Includes patrol reports for Aku Area (3 - 10 February 1947), Muguai and Pariro Areas, Buin Sub-District (8 September 1947), Linguistic Groups of Siwai, Nagovissi, Baitsi and Banoni (21 March 1941), Rotokas (April/May 1950), Aita and others (May/June 1950), Kono (September/October 1950), Makis (January 1951). File also includes biographical information (newspaper clippings, articles) on contemporaries in the military and police, 'Report on United Nations Visiting Mission - 1962, Statement by R. R. Cole M.C. District Commissioner Sepik District', Public service listings for the police in the 1950s and 1970s.

Publication: Aitape-Wewak 1944-1945 by Mark Johnston. Canberra: Department of Veteran's Affairs, 2005, Photocopy of a report on the operations of the 17th Australian Infantry Brigade in the Aitape-Wewak campaign in New Guinea from November 1944 to September 1945 by Brigadier M. J. Moten, Commander of the 17th Australian Infantry Brigade, Wewak, 15 October 1945 (plus photocopied parts thereof).

Bob Cole was a Captain with ANGAU in the Maprik area 1944-45 and he, and other ANGAU officers operated behind enemy lines. The file contains Cole's notebook kept during the Sepik war operations, which provides information about the 'sentries' (village men who were paid to spy on the Japanese), a 'Black List' of village men and a list of the Sentries, with comments about their activities and reliability, A handwritten note sent to Bob Cole by Rink De Jong (a member of a Dutch Party) on 1/5/44 after his party had been 'jumped by the Japs', Correspondence between Bob Cole and Professor Alan Powell 1988-1996, Biographical information and letters about other men who served with ANGAU. Significant items include five notes passed from village men to Bob Cole during the Torricelli Campaign from November 1944 to September 1945. They record Japanese activities, such as the number of soldiers, their ammunitions and villagers killed. Five notes in pencil, written in Pidgin with typed English translations. 7

Material of Colonel Robert Rothsay Cole OBE MC. Includes ex-member newsletters and correspondence.

On a paper written by Bryant Allen and Keiko Tamura on 'Attitudes of Japanese troops towards villagers and the supply of food in the inland Aitape-Wewak Campaign, Papua New Guinea, 1942-45'.

Correspondence about publications on the 17th Brigade and photocopies of pages from 'All the King's enemies', 'Nothing over us' and 'Fiery Phoenix'.

Draft chapters 1 - 11 (missing Chapter 3) of the book 'Documents on Australia Foreign Policy, Australia and New Guinea 1966 - 1969'. Bob Cole wrote to the publishers (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) advising them of errors in the book, with reply dated 12 March 2007.

Includes Cole's personal file 1938 - 1969, Territory of Papua and New Guinea Department of District Services and Native Affairs, Mrs K Cole's (Wireless Operator) personal file, telegrams, accommodation, promotions, leave of absence, resumes, correspondence to the District Office at Mendi, Oath of Office of Commissioner of Police, 1 July 1966. Eight documents have been laminated; they relate to Bob Cole's employment as a Cadet in the New Guinea Public Service in 1938.

Includes papers related to Bob Cole's impressions of Papua New Guinea and the police force, notes on lectures to new police officers, typed speeches for addressing passing out parades, retirements, United Nations Day, naturalisations ceremonies, Remembrance Day, Anzac Day, some papers related to the Dubbo Sub-Branch of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League (RSL), 'Our volcanic issue' No. 633 of the Rabaul Times, 4 June 1937, a special 'gratis' issue published by Gordon Thomas on the impact of the volcanic eruption in Rabaul from 28 May 1937.

Letters to Jim Sinclair about Jack Hides and Sinclair's notes on an interview with Ivan Champion in Brisbane 16/2/66.

Canberra Times 24 August 1985. Newspaper clipping.

Chapter 8 from an unknown publication.

