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Australia Made Preference League

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Australia Made Preference League was the organisation behind the Great White Train that travelled through New South Wales in Australia, in the 1920s.[1]

The League was formed in 1924 to promote Australian made goods over imported goods.[2] Wallace Alexander Nelson was a co-founder [3]

The Queensland branch of the league was started in 1924 in response to the success of the New South Wales organisation [4]

The materials published and produced by the League have become collectors pieces.[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Australian-Made Preference League (1926), Souvenir of the Australian Made Preference League and the Great White Exhibition Train, The League, retrieved 12 March 2013
  2. ^ ""Australian-Made" Preference League". Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 22 October 1926. p. 4. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Nelson, Wallace Alexander (1856–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  4. ^ "Australian Made Preference League". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 20 August 1924. p. 9. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  5. ^ Barrett, Desmond Warwick (February 1994), "Australiana and the Australian Made Preference League", Australiana, 16 (1): 9–12, retrieved 12 March 2013