumont Pease (London) re potential of New Zealand, proposes formation of company to reclaim 'waste land', 31 July 1930 (Item c)
Lord Bledisloe (Wellington) to JH Thomas (Dominions Office) pleased to hear Sec. of State reads personally official despatches; impressions of New Zealand after 6 months stay; potential for 'right type' of migrant, 6 September 1930 (Item d)
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)...
Visit to Australia. Unofficial Correspondence, 1930 (File 288)
Letters to Niemeyer while in Australia, some carbon copies of Niemeyer's replies...
Visit to Australia. Unofficial Correspondence, 1930 (File 289)
Letters to Niemeyer while in Australia, some carbon copies of Niemeyer's replies...
Visit to Australia. Financial position, 1930 (File 290)
Memoranda, notes of meetings, reports, statistical tables...
Visit to Australia. Financial position, 1930 (File 291)
Memoranda, notes of meetings, reports, statistical tables...
Visit to Australia. Trade and other statistics, 1930 (File 292)
Correspondence, notes of meetings, memoranda, and statistical tables...
Subseries OV 13. Australia, 1911 - 1974
These files were originally held unweeded as a 'representation country' being designed to show the totality of Overseas Department work in a country. Researchers having shown no interest in this particular aspect, and in the interest of conserving space, these files were weeded in November 1988.
Australia, 1932 - 1933 (File 2)
Correspondence, memoranda and fortnightly letters from Governor Commonwealth Bank of Australia giving Australian political and financial news. (Indexed)...
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)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1913; 1923-1926 (File 32)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1926 - 1929 (File 33)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1930 - 1931 (File 34)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1932 - 1935 (File 35)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1935 - 1937 (File 36)
Correspondence and memorandum on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1937 - 1940 (File 37)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1940 - 1945 (File 38)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1945 - 1949 (File 39)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia.(Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1949 - 1951 (File 40)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1952 - 1954 (File 41)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1954 - 1956 (File 42)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia/Reserve Bank of Australia, 1957 - 1961 (File 43)
Correspondence and memoranda on Commonwealth Bank of Australia. (Indexed)...
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]...
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...
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)...
Australia - Financial position, 1930 - 1932 (File 48)
Correspondence, press cuttings, memoranda and statements re Sir Otto Niemeyer's mission...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1939 - 1942 (File 55)
Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed)...
Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1942 - 1948 (File 56)
Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed)...
Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1948 - 1949 (File 57)
Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments. (Indexed)...
Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1950 - 1953 (File 58)
Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments...
Australia. Empire letters inwards, 1953 - 1956 (File 59)
Letters from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney, giving details of Australian economic and financial developments...
Subseries OV 21. Administration of work, 1957 - 1960
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...
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)...
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)...
Subseries OV 44. Sterling and Sterling Area Policy, 1931 - 1961
British Commonwealth Dependent Territories. Reports on currency Eastern Dependencies, 1953 - 1961 (File 87)
Subseries OV 59. New Zealand, 1908 - 1975
New Zealand, 1928 - 1936 (File 1)
Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and publications. (Indexed)...
New Zealand, 1938 - 1941 (File 3)
Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and publications. (Indexed)...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1933 - 1935 (File 9)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed)...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1935 - 1938 (File 10)
Correspondence with and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed)...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 1938 - 1950 (File 11)
Correspondence with and memoranda on Reserve Bank of New Zealand. (Indexed)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
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)...
Sir Otto Niemeyer's unofficial correspondence and diary during journey to New Zealand 1930 (234p.), 1930 - 1931 (File 18)
Diary, 4 September 1930 - 29 September 1930 (Item 1)
Refs. to voyage on Makura; meetings in Wellington with officials from Treasury, Dept of Internal Affairs and Government House; meetings with bankers; sightseeing - Rotorua, Lake Tarawera, Huka Falls, Arapuni, Aranui Caves, Waitomo Caves; meetings in Wellington ('Sir Apirana Ngata, Minister for Native Affairs a very intelligent man'); meetings with Parliamentarians and members of Cabinet; Holland 'a fairly sound little man'; sightseeing - Timeru, Tasman Glacier; meetings in Wellington - bankers, Ransom; voyage on Maunganui for Sydney.
Correspondence, 1930 - 1931 (Item 2)
Correspondents include: Canterbury Chamber of Commerce; LJ Schmitt (Sydney); Dunedin Chamber of Commerce; Wellington Chamber of Commerce; Auckland Chamber of Commerce; Professor A Tocker (Canterbury College); Prof. Belshaw (Auckland); Sir James Allen (Wellington); Lord Bledisloe (Wellington); J Hislop (Auckland) re meeting Niemeyer and sending him their opinions on New Zealand economic and financial affairs.
Subseries OV 65. Malaya, Singapore and Borneo Territories, 1908 - 1965
Malaya, 1929 - 1940 (File 1)
Correspondence and memoranda re currency reform in Malaya. (Indexed)...
Colonial Office Currency Committee, Malaya, 1931 - 1941 (File 8)
Correspondence, memoranda and minutes of meetings. (Indexed)...
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)...
Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1956 - 1957 (File 11)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda...
Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1957 (File 12)
Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda. (Indexed)...
Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1958 (File 13)
Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed)...
Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1958 - 1959 (File 14)
Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed)...
Malaya, Borneo, Singapore Currency proposals, 1959 - 1960 (File 16)
Correspondence and memoranda. (Indexed)...
Subseries OV 66. Far East, 1942 - 1949
Far East Reoccupation. Individual countries, 1944 - 1945 (File 4)
Correspondence and memoranda re reoccupation of Borneo...
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...
Subseries OV 85. Dutch East Indies/Indonesia, 1926 - 1965
De Javasche Bank, 1926 - 1936 (File 11)
Correspondence with and memoranda on the Javasche Bank, Amsterdam and Batavia. (Indexed)...
De Javasche Bank, 1938 - 1951 (File 12)
Correspondence with and memoranda on the Javasche Bank, Amsterdam and Batavia. (Indexed)...