Bernard William Hartnell papers, ca. 1946-1981, with Herbert Paton Fitzsimons papers, ca. 1932-1969

MLMSS 8751

fonds

ca. 1932-1981

Textual Records, Clippings

411454

1 metre of textual material (6 boxes)

Bernard William Hartnell (1910-) Bachelor of Commerce, educated at Wesley College Melbourne and Melbourne University. Member of Joint Coal Board Sydney since 1958 and Chairman from 1963-1976. Son of late F. B Hartnell. Member of Library Council NSW 1975-1980. Chairman Library Board of NSW, 1969-1975, Coal Mines Institute, 1963-1976.

Herbert Paton Fitzsimons (1898-1970), was a politician. In July 1930 he won a by-election for the State seat of Lane Cove. He became an honorary minister under (Sir) Bertram Stevens in February 1933 and minister for health from August 1935. He carried important amendments to the Medical Practitioners and Pharmacy Acts in 1939 and 1940. Early in 1939 he visited Europe and the United States of America to study later developments in hospital design and the treatment of tuberculosis, and cancer.

Soon after the outbreak of World War II Fitzsimons got leave from his ministerial duties and, as a temporary captain in 1940 became staff officer, medical services, and established military hospitals. Seconded to the Australian Imperial Force, in August 1942 he was registrar of the 114th Australian General Hospital, Goulburn, until 1943. Promoted major on 17 July 1943, he was registrar of the 2/5th A.G.H., Port Moresby, in 1943-44. Returning to Australia in 1944 he did not seek re-election because of his military duties; he was assistant registrar of the 113th military hospital, Concord, until 1947.

Fitzsimons held his seat in the 1941 elections that brought the Labor Party to office. In 1944-55 he served on the Kuring-gai Shire Council. He was elected to the Legislative Council in September 1955 where he continued to take an interest in health affairs and chaired its select committee on public hospitals in 1961. Afraid that the Liberal Party could support a proposal for the council's abolition, in September 1959 he joined the Country Party; he was government whip in 1967-70.

References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au, (accessed 5 October, 2012)
Library correspondence file

This collection includes personal papers of Elizabeth Hartnell's husband Bernard William Hartnell and father Herbert Paton Fitzsimons:

BOX 1
Papers of Bernard W. Hartnell:
Hansards, reports, and newscuttings of Herbert Paton Fitzsimons relating to time as Minister for Health and AAMC Base Hospitals and the Clutha Development Act and New Zealand Coal Project, ca. 1970-1971. Includes proof of Bill
Conference reports relating to The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Illawarra Branch, ca. 1960-1975
Reports relating to the Australian coal industry and the Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories (ACIRL), ca. 1975-1977
Report of Commonwealth State Consultative Committee on Railway Transport, ca. 1951-1954
Reports and submissions relating Basic Wage Case tables by H.P. Brown and Salaries Inquiry Committee, and extracts from Labour periodicals ca.1952-1953, 1961-1962, 1971
Correspondence and records relating to Australian Coal export trade to Japan, including correspondence between E. Ryan Chairman of New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors Association and Wal Fife Minister for Mines and Power and transcript of address by Hartnell relating, ca. 1972-1973
Reports and newscuttings relating to coal mining industry in New South Wales and in the South Coast, ca.1947, 1961-1979

BOX 2
Papers of Herbert P. FitzSimons:
Minutes, correspondence, records and reports relating to Army service and work for public and military hospitals and railways, ca. 1940-1941
Reports and printed copy of the Fair Rents Act, 1939
Legal records and reports and printed periodicals relating to hospitals, the medical profession and Germany and World War II, including extracts from Fuhrer’s addresses, ca. 1935-1938
Records, reports and correspondence relating to visit to Europe and the United States of America to study later developments in hospital design, nutrition and the treatment of tuberculosis, and cancer. ca. 1932-1940
Reports, correspondence and inquiries on public hospitals and members of Parliament in NSW, ca. 1936-1937, 1965-1969

BOX 3
Papers of Bernard W. Hartnell:
Reports on Coal Research and investigation, ca. 1955-1962
Records and correspondence relating to the history of the Joint Coal Board, including letters between Minister for Minerals and Energy and B.W. Hartnell mainly relating to amendments to Coal Industry Acts, Coal Industry Tribunal and industrial relations, ca. 1974-1976
Reports relating to production of coal and Coal Industry Bill readings activities of Joint Coal Board ca. 1946-1947 including extracts from Royal Commission 1926
Correspondence and reports mainly relating to coal mining industry, coking coal exports and collieries, industrial relations, sale of coal mines, including Metropolitan Coal, Coal Cliff Coal, South Clifton and North Bulli Collieries and other coal mines to Japan including report on Box Flat Colliery inquiry and notes of discussion on wool industry, ca. 1964-1974
Notes for discussion Millmerran Coal, 1975
Addresses and reports relating to future of coal mining industry particularly in Muswellbrook and Newcastle and Japan, ca. 1975-1977

BOX 4
Records and correspondence relating to the history of the Joint Coal Board, ca. 1959-1980
Annotated notes for the Prime Ministers speech on trade with Japan, ca. 1971
Newscuttings and records relating to energy, coal, oil and mining industries, ca. 1975-1978
Minutes, correspondence and records and research papers relating to energy supply and consumption and Australian and World energy conferences and committees, ca. 1973-1977
Draft reports, research notes and correspondence of Joint Coal Board relating to coal prices, ca. 1952-1961
Records, minutes, reports and correspondence relating to International Committee for Coal Research (ICCR), ca. 1974-1977
Reports and research papers relating to South African Coal industry, ca. 1972-1976

BOX 5
Research and reports on coal mining and energy industries, ca. 1976-1979
Records and correspondence relating to coal mining, industrial relations and changes to the Coal Industry Act, ca. 1977-1981
Records and correspondence relating to the establishment of the Joint Coal Board, ca. 1961-1976
Research papers and records relating to Australian Nation Committee of World Energy Conference and nuclear power, ca. 1976-1978

BOX 6
Research material on mining, energy resources including coal and nuclear power, ca. 1970-1978
Correspondence mainly relating to Commonwealth government involvement and supervision of the Australian coal mining industry ca. 1975-1976
Reports on coal reserves and coking coal ca. 1959-1977
Annual report of the Coal Conservation Committee, ca. 1960-1961
Research material on nuclear power, ca. 1955-1975
Research material relating to coal resources and mining in Hunter Valley and Sydney basin including copies of maps of geological surveys and coal measure strata, ca. 1972-1977
Records of the Joint Coal Board relating to coal exports from Japan and coal export facilities at Port Kembla, South Coast and NSW ports, ca. 1959-1961

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