Guide 3 to NSW State Archives relating to Responsible Government - OCR - Flipbook - Page 193
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
New States Royal Commission records, 1933-34
The full title of the Commission is the Royal Commission of Inquiry
respecting areas in the State of New South Wales suitable for selfgovernment as states in the Commonwealth of Australia. The sole
Commissioner was H S Nicholas.
CGS 12061,
[7/5988 part5993 part]
This bundle comprises:
• papers, reports, submissions, statements, copies of exhibits,
correspondence and maps (including ones showing the
suggested new States) relating to the Royal Commission
[7/5988-89]
• minutes of proceedings; index to summary of evidence;
summary of evidence; printed evidence (Sydney and
Newcastle) with list of exhibits, 18 October 1933-23 May 1934;
and transcripts of evidence, 2-6 July 1934 [7/5990]
• transcripts of evidence taken between 7 December 1933 and
21 April 1934 at Maitland, Kempsey, Taree, Lismore, Grafton,
the Northern Tablelands, the Western Division, the South Coast
and Monaro; and index to witnesses [7/5991]
• exhibits of the Commission [7/5992-93].
New England New State Movement, 1948-65 (File 63/119)
The papers in [12/8751] date from 1948 to 1955 while those in
[12/8752] date from 1950 to 1965.
CGS 12061,
[12/8751-52]
The New State Movement re-emerged in New England in June
1948 when a conference was held at Armidale to discuss the
possibilities for the creation of a new State in northern New South
Wales. In February 1949, the convention met again and decided
on the name "New England", and on the boundaries for its new
State and a model constitution.
This file contains numerous representations, mostly in favour of
new States, from both individuals and organisations, eg the
Australian Labor Party Northern Divisional HQ protesting against
"any attempt, by vested interests and others to have the State of
N.S.W. divided with the provision for a northern New State"; the
Farmers & Settlers' Association of NSW transmitting resolutions
carried at its 1948 Annual Conference including one in support of
the movement to form New States; the Graziers' Federal Council
of Australia in support of the creation of new States; and the New
England Regional Development Committee recommending the
"Decentralisation and Northern New State Movement in N.S.W.".
There are also numerous complaints, leaflets, newspaper cuttings,
telegrams etc sent by a Norbert Lawrence Hertslet, a prolific
correspondent who was a vocal opponent of the New State
Movement.
Also included are: notes, memoranda and reports on New States
(historical notes, Commonwealth Constitution provisions for,
arguments for and against); requests for a referendum from the
New England New State Movement; correspondence from the New
England New State Movement transmitting copies of agenda and
reports, and resolutions passed at conventions and meetings;
newspaper clippings from country and Sydney papers; notes or
minutes of deputations; Cabinet minutes and minutes for the
Governor; and extracts from Hansard.
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