Item 190 - Papers from the Department of the Administrator and the Review of the Department of Native Affairs.

Includes information to field staff, lists of staff, staff postings, paper by N. D. Oram, 'Information, consultation and participation: administrative decentralization in New Guinea', Fourth Waigani Seminar on the Politics of Melanesia, paper by M. B. Orken (Senior Commissioner, Land Titles Commission, Goroka) 'Land disputes in the New Guinea Highlands, a personal view', papers arising from the administrative review of the Department of Native Affairs in the 1950s (Paul Hasluck et al), including circulars to field staff, reports on policy formulation and revenue, Report by Committee of Review (Native Affairs) on Advisory Councils for Native Affairs (p/c), Summary of the 1960 Constitutional Changes in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea ('David Chenoweth'), Central policy formulation in Papua and New Guinea (cc 'Joe Lynch or perhaps David Chenoweth'), Questionnaire for Field Staff, Working Paper, circulars, administrative training and the future of the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA). Some of these papers were given to Sinclair by Dr Gunther. File includes original, carbon and photocopied records.