Subject File: Australia and New Zealand

Reference No:
U DPM/2/6
Dates:
1949-2000
Description:
File contains papers relating to Platts-Mills' work in connection with Australia and New Zealand. Papers include correspondence, court papers, drafts of an address, notes, notebook, printed material, etc. This file has been divided into the following sub-files for ease of access: Part 1 - Visit to Australia and New Zealand to take part in legal cases and to undertake peace work, includes references to the All India Peace Conference, 1951-1952; Part 2 - General correspondence including references to TU membership in Aukland in 1949, birth certificate in 1962, libel case brought by Wilfred Burchett against John Thomas Kane, the former General Secretary of the Democratic Labour Party of Australia in 1975, Mr Brady and Mrs Ivor Montagu in 1978, proposed scholarship scheme for English pupils in New Zealand in 1978, former membership of Victoria University Debating Society in 1978, membership of New Zealand Universities Graduates Association in 1980, Margaret Brentnall's biography of John Hutton in 1981; Mrs Vivian Joyce Lane and the Mental Health and Public Trustees Acts of New Zealand in 1982, Ocean Bay School in 1982, visit to England of David Lange PM of New Zealand in 1984, Irene Brown Memorial Prize donation in 1989, invitation to be included in the Who's Who in New Zealand in 1990, admittance to New South Wales Bar in 1993, biography of Charles Andrew Sharp by Mike Norman in 1996, 90th birthday in 1996, award of the Plunket medal to Platts-Mills in 1926 by Victoria University Debating Society.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
2 files
Language:
Access Conditions:
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of John Platts-Mill QC