| Churchill/AMEL 1 contains: |
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| 1 |
The Times, South Africa and "The Problem of the Army" |
| 2 |
Political, up to First World War |
| 3 |
First World War, Colonial Office and Admiralty |
| 4 |
Secretary of State for the Colonies |
| 5 |
General political, 1930s |
| 6 |
India Office and the Second World War |
| 7 |
1940's and post-war |
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The Papers of Leopold Amery
| Title |
Secretary of State for the Colonies |
| Reference |
AMEL 1/4 |
| Covering Dates |
1902–1948 (The majority of files date from 1924-29.) |
| Extent and Medium |
13 archive boxes |
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| Content and context |
Colonial Office papers, on subjects including: LSA's appointment as Secretary of State; speeches relating to the Empire; LSA's Empire Tour of 1927-28; a claim against the Canadian Government over the contract to build the Georgian Bay Canal; the administration of central and eastern Africa; other issues such as the trade outlook, pension policy and the General Strike. |
| Further information |
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See also the British Documents at the End of the Empire Project, (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/british.htm.)
See also AMEL 2/4 for LSA's private correspondence with colonial governors and AMEL 10 for photographs of the Empire Tour.
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| Index Terms |
| Colonial Countries |
| Colonialism |
| Colonial Office |
| Churchill/AMEL 1/4 contains: |
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Documents on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Includes: recollections by LSA on appointments of Governors-General during his time at the Colonial Office, including John Baird [later 1st Lord Stonehaven] for Australia and John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir] for Canada, and general procedure; note from Francis Bain, congratulating LSA on his appointment; Christmas card from Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales; specimen impressions of Colonial Office seals.
1 file. |
Nov 1924-Feb 1948 |
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Letters of congratulations on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Correspondents include: Sir Geoffrey Archer [Governor-General of the Sudan], thanking LSA for his recommendation and explaining his aims in his new post; Alfred Ashbolt [Agent-General for Tasmania, Australia]; Algernon Aspinall; Sir Abe Bailey; Sir Otto Beit; Gertrude Bell [Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner of Iraq], on the economic situation in Iraq; Thomas Best [Colonial Secretary, Trinidad]; Sir Henry Birchenough; General 1st Lord Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India; ? [George] Rowland Blades [later 1st Lord Ebbisham]; 1st Lord Blyth [Treasurer, Empire Parliamentary Association]; James Boose; Sir [George] Tom Bridges [Governor of South Australia] commenting on the political trends in Australia; Sir Charles Bright; Sir Harry Brittain; Herbert Brookes [? Australian Commonwealth Tariff Board]; Alexander Brown; Martin Burrell, Parliamentary Librarian, Canada; 1st Lord Buxton [former High Commissioner and Governor-General of South Africa] (2); [?] John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; William Caldwell; Admiral Sir [Somerset] Arthur Gough-Calthorpe; John Capper; Joseph Casgrain, President of the Montreal Herald; Sir Felix Cassel; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Chancellor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe], commenting on the new constitution and improving agricultural position in Rhodesia; Sir [Francis] Drummond Chaplin [Member of the South African House of Assembly] on the political situation in South Africa; Sir John Cockburn; Hal Colebatch, Agent-General for West Australia; General Sir Walter Congreve [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta] on political difficulties in Malta; Sir Charles Crewe, [Governing Director], East London Daily Dispatch, Limited; Sir Dadiba Dalal, former High Commissioner for India in Britain; John Darling; Sir David Davis; 1st Lord Dawson; Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair [Governor of New South Wales, Australia] on his new post, particularly the work of his secretary, Henry Budge; Sir Walter de Frece; Sir Hugh Denison [earlier Hugh Dixson]; Thomas Donne; Sir Wyndham Dunstan; George Fairbairn, Agent-General for Victoria [Australia]; Sir John Ferguson; Sir Eustace Fiennes, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands; "Fitz" [Sir (James) Percy Fitzpatrick]; Sir James Fortescue-Flannery; Sir Harry Foster; 1st Lord Forster, Governor-General of Australia; Frank Fox; Francis Fremantle; Sir Edward Garraway [Resident Commissioner, Basutoland, later Lesotho]; 1st Lord Glendyne [earlier Robert Nivison]; Sir William Goode; William Grant; John Gray; Sir Hamar Greenwood; Sir Ellis Griffith; Brigadier-General Sir [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gold Coast [later Ghana]; H A Gwynne, editor of the Morning Post; Douglas Hacking; Sir Alfred Hennessy; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks; Frank Hilder; Francis Hirst; Michael Hodges [former Private Secretary to LSA at the Admiralty]; Albert Hyamson; Archibald Hyslop; Clement Jones; Crawford Douglas-Jones [Colonial Secretary, British Honduras, later Belize]; Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman of Reuters]; the Sultan of Perak [Malaya, later Malaysia]; Edward Keeling, on his work for the Turkish Petroleum Company in Iraq; Frederick Kellaway; Adam Kirkaldy, Professor of Economics and Commerce, University College, Nottingham; Theodore Kitching, Commissioner, Salvation Army; Joseph Lamb; William Lang, Joint Editor of the Financial News; Edward Lascelles; Walter Lefroy [founder of Canada weekly illustrated]; Sir [Edward] Humphrey Leggett; Henry Leitner; Sir Charles Lucas; Sir Edward Lucas, Agent-General for South Australia; Flora, Lady Lugard; Sir Robert Lynn; [?] Edith Lyttelton; Hugh McIntosh; [William] Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada]; Dougal Malcolm; Harcourt Malcolm, Speaker, Bahamas House of Assembly; Vernon Malcolmson; Robert Matthews; Arturo Mercieca, Chief Justice of Malta; Ugo Mifsud [Minister for the Treasury, Malta]; 1st Lord Milner and Violet, Lady Milner; Sir [Clement] Anderson Montague-Barlow; Hervey de Montmorency; Sir Newton Moore; Gideon Murray [later 2nd Lord Elibank]; Sir Arthur Myers; Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, Ontario [Canada]; Major-General Hugh McLean; Wallace Nesbitt; Sir Francis Newdegate [former Governor of Western Australia, earlier Francis Newdigate]; Sir Joseph Nunan; Lady Muriel Paget; George Rich; 1st Lord Riddell; Sir Alfred Robbins; William Robertson, Lieutenant-Governor of Malta; Sir Arthur Robinson; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell; Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, Palestine, on railway development in Palestine, war debts and Samuel's successor; St Clair Donaldson, Bishop of Salisbury; Guy Scholefield; John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone]; Charles Smalley-Baker; Frank Smith [former Secretary for Agriculture for South Africa]; Daniel Somerville; [Hippolyte] Louis Souchon, Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture; 7th Lord Stanhope [earlier Lord Mahon]; Sir Herbert Stanley [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia] on the financial situation in Rhodesia; Samuel Strang Steel; Sir Edwin Stockton; 3rd Lord Stradbroke [Governor of Victoria, Australia, earlier Lord Dunwich]; Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton; Samuel Thomas; Sir Graeme Thomson [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Guiana, later Guyana]; Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan; Sir Charles Wakefield; Sir Edgar Walton, High Commissioner in London for South Africa; Sydney Walton; 1st Lord Waring; David Milne-Watson [earlier David Watson]; Leo Weinthal; Chaim Weizmann [President, World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine]; James Welldon, Dean of Durham; Beckles Willson; Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Wilson [Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica], on work ahead of him in Jamaica and the inefficiency of the Jamaican Civil Service, requesting new officials from outside (2); ? [Reginald] Victor Wilson [Senator for South Australia]; Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne]; James Woods, Editor of the Calgary Herald; Maurice Woods; [Ernest] Llewellyn Woodward.
4 files. |
Oct 1924-Jan 1925 |
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3
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Illustrated Souvenir of Palace of Arts British Empire Exhibition.
1 volume. |
1924 |
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4
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Garden party hosted by LSA as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Illustrated guide to the garden party at Hampton Court Palace [London], held in connection with the British Empire Exhibition.
1 volume. |
Jul 1925 |
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Souvenir of launch of TSS Otranto. Photograph album of the construction and launch of the Turbine Steam Ship Otranto at Barrow-in-Furness [Cumbria], and also other photographs of the Barrow dockyards.
1 volume. |
Jun 1925 |
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Pensions. Papers on Unionist pensions policy, including: pamphlet of questions and answers on the new pensions scheme; summary of the Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Bill; explanatory memorandum for the bill and an analysis of amendments; letter from [Charles] Kenneth Murchison [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions, George Tryon] with a list of questions from MPs and answers by Tryon on war pensions; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on war pensions.
