Canberra. A monthly bulletin of events, information and reviews
Australian Federation of AIDS OrganisationsThe official newsletter of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia.
Federated Ironworkers' Association of AustraliaAn official newsletter of the Australian Natives Association.
Australian Natives AssociationSydney. Published fortnightly by the NSW Department of Education for information of officers and employees of the Department
Melbourne. Federated Australian University Staff Association's newsletter
Federated Australian University Staff AssociationMelbourne. Official organ of the Victorian Public Service Association. Vol 1 No 1 - Vol 6 No 10 held, with gaps
Victorian Public Service AssociationMelbourne. Issued by the Victorian Branch of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. Vol 1 No 1 - Vol 7 No 3 held, with gaps
Australian Postal and Telecommunications UnionMelbourne. Federated Australian University Staff Association
Federated Australian University Staff AssociationNorth Sydney. Published by the Readymix Group CSR Limited. Incorporates Hume News which was last published in Vol 66 no 4 Sep 1989 (S69)
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedIssues 10, 11, 13, 15-20, 22-26, 29, 31-34, 36.
Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public ServiceSt Leonards. Journal of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association of New South Wales. Supersedes Graphic Arts Bulletin
Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association of New South WalesSt Leonards. Journal of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association of New South Wales
Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association of New South WalesMelbourne. Australian Bank Officials' Association - Federal Executive
Bank Officials' AssociationOfficial Journal of the Association of Professional Engineers & Scientists, Australia. Incorporating The Professional Engineer (S60), The Professional Scientist (S1136)
Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers AustraliaArmidale. Published by the Australian Association for Research in Education
Australian Association for Research in Education IncorporatedMelbourne. A monthly journal of Insurance, Banking and Finance. Printed and published by McCarron, Bird & Co, Collins Street, Melbourne. Years held: 1911 - 1919, 1923 - 1924, 1926 - 1928, 1930 - 1931
Sydney. Official publication of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union
Clothing and Allied Trades Union of AustraliaGood holdings for period 1963 - 1971
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaSmall collection of miscellaneous issues of Pacific newsletters, including: 'Vanuaaku Pati Seli Hoo' (5 issues, 1993-94) ; 'Solomons News' (1 issue, 15 May 1986) ; 'Tam Tam' (1 issue, 4 January 1982) ; 'Vanuaaku Viewpoints' (5 issues, 1978 - 83) ; 'Nabanga' (New Hebrides), 4 issues 1979, including a 'Special elections' issue ; 'Vanua Scope' (3 issues 1993) ; 'Seli Hoo' (Vanuatu), 7 issues, 1977 - 80 ; and 'Corail' (New Caledonia) I dependence issue 31 July 1980. Includes two political posters from the New Hebrides ('Major Key Policies', 1979) and the North Solomons Province (Representative Assembly Election, List of Candidates, 14 November 1979).
University LibraryCorrespondence, personal diaries, copy of a calendar, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the Ovingtons' time in New Caledonia and Vanuatu, 1978-1980, photographs of Independence celebrations, official invitations, course papers on human development, and publications. Includes sound recording ANUA 480/18: Traditional music of Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides) from the Cultural Centre Archives, recordings made by anthropologist Kirk Huffman in the 1970s. The recordings relate to cultural practices. Side 1: Aoba; Ambrym ; Mota Lava (Banks) ; Side 2: Pentecost ; Malekula ; Tanna ; Erromango ; Aneityum
Ovington, LorraineClassified files including Executive Committee minutes, reports, correspondence, funding submissions, newsletters of member organisations, conference papers and printed material.
National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDSPublished material on co-operatives and the co-operative movement in Australia and internationally. Includes printed material on the Australian Labour Movement.
Clint, William AlfredThe scores include choral works, including music for poetic works, and works for instrumental ensembles and solo instruments. There are some works written specifically for schools such as those for percussion bands. The music scores are manuscript, commonly on transparent sheets, with printed copies, spiral-bound photocopies, and some published copies.
Allen, Harold WesleyThe bulk of these records consist of Head Office correspondence between 1855 and 1947. Until 1947, Head Office outward letters were copied in press copy letter books. Most have detailed indexes, including the inward letters received from 1903. Where gaps exist in the Head Office series, or the material is damaged or fragile it is sometimes possible to locate the same content in the Branch or Mill end of the correspondence.
