Guide to the Memoirs of Sir Dudley De Chair (as filmed by the AJCP)

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National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

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Draft of autobiography: Volume 6. Australia (102pp.), 1923 - 1926 (File)

Topics include the Cocos Islands, Government House, Sydney, domestic staff, life in the outback, sheep stations, a visit to Yass (1924), the Ancient Society of Mariners, speech-making, the Southern Highlands, Dame Nellie Melba, visits of Anna Pavlova, Feodor Chaliapin, Jan Paderewski and Fritz Kreisler, speeches by de Chair and Lady de Chair, surfing and yachting, travels in western New South Wales including Tibooburra and White Cliffs, stories of bushrangers, Australian artists, a visit to Hobart, Australian Aboriginals, a visit to an Aboriginal mission at Taree (1926), the attempt by Jack Lang, the Premier, to abolish the Legislative Council (1925-1926), moves by Lang to have de Chair recalled, the resignation of the Government, the 1927 election, the question of a possible dismissal of the Premier, and the views of Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith on the New South Wales constitutional crisis. There are a few photographs.

Typescript volume, with manuscript amendments, comprising the following chapters:
  1. Governor of New South Wales [1923]
  2. Arrival in Australia [1924]
  3. Visit to south-west of the State [1924]
  4. Visit to Special Service Squadron – emigration problems
  5. Describing some artistic, social and official activities
  6. Mission from the Hopi tribe of Red Indians – another tour of Never Never Land [1926]
  7. Lord and Lady Allenby's visit [1925]
  8. Politics
  9. More politics

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Draft of autobiography: Volume 7. Australia (120pp.), 1926 - 1930 (File)

Subjects include a journey by plane to Wentworth in south-western New South Wales, a visit to Government House in Canberra, the trans-Pacific flight of Charles Kingsford-Smith, a visit to Twofold Bay, visits to Pitcairn Island and New Zealand (1929) and visits to Brisbane and Darwin (1930). There are references to Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Lord Stonehaven, the Governor-General, James O'Grady, the Governor of Tasmania, and Thomas Bavin, the Premier. The draft includes texts of letters that de Chair received from the Duke and Duchess of York, Lord Cavan, Lord Stamfordham and Leo Amery. There are a few photographs.

Typescript volume, with manuscript amendments, comprising the following chapters:
  1. Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York [1927]
  2. Visitors to Government House and visit of the Dominions Secretary
  3. Randwick races
  4. Amery arrives; my term of office extended [1927]
  5. Visit to Lord Howe Island [1927]
  6. A trip to England [1928]
  7. Return to New South Wales; visit to Broken Hill [1929]
  8. Pack and leave [1930]
  9. Bali – some weird native customs
  10. Sourabaya – Singapore
  11. Saigon – Angkor – Pekin; reminiscences of Christopher Rawson
  12. Japan – USA
  13. At home – Empire Day speech – I see the King


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