1 file. |
May 1925-Aug 1926 |
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General Strike. Includes: letter from LSA to his constituency (Sparkbrook, Birmingham [Warwickshire]), explaining why he could not leave London, and putting the Government position on the strike; issue of the British Gazette; issue of the Birmingham Central strike bulletin; issues of Punch, produced during and after the strike; Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the strike.
1 file. |
May 1926-Jun 1926 |
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Trade Outlook. Monthly Board of Trade memoranda for the Cabinet on trade prospects.
2 files. |
Oct 1926-Jun 1927 |
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Trade Outlook. Monthly Board of Trade memoranda for the Cabinet on trade prospects.
2 files. |
Jul 1927-Mar 1928 |
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General files on political issues. Includes: paper given at the conference of the League of Nations Union, by [William] Lionel Hichens, Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, on hours and wages in relation to unemployment; press-cutting of an article by LSA on wage-fixing; abbreviated draft by LSA of the King's speech, on foreign and colonial policy, unemployment, agriculture and pensions; prints of articles by LSA for the National Review on free trade and socialism, how Britain won and lost industrial supremacy, and Imperial economics, with a review of his speech on a united East Africa; extract from Hansard on the budget speech of Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer (April 1926); report of a speech by LSA on Conservative and Unionist ideals; press-cutting of LSA's article, "The Stranger of the Ulysses" on an imagined meeting with Odysseus.
1 file. |
Feb 1924-Mar 1927 |
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General files on political issues. Includes: Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the budget (April 1924 and May 1925), general progress from November 1924 to spring 1925, unemployment, general progress from November 1924 to August 1925, the coal dispute, General Strike and the Unemployment Insurance Act; copy of Hansard on debates over the frontiers of Iraq, naval commitments to the League of Nations, and a vote of censure against the Government; report and notes on the appointment of ex-servicemen to the civil service; memorandum on housing; notes on the coal industry, particularly arguments against nationalisation; report to Sir Herbert Samuel [Chairman, Royal Commission on Coal Industry] on problems in the industry; memorandum and pamphlets on the coal dispute and General Strike; speech notes by LSA on Imperial trade in iron and steel, with press-cutting reporting the speech, pamphlet on the national income and memorandum on the position of the iron and steel industry; summaries of notes and news from the Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union; report of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited, on the motor industry; souvenir of the South African national memorial at Delville Wood; note and programme by Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office] for visits by LSA to an Imperial exhibition (July 1925). Also includes: letter from Major-General Sir Fabian Ware [Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission] with press-cuttings of correspondence on the Ten Years Rule armaments policy of 1928.
2 files. |
Apr 1924-Aug 1948 |
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Empire speeches. Prints, press-cuttings and texts of speeches by LSA relating to the Empire, on subjects including: Empire settlement and development; ships, colonies and commerce; Imperial co-operation; the Empire market; how shipping built the Empire; economic development of the Empire; settlement and migration; inter-Imperial trade; a united Empire; the development of the railway in East Africa; Imperial interests as compared to Britain's place in Europe; trade and the Gold Standard; aspects of the Imperial Conference (1926); the Church and the Empire; the Empire in the new era; safeguarding of industry and Imperial Preference; the cocoa industry; trade and prospects; Canada and Imperial defence. Also includes: pamphlet by John Darling on Empire consols debt conversion; lists of delegates for the 1927 Colonial Office Conference.
2 files. |
Mar 1923-Mar 1929 |
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Empire Tour speeches: South Africa. Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from South Africa and Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe], on subjects including agriculture, Imperial Preference, Imperial unity, the ideas of Cecil Rhodes, South Africa's future in the Empire, and Britain's achievements during the war and in post-war domestic and colonial policy. Also includes: note by LSA on the South African flag.
1 file. |
Aug 1927-Sep 1927 |
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Empire Tour speeches: Australia. Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from Australia on subjects including Australian defence forces, co-operation within the Empire, the Imperial Conferences, immigration, Empire trade, the development of Australian industry, and Imperial Preference.
1 file. |
Oct 1927-Nov 1927 |
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Empire Tour speeches: New Zealand. Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from New Zealand on subjects including co-operation and unity within the Empire, the Imperial Conferences, immigration, trade and economic development, British achievements during and since the war, Imperial defence, comparisons between the Empire and the League of Nations, British foreign policy in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and the Indian Ocean, the Empire Marketing Board, the economic situation in New Zealand, Imperial Preference, and mountaineering.
