Series 12: ANG Holdings records

MLMSS 11287/Box 5-Box 6
PXE 1786/Box 2

series

1962-1970

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs, Graphic Materials

9664371

0.24 metres of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript, typescript
2 albums (98 photographic prints) - 36 x 25 cm or smaller - gelatin silver, black and white, colour

ANG Holdings Ltd grew out of the Australian Government's encouragement to invest in New Guinea in the lead up to its independence. Merlin Hansen was a foundation director from the early 1960s and resigned, 1968.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

BOX 5
- Address delivered by Steven Rich, Chairman of Australia New Guinea Corporation titled, 'New Guinea - Today and tomorrow', 28 September 1966
- Council of New Guinea Affairs meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, annual reports, 1967-1970
- Report and clippings related to the World Bank and policy matters, Papua and New Guinea, 1962-1965
- Map of Bougainville Island South, Solomon Islands
- Bougainville Development Corporation Ltd correspondence, notes and financial reports, 1968, 1969
- Bougainville Development Corporation Ltd meeting minutes, 1969
- Press clippings, SMH, Daily Telegraph, and The Australian re concession granted to a consortium of companies headed by DFC transferred to Bougainville Development Corporation Ltd. 1963-1967

BOX 6
- Illustrated report by Clifford B. Hansen on site visit to Tonolei Harbour at southern end of Bougainville Island with photos of logging, sawmill and hut accommodation
- ANG Holdings Ltd annural reports, 1967, 1968
- Report and notes relating to the proposals for the development of an integrated forest products operation in the Cape Rodney/ McFarland Harbour Area, 1968

PXE 1786/Box 2
- Light blue photograph album documenting field trip research in Terminalia Brassii in Bougainville Island, 1962
- Scrapbook album titled "Bougainville 1962 Bougainville Development Corp Ltd", containing black and white photographs of New Guinea including Tonolei Harbour from Norman Wallis with a note saying “Terminatia brasii felled at Tenaru forest, Solomon Is. (It proved too big to handle with our gear and light railway) 12/4/64”

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