The deposit also consists of annual reports, share records, New Zealand Sugar Company Limited board minutes, legal documents re lands in Fiji (1885-1970), chemical records, technical reports and data re sugar production, circulars, price lists, photographs (1868-1961) and press cuttings. Items 3619-4100 consist of photographs, series of photographs and albums.
These records contain information on CSR refineries in Australia and New Zealand, raw sugar mills in Australia and Fiji, sugar marketing, distilleries, ocean vessels, pineapple canning in Fiji, the beginnings of the divisions of building materials and industrial chemicals, mining, and defence projects 1939-1945. Also includes correspondence and records of the Australasian Sugar Company, and Robey and Company.
Colonial Sugar Refining Company LimitedPapers, photographs, slides, field notes made by D'Arcy Ryan in the Mendi Valley, Papua New Guinea, 1954 - 1964 and papers related to his role as a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Western Australia until 1988.
Ryan, D'Arcy JamesThis series contains various documents relating to Ann Curthoys' involvement in the Australian Bicentennial History Project and in teaching and researching Women's Studies at the Australian National University.
Curthoys, AnnThese photographs were taken by ANU photography staff, mainly Darren Boyd, to commemorate and publicise activitities, events and people in the Research School.
Research School of Pacific and Asian StudiesThis small collection of folded maps is attributed to Professor Spate who acquired them for the cartographic collection in the Department of Human Geography. Some are annotated with catalogue numbers. There is also a map of France and one of Lahore in India.
Spate, Oskar Hermann KhristianCorrespondence, reports, submissions, working papers and research papers relating to the Australian dairy industry, specifically the industry in New South Wales and the "milk war" between the Victorian and New South Wales industries. Much of the material relates to the review of the national industry and the New South Wales Dairy Industry Act 1979. The majority of material belonged to Winston Watts AM, Executive Director of the New South Wales Farmers' Association Limited.
New South Wales Farmers' AssociationCorrespondence, minutes, slides, greeting cards, papers relating to the Trades & Labour Council (WA), Coastal Dock Rivers and Harbour Works Union of Western Australia and the Communist Party of Australia; photographs, and printed material. Includes a large number of pamphlets, leaflets and publications relating to communism, politics and trade unionism in Australia, Russia, Germany, Hungary, China and Korea.
Some serials removed from deposit and added to serials collection.
Oral history interviews recorded for the book Voices from the ships : Australia's seafarers and their union, 2008, by Diane Kirkby.
Kirkby, DianePamphlets, leaflets, newsclippings and other ephemera related to Papua New Guinea circa 1970-1995.
Watson, ThomasThe cassette tapes record Tom Owen reminiscing about his time as Registrar of Canberra University College. There are also copies of recordings of events such as the laying of the foundation stone for the Haydon-Allen building, and the opening of the RG Menzies Building and the Chemistry building, and tapes relating to his early life, the Richmond Hoyts Cinema, and oral histories recorded in the 1990s. Some tapes are annotated with file references 14.1.0.83-14.1.0.92 (ANUA 53).
Owen, Thomas MilesThe audio tape recordings, typescript copies of seminar papers and an index relate to a series of seminars presented by the Development Studies Centre in 1977–1978.
ANU Development Studies CentreThe tapes are of four evenings of lectures: Professor Sir Ernest Titterton and Dr SM Hamberger (26 March – including morning radio interview), Professor Ted Ringwood and Professor GHJ Taylor (2 April), Professor SF Harris and Dr TB Millar (9 April) and Dr B Selinger and Professor S Kaneff (16 April).
Hazlehurst, CameronThe reel-to-reel audio tapes record the sessions of the international conference ‘Medical Practice and the Community’ held at the John Curtin School of Medical Research 26-30 August 1968. Among those who spoke at the conference were the Chancellor Dr HC Coombs and the Vice-Chancellor Professor JG Crawford.
John Curtin School of Medical ResearchIncludes annual reports, correspondence, meeting minutes and other administrative papers relating to the Department of Human Geography. Also includes, interviews with Professor Oskar Spate.
ANU Department of Human GeographyThis series has not been processed yet.
