British New Guinea and Territory of Papua: Correspondence with M. Staniforth Smith, 1907-15

 
Component identifier:
Series 6
Content Summary:

Confidential and personal correspondence with Staniforth Smith, Director of Agriculture and Commissioner for Lands and later Administrator (1908) of Territory of Papua, concerning various matters, including land settlement; agricultural development policy; Federal politics; Administration personnel; Ladekamu and other Papuan goldfields; oil-boring operations; missionary activities; native labour; electoral representation; Papuan Pensions Bill; Smith's report on Java (1915).

Typescript copy (unsigned) of notes on the island of New Guinea

Comprises Items 430-610

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Commonwealth National Library by Hunt's daughter, Miss Marion Hunt, in 1936. Some other papers of Atlee Hunt, including three diaries, were donated by Mr Bruce Hunt in 1964 and are housed at MS 1100.

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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