Preparing a Nation? : The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea / Brad Underhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underhill, Brad, author.

Series:

Pacific series.

Pacific Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Papua New Guinea--History--20th century.

Economic development.

Social planning--Papua New Guinea--History--20th century.

Social planning.

Papua New Guinea--Politics and government--To 1975.

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea--Colonial influence.

Papua New Guinea--Relations--Australia.

Australia--Relations--Papua New Guinea.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2024]

Summary:

Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Figure 0.1: Sir Paul Hasluck, Minister of Territories, 1951-63.

Figure 1.1: Minister for External Territories Edward John Ward.

Figure 1.2: John Curtin and Mrs Elsie Curtin with General Sir Thomas Blamey in 1944.

Figure 2.1: Colonel JK Murray.

Figure 2.2: Paul Hasluck attending a meeting of the Hanuabada Local Government Council, Port Moresby.

Figure 3.1: Commonwealth Bank in Papua New Guinea, Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck on an official party visit to a village in the Highlands, 1955.

Figure 3.2: Percy Spender, New External Territories Minister, December 1949.

Figure 3.3: Paul Hasluck at a village in the Highlands in 1955.

Figure 3.4: Rachel and Donald Cleland (right and second right) with Governor-General William Slim in 1959.

Figure 3.5: The administrator, Donald Cleland, breakfasting outside house 'Kiap' Fatmilak, New Ireland, in 1954.

Figure 3.6: Territories Department, 1952.

Figure 4.1: Paul Hasluck on an official 1955 visit to the Territory Administration, Port Moresby.

Figure 4.2: Hasluck Development Pyramid.

Figure 4.3: On 7 April 1961, Paul Hasluck opened the Madang General Hospital. The guard of honour was made up of hospital orderlies and infant child and maternal health nurses.

Figure 4.4: An example of the harsh environment patrol officers dealt with in the early postwar period of 'pacification'.

Figure 4.5: Teacher trainees assembled on the playing field of Popondetta, Educational Centre, 1955.

Figure 4.6: Paul Hasluck at the official opening of the Legislative Council in November 1951.

Figure 5.1: Women bringing food to the Chimbu Police Post in the early days of its establishment in 1937. The post can be seen in the background.

Figure 5.2: Villagers in Goroka deriving a cash income from their natural timber stands.

Figure 7.1: The District Office at Samarai in 1958, the administrative headquarters for the Milne Bay district, Papua and New Guinea.

Figure 7.2: According to the caption (1950), 'at Kwato Mission, the girls are taught dress-making and laundering'.

Figure 7.3: Interior of the joinery works and factory of the Milne Bay Development Company, 1952.

Figure 8.1: Caption reads as follows (1952): 'Village election, one of the Wagawaga headman strikes a triangle to indicate that the poll is open'.

Figure 8.2: Alice Wedega talking with girl guides in 1958.

Figure 9.1: Mahuru Rarua-Rarua in 1959 addressing the Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council.

Figure 10.1: Clearing land for dry rice in 1952 in the Sepik District.

Figure 11.1: Sister Clematia and Mr McGuigan watching the unloading of a barge in 1947 on New Hanover.

Figure 11.2: Anelaua Leprosarium staff, including priest, European sisters, New Guinean sisters and lay brother, 1947.

Figure 11.3: Taskul station seen from the Officer's house in 1947.

Figure 11.4: Weighing and selling copra, 1948.

Figure 12.1: Husking coconuts for copra.

Figure 12.2: CJ Miller, Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Territory of Papua New Guinea (TPNG), speaking at the 1951 Congress of Queensland Co-operatives.

Figure 12.3: United Nations Mission members with Mr Henry Ramon, Secretary of the New Ireland Native Societies Association, at the cooperative headquarters in Kavieng, 1959.

List of Tables

Table 2.1: Australian grants (for the year ending 30 June).

Table 2.2: The effect of the war on public servants, 19 June 1945.

Table 2.3: Selection criteria for attachment to Colonial Office.

