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  • Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics Census Bulletin No. 8 – Territory of New Guinea – 4th April 1921

    Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics Census Bulletin No. 8 – Territory of New Guinea – 4th April 1921

    A nicely bound edition of the Territory of New Guinea Census Bulletin No. 8 pertaining to the Census of the Commonwealth of Australia, 4th April, 1921, prepared by the Commonwealth Statistician under instructions from the Minister of State for Home and Territories.

    This bulletin begins in marvelous detail with an introduction of the census operation and its objectives including a general description of the lands and their native populations before examining its history, from discovery, the period prior to German annexation, the Neu Guinea Kompagnie, the period of Imperial control, capture by the Australian and Military Administration, Australian Mandate and concluding with the New Guinea Act 1920.

    The bulletin then examines economic development of the area; disposal of land, agriculture, domestic animals, timber resources, marine products, mining, shipping, commerce, principal settlements, exports, imports and use of native labour. The bulletin concludes with the census data itself examining dwellings and population, native, European and Asiatic.

    $120.00

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  • Report on the military occupation of the German New Guinea possession – 1922 – With Very Large Coloured Map

    Report on the military occupation of the German New Guinea possession – 1922 – With Very Large Coloured Map

    Report (accompanied by a massive map) by the Minister of State for Defence on the military occupation of the German New Guinea possessions, published by the parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1922.

    Contains a report examining the position in the Pacific at the commencement of WWI, and the dispatch of the Australian Naval and Military Expedition Force. The report examines, the movement and nature of both the German and Australian fleets around New Guinea, from the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914. The report includes a description of the territory, the northwest Pacific Expedition, laws in force in the territory and the administration of justice, administration of native affairs, a brief examination of tropical medicine, territory revenues and tropical agriculture including currency and coinage, costs of administration and policy in regard to German nationals.

    Nicely bound, by a later collector with gilt title to front spine.

    The map, with dimensions of about 150x150cm (see accompanying photograph) is in colour and comprising the New Guinea mainland, New Britain and surrounding islands and the tip of Cape York. Very detailed. It represents the pre-war position and although undated likely comes from circa 1910. It is an exceptional map of the period the value of which more than underpins this item

    $190.00

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