Function and purpose
This series consists of typescript addresses, speeches and lectures
given by His Excellency Sir John Kerr in his capacity as Governor-General of
Australia (1974-77). The addresses were delivered at various functions,
including official openings, dinners and luncheons, seminars, conventions and
conferences, defence services graduation ceremonies, agricultural shows, school
and scouting functions. The series also includes Kerr's Australia Day broadcasts,
his Robert Garran Memorial oration (November 1974), address to the Indian Law
Institute (February 1975), address on receiving the World Lawyer Award (Manila,
August 1977) and Vancouver Memorial Lecture (Western Australia, October 1977).
The addresses are titled according to the occasion and are in chronological
order. Some of them carry annotations by Kerr; others have a note attached
indicating that the address was not used or not delivered exactly as per the
written version. Copies of many of the addresses were subsequently distributed
on request, this being recorded on a sheet attached to the address concerned.
This series is essentially a copy of M3511 with some minor differences, the
most significant being that address number 57 (control symbol 60 in M3511) is
complete whereas some pages are missing from the M3511 version. Extra copies of
address number 27, 31, 46, 48 and 115 ie control symbols 28, 49, 51 and 119 in
M3511 are included. Address number 71 (M3511’s 74) is missing from this
transfer. See note under System of Arrangement and Control for control symbol
differences.
Some photocopies are present in this series.
It is not clear which series is the original.
The last record in the series is an index or chronological listing to the
addresses.
System of arrangement and control
Note that M3511 has the index listing as control symbol
1. Series M4528 has the first of the
addresses as item number 1, with the index listing number 121.Addresses 35b, 35a and 35 equate with control symbols
36, 37 and 38 in M3511, while 97 and 97a equate with 10 and 102 in the earlier
series.
Relationships with other records
See M3511.