Australian National UniversityA public affairs programme produced by the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University at the Instructional Resources Unit, ANU.
Research School of Pacific and Asian StudiesMinutes, subject and convention files, convention proceedings, membership records, brewery books, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material.
The Institute of Brewing - Asia Pacific SectionResearch materials relating to Barry McGowan's research on the Chinese in Australia, especially in New South Wales. Includes correspondence, photographs, conference papers and articles by Barry McGowan and by others, conservation and heritage reports and plans, and photocopies of newspapers and archival material.
McGowan, BarryThe collection was formed during 1969 and 1970 by John R Baker, Economist to the Government of Tonga and resident in the capital of Nukualofa from August 1969 to May 1970. Baker was employed by the British Ministry of Overseas Development and was seconded to the Government of Tonga as an Economist to undertake the preparation and drafting of the Tonga Development Plan 1970 - 1975, which was Tonga's second development plan. He was employed partly on the strength of his having worked in the Solomon Islands in 1964 and 1965 under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Scheme. He was the first economist employed by the Tonga Government to work on development planning.
Baker, John RThe deposit consists of board papers, reports, correspondence, legal documents, plans and drawings, reports from the Pilbara Iron Technical Group Office, printed material, agreements and deeds, and records re employee housing scheme.
Pilbara Iron LimitedMelbourne. Official journal of the Postal Institute. Issues held: Vol. 1 No. 2 Aug-Sept 1954; Vol. 1 No. 6 Apr-May 1955; Vol. 2 No. 2 Aug-Sept 1955; Vol. 2 No. 3 Oct-Nov 1955; Vol. 2 No. 4 Dec 1955-Jan 1956; Vol. 2 No. 5 Feb-Mar 1956; Vol. 2 No. 6 Apr-May 1956; Vol. 5 No. 5 Feb-Mar 1959; Vol. 5 No. 6 Apr-May 1959; Special Royal Visit Issue Apr-May 1963; 50th Anniversary Issue Feb-Mar 1968; Vol. 15 No. 1 Jun-Jul 1968; Vol. 15 No. 2 Aug-Sept 1968; Vol. 16 No. 4 Dec 1969-Jan 1970; Vol. 17 No. 2 Aug-Sept 1970
Australian Postal InstituteSydney. Published by the Transport Workers' Union of Australia, NSW Branch. New series No 1 - Vol 25 No 1 held, with gaps
Transport Workers' Union of AustraliaCorrespondence, published and unpublished papers by Arthur Burns, papers by others
Burns, Arthur LeeFederal Council and All-Ports meetings, 1967-1981; financial statements (Branches and Federal Office), 1964-1987; ACTU Executive meetings, 1985-1987; ACTU Congress, 1979-1985; correspondence/subject files, 1947-1983; sound recordings, 1950s; newspaper clippings, miscellaneous ACTU bulletins and newsletters, 1980s; printed material, 1903-1916; photographs, 1899-1989; reports of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Board (later the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority), 1980s; Port News, 1970-1981; Australian Foremen Stevedores' Association Review, 1981-1984
Waterside Workers’ Federation of AustraliaMoscow. A Soviet weekly journal of world affairs, appearing in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Rumanian and Swedish
These records have not yet been processed.
Ballard, John AddisonUniversity of New England, Armidale; Australian National University; Monash University. A bulletin of social history devoted to the year of grace, 1838. Also titled 'The Push from the bush'. Nos 1 - 3, 5 - 30 held.
The Partnership in Islamic Education Scheme (PIES) program and its predecessors brought selected participants from the Indonesian higher education sector to the Australian National University for two semesters of study and skills training between 2004 and 2019. Records include a history of the establishment of the scheme by Emeritus Professor Virginia Hooker, early grant proposals, funding agreements, applications from successful cohorts of participants, evaluation and completion reports, books published by each cohort, copy of the PIES website, and administrative records.