Gibbes Sepik Airways was founded by Bobby Gibbes in 1948 using Junkers and Auster aircraft. Includes a. Health certificate, Rangoon Airport, Mingaladon, Burma to certify that aircraft VH BUV was free from infectious diseases, 19 January 1957, b. Page from a journey log book, dated January 1957 for a flight from Karachi to Rangoon with crew members Captain Walker, Co-Pilot Green, Flight Engineer Raasch, R/O Halle, c. Page from a journey log book for VH-BUV, Gibbes Sepik Airways, Territory of New Guinea, 2 August 1952 - 5 August 1952, d. Health certificate and page from a log book, February 1957, for a flight from Rangoon to Zamoange with crew members Walker, Green, Raasch and Halle. Includes a collection of photographs taken by Paul Raasch marked as 'Chapter 22' : Three B&W photographs, 18.5cm x 24cm of junker VH-BUV under repair in the Goroka Hangar, Collection of five B&W photographs approximately 7cm x 10cm of BUW enroute to Goroka ; B&W photograph, 8.5cm x 8.5cm of BUV in Sweden preparing for flight to PNG ; B&W photograph, 6.5cm x 9.5cm, of Paul Raasch preparing for flight from Stockholm to PNG, Christmas 1958, Sepia photograph, 7cm x 10cm of JU52 - GSA, of PATAIR engine repairs at Mendi, One bawd photograph, 11.5cm x 19cm of Paul Raasch at Mendi making emergency repairs on GSA JU52, Newspaper clipping 'Immer noch rustig: alte, Tante Ju' from Hamburger Abendblatt, 15 January 1957.

Includes: Len Odgers diary of the expedition across New Guinea from Wewak on the Sepik River (in the mandated Territory of New Guinea) to Daru (Territory of Papua) from April - September 1942, Letter and report by W.R. Smith to J.R. Halligan, 23 April 1942, Bob Cole's writings on the rebellion, Summary of NAA files, correspondence and research notes.

File of documents, newspaper clippings, obituaries for contemporaries of Bob Cole (patrol officers, police, military, businessmen). Includes articles and newspaper clippings about Papua New Guinea, a guide to Pidgin and photographs of headstones and lists of people buried in the Wewak Point Cemetery.

Papers include family documents, family history, qualifications and awards in Accountancy, Balance sheet and auditor's report for Hectors' Brick Company Proprietary Limited, Brick and pipe manufacturers, Dubbo NSW, New Guinea reminiscences include 'Kay Cole's introduction to New Guinea', Details about the house built for the Coles by the 1st Brigade at Maprik with sketches and photographs, World War I in New Guinea and violence post Independence, 'Some notes for the guidance of cadet patrol officers, Southern Highlands District' (c.1960) and 'Police Advisory Committee (P. R. Larkin), 1965.

Transcripts of interviews with people for his coffee book (The Money Tree: coffee in PNG, 1995), including Craig McConaghy, Arthur Jones, Neale 'Red' Williams, Mick Belfield, Peter Howard, Jim Kingston, Don Shepard, Geoff Harvey, James Leahy and Dan Leahy.

Includes Patrol Report no 2 of 1951/52, Patrol Report diary 1952/53, Letter from Terry Dwyer to Sinclair dated 5 June 2005, Article by Terry Dwyer, 'Wabag Patrol, Papua New Guinea - 1953', Beaudesert Shire Writers Group publication, Turning leaves, 2000, Patrol Report Minj No 2 of 1951/52 written by Brian Corrigan, Special Report - Chimbu No. 2 of 1957/58 containing a Local Government Survey, Wabaga Patrol No 7 of 51-52, Lagaip River Valley, 16 June 1952.

Includes three issues of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Journal, September-October 1969, September-October 1970 and July-August 1972, 'The Sea and the sky, the pre-war history of the Singapore Flying Club' by Donald Spiers, Singapore, Paya Lebar Airport, December 1969, 'Morning Flight' by Errol Brathwaite. The epic first flight across Cook Strait, accomplished on August 25th, 1920, by Captain Euan Dickson, DSC & Bar, DFC, Croix de Guerre, RAF, with Messrs C.H. Hewlett and J.E. Moore of the Canterbury (NZ) Aviation Company, 1970, 'The Short empire boats', Profile Publications Ltd, No. 84, no date.

One hundred and forty six photographs (146) of existing infrastructure in the 1950s and the construction of Upper Ramu Hydroelectric power project in the 1970s.

Includes typed transcripts of employees interviewed by Jim Sinclair, including - Dolf Marjen, Robert Kari, (Interview of Elevala at Hanubada Village, March 2006), Vere Arava (Tape transcription Port Moresby, April 2006), PIM2 and Notes from Kokoda Trail - McDonald's Corner by Bob McDonald. James Sinclair transcripts of various interviews made in relation to his history of Steamships Trading Co 1918-2008.

Includes letters from Malinowski. Photocopies, some pages not legible.

Photocopies.

Collection of articles from aviation magazines, 1942 - 1971.

