Papers on New Guinea

Items include:

Appendix 2 Value of Papua and Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Also includes Elkin's handwritten notes are on the reverse of page 3.

Department of External Territories, Canberra. Australian New Guinea. Conditions under which plantation owners and their agents and employees may return to the Territory of Papua. JM Fraser, Minister for External Territories (24/05/1943)

Typed copy of letter sent by Elkin, addressed to 'Sir', Reconstruction and the native peoples of the South West Pacific. October 1943. Includes 3 pages of Elkin's handwritten notes.

Report of Nutrition in New Guinea 8 Sep to 7 Oct 1943 by Noel M Gutteridge, Major AAMC Medical Liasison Officer, "Q" Branch (Nutrition), 13/10/1943.

Typed notes on various suggestions for the future of New Guinea by Elkin

Covering letter with copy memo to The Secretary, Department of the Army from JR Halligan, Assistant Secretary, Department of External Territories re Elkin's suggestion that anthropological research should be conducted in Papua and New Guinea following the occupation of certain parts of New Guinea by enemy troops during WWII.