New Hebrides: Correspondence with Merton King, 1907-17

 
Component identifier:
Series 8
Content Summary:

Private and personal correspondence with Merton King, Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission, Fiji, and later British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides (1907), concerning various matters, including: Australian customs supervision on exports to New Hebrides; operation of the Anglo-French Convention and Joint Court; origin and activities of the Société Francaise des Novelles Hébrides; mail services for the Pacific; surveys of British settlers' lands; missionary activities; appointment of Native Advocate; Royal Commission into the Working of the Pacific mail service (1910?); amendments to Anglo-French Convention (1915).

Comprises Items 635-716

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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Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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