MS 8686
Papers of Cecil Riley Hall (1891-1974)
Scope and Content Note
Biographical Note
Series List
Collection Description
Box List
Photographic Subjects
Papers
1829-1972
3.15 metres (23 boxes at 1 folio
Available for reference
The collection comprises correspondence, printed materials, notebooks,
notes, business papers, photographs, menus, programs, and invitations
relating to Hall's career and his book The Manufacturers.
Cecil Riley Hall was born in 1891 at Glebe, Sydney, the son of
G.H. Hall, San Francisco, U.S.A. He began his working life as
a telegraph messenger with the Postmaster General's Department.
He undertook a theology course with a view to becoming a Church
of Christ minister, but did not take up the ministry, partly because
of the beginning of World War 1.
During World War 1 Hall served in Mesopotamia, Persia and Kurdistan
in the 1st Australian Wireless Squadron. On returning to Australia
he married Amy Balmer on 22 May 1920.
Hall did some broadcasting work with radio stations 2FC and 2BL
in the late 1920s, writing his own scripts. In 1926 he was appointed
Industrial Officer to the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures,
becoming Director in 1936 where he remained until his retirement
in 1960. He was also acting Secretary for the Associated Chamber
of Manufactures of Australia in 1939.
In 1939 Hall was sent to the New York World Fair as the Commonwealth
Government Representative and in 1955 to Geneva as adviser to
the Australian Employers' Delegate to the International Labour
Conference.
Cecil Hall died in 1974.
Reference
Who's Who of Australia 1959 pp. 346.
Series 1 Correspondence, 1909-72
Series 2 Chamber of Manufactures of NSW
Subseries 1 General Correspondence
Subseries 2 Chambers of Manufactures in other States
Subseries 3 Biographical Files
Subseries 4 Tariff Board
Subseries 5 Metal Trades Employers' Association
Subseries 6 Nuclear Research Foundation
Subseries 7 Lendlease
Subseries 8 Women's Employment Board
Subseries 9 Ottawa Trade Negotiation Conference
Subseries 10 Conferences and Addresses
Subseries 11 Business Papers
Subseries 12 New Guard
Subseries 13 Arbitration
Series 3 The Manufacturers
Subseries 1 Correspondence
Subseries 2 Research Notes
Subseries 3 Biographical Files
Subseries 4 Chamber of Manufactures of NSW and
Associated Chamber of Manufactures of
Australia
Subseries 5 Photographs
Subseries 6 Scrapbooks and Newspaper Clippings
Subseries 7 Drafts and Typescripts
Subseries 8 Metal Trade Employers' Association
Series 4 Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia
Series 5 Literary Works
Series 6 New York World Fair
Series 7 Radio Broadcasting - 2FC
Series 8 International Labour Organisation
Series 9 Personal Interests
Series 10 Printed Material
Series 11 Programs, Menus, Invitations
Series 12 Notebooks
Series 13 Miscellaneous Papers and Documents
Series 1. Correspondence, 1909-72
This series contains letters, letter copies, telegrams, cards
and memos (business and personal) correspondence. Correspondents
include Sir Robert Menzies, Sir William McMahon, Sir Robert Webster,
Sir Daniel McVey, J. J. Dedman, Professor Arthur Dunstan, Davis
Sisson, other Chambers of Manufactures, and Government departments.
The personal correspondence include letters relating to his retirement
from the Chamber of Manufactures.
Folder 1: 1937, 1945, 1957-58, 1960, 1964-67
Folder 2: 1960-68
Folder 3: 1952, 1963, 1966, 1968-70, 1972
Folder 4: 1939, 1941, 1945, 1964, 1966, 1970-72
Folder 5: 1939, 1954, 1959, 1961, 1964-65
Folder 6: 1931, 1942, 1960, 1964-67
Folder 7: 1964, 1969-70
Folder 8: 1909, 1916, 1924-25, 1960
Series 2. Chamber of Manufactures of NSW
Subseries 1: General correspondence 1925-72
This subseries comprises correspondence Hall collected in his
capacity as Industrial Officer, Acting Secretary and Director
of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales. Correspondence
with Australian companies and Government departments include Australian
Mines and Metals Association Inc., General Motors Holden, Motor
Traders Association of NSW, and the Department of Trade and Customs.
Hall continued to correspond with the Chamber of Manufactures
after his retirement.
Folder 1: 1933-38, 1969-70, 1972. Includes Supplement to
Government Gazette of State of NSW (no. 208
December 1933)
Folder 2: 1927, 1939, 1941-42, 1944-46, 1951, 1953, 1957,
1959- 61, 1967
Folder 3: 1941, 1944-46, 1954 Includes memoranda (n.d.)
