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Nigel Oram to Martha [Macintyre], Ts., 1p., cover note for Oram’s paper on Reginald Edward Guise, attached, The Mystery of Guise. Conflict between Mission, Colonial Administration and foreign traders during the British New Guinea Protectorate, Ts., 53pp.; references; appendices (poor quality computer printouts), c.4pp.; and genealogy, Ms., 5pp.

Part of Papers on town planning in Bougainville and Honiara, and provincial administration in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, including PNG Constitutional planning committee papers

Cf. a version of The Mystery of Guise (Ts., 29pp.) at PMB 1288 and published in the Journal of Pacific History.

Untitled file of reference papers on town planning in Honiara [see below for contents]

Part of Papers on town planning in Bougainville and Honiara, and provincial administration in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, including PNG Constitutional planning committee papers

Contents as follows:

Chairman, Honiara Town Council, Illegal Buildings Squatters in Honiara, BSIP Circular 4/67, 1 Sep 1967, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
A.V. Hughes (for Commissioner of Lands and Surveys), Memo, Squatters, 7 Sep 1967, Ts., p/c, 1p.
A.V. Hughes (for Commissioner of Lands and Surveys), Memo, Temporary Housing Areas, Honiara and Environs, 18 Oct 1969, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
Classification of different types of land tenure in the Protectorate, n.d., Ts., p/c, 8pp.
— A.V. Hughes (Permanent Secretary, Finance), Memo to Permanent Secretary, WPU, Finance for Housing Policy, 25 Jun 1976, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
J.B. Twomey (Adviser, Natural Resources Committee), Allocation of Public Land in Honiara, BSIP Secretariat Public Notice
No.40/73, 11 Apr 1973, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
Ministry of Works and Public Utilities, Housing Policy, 18 Apr 1975, Draft, Ts., p/c, 14pp.
Ministry of Works and Public Utilities, Housing Policy, 6 Aug 1975, 1st copy, Ts., p/c, 14pp.
— Ministry of Works and Public Utilities, Housing Policy, 14 Jul 1975, 2nd copy, Ts., p/c, 14pp.
— S. Kelly, Squatters on Public Land behind Honiara, 4 Jul 1975, Ts/. p/c, 1p
A.V. Hughes (Central Planning Office), Memo to Permanent Secretary MWFU, Implementation of Housing Policy – Working Party on Housing, 11 Dec 1975, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
Peter Larmour (Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & lands), Memo to Secretary for Public Service, Technical Assistance Housing Policy, 29 Sep 1975, Ts., p/c, 3pp.
Ministry of Works and Public Utilities, Housing Policy, 6 Aug 1975, Ts., p/c, 14pp., and Appendix A & B.
Appendix B of Housing Policy (Item 11 above), An analysis of house prices and cross subsidization of a typical estate in 1975, 6 Aug 1975, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
A.V. Hughes (Head of Planning), Memo to Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works & Public Utilities et al., Housing Authority and Housing Policy, 28 Jul 1975, Ts., p/c, 3pp.
12 [sic]. Public Service Housing, and Housing Policy General, 11 Aug 1976, Ts., p/c, 2pp.
P. Larmour, Memo to Central Islands Council et al., Temporary Housing, Tulagi, 29 Oct 1976, Ts., p/c, 4pp.
Solomon Islands Ministry of Agriculture and lands, Housing Authority & Rents, 26 Apr, 1976, Ts., p/c, 1p.
Appraisal of Solomon Islands Housing Authority, n.d., Ts., p/c, 8pp., tables.