Craig Symons - Patrol and native local government survey reports, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1960-1961

PMB 1090

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Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [199-]

441438

Microfilm : PMB 1090

microfilm reel 35 mm

Mr Craig Symons was born in 1924. He was in Papua New Guinea 1946-1974 where he was a Patrol Officer and District Commissioner and also Assistant Commissioner for Local Government for an extended period. The Minj patrol reports document the early stages of economic development in this area of the Western Highlands. The patrols found only one person had been to secondary school and no one who had a driver's licence. The patrols also counted coffee trees which were beginning to be grown in the Wahgi Valley

Minj Patrol (South Wall Wahgi - Minj Sub-District, Western Highlands District); Patrol Report No. 2, 5 Sep-18 Oct 1960, and No. 3, 28 Nov 1960-30 Jan 1961. Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Dept. of Native Affairs, Circular instruction No. 301, re establishment of native local government councils, 18 Sept 1959; and correspondence from I. A. Holmes, Assistant District Officer, Western Highlands, Minj Sub-District Office, to Assistant District Officer, Madang, re training course at the Madang Local Government Centre, 13 Jan 1962. Proclamation of the Native Local Government Councils Ordinance, 1949-1960; establishment Native Local Goverment Council Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Government Gazette, No. 52, 2 Nov 1961. Proclamation of the Native Local Government Councils Ordinance, 1949-1960; amendment of the constitution of Milne Bay Native Local Government Council Territory of Papua New Guinea. Government Gazette, No. 61, 21 Dec 1961

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1090
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Original in: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200
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