Telegram from Peter Fraser [Prime Minister of New Zealand] to WSC regarding the opposition of the New Zealand Government to plans by the United States to create separate command areas for Australia and New Zealand.

Letter from Arthur Witley (13 Westborne Road, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC (House of Commons) advocating the taxation of land values, which he sees as a pre-requisite for Free Trade, and attacking taxation of capital and the earnings derived from it. Describes the good economic effects of the taxation of land values in New Zealand and New South Wales [Australia] and urges the Government to take on the House of Lords by including such taxation in the Budget. Signed typescript.

Letter from A.G. Hill to WSC, congratulations on letter of support for Frederic Horne, Liberal candidate in the Ludlow By-Election [Shropshire], and on the free trade campaign in Australia, particularly the success of free trade candidates in elections for the House of Representatives in New South Wales.

Letter from Senator Pulsford to WSC, on support for free trade in Australia.

Letter from 3rd Lord Stradbroke (State Government House, Melbourne, [Australia]) to WSC thanking him for his help as Secretary of State for the Colonies, commiserating with him on his illness, wondering whether the letter he wrote to WSC about the Roman Catholic movement was deliberately not sent on to him, and stressing that it should be made clear that only products of the Empire will be used in the Empire Exhibition of 1924 to restore confidence in Australia.

Letter from Flight-Lieutenant Maxwell Coote (Government House, Sydney, Australia) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, reporting that he (Coote) has been appointed ADC to Sir Dudley de Chair, the governor of New South Wales, and that he is the first Royal Air Force officer to secure such a post in Australasia, and that Sir Keith Smith and Vickers Ltd are planning an airship route from Australia to England in two years time.

Annotated newspaper cuttings: speeches by Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] and WSC on colonial contributions to imperial defence costs; speech by Arthur Balfour in favour of tariff reform; speech on local legislative affairs by the premier of South Australia; Anglo-Australian trade figures; disruption of a meeting in Cambridge being addressed by James Kier Hardy. Originally sent with CHAR 2/29/43. 6 papers.

Letter from William Parry, chemist (Port Victoria, South Australia) criticising James Kier Hardy and complaining of the Protectionist stance of newspapers in Australia. Urges WSC to continue his fight for Free Trade. Encloses newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/29/39].

Memorandum by Sidwell Shotton on Australian Naval Defence [incomplete].

Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC pointing out the injustice of not adjusting the debts of countries like Australia when the prices of the commodities in which the debts are paid are much lower than when the debts were contracted and urging WSC to take the lead in explaining why a devaluation of gold is needed. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/59-65.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Anglo-Australian Naval Agreement: WSC complains about the delays put in the way of a naval conference with the Australians and other Dominion representatives, and comments on the difficulty of getting officers to volunteer for Commonwealth service. [Carbon].

Letter from Admiral Sir George King-Hall [Commander-in- Chief, Australia Station], (Admiralty House, Sydney), to WSC, sending a copy [not present] of his speech in which he argued that the Commonwealth should contribute its fair share to Imperial defence; he also comments on the success of the Royal Australian Navy, and the execution of War Orders.

Letter from Edward Grigg [editorial staff of the Times, later 1st Lord Altrincham] (The Round Table, Piccadilly, London) to James Masterton-Smith, [Private Secretary to WSC] sending an extract from a letter from the Australian correspondent of the Times on Imperial defence.

Letter from Admiral Sir George King-Hall, Commander-in- Chief, Australia Station (Admiralty House, Sydney) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on Australian naval policy; includes cutting of a letter from King-Hall to the Australian press.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval defence of New Zealand and Australia, including the British attitude to Japan. [Carbon copy].

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, China Station [Vice-Admiral Sir (Thomas) Martyn Jerram], to Admiralty, on arrangements for the naval defence of Australia while Australian cruisers were away escorting troop convoys. Includes note of agreement by WSC and message of approval from Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] to Jerram. [Carbon].

Letter from 3rd Lord Denman, Governor-General of Australia (Melbourne) to WSC on subjects including: military service in Australia; WSC's success at the Admiralty; comparisons in the press between Australia's and Canada's contributions to the Navy and criticism aimed at Australians for wanting their own navy.

Telegram from the British High Commissioner in Australia [Sir Ronald Cross] to the Dominions Office marked "top secret and personal" commenting on the poor health of the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] who "was taken ill with heart trouble again about a week ago".

Note from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to Eleanor Emery [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions] thanking her for her letter of 27 Apr [1945] enclosing the telegram from Sir Ronald Cross [British High Commissioner in Australia] regarding the health of John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia], and stating that WSC agrees that no message should be sent to Mr Curtin [initialled carbon].

Telegram from British High Commissioner in Australia [Sir Ronald Cross] to Dominions Office marked "top secret and personal" stating that it has been announced on the wireless today that the Prime Minister [John Curtin] is in a private hospital suffering from congestion of the lungs, but that he is reliably informed that Curtin has anginal symptoms.

Letter from Eleanor Emery [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] regarding a further telegram about John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] from Sir Ronald Cross [ British High Commissioner in Australia], and suggesting that as Mr Curtin's illness has been made public there is no longer any reason why messages of sympathy should not be sent to him [signed typescript].