Manuscripts related to early aviation in Papua New Guinea. Includes: Felt, E.A 'Contributions to history of the Morobe Goldfields', typescript (carbon copy), 13pp, Pages from the AHSA Journal (Aviation Historical Society of Australia), 'The formative years The first decade - 1919-29' (no author), January-February 1966, pp 7-14 and Hooper, V.G. The Gannet flight to Rabaul 1937, AHSA Journal, March 1963, pp27-28, Halls, L.G. Aviation in Papua and New Guinea, the first twenty years 1922-1942,

Journal of Pacific History, Vol. XXI, Number 2, April 1986, pp100 - 103. Reprint.

File of Jim Sinclair's research papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings on aircraft, pilots and accidents. Includes a statement made by Captain Kenneth Jackson, pilot of the W.R. Carpenter's Airliner VH-UYW which was forced to land near Kavieng on 15th March 1940.

The file includes Soldiers of 'M' Special Unit by Neil C. Smith. Melbourne: 'Mostly Unsung Military History', 2004 Papers related to the Wewak Mission by Lionel Veale Correspondence between Bob Cole and Les Baillie (nickname 'Tas'), 6/11/96 - 28/4/97, Issues of the Z Newsletter, Newsletter of the Z Special Unit Association (NSW) 1998-2002 , 'Mendi, You never forget your first station' by J. (Jim) B. Toner, 2003, 'Report by Lieutenant P. E. Mason, R.A.N.V.R on Coast-Watching activity, Bougainville Island 1941 - 1943', Naval Services, Director of Naval Intelligence, Melbourne, photocopy, nd, Correspondence between Bob Cole and A.S (Sandy) McNab 1994-2002 on Bud Feuer's book 'Coast Watching in the Solomon Islands', and question its accuracy.

Photocopy, given to Bob Cole by Jack Read. Includes copies of McNabs letter and a review by Stuart Inder on the publication, 'Jack Read, Coastwatcher: The Bougainville Reports'. Port Moresby: PNG Printing, c.2006

Conducted by Brigadier-General W.R. McNicoll accompanied by Messer J.A. Andrew, N. E. Feldon and J.K. McCarthy, December 1935.

Tokyo: Japan. Papua New Guinea Goodwill Society, 1980. Photocopied extracts.

A small file of miscellaneous copied papers: copy of correspondence between Bob Cole and Guy Black, September 1996 and copy of a letter from Chares Arthur Monkton to Sir William [MacGregor] from Kokoda, 14 August 1906.

James Sinclair's file on the classification of the public service by Mr C.J. Buttsworth. Typescript (carbon copy), 11pp and correspondence regarding its implementation, July/August 1947.

Interviews include: Dennis Buchanan, Port Moresby 4/8/85 (typescript, 2pp), Sir Barry Holloway at Moresby 4 August 1989 (typescript,4pp), Barry Douglas, Port Moresby 1/8/89, 2pp, Mick McDonald, Hevi-Lift.

Clippings and copies of obituaries for Michael Leahy, 'Lae Nius', 9 March 1979 and Jim Taylor, 'Papua New Guinea Post-Courier', 30 June 1987 and 'The Times', 2-8 July 1987.

Mostly about the access to the uncontrolled areas of inland Papua and early patrols. Includes Biographical notes about Ivan and Elsie May Champion, notes on a radio transmission received on 31/1/28 regarding the Champion and Karius expedition, 1 February 1928 (Fly-Sepik patrol), Letter to Jim Sinclair from Ivan Champion dated 6th November (no year), newspaper clippings about the Champion Family, including an article from the Illustrated London News, 6 March 1937, 'Unknown tribes discovered in Central Papua' by Ivan Champion.

Includes First contact patrol in Upper Mendi: an oral history by Robin Mearns. Recollections of discussions with old men in the villages of Egari, Nene and Komia in Upper Mendi about first contact patrols in the area, including Pondo of Komia and Kumape of Egari Village. Robin Mearns was a researcher with IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)in the 1980s. Also includes a copy of Saunders, H.M. 'A patrol in Papua', Queensland Geographical Journal, Volume 39, 1923-24, p.22-37, 'This is my life story' by Allan Champion (1 page photocopy), Typed version of a patrol report dated 19/11/36 in Imbonggu territory, which had been led by Champion (3pp), A comparative survey of the land resources available to six Upper Mendi clans in the Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and an oral history of first contact patrols, 3 July - 21 August 1985 by Robin Mearns and photocopied chapters of books.

