Gepp, Sir Herbert William

Wheat, Flour & Bread Industries Reports

Canberra, Australia: L F Johnston Cth Govt Printer, 1934-1936.
Second-hand softcover

Gepp, Sir Herbert William. Royal Commission on the Wheat, Flour & Bread Industries Reports 1-5 with supplements & indices. L F Johnson, Cth Govt Printer: Canberra, Australia 1934-1936. Folio lg SC stapled pamphlets. VG-/- reports 3-5 no wraps

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GEPP, Sir Herbert William (1877-1954)

Royal Commission on the Wheat, Flour and Bread Industries: Reports 1-5 with supplements and indices. 

Canberra : L F Johnson, Commonwealth Government Printer, 1934-1936.

Folio (335x210mm) printed wrappers, stapled, various paginations.

1.  First Report dated 30 July 1934. Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled, 37,[6 maps],[2 blank]pp. [F4059] Issued without wraps, staples starting to rust, owner signature to title page, edges age-toned.


2.  Supplement to The First Report dated 27th November 1934. Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled, 15,[1 blank]pp. [F5620] (840 copies only) Issued without wraps, staples starting to rust & pull through, owner signature to title page, edges lightly creased; lightly age-toned.


3.  Second Report dated 2 February 1935.  Folio (330x210mm) softcover stapled wrappers, 257,[1 blank]pp. Numerous fold out charts and graphs. [F5964] Wrappers worn at spine ends, small tears to front hinge; edges age-toned;


4.  Index to the Second Report. Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled viii pp. [F5964] Issued without wrappers; edges age-toned.


5.  Third Report undated (c February 1936). Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled 198pp. [F403] Issued without wrappers, staples starting to rust, light wear to edges; owner stamp to title-page


6. Fourth Report dated 18 February 1936. Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled 139,[1 blank]pp. [F765] Issued without wrappers, staples starting to rust, light wear to edges; one corner lightly bruised; edges lightly sunned.


7. Fifth Report dated 14 February 1936. Folio (330x210mm) printed cover sheet, stapled 66pp. [F766] Issued without wrappers, staples starting to rust, light wear to edges, edges lightly creased, and lightly sunned. Rear page torn, no loss. but small portion of text on p65 obscured.

The reports address, in considerable detail, the precarious economic position arising from the Great Depression, international competition and technological and social challenges facing Australian industry growing, handling and marketing wheat, manufacturing, distributing  and selling bread, and manufacturing, distributing and selling  flour; making a number of recommendations that would fundamentally change the wheat and baking industry in Australia; and the way in which Australia marketed its wheat to the world.

The Royal Commission boldly recommended: a home consumption price for flour, financial assistance to wheat growers, and the centralised government control of wheat marketing, which lead to the formation of a statutory authority for wheat disposal in 1939, and the Australian Wheat Board in 1948.  The Commission also recommended the establishment of what ultimately became the Bread Research Institute in 1948.  

A singular economic source record of an investigation into the sustainability of being able to put bread on the table in Australia, at a time of great international economic and political turmoil.

§ OCLC records only 3 sets outside of Australia: Toronto, Leiden & Kiel.

Item #9070
ISBN: NoISBN

Price: $250.00 AUD