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A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Cabinet approved the Financial Agreement at its meeting of
22 November 1927 "subject to settlement of drafting points".
Amendments advised to all Premiers in the Prime Minister's letter
of 25 November 1927 had been accepted by all States by early
December at which time a reprint of the Agreement was forwarded
for retention by the New South Wales Government.
Included are: memo on Conference of Commonwealth and State
Ministers January 1919 relating to arrangements to be made at
the expiration of the operation of the Commonwealth Surplus
Revenue Act, 1910, co-ordination of Commonwealth, State and
other public borrowing, and elimination of Savings Bank
competition; 1919 memo on the States and the proposed
reduction in the per capita payment; minutes of Premiers'
conference in May 1920 re per capita payments to the State by the
Commonwealth; report on proposal to substitute Federal Land Tax
and Probate Duties for per capita payments; a Secret and
Confidential document Separation of Commonwealth and State
Finances, stamped 10 May 1926; Reports of the debates at the
1927 Conferences of Commonwealth and State Ministers held at
Parliament House, Melbourne, June 1927, and at Sydney, July
1927, at which financial relations between the States and the
Commonwealth were considered; correspondence with New South
Wales Government officials, Members of Parliament, and with
officials in other States, notably Victoria, and with the
Commonwealth; and, responses from the Premiers of other States
in regard to a New South Wales proposal for the Commonwealth
Government to surrender Land Tax or Land and Probate Tax. A
history of per capita payments, published in the News of 30 May
1926; statement as to net Public Debt of New South existing on
30 June 1927; and a schedule of transferred properties in the case
of New South Wales are also included.
The papers mainly end in 1927 when the Financial Agreement was
reached. Later papers include a Cabinet minute dated
22 November 1944 entitled "Amendment of Financial Agreement"
concerning amendments to the Agreement decided by the
Commonwealth and States in an Agreement dated 15 November
1944 and a memo indicating that at the Cabinet meeting of
23 November 1944 approval was given to "the provisions of the
proposed Bill to amend the Financial Agreement".
Transfer of Garden Island, 1926-42 (File 42/5449)
CGS 12061,
[9/3911.1]
After the establishment of the Australian Commonwealth and the
decision in the year 1909 of the Government and Legislature to
establish a naval unit of its own, Garden Island was vacated by the
Imperial Naval Authorities and was then occupied by the
Commonwealth as a depot for "His Majesty's ships provided and
maintained by the Commonwealth of Australia". Difference having
arisen between the Commonwealth and the State as to the terms
on which Garden Island should be occupied by the former, and
negotiations between the two Governments not having resulted in
an agreement, the State on 12 October 1923 purported to revoke
the dedication of Garden Island in accordance with the provisions
of Section 25 of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act, 1913, and on
26 May 1924 commenced an action for the purpose of having the
respective rights of the State and the Commonwealth determined
by the Courts.
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