NRS-7407 | Notebooks: Royal Commissions [Justice A.V. Maxwell [I]]

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Contents:
a) Royal Commission regarding the contract for the erection of additions to the General Post Office, Sydney. This Royal Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia was established by Letters Patent on 7 June 1939. Twenty-three sittings were held in Sydney and Canberra from 7 June 1939 to 10 July 1939. The final report was presented on 25 July 1939. For more information see Agency CA 2458 at the National Archives of Australia. This is contained in one notebook.
b) Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon the question whether The Honourable Vernon Haddon Treatt, Minister of Justice for the state of New South Wales, was guilty of any improper conduct in recommending the reduction of a fine imposed upon the Abbco Bread Company Proprietary Limited [1,438 pounds 15 shillings, imposed on the 20th June, 1940, by the Court of Petty Sessions at Glebe and reduced to 500 pounds]. This Royal Commission of the State of New South Wales was appointed on 11 March 1941. The hearings took place on 13, and 17 to 20 March. The final report was presented on 25 March. See Joint Volume of Papers presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly and ordered to be printed (Parliamentary Papers), 1940/41, Vol.3, p.555-569.
c) The same notebook as the Treatt-Abbco Royal Commission also contains a record of the Royal Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia to inquire into and report upon the contract or contracts with Abbco Bread Co Pty Limited for the supply of bread to the Department of Army and other matters. This Royal Commission was established on 28 March 1941 under Letters Patent by the Australian Government to inquire into and report upon the conviction on 20 June 1940 for the supply of short loaves; the new contract entered into after that conviction; a contract made 27 July 1940, and later terminated, with R J White of 55 Stoney Creek, Bexley; the system of checking Army bread supplies at bakeries and receiving depots; the negligence or improper conduct of personnel of the Department of Army or Department of Supply involved in bread contracts; and the systems in place to co-ordinate information between the Department of Army and Department of Supply re contracts and contractors. On 16 April 1941 the terms of reference were extended to inquire into Abbco Bread Company Pty Ltd, W G McLeod and D A McLeod, and their relationship with Ernest and Norman Davis who held an option on the business. The sittings took place from 1 April to 5 June 1941 and the report was presented 3 July 1941. For more information see Agency CA 2642 at the National Archives of Australia. In addition a third notebook contains an index to witnesses by reference to subject matter.

1939, 1941, 1944 ( 7/9840 part). 4 vols. 

Note:
This description, as amended, is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.