Folder 4: 1925, 1929, 1931, 1933-34
Subseries 2: Chamber of Manufactures in other states
Correspondence, notes, printed materials, minutes of meetings,
and reports are in this subseries.
Folders 5-9
Subseries 3: Biographical files
This subseries includes newspaper clippings, invitations, menus,
correspondence and notes.
Folder 10: Sir Robert Menzies
Folder 11: Sir Robert Webster
Folder 12: Sir Douglas Copland
Folder 13: William Morris Hughes and John Storey
Folder 14: Herbert Edward Pratten
Subseries 4: Tariff Board
Various paper such as annual report policies, correspondence,
newspaper clippings and printed materials in relating to Commonwealth
Tariff Board.
Folders 15-16
Subseries 5: Metal Trades Employers' Association
This subseries contains correspondence, reports and newspaper
clippings dating from 1954-56.
Folder 17
Subseries 6: Nuclear Research Foundation.
Papers relating to the foundation, such as correspondence, financial
reports, are in this subseries 1958.
Folder 18
Subseries 7: Lendlease
This subseries contains papers relating to the procurement of
Lend-Lease supplies from United States of America in 1941-43.
Folder 19
Subseries 8: Women's Employment Board
Papers relating to working conditions for women in Australia,
the disputes, and the abolition of the Women's Board are in this
subseries. Also included are the statutory rules and regulations
under the National Security Act, the code of working conditions
for women war workers and women unionists.
Folders 20-21
Subseries 9: Ottawa Trade Negotiation Conference 1938
Contains mainly correspondence with some newspaper clippings.
Folder 22
Subseries 10: Conferences and addresses
Various conferences and addresses associated with the Chamber
of Manufactures of New South Wales.
Folders 23-29
Subseries 11: Business papers
Meeting minutes, addresses, speeches, conferences, financial papers
and reports relating to the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW are
included in this series.
Folders 30-42
Subseries 12: New Guard
Correspondence and notes relating to the New Guard request for
support from the Chamber of Manufactures of NSW, 1934-35.
Folder 43
Subseries 13: Arbitration
This subseries contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and
reports on basic wages, national wage cases of 1964 and industrial
relations.
Folder 44
Series 3. The Manufacturers
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971.
Subseries 1: Correspondence
Original letters and copies of letters relating to the writing
of the book.
Folder 1: 1964-67
Folder 2: 1967-69
Folder 3: 1969-70
Folder 4: 1964-68 and 1929, 1931-32, 1937, 1972.
Subseries 2: Research notes
Folder 5: 1952-60
Folder 6: notes, acknowledgments, index page proofs,
title page layout and sample indexes.
Folders 7-8: analysis of early minute books and early
Metal Trades Employers' Association notes.
Folder 9: notes on standard working hours, launching
of book speech; photocopies and copies of
book reviews from various journals.
Folder 10: notes and correspondence relating to history
of the book.
Folder 11: typescript draft copy of the book with alterations
and research notes.
Folder 12: correspondence copies and notes.
Folder 13: notes on protection of duties for workers,
footwear manufacturing, Australian industry
and typescripts taken from the Commonwealth
year book diaries for 1940s.
Folder 14: notes on Chamber of Manufactures' membership
from 1895.
Folder 15: newspaper clippings and notes.
Folder 16: Notes relating to Employers' Federation,
121 Bathurst Street Sydney, Waley House
and pressure groups.
Subseries 3: Biographical files
Folder 17: J. P. Tivey, H. V. Howe, Sir Douglas
Copland, Sir John Gorton, John Curtin.
Folder 18: H. A. Bland, D. A. Fowler, Frank Edwards,
Octavius C. Beale.
Folder 19: Hugh Dixson, Captain George Hutcheson.
Folder 20: John Norton, Charles Ludowici, David Chadwick,
Herbert E. Pratten, Thomas M. Ritchie,
James Hendy, Sir Clifford Love.
Folder 21: Mrs D. Peacock, William T. Willington,
J. G. Farleigh, Cecil Hoskins, Charles Hoskins,
D. F. Nicholson.
Subseries 4: Chamber of Manufactures of NSW and Associated
Chamber of Manufactures of Australia.
Folder 22: extracts from council meeting minutes 1964-70
Folder 23-24: notes, correspondence copies, speeches, memoranda,
reports, news releases relating to Chamber of
Manufactures and the Associated Chamber of
Manufactures of Australia.
Folder 25: copies of letters, reports; printed material;
newspaper clippings; lists of Commonwealth and
State Ministries; list of Chamber of Manufactures
presidents and vice presidents; and list
of Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Limited chairmen.
Subseries 5: Photographs
Folder 26: Anzac Day march (n. d.); Curtin conference
(n. d.); office bearers and councillors; annual
meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of Manufactures
(n. d.); Sam Taylor's will; rubber seal; past
presidents.
