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411710
  • Title
    Woollahra Action Committee records, ca. 1959 - ca. 1971
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MLMSS 8588
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1959 - ca. 1971
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    411710
  • Physical Description
    0.85 metres of textual material (6 boxes)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Woollahra Action Committee, an independent political group whose candidates stood in local government elections for the Woollahra Municiple Council. Members have included prominent local businessmen and women, including Andrew Midwood Clayton, who became partner in the legal firm Clayton Utz in 1951 and who was elected Mayor of Woollahra Council in 1969.

    Reference:
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  • Scope and Content
    Woollahra Action Committee records, ca. 1959 – ca. 1971 consisting mainly of candidate dossiers, correspondence, Woollahra Municiple Council election material and associated papers. Substantial files are attributed to Andrew Midwood Clayton who was elected Mayor of Woollahra in 1969.

    BOX 1
    Woollahra Action Committee, scrapbooks containing election ephemera and newsclippings, ca. 1968 – 1971, Candidate dossiers and administration file, 1971, collection of prospective Woollahra Action Committee candidates files including biographical information and photographs, ca. 1968 – 1971

    BOX 2
    Woollahra Action Committee Correspondence 1959-1965, including clippings and miscellaneous papers

    BOX 3
    Woollahra Action Committee correspondence files no.s 1 and 2, 1959 – 1965, replies to letter sent to residents in Point Piper, 1959. Woollahra Action Committee candidates file, ca. 1959, Woollahra Action Committee Minutes, ca. 1959.

    BOX 4
    Woollahra Action Committee miscellaneous papers and clippings, ca. 1959, Extraordinary election – Edgecliff ward, 1969, Woollahra Action Committee – Andrew M. Clayton file, ca. 1968

    BOX 5
    Woollahra Action Committee publicity material, 1968, Woollahra Action Committee A. M. Clayton – Elections, 1962 and 1965

    BOX 6
    Woollahra Action Committee – Elections, 1971
  • Access Conditions
    Restricted: Restricted until 2042, Expires: 2042-01-01
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2012-2013
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