The program was an initiative of Professor Virginia Hooker who worked with Professor Merle Ricklefs to develop the Partnership in Education and Training of Regional Islamic Institutions (PETRII) scheme, known as the ‘sandwich’ program. Funded by AusAID, the scheme ran from 2004-2006. It was followed by PIES which operated under the umbrella of the Australia-Indonesia Institute in collaboration with the Directorate of Higher Islamic Education and Indonesia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA), with funding from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. PETRII and PIES were developed to provide opportunities for higher education teachers and academics to undertake overseas study, advance or complete their Indonesian degrees and build academic networks. The initial PIES program ran over two semesters 2008-2009 with Professor Hooker as Director. PIES II, PIES III and PIES IV operated under the Directorship of Associate Professor Greg Fealy with Dr Sally White continuing as academic mentor. A grant application for PIES V to operate from 2020, was unsuccessful and the scheme closed in 2021 with a final farewell event held on 8 September 2021 via zoom teleconference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
College of Asia and the PacificTo celebrate a history of working people in Australia it was proposed that a museum might be built in Canberra where historical items and iconography from all around the country could be displayed, in one central location. The journal 'Now and Then' was developed in 2010 to support the campaign, launched by UnionsACT in 2009, for the establishment of this National Museum of Labour. The museum never eventuated. The journal ceased in 2014.
UnionsACTContains press clippings and information about some exhibitions held at the gallery.
Drill Hall GalleryThis collection consists of a bound volume of papers and glass lantern slides and negatives. The volume includes instructions to competitors in the 1911 Federal Capital Design Competition, the report of the Federal Capital Designs Board and other parliamentary papers relating to Walter Burley Griffin’s winning design, including correspondence relating to AJ Macdonald’s temporary transfer ‘to assist Mr Griffin’, and reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on ‘Dams for Ornamental Waters – Canberra’ and the erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra. The lantern slides are of AJ Macdonald’s entry (no. 9) in the Federal Capital Design Competition which was one of the 46 short-listed designs (see www.idealcity.org.au/competition-3-shortlist-46.html). The lantern slides (8 x 8 cm) are:
•Drawing 1, Map of Contour Survey of the Site
•Drawing 2, Perspective view overlooking the Administrative Centre
Two additional lantern slides labelled A and B relate to another project for a site south of the Flinders Street station in Melbourne. There are also two glass plate negatives (22 x 17 cm) of Drawings 1 and 2 with a label ‘AJ Macdonald’s design for Federal Capital, DW Crawford’s perspective view thereof’.
Rules, minute books, agenda and meeting papers (federal conference), correspondence, financial and membership records, arbitration material, reports, annual reports of Federal executive and branches, printed and roneoed material and photographs.
Health Inspectors' Association of AustraliaPublications including reports, reprints, occasional papers and research monographs.
ANU Centre for Research on Federal Financial RelationsThis series consists of speeches and articles on philosophy and economics by Professor Brennan. One exam paper is included.
Brennan, GeoffreyThe records include teaching and course material from history and women’s studies courses at ANU and other universities; correspondence; conference material; publications on feminism and sexuality; recorded lectures on audio cassettes and posters. Later additions contain research notebooks of research undertaken in libraries and archives to support Jill Matthews publications; transcripts of interviews with Lois Quarrel Hendry and Olga Varonas; research notes and manuscript for chapter in 'The thing she loves' ed. Kerry Greenwood; research notes and newsclippings for research on women and sport, women in film.
Matthews, Jill JuliusIn addition to the Spriggs papers, this donation also contained the papers of Richard Shutler, Les Groube, and Aubrey Parke, which have been removed and are now ANUA 765, 766, and 767, respectively.
Spriggs, MatthewSydney. Official organ of the Socialist Labor Party of Australia
This collection of films was given to the ANU Archives by staff from the College of Asia and the Pacific in 2022. College staff found these films in a cupboard with no documentation so their context is not known as at 2022.
College of Asia and the PacificThis deposit is currently being processed.
Sydney Stock ExchangeRules, minutes, arbitration and financial records, correspondence, benefit fund records, registration and amalgamation material, membership records, reports, parliamentary papers, press cuttings, printed material and photographs. Includes records of predecessors the NSW Railway Permanent Way Association, NSW Mechanical Branch Association, Department of Main Roads Employees' Union, Government Tramways Electrical Branch Workers' Association.
National Union of Rail Workers of AustraliaArbitration case files and legal opinions on industrial matters, personal memorabilia, Law School notes, published papers, photographs of the 1967 Journalists' Strike and printed material.