1 file. |
Nov 1927-Dec 1927 |
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Empire Tour speeches: Fiji. Annotated text of LSA's Empire Tour speech from Fiji on subjects including the colonial Empire and its development, and Imperial Preference for Fiji's sugar and fruit trade.
1 file. |
Dec 1927 |
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Empire Tour speeches: Canada. Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from Canada on subjects including: nationhood, and rights and responsibilities for the Dominions; the development of the Empire; Imperial defence strategy, including cuts in the Army and possible future trouble with the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the success of air power in Iraq and the case for a separate air strategy, the shifting of naval power from the North Sea, the establishment of the Singapore naval base and the break-down of naval disarmament talks with the United States; British achievements during and since the war; trade and Imperial Preference; Canada's development and natural resources; immigration; Imperial Conferences.
1 file. |
Jan 1928-Feb 1928 |
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Empire Tour speeches: notes on duplication of speeches. Colonial office notes on copying LSA's Empire Tour speeches, including a note by LSA and also a note by Charles Carstairs [Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies], arranging to send transcripts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches to him (1937).
1 file. |
Aug 1928-Jul 1937 |
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Empire Tour: correspondence and invitations. Correspondents on arrangements and invitations for LSA's tour include: R Laing, Manager of the Passenger Department, the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited (4); representatives of the Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade, on travel and accommodation (6); 1st Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia [earlier John Baird] (3); the Governor of New South Wales [Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair]; [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson [Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office]; 14th Lord Lovat [Parliamentary Under-Secretary Dominions Office]; Lloyd Dumas, Manager and Editor, Australian Newspapers Cable Service; Sir George Boughey, Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute (4); Francis Bourdillon, Secretary of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (3); Philip Kerr, Secretary of the Rhodes Trust [later 11th Lord Lothian], warning LSA to avoid the controversy over the Flag Bill in South Africa (2); Sir James Barrett; Sir George McLaren Brown, European General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway; Robert Fennell, Chairman of the Empire Club of Canada (3); F A Pauline, Agent General for British Columbia (3); James Regan, Secretary of the Canadian Board of Trade; Anthony Bevir, Colonial Office; Sir [Christopher] James Parr, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand (3); the Governor-General of New Zealand [General Sir Charles Fergusson] (3); Percy Sargood; 1st Lord Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa, on subjects including the possibility of curtailing LSA's tour of South Africa, particularly Natal, because of local sensitivities (9); Bede Clifford [Imperial Secretary and British Representative in South Africa] (4); John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Patrick Duncan; Sir Edmund Davis; Sir Cyril Ashford; Alan de Verd Leigh, Secretary of the London Chamber of Commerce; Leo Weinthal, Director of the African World and Cape to Cairo Express; Marguerite, Lady Walton; George Richards; Isabel, Lady Dalrymple; the Governor of Southern Rhodesia [Sir John Chancellor] (3). Also includes: copies of LSA's itineraries and note on accommodation; lists of invitations.
3 files. |
Jan 1926-Jul 1927 |
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Empire Tour photographs: South Africa. Photographs from LSA's Empire Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], and also earlier photographs of Rhodesia (1902).
2 files. |
1902–1927 |
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Empire Tour photographs: New Zealand. Photographs from LSA's Empire Tour, particularly of the New Zealand Alps.
1 file. |
1927 |
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Empire Tour photographs. Photographs from LSA's Empire Tour, including photographs from Australia.
1 file. |
1927 |
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Empire Tour: printed material and programmes. Includes: pamphlet by Sir [James] Percy FitzPatrick on the controversy over the South African flag; itineraries, including detailed itineraries for LSA's tours of New South Wales and Queensland [Australia]; programmes and menus; print of speeches given by LSA in South Africa.
2 files. |
Jul 1927-Jul 1928 |
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Empire Tour: Empire Parliamentary Association notes. Notes on the Empire Parliamentary Association made in connection with LSA's Empire Tour, including: letters from Sir Howard d'Egville and [Ernest] Owen Clough, Secretary of the Association's South Africa branch; notes by d'Egville on the work of the Association in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; extracts from the journal of the Parliaments of the Empire on the Imperial Conference; reports of Parliamentary conferences in Australia, 1926; report of the British Parliamentary Association delegation to Australia; annual reports of Association branches in South Africa and Australia.
1 volume. |
Oct 1926-Oct 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Illuminated address presented to LSA on his visit to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe].
