Papers of Earle Page, 1908-1961 [manuscript]. 1908-1961.

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Papers of Earle Page, 1908-1961 [manuscript]. 1908-1961.

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Consists of subject files of correspondence, telegrams, cables, cuttings, personal documents, reports, memoranda and semi-official papers, speeches, press statements, parliamentary bills, papers and reports, statistics and notes. They cover such topics as primary industry, taxation and banking, foreign affairs, national insurance, federalism, industrial relations, constitutional reform and referenda, social services, immigration, trade, new state movements, the formation of the Bruce-Page government, and the Country party. The correspondence includes letters from Lord Bruce, Lt. Col. M.F. Bruxner, Lord Casey, Sir Archdale Parkhill, Sir John Latham, Sir William Glasgow, V.C. Thompson, H.V.C. Thorby, Joseph Lyons, C.A. Street, T. Paterson, R.A. Vestey, Sir Percy Spender, Sir Frederic Shedden, Essington Lewis, Sir Robert Menzies, Frank Strahan, Sir Arthur Fadden, Sir Frederick Lloyd Dumas, Lord Gowrie, Percy Deane and M.L. Sheppard.

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Page, Earle, 1880-1961

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Page, a surgeon during World War I, was elected to the federal seat of Cowper in 1919; helped found the Country Party and was leader from 1920 to 1939; was Treasurer in the Bruce-Page government, 1923-1929; served in the second Lyons Ministry; was Prime Minister, briefly, in 1939; was a minister in the Menzies and Fadden governments of 1940-1941; and was Minister for Health in the Menzies governments of the early 1950's. See Truant surgeon (A. & R., 1963). From the description of...