Table 2.4: Cooperatives: Primary organisations (year ending 31 March).

Table 2.5: Establishment of local government councils, 1950-54.

Table 2.6: Expansion of local government councils, 1951-63.

Table 3.1: Australian grants (for the year ending 30 June).

Table 3.2: Public service, Auxiliary Division and administrative patrols.

Table 4.1: Public service, 1961-64.

Table 4.2: Extension of government influence.

Table 4.3: Agricultural extension officers.

Table 5.1: Northern Chimbu: Population land density.

Table 5.2: Administration control or influence in the Central Highlands, 1949-54.

Table 5.3: Age group and marital status.

Table 5.4: Number of workers employed in the Highlands, 1951-52.

Table 5.5: 1957 absentee labour statistics, Central Census Division.

Table 8.1: 1952 Ealeba Council budget.

Table 8.2: 1956 Ealeba Council budget.

Table 9.1: 1957 Sepik rural progress societies.

Table 10.1: 1952 milling unit.

Table 10.2: Agricultural extension officers, Maprik subdistrict, 1950-63.

Table 10.3: 1958 Maprik subdistrict rural progress societies.

Table 10.4: Supari RPS peanut production.

Table 10.5: Albiges coffee tree planting.

Table 10.6: Yield per acre.

Table 11.1: Price of copra: Papua-New Guinea, 1925-48.

Table 12.1: New Ireland cooperative societies, 1955-61.

Table 12.2: 1960 New Hanover cooperative societies.

Table 12.3: World copra price (Pacific Coast), 1948-59.

Table 12.4: New Ireland District copra rejection rates, October 1954-57.

Table 12.5: Whole-of-government effort on New Hanover, 1958.

Table 12.6: Percentage of cooperative staff positions filled, 1955-61.

Table 12.7: Cooperative staff, 1955-61.

Table 12.8: New Ireland District extension staff: 1954-58.

Table 12.9: 1959 estimated religious breakdown of New Hanover population.

Table 12.10: Inland vs coastal income, Lavongai census division, 1961.

Table 12.11: 1961 Lavongai census division.

Table 13.1: Comparison of postwar development: 1946/47-1963/64.

Table 13.2: Comparison of education facilities for the year 1963.

Table 13.3: Comparative change in public health facilities, 1947-63.

List of Maps

Map 0.1: Map of Papua New Guinea highlighting the four regions studied.

Map 2.1: Papua New Guinea, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1949.

Map 5.1: Chimbu Province.

Map 7.1: Milne Bay.

Map 8.1: Milne Bay.

Map 9.1: East Sepik Province.

Map 9.2: Detailed map of East Sepik province.

Map 11.1: The Bismarck Archipelago.

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Australian Postwar Ambition for the Territory of Papua New Guinea

1. The Impetus for the 'New Deal for Papua New Guinea': Australia's Response to a Unique Postwar Colonial Circumstance

2. Provisional Administration: 'We Stopped Them Putting the Clock Back'

3. Administering the 'New Deal' from the Extreme Centre

4. The Australian Objective: Understanding the Hasluck Development Pyramid

Part Two: Indigenous Influence: Local Conditions and Autonomous Actions

Case Study: Chimbu

5. Chimbu: Australia's New Deal Problem?

6. Highland Labour Scheme: Indigenous Opportunity or Government Solution?

Case Study: Milne Bay

7. Milne Bay: The Emergence of Indigenous Autonomy

8. Indigenous Advancement: Only on the Colonialist's Terms

Case Study: Maprik

9. Sepik: 'If You See a European, Don't Call Him Masta'

10. Village Rice Development: Co‑opting Indigenous Enterprise

Case Study: New Hanover

11. New Hanover: Colonial Control and Indigenous Sociopolitical Agency

12. Cooperatives and the Hasluck Pyramid at Work in the Villages of New Hanover

Conclusion

13. The 'New Deal' Assessed: Just Rhetoric or the Basis for Independence?

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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9781760466626

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OCLC:

1451078087

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