Papers relating to education in Papua New Guinea and Nauru [microform], 1922-1962 (inclusive).

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Papers relating to education in Papua New Guinea and Nauru [microform], 1922-1962 (inclusive).

The papers contain material on mission education in Melanesia, relating to pre- and post-war Papua New Guinea, correspondence and photographs.

6 microfilm reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8029134

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Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

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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...