O'Dea, Raymond JohnPhotographs, certificates and other display items from the NSW Branch's Board Room in the Sydney Trades Hall on the retirement of J A Weir as Secretary in March 1986. Includes one photograph of Saw Mill and Timber Yard Employees' Union 1909.
Australian Timber Workers' Union'Some experiences of a Queensland station manager' and other articles in The Pastoral Review (1943-1945), written by Mr Thomas L Armstrong as manager, Corona Station, 1917-1941, and photographs of the Armstrong family members and various station activities over the same period. The photographs show the homestead, family pets, horse-riding, swimming in the creek, family holidays at Manly, station jackeroos, Aboriginal stockmen, the Chinese cook, a governess, the dog-trapper, race meetings, horse sales, cattle, drought feeding sheep, lamb marking, bullock teams (1919), Mitchell grass after rain, loading 'bush hay', travelling to Headingly by car, a storm-damaged windmill, and other facets of station life, mainly during the 1920s and 1930s.
Corona Station (Queensland)Rule books, minutes, correspondence files, financial records, membership records, arbitration material, printed material and photographs. Includes records of predecessors the Stove & Piano Frame Moulders' & Stovemakers Employees' Union; Federated Agricultural Implement & Stovemakers' Porcelain Enamellers' & Ironworkers' Association of Australia; Federated Stovemakers' & Porcelain Enamellers Association of Australia; and the NSW Amalgamated Tinsmith, Sheet Iron Workers and Meter Makers Trade Society.
Sheet Metal Working Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of AustraliaAnnual reports 1851 - 1857, 1861 - 1866, 1896 - 1897 (box 1), Monthly Report 1851 - 1886, 1890 - 1896 (boxes 1 - 5). From 1897 to 1902 the ASE published the Engineers Journal and Monthly Record of Facts, Figures, and Fancy relating to the Engineering Trade, Unionism and Industrialism generally (boxes 5 - 6), but from c. 1905 the were two publications, the 'Report and Monthly Record' (1905 - 1912, boxes 6 - 7) and the 'Monthly Journal' (1908 - 1912, boxes 7 - 8). Between 1913 and 1921 these two separate publications were renamed the 'Monthly Journal and Report' (boxes 8 - 9), before the name changed to the Monthly Journal in May 1921 (when the ASE joined with other unions to become the Amalgamated Engineering Union), issues held from 1921 - 1964, and 1966 - 1967 (boxes 9 - 17). There is also a set of unbound duplicate Monthly Journals covering the years 1921 - 1933 (boxes 17 - 18), 1948 - 1959 and 1961 (boxes 19 - 20).
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths, and Pattern MakersThis series has not been processed yet.
ANU Department of Anthropology and SociologySydney. Official journal of the Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association
The black and white photographs document the early development of the University: the Easter Conference of 1948, the laying of foundation stones in 1949, the opening of buildings, the conferring of degrees, and visits by dignatories. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s many staff and buildings were photographed as well as visitors, Creative Arts Fellows, exhibitions and other events. Most of the photographs were taken by the Commonwealth Department of Information, then the Commonwealth News and Information Bureau, and bear a number with a UN (University) prefix. The photographs were originally held in numbered manila envelopes and have now been placed in archival albums. Some envelopes were top-numbered into the later series, photographs of people and subjects (ANUA 225 and ANUA 226).
Office of the RegistrarThere are four albums of black and white photographs, and additional album pages of photographs in 11 folders, starting with the 1948 Easter Conference and showing the construction of early buildings on campus (such as University House, the Physics building, and the Menzies Library) and residential housing.
Office of the RegistrarSydney. Henry George Union for Social Justice
1968 - 1983 was titled Dalgety Staff and Management News (see S54). From Dec 1983 to Jun 1991 was Dalgety Farmers Staff News.
Dalgety and Company LimitedTitled Dalgety Staff and Management News 1968 - 1983. From Dec 1983 to Jun 1991 was Dalgety Farmers Staff News (see S54A)
Dalgety and Company LimitedIssues for Dec 1914, Oct & Nov 1915 and Jul & Sep 1916 are held in S56 (Dalgety's Wool Review), being bound into the volume for 1915-1922 of that publication. Issues for the period Jan to Sep 1916 are also held in one bound volume.
