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AU ANUA 462-11
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- 1957 - 1964 (Creation)
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(a) Memos dated 4 Jul and 18 Jul 1957, signed by Bulmer and others, asking for indication of support for a New Guinea Society;
(b) announcements of meeting to inaugurate Society, dated 25 and 29 Jul 1957;
(c)The New Guinea Society Draft Constitution, undated;
(d) The New Guinea Society, Constitution, dated 31 Jul 1957;
(e) document signed by Bulmer, secretary, reporting inaugural meeting of Society and listing elected officers, undated;
(f) circular signed by Christian (president) and others, reporting that Society now functioning and urging interested persons to take out full membership, undated;
(g) circular announcing forthcoming talk by R. Marsh on topic “Background to government: concepts underlying administrative police in Papua-New Guinea, scheduled for 3 Sep 1957, followed by numerous announcements of talks.
The file also includes minutes of First Annual General Meeting of Society, undated (perhaps 1958?); Second Annual General Meeting, 23 Jul 1959; Third Annual General Meeting, 10 Aug 1960; New Guinea Society, Secretary’s report presented to the Annual General Meeting, 26 Jul 1961; Annual General Meeting, 23 July [year?]; New Guinea Society, Office holders for 1961-2; and brochure headed Australia in New Guinea. The Twenty-fourth Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science, to be held in Canberra 25-7 Jan 1958 w. speakers inc. Dr. J. T. Gunther, Hon. Paul Hasluck, Mr. J. R. Kerr, Q.C.
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Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University: PMB1379/11