Papers [manuscript]. 1921-1975.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1921-1975.

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There are field-work notebooks and diaries, documents relating to his war service and experiences as a prisoner-of-war, drafts of monographs, journal articles and broadcast talks. There are cuttings of non-scientific articles and reviews of his book "Native Education and Culture Contact in New Guinea". Correspondence includes both business and personal material. His service as Chief Scout Commissioner is reflected in correspondence and photographs. There are also diaries and memoirs kept by his wife Mrs. Doris Groves, who went to Papua and New Guinea as a missionary in 1921.

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Groves, William C. (William Charles), 1898-1967

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William Charles Groves, B.A. (Melb), Dip.Ed., F.R.A.I. (1898-1967) was a Supervisor of Education in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from 1922 till 1926. He carried out anthropological work in the Western Pacific, including New Guinea, from 1931 till 1936, as a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology under the Australian National Research Council. He was Director of Education in Nauru from 1937 till 1938 and Advisor on Education in the Solomon Islands from 1939 till 1940. After World War II h...

Groves, Doris

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