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Australia and the Pacific Islands, 1896-1971

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 654
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Contains:

  1. folder 1 (fols. 1-6) transcript of a letter from Sir Gerard Smith, Governor of West Australia, to Joseph Chamberlain on the situation of indigenous people there there, 1896
  2. folder 2 (item 1) report to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by a Committee appointed to survey the possibility of establishing a combined administration of the territories of Papua and New Guinea and to make a recommendation as to a capital site, 1939
  3. folder 3 (fols. 1-15) Papua and New Guinea; letter from Admiral W.E. Goodenough about the inhabitants, 1942
  4. folder 4 (fols. 1-16) Papua and New Guinea, press cuttings and a Central Office of Information fact sheet, 1942-1961
  5. folder 5 (fols. 1-51) comments by the Royal Institute of International Affairs on the problems of the post-war settlement in the Far East and the effect on the Pacific Island Dependencies, prepared for the meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Mont Tremblant, Canada, with a brief to the United Kingdom Delegation on the Australian view; reports by Ivison Macadam and Lord Halley, leader of the delegation, on the meeting; an anonymous, printed report; and 'Collective Security in the Pacific, an American view' by David Nelson Rowe, Pacific Affairs, Mar 1945, 1942-1945
  6. folder 6 (fols. 1-22) addresses by Sir Harry Luke and Ivor Thomas to the Royal Empire Society on Pacific problems, 1942-1947
  7. folder 7 (fols. 1-39) report of the proceedings of the Australian National University Seminar on 'Social Processes in the Pacific', 1951
  8. folder 8 (fols. 1-45) Notes on New Guinea, a report by O.H.K. Spate, J.W. Davidson, and Raymond Firth, of the Australian National University, of a visit paid to discover major areas of interest to the Pacific Studies Research School of the university, 1951
  9. folder 9 (fols. 1-24) 'Australia and the German colonies in the Pacific, 1914-1919' by William Roger Louis, with a script by Ian MacDougall for the BBC series 'From Our Own Correspondent' on 'Germany's Overseas Empire', n.d. and 1971
  10. folder 10 (unfoliated) Pacific Islands, press cuttings, 1940-1965
  11. folder 12 (fols. 1-33) 'Establishment of the South Pacific Commission' issued by the Colonial Office as 'Background to News from the Colonies No. 109; also, Central Office of Information fact sheets on Tonga, Nauru, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), the British Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), [1947]-1965.

Dates

  • Creation: 1896-1971

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Perham 654

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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