1 file. |
Aug 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Bound address of welcome to LSA, at Knysna [South Africa].
1 file. |
Sep 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Illuminated addresses presented to LSA on his visits to Bulawayo [Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe], and also to the South African Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, thanking LSA for his support for a Jewish homeland.
1 roll. |
Aug 1927-Sep 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Illuminated address presented to LSA on his visit to Grahamstown, South Africa.
1 roll. |
Sept 1927 |
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29
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Empire Tour: presentations. Illuminated address presented to LSA on his visit to Swaziland.
1 roll. |
Aug 1927-Sep 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Bound address presented to LSA on his visit to Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe].
1 file. |
Aug 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Souvenir presented to LSA on his visit to Geelong Grammar School, Victoria [Australia].
1 file. |
Oct 1927-Nov 1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Bound and illuminated address presented to LSA on his visit to Whitby, Ontario [Canada].
1 volume. |
Jan 1928 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Scroll presented to LSA by the Shire of Birchip, Australia.
1 roll. |
1927 |
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Empire Tour: presentations. Printed book "The Ports of Auckland" [New Zealand] by John Barr (presented to LSA 1927).
1 volume. |
1926 |
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RAF Far East Flight. Prints of the flight of four flying-boats from Britain to Australia, including pictures of the officers, personnel and aircraft, and extracts from the log.
1 file. |
1928 |
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Georgian Bay Canal, Canada: correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with Sir Robert Perks, Chairman of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, on the case for compensation put forward by the trust against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Other correspondents include: [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (4); Frederick Goodenough; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] (2); Richard Bennett, Leader of the Opposition and later Prime Minister of Canada (13); V Irving Smart, Deputy Minister of Railways and Canals, Canada.
4 files. |
Jul 1922-Jun 1934 |
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Georgian Bay Canal, Canada: memoranda. Papers on the case for compensation put forward by the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Includes: notes on the case and its chronology by LSA; legal opinions; memoranda by the canal company on the history of negotiations with the Canadian Government; memoranda and memorials by the shareholders submitted to the Canadian Government; statement by Sir Robert Perks on behalf of the committee of British bond holders; financial statement, 1899-1925.
1 file. |
Oct 1923-Jul 1933 |
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Georgian Bay Canal: Canadian House of Commons records. Papers on the case for compensation put forward by the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Includes: copies of acts relating to the canal; annotated extracts from the official record of debates in the Canadian House of Commons; plan of the canal route; interim report and statistical examination on the canal; minutes and evidence of the special committee on railways, canals and telegraph lines.
3 files. |
May 1913-Apr 1927 |
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Hilton Young Report: notes of discussions and memoranda. Notes of discussions and memoranda on the Hilton Young Commission on closer union in eastern and central Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika [later Tanzania]), on subjects including: the powers and responsibilities of the proposed High Commissioner for eastern and central Africa; expenditure, particularly on defence; division of powers between the High Commissioner and Governor of Kenya; administration of immigration and deportation; administration of native reserves; separating the coastal province from the rest of Kenya; the Kenya/Uganda railway and Tanganyika railway; the constitution of Kenya; intervention in native policy; the future of Zanzibar; procedure for closer union and unification of defence, transport and customs; political and economic reasons for union; estimated costs of the High Commissioner and staff. Also includes memoranda on the report of the Commission by individuals including: Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]; [Henry] Grattan Bushe [Assistant Legal Adviser, Colonial Office]; Sir John Risley [Principal Legal Adviser]; William Ormsby-Gore [Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech]; [William] Cecil Bottomley [Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office]; Thomas Lloyd [Assistant Principal, Colonial Office]; George Green; [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson [Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office].
2 files. |
Dec 1928-Feb 1929 |
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Scott Antarctic Expedition. Correspondence with Herbert Ponting, Photographic Officer to Captain Robert Scott, on the purchase of Ponting's film and photographs of Scott's Antarctic Expedition. Other correspondents include Alfred Bossom (3).
1 file. |
Jan 1925-Jun 1928 |
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Westminster Abbey Scheme. Correspondence on a proposed new aisle in the abbey for memorials to Empire men, with correspondents including: Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of York (4); [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, on raising support in Canada; [William] Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster (2); Sir Herbert Baker; representatives of Henry Birks and Sons Limited (8); Sir Joseph Flavelle. Also includes plan of the proposed extension.
1 file. |
Mar 1927-Mar 1929 |
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