Folder 27: see list attached
Folio 1: two large unknown portraits; first colonial
conference of delegates from the A.C.M. 1887;
poster for Australian Chamber of Manufactures
of NSW (n.d.).
Subseries 6: Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings
A variety of scrapbooks and newspaper clippings relating to the
Chamber of Manufactures.
Folder 28: 1829-1903
Folder 29: 1903-1934
Folder 30: 1935-1944
Folder 31: 1945-1959
Folder 32: 1960-1968
Folder 33: 1969 and Sir Arthur Fadden
Folder 34: 1969-1972
Folder 35: 1887-1973
Folder 36: Curtin conference 1944-45; total wage judgement
1967 and miscellaneous cuttings.
Folder 37: Chamber of Manufactures and trade in Australia.
Subseries 7: Drafts and typescripts
Folder 44: book committee suggestions; introductions, index
and acknowledgments draft
Folder 45: first draft -
Folder 46: draft
Folder 47: epilogue, draft copy, titles, introductions,
forewords, acknowledgments.
Folder 48: acknowledgments, illustrations, introduction
Folder 49: references and drafts
Folders 50-51: drafts
Subseries 8: Metal Trade Employers' Association
Letters, draft reports and notes.
Folder 52
Series 4. Associated Chamber of Manufactures of Australia
This series contains a variety of papers relating to Hall's work
at the A.C.M.A as acting secretary.
Folder 1: 1930-31
Folder 2: 1925,1945, 1948-49, 1956, 1963, 1968
Folder 3: reports on Canberra 1965 and Australian Industry
(n.d.).
Folder 4: draft memorandum on proposed basis of subscription
(n.d.) and appraisal of operations of A.C.M.A. 1969.
Folder 5: annual meeting reports 1931,1941; report copy of
preliminary conference of the undermentioned
organisations 1945; executive meeting 1945;
letter copy to R. G. Menzies 1951; A.C.M.A.
development report 1961; survey of industrial
trends 1963.
Folder 6: annual meeting 1934; presidential addresses 1941,
1943; Rupanyup Goulburn diagram 1943; conference
with Commonwealth Government 1945;
Folder 7: "A Political Platform Acceptable to Manufacturers"
1929; presidential addresses 1959, 1967; "A Brief
History of the A.C.M.A." 1960.
Folder 8: statements by H. G. Ferrier February and July 1965,
L. H. Waite 1968, and W. W. Pettingell 1968.
Folder 9: Chamber of Manufactures of NSW declaration of policy
1929, 1931, 1932; Chamber of Manufactures of NSW
annual report 1950-51; report by Rupert Lockwood 1954.
Folder 10: United Kingdom and Australia trade agreement 1932;
reports for council 1936-37, 1946-48; speeches by
R. G. Casey 1954; J. McEwen 1965; presidential notes
titled "War Organisations of Industry"; miscellaneous
papers.
Folder 11: presidential addresses 1924, 1928, 1937, 1948;
constitution, objects and rules 1951; address by
Herbert Brookes 1921; annual meetings 1925, 1927.
Series 5. Literary works
Folder 1: literary typescripts and correspondence to and from
newspapers and journals
Series 6. New York World Fair
Reports, letters of Hall's trip to America for the New York World
Fair in 1939 as Commonwealth Government Representative for industrial
section.
Folders 1-2
Series 7. Radio broadcasting
Newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs and adaptation
for radio of "Menin Gate at Midnight".
Folders 1-4
Series 8. International Labour Organisation
Folder 1: Correspondence and reports of Hall's trip as adviser
to Australian Employers' Delegation at the
International Labour Organisation Conference in
Geneva in 1955.
Series 9. Personal interests
This series contains papers such as correspondence and reports
on the Sydney City Mission, Civil Rehabilitation Committee, Churches
of Christ, the Science Foundation for Physics and the Depression
Conference at the ANU in 1969.
Folders 1-3
Series 10. Printed material
Various printed and published materials.
Folder 1: Advocate 1905; Bulletin 1930; West Australian 1934;
Manufacturers Bulletin 1943, 1954, 1960; Electricity
Commission of NSW 1952;
Folder 2: Manufacturers Journal 1910, 1912-14, 1925; Iron and
Steel Industry in Australia 1929; The Growth and
Development of Australian Iron and Steel Limited
1930; Training for Industry and Commerce 1971.
Folder 3: Australia and New Zealand Today 1940; Proposals
for Legislation on Restrictive Trade Practices and
Monopolies 1963.
Folder 4: NSW University of Technology 1949; Bedding 1956;
The Secretary 1960; Commonwealth Outlook 1963;
Journal of Industry 1971; M.M.I. / W.A.I.C.O.
