NRS-16591 | Governor Cutler’s Miscellaneous Files

Full description

These files and papers record the events including openings, luncheons, dinners, and receptions that the Governor was involved with, and reference material for the Office of the Governor.

Subjects covered by the files include arrangements for official functions such as invitations, protocol information, schedules for events, briefs, speeches, menu plans, seating plans and thank you notes.

The files and papers also contain: press releases, newspaper cuttings, requests for photographs, and interviews; requests for the Governor to become the patron of an organisation; official matters such as the investiture and extension of term of His Excellency, Governor Cutler; the arrangements at the end of his term as Governor, and for conferring of awards on him; routine matters such as holiday arrangements in relation to Governor Cutler and his family; and also the daily operations of Government House.

This series also contains correspondence which postdates Sir Arthur Roden Cutler's retirement as Governor of New South Wales on 19 January 1981. (1) Subjects covered by this correspondence include: the conferring of the award of Knight of the Order of Australia on Sir Arthur Roden Cutler in 1981 and the subsequent amendment of his Coat of Arms (to be displayed in Government House); arrangements for office accommodation and assistance to Sir Arthur Roden Cutler after his return from overseas in 1981; arrangement for payment of accounts for the removal of Sir Arthur Roden Cutler's personal effects from storage and delivery to his new home in Bellevue Hill; and the erroneous payment of personal accident insurance for Sir Arthur Roden and Lady Cutler, after his retirement as Governor.

These files and papers are generally arranged in chronological order, although some of the files are arranged by subject. Some of the correspondence within the files has been registered with an annual single number.

Endnote
(1) Clune, D and Turner, K (Eds.) The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010, The Federation Press, Annandale, 2009, p. 565 and Appendix 1, p.631.