Dalgety and Company LimitedPapers of Mavis and Alec Robertson relating to their work, activism and interests in journalism, communism, women’s liberation, the anti-Vietnam war movement, Papua New Guinea independence, the peace and anti-nuclear movement, Chile, and superannuation. Material includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks and travel diaries, photographs, speeches, grey literature such as reports and travel ephemera. Also includes some papers of Alec Robertson (Senior) and some family history material.
Some books and pamphlets are unprocessed (as at Oct 2022).
Robertson, MavisLaunceston. Australian Railways Union, Tasmanian branch. ARU News issues held for 1957 to 1959. Renamed the News Letter in 1959, issues held for years 1959 to 1960. In 1961 it was retitled 'News and Views', issues held for 1961 (nos. 2 - 9), and vol. 1 no. 1 (c. 1967) of the newly designed journal.
Australian Railways UnionResearch publications by Professor P.A.P. Moran
Moran, Patrick Alfred Pierce (P. A. P.)The files relate to Professor Parker’s membership of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Studies and his administration of the Department of Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences. The files have been divided into two sequences on this basis as ANU or RSSS files. The files contain correspondence and memos, copies of minutes and comments by other staff on various proposals.
Parker, Robert StewartThis deposit consists of records from the London Office; the Department of the General Manager for Australia; the Sydney Office; Bligh Development (Sydney) Ltd; Bligh Management (Sydney) Ltd and J Manning Pty Ltd. Records of the Department of the General Manager for Australia comprise of minutes; annual reports; reports from branches; general ledgers; records re Pension Fund for London staff 1934-1971; correpondence; office files; financial records; station records re wool clip returns and stock returns; registers re employee superannuation plan; and trust deeds for pension and provident fund. AML&F Sydney office records comprise of Local Board meeting minutes; correspondence; financial records; records relating to staff pension and provident funds 1901-1956; security registers and documents; photographs c. 1921-1971; maps 1891-1969; miscellaneous records re Bligh Street buildings; working file of Sydney Office Manager, James Kidd 1918; staff training notes 1965-1971 and printed material. Records of Bligh Development (Sydney) Ltd include office files 1962-1972, specifications and architect plans, photographs and newspaper clippings. Bligh Management (Sydney) Ltd records comprise of office files 1963-1971. Records of J Manning Pty Ltd comprise of minutes 1949-1962, share register and financial records. Also includes records of Gyra River Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.
Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company LimitedThis deposit has not been processed. Collection largely consisting of materials on mining in Irian Jaya.
Mitton, RobertTypescript copies of lectures relating to the teaching of English literature particularly drama. These are arranged in folders by author with notes and reviews of books and theatre productions. There is also correspondence with academic staff including Alec Hope and Dorothy Green, students and others, and references provided for students.
Hewitt, Alison HopeThis deposit contains records of head office and of various station properties connected with the company. Records from head office include board minutes, correspondence, acount books, papers relating to shares, legal papers and press cuttings. Records from stations include correspondence, returns, reports of stations, acount books, papers relating to land matters and maps. A small sub-group consists of papers relating to property owned by the company in the Northern Territory from which a live cattle business was carried on between Darwin, Batavia and Singapore in the 1880s and 1890s.
Goldsbrough Mort and CompanyThis series has not been processed yet.
ANU Students' AssociationPart 1 - These papers mainly relate to Gunther’s time as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), and include some papers relating to Gunther’s time as the Director of Public Health and Assistant Administrator in Papua New Guinea. The main subject categories are:
- Political papers dealing with the period before independence in Papua New Guinea (folders 1-13)
- Political papers pertaining to independence (folders 14-17)
- Economic papers – Waigani papers (folders 18-20)
- Economic papers – Bougainville papers (folders 32-34)
- Education papers (folders 35-110)
- Personal papers (folders 112-118)
- Administrative papers (folders 119-136)
Part 2 - These papers document many aspects of Gunther’s administration of public health in Papua New Guinea (folders 137-239). They include Gunther’s files on various health issues, including malaria, leprosy, scrub typhus, nutrition, kuru and tuberculosis. Also includes papers on medical education, the Mount Lamington volcanic eruption and the South Pacific Commission.
Gunther, John Thomson