Guide to the Records of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (as filmed by the AJCP)
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Created: 2018
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Fonds. Tallents Papers, 1926 - 1935
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Empire Marketing Board; preliminary meeting minutes (9 pp.), 1926 (File File 2)
Includes cable from Secretary of State (L. Amery) to Dominion Governments, 21 May 1926, concerning establishment of Empire Marketing Board.
Empire Marketing Board and Imperial Economic Committee Correspondence, 1926 (File File 3)
Concerns relations between the Board and the Imperial Economic Committtee. Correspondents include Tallents, F.L. McDougall, W. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Maurice Hankey and J. Stephenson. There are also typescripts by McDougall, 'The Imperial Economic Committee and the Empire Marketing Board' (July 1926) and Tallents, 'The problem of Imperial economic development' (Sept. 1926)...
1930 Imperial Conference and 1931 E.M.B. Reconstitution Committee (File File 4)
Confidential notes prepared by Tallents for Lunn, February - March 1931; copies of correspondence between J.H. Thomas and F.W. Pethick Lawrence, February - March 1931 The papers include report of the Empire Marketing Board Reconstitution Committee (Chairman: W. Lunn), 21 May 1931; confidential notes prepared by Tallents for Lunn, Feb. - March 1931; copies of correspondence between J.H. Thomas and F.W. Pethick Lawrence, Feb. - March 1931; notes on reconstruction of Empire Marketing Board, extracts from publications on Imperial economic consultation; paper entitled 'The Imperial Conference and the Empire Marketing Board'; notes of a meeting with J.H. Thomas concerning the report of the Constitution Committee, 9 June 1931...
Opposition to E.M.B. and 1931 Economy Committee (File File 5)
The papers include a Cabinet Paper by J.H. Thomas on the recommendations of the Committee on National Expenditure relating to the Empire Marketing Board, Aug. 1931; minute by Sir Edward Harding on the Cabinet Paper, 10 Aug. 1931; and notes by Tallents on the case for the Board, 12 Aug. 1931. The appendices to the paper includes an extract from an article by A.C.D. Rivett and a letter from the Australian Association of British Manufacturers, 22 June 1931...
Imperial Committee on Economic Consultation and Cooperation, 1933 (File File 7)
The breakup of the Empire Marketing Board, 1933 (File File 8)
Correspondence concerning the abolition of the Board and the transfer of some of its functions to the Imperial Institute, June-Aug. 1933. Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Clive Wigram, Sir William Furse, J.W. Munro, E. Eddison and J.H. Thomas. There are also notes by Tallents on the Cabinet Paper by J.H. Thomas of 14 June 1933 and the negotiations concerning the abolition, 14 June-27 July 1933...
Empire Marketing Board Staff, 1929 - 1935 (File File 9)
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A.C.D. Rivett, 1931 - 1934 (File File 10)
Correspondence between Tallents and A.C.D. Rivett, Chief Executive Officer of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1931-1933. Subjects include reconstruction of Empire Marketing Board, Empire agricultural economic surveys, E.M.B. publicity in Australia, reductions in expenditure by Board, British and Australian politics, F.L. McDougall, entomological research in Australia, work of C.S.I.R., economic conditions in Australia, inter-Imperial machinery, M. MacDonald, A.E.V. Richardson, P. Cunliffe-Lister, comparison of E.M.B. Research stations with C.S.I.R. divisions, E.M.B. films and publications, criticisms of R.J. Tillyard, Tallents' impressions of 1933 Imperial Economic Conference at Ottowa. There are some letters of F.L. McDougall enclosing letters from Rivett. There is also a typescript by Rivett, 'Applied science in Empire development: mutual aid by teamwork, an opportunity for the Ottawa Conference', 7 March 1932, and his article 'The Empire Marketing Board; a tribute, a lament and a hope', Australian Rhodes Review (March 1934), pp. 9-19...
Empire Marketing Board, 1933 (File File 11)
Correspondence, mainly concerning the abolition of the Empire Marketing Board, including letters from staff, 1933. Correspondents include A.C.D. Rivett, Lord Bledisloe (Wellington), M. MacDonald, Sir Edward Harding, J.H. Thomas, P. Cunliffe-Lister, L.S. Amery and Sir Kingsley Wood...
Fonds. Lloyd Papers, 9 April 1928 - 4 June 1928
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Letter-diary of Lloyd, 9 April 1928 - 19 April 1928 (File 4.11)
Picnic given by Sultan of Perak; visit to Malay College at Kuala Lumpur; travels in Malaya; visits to plantations; schools; Rubber Institute; Agriculture Departments. (3 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 20 April 1928 - 26 April 1928 (File 4.12)
Travels in Malaya; social functions; demonstration of blow-piping; Government House, Singapore. (2 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 27 April 1928 - 2 May 1928 (File 4.13)
Visit to tin-smelting works at Pulau Brani; College of Medicine; visit to Malacca; rubber factory. (2 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 2 May 1928 - 15 May 1928 (File 4.14)
Meeting of pineapple shippers and canners; visit to Johore; arrival at Batavia; agricultural experiment stations; quinine estates; tea estates; first direct telephone call from Java to London; medical research laboratories. (7 pp., manuscript, very faint)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 16 May 1928 - 20 May 1928 (File 4.15)
Travels in Java; visit to Soerakartja; temples. (2 pp., typescript)