20. Correspondence and Memoranda on Pacific, 1914-1920

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Box 9

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Series

Content Summary:

Subjects given here in order in which they appear in the file include the British purchase of Nauru (1919-1920); Australian-Japanese relations in the Pacific 1914-1919, including acquisition of former German colonies north of the equator, Japanese trade in the pacific, spheres of influence, economic development of the Pacific Islands and information from Sir James Burns, Burns Philip and Co. about Japanese expansion; 1916 enquiry into British and Australian trade in South Pacific; Australian and British policy in Pacific and New Guinea, 1916-1919, including Marshall Islands, German New Guinea, recruitment of natives to develop German New Guinea, Japanese and Australian interests in Pacific, administration of former German colonies in Pacific post-war, indentures native or Chinese labour in Pacific, Japan and the Netherlands East Indies, Pacific trade and shipping and 1916 Interstate Commission into South Pacific trade of Britain and Australia. Comprises Items 6616-6822

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received in 1961 from Mr A.B.L. Munro Ferguson and the Trustees of the late Viscount Novar. Thirty photographs copied from the Novar albums in the possession of Mr Munro Ferguson were added to the collection in 1985. Subsequent additions include five illuminated manuscripts purchased from a dealer in 1990 and transcripts of extracts from Novar's diaries donated by Professor John Poynter in 1997. Six volumes of diaries, on long-term loan from Mr Ronald Munro Ferguson (great nephew of Lord Novar), were added to the collection on 12 January 2004. The diaries were kept by Lord Novar while he was Governor General of Australia between 1915 and 1920.

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