News 1971; NSW Obscene and Indecent Publications Act
(n.d.).
Folder 5: Souvenir of Manufacturers Day 1910; Sir Joseph H.
Carruthers Complimentary Dinner 1919; Australian
Commonwealth Engineering Standards Association's
first general report 1924; Victorian Centenary
Gazette 1932; Harvest 1968.
Folder 6: Centenary Journal 1934-35; tribute to Mr J. I.
Carroll; Australian National Journal 1940.
Folder 7: memoranda, addresses, annual reports and lists of
members.
Series 11. Programs, menus, invitations
Many programs, menus and invitations collected by Hall.
Folder 1
Series 12. Notebooks
Two small notebooks on trade agreement between Canada and United
Kingdom at Ottawa in 1937 and review of United Kingdom and Australia
trade agreement (n.d.). Also contains index of names and subjects
with references (n.d.) and notes on New York World Fair.
Folder 1
Series 13. Miscellaneous correspondence and documents
Folder 1: painting of a hoop dancer (n.d.).
Folder 2: envelope with Chamber of Manufactures seal 1888;
Australian Newspaper Co. Ltd. 1887 (back page
autographed); Sandford testimonial 1908; various
Chamber records 1907-9; miscellaneous correspondence,
photocopies and printed materials.
Folder 3: report titled The Meaning of Effective Protection
(n.d.).
Folder 4: report by Noel Mason on overseas visit 1970;
miscellaneous papers.
Folder 5: photographs and newspaper clippings of Hall and
Cardinal Gilroy at the Post Master General dinner
1950
| Box | Series | Subseries
| Folders |
| 1 | 1 | |
1-8 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
1-4 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 |
5-7 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 |
8-9 |
| 3 | 2 | 3 |
10-14 |
| 4 | 2 | 4 |
15-16 |
| 4 | 2 | 5 |
17 |
| 4 | 2 | 6 |
18 |
| 4 | 2 | 7 |
19 |
| 4 | 2 | 8 |
20-21 |
| 4 | 2 | 9 |
22 |
| 5 | 2 | 10 |
23-29 |
| 6 | 2 | 11 |
30-36 |
| 7 | 2 | 11 |
37-42 |
| 8 | 2 | 12 |
43 |
| 8 | 2 | 13 |
44 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 |
1-4 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 |
5 |
| 9 | 3 | 2 |
6-12 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 |
13-16 |
| 10 | 3 | 3 |
17-19 |
| 11 | 3 | 3 |
20-21 |
| 11 | 3 | 4 |
22-25 |
| 11 | 3 | 5 |
26 |
| 12 | 3 | 5 |
27 |
| 12 | 3 | 6 |
28-30 |
| 13 | 3 | 6 |
31-37 |
| 14 | 3 | 6 |
38-41 |
| 15 | 3 | 6 |
42-43 |
| 15 | 3 | 7 |
44-45 |
| 16 | 3 | 7 |
46-51 |
| 16 | 3 | 8 |
52 |
| 17 | 4 | |
1-7 |
| 18 | 4 | |
8-11 |
| 18 | 5 | |
1 |
| 19 | 6 | |
1-2 |
| 19 | 7 | |
1-3 |
| 20 | 7 | |
4 |
| 20 | 8 | |
1 |
| 20 | 9 | |
1-3 |
| 20 | 10 | |
1-2 |
| 21 | 10 | |
3-7 |
| 22 | 11 | |
1 |
| 22 | 12 | |
1-2 |
| 22 | 13 | |
1-3 |
| 23 | 13 | |
4-5 |
Adamson, John
Beale, Octavius C.
Buckley, F. S.
Burnett, John M.
Denniss, Jeffrey
Dixson, Sir Hugh
Farleigh, J. G.
Ferrier, Sir Grant
Forsyth, Archibald
Gordon-Bennett, H
Hardman, R. R.
Hendry, James
Hendy, H. J.
Hoskins, C .H.
Hurley, Sir John
Hutcheson, George I., Captain
Jones, J. Gordon
Kerr, F. G.
Kneeshaw, F. P.
Love, Sir Clifford
Ludowici, Charles E.
MacTaggart, M. I.
Marks, R. A.
Nerford, H. N.
Newlands, S. F.
Orr, Basil R.
Parry-Okeden, R. G.
Pettingell, W. W.
Potts, Charles V.
Pratten, Herbert E.
Sevier, Harry B.
Tivey, Sir John
Vicars, Sir William
Walker, Arthur D.
Walker, J. N.
Webster, Sir Robert
Willington, W. T.
Wright, J. P.
Wunderlich, Alfred
Guide prepared May 1994; last updated 11 July 1997
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