Four reports by government officials:

1. Cargo Beliefs and Cargo Cults among the West Nakanai of New Britain, by C.A. Valentine III, 15 January 1955, 74 + 3 pp.
2. A Review of Native Policy for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, February 1955 (Known as the Jones-Marsh Review), 177 pp.
3. Report on Mass Communications to His Honour the Administrator and the Public Service Commissioner from Committee of Enquiry, headed by L.F. Butler, 87 pp.
4. An Enquiry into the Social Conditions of the Mixed-blood Population of Papua and New Guinea, by R. Thomson, July 1951-July 1952, 117 pp.