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- 1962 - 1976 (Creation)
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0.1m (1 type 2 box)
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The Wahgi Local Government Council provided local government services for people living in towns including Minj and Nangamp.
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Nangamp [Nangamb] Native Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jan 1962-Feb 1965, in Pidgin;
Minj and Nangamp Local Government Councils, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Apr-Aug 1965, in Pidgin;
Documents re amalgamation of Minj and Nangamp LGCs to form Wahgi LGC, 1965;
Wahgi Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jul 1966, Jul 1973-May 1976, in English;
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Local Government Council Conference - Highlands Region, Mt. Hagen Council Chambers, 28-30 Mar 1967.
Wahgi Tuale Association, Aims and Policies; and other documents.
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Researchers must sign an access agreement
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- Papuan Language
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Text mostly in Pidgin
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Copied by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au.virtual.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/minutes-of-meetings-and-related-papers;isad
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The first local government councils in the Territory of New Guinea were set up in 1950. The system of local government spread rapidly in the 1960s; in 1963 there were 50 councils in the Territory and by 1965 there were 72. Local government began in the Western Highlands in 1961 with the formation of the Hagen, Minj (South Wahgi) and Nangamp (North Wahgi) Local Government Councils. Minj and Nangamp were merged in 1965 to form the Wahgi Council . By the mid 1990s there were 12 councils in the Western Highlands Province. Leading up to the formation of provincial government in the Western Highlands in the mid 1970s, the Wahgi Local Government Council was associated with a movement for the Jimi, Wahgi and Kambia areas to form a separate Jiwaka Province. (See John Burton and Chris Keher, “Western Highlands Province, 1978-1990”, in R.J. May & A.J. Regan (Eds.), Political Decentralisation in a New State, 1997).
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Created by Christine Bryan on 26 October 2015, based on information provided by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.
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- Papuan Language
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Pacific Manuscripts Bureau - PMB 1224