Highlands period, 1952-68

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Series 3
Content Summary:

Downs returned to New Guinea after World War II and by 1951 was the youngest District Commissioner in the administration, based in Madang. Between 1952-56 he held the position of District Commissioner in Goroka , before resigning to take up coffee farming and to enter politics.

Included in this series are files and correspondence relating to the official, semi-official, political and business activities with which Downs was associated whilst resident in Goroka, the large proportion of which he kept interfiled in chronological sequences. Also documented is Downs’ Presidency of the Highland Farmers and Settlers Association, 1957-68, and his involvement with the Upper Asaro Coffee Community, which supplied coffee to the Korfena coffee company of which he was part-owner.

Papers which relate exclusively to Downs’ political career are filed in Series 4 and 5.

Names:
Ian Downs

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