With informal discussion with seminar participants. Restricted, Typescript, 22pp. c.1973-1974.

Poor quality photocopies on diverse subject matter. Of note a letter from Lt Governor Murray requesting permission to grant a half case Papua boy, John Guise, to enter the Commonwealth for the purpose of learning a trade, 24th October 1912.

Relating to family and friends, 7th October 1993 - 12 October 2005.

Includes issues of Harim Tok Tok, the Newsletter of the association, and miscellaneous papers (memos, clippings).

About village constables and native practices.

July- December 1926, print copies. From newspapers including 'The Mercury' (Hobart), 'Gippsland Times' (Victoria), 'Worker' (Brisbane), 'The Argus' (Melbourne), 'The Register' (Adelaide), 'Townsville Daily Bulletin', 'Western Argus' (Kalgoorlie).

September 1932-December 1934, print copies. From newspapers including 'Townsville Daily Bulletin', 'The Sydney Morning Herald', 'Cairns Post', 'Barrier Miner' (Broken Hill), 'Brisbane Courier', 'The Mail' (Adelaide).

December 1929-March 1943, photocopies.

Includes obituary for Kipling Ulari OBE and articles regarding the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine, 1996-1999. Also includes profile of Tom Cole, 1970.

Includes extracts of patrol reports and research notes.

Print out copies of file NAA file A1, 1927/266.

Extracts from 'WUJ Hohnen', the unpublished autobiography of John Hohnen (Managing Director, NG Goldfields) regarding New Guinea Goldfields.

August 1878-December 1954, print copies. From newspapers including 'The Advertiser' (Adelaide), 'The Argus' (Melbourne), 'The Courier Mail' (Brisbane), 'Australian Town and Country Journal', 'The Sydney Morning Herald', 'Cairns Post', 'Barrier Miner' (Broken Hill).

25 April 1994, Melbourne. Includes signatures on back page.

Print copies. From newspapers including 'Worker' (Brisbane), 'The Sydney Morning Herald', 'The Advertiser' (Adelaide), 'The Argus' (Melbourne), 'Barrier Miner' (Broken Hill), 'Northern Standard' (Darwin), 'The Courier Mail' (Brisbane).

November 1976-January 1978. Photocopy of copies held in the UniTech Library, Lae.

January-May 1979. Photocopy of copies held in the UniTech Library, Lae.

BA Hons essay, UPNG, 1976, and related papers. Previously owned by Bob Cole.

March-November 1978. Photocopy of copies held in the UniTech Library, Lae.

Includes copies of correspondence with Phillip Leahy.

March 1938-March 1943, print copies. From newspapers including 'Townsville Daily Bulletin' and 'Cairns Post'.

Includes correspondence, copy of the Morobe Province Historical Society Journal July 1977, civil aircraft registers and press clippings.

Print copies. From newspapers including 'The Mail' (Adelaide), 'Sydney Morning Herald', 'The Argus' (Melbourne), 'Townsville Daily Bulletin', 'Western Argus' (Kalgoorlie), 'Sunday Times' (Perth), 'Courier Mail' (Brisbane).

April 1974-July 1976. Volume 1 was titled 'Lae News'. Photocopy of copies held in the UniTech Library, Lae.

Written by Jack O'Neill, edited by James Sinclair. Annotated.

Full title: Allied Geographical Section Southwest Pacific Area Terrain Study No.69 Locality Study of Madang, 19 November 1943.

Research notes regarding persons from Port Moresby.

Includes translations and articles regarding Hermann Detzner, German engineer and surveyor.

Correspondence and transcript of film regarding the 1960 election.

Includes list of all the Sisters.

Second section, chapters 14-29. Annotated.

Includes articles regarding anthropology, artefact collections and territory surveys.

Manuscript, some annotations.

Includes extracts of works and articles regarding population and patrols.

Full title: Allied Geographical Section Southwest Pacific Area Terrain Study No.49 Area Study of the Markham Catchment, 20th February 1943.

Includes papers of the growth of the Morobe district and part 1 of a history of Goroka.

Prepared by the Department of Information and Extension Services, Port Moresby.

Includes cover proofs. Several items have faded.

Complete, some annotations.

ANU Historical Journal, No.4, Oct 1967.

Printed, annotated.

Original, typed with annotations.

Original.

Original, typed with annotations.

Original, annotated.

Original, typed with annotations.

Chapters 1-13.