This Annual Report of 1989 discusses the PNG Coffee Industry Board matters including its report on Board meetings and a special meeting with Minister, the Hon. G. Lang. It also reports on the Coffee Stock Holding Policy, review of coffee export licenses, financial matters, staff matters, the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC), coffee production and exports, its industry fund and bounty. This report contains letters, photos, notes and statements, balance sheets, figures, tables and graphs on useful data and statistics.

This is paper reports on coffee export statistics of the 1989/90 coffee year. It discusses general statistical information about that particular coffee year and gives specific details of production, registrations exports with useful data tables, graphs and charts and their explanatory notes.

This paper covers 23 Resolutions from the 7th Meeting of the PNG Agricultural Council that took place on 13 May 1988. Almost all Resolutions have a recommendation section translated into the Tok Pisin language.

This paper is a DRAFT implementation document on the Coffee Rehabilitation and Rust Control Project and it is divided into two chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the assessment of current circumstances and Chapter 2 discusses recommended adjustments to activity design and justification for change. It also contains useful figures on data provided.

This paper is a copy of Volume I, Five Year Strategy Development plan for the Coffee Industry of PNG, the Final Report June 1989, prepared by McGowan INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD and submitted to the Department of Agriculture and Livestock. It covers headings on a global imbalance between demand and supply, essential elements of domestic strategy, quota allocation, stabilisation fund, industry institutional reform, export tax and import duty on farm equipment and approach to international negotiations. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It also contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables.

This paper is a copy of Volume I, Five Year Strategy Development plan for the Coffee Industry of PNG, the Final Report June 1989, prepared by McGowan INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD and submitted to the Department of Agriculture and Livestock. It covers headings on a global imbalance between demand and supply, essential elements of domestic strategy, quota allocation, stabilisation fund, industry institutional reform, export tax and import duty on farm equipment and approach to international negotiations. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It also contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables.

This paper incorporates general reports, evaluation reports, and advisory circulars on the PNG coffee Industry.

This collection comprises 39 images black and white photographs taken in the Australian Territory of Papua and New Guinea by Australian Frank Forster in the 4 months December 1949-March 1950.

The photographs record a trip made mainly by boat to the Territory by Frank, a 28 year old honours graduate in obstetrics, surgery and gynaecology of the University of Melbourne, who became as well a medical historian, bibliophile and benefactor. At the time, health care services provided for the local people by the colonial authorities were minimal. In 1947 there were 17 doctors working there, all of whom were expatriates. The first two trained surgeons arrived about 1950, and were based in Rabaul and in Port Moresby. In 1953 the Australian National University, through a government committee, began identifying “gaps in knowledge” in the territory.

Frank’s record of his journey starts in Papua’s Eastern District at Samarai Island and ends as he returns to Brisbane, having visited several other small islands including Kwato in Papua, then to New Guinea where he visited Lae, Goroka in the Eastern Highlands, Madang, and Manus Island.

Frank’s collection is literally a “snapshot” of the times. He shows various types of boats and light aircraft, local people at work, postwar buildings including wharves and railway lines, and equipment. Nine photos relate to the port and town on Samarai Island in the Milne Bay District of Papua, now the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Six of these show boats at the wharf, including MV Malaita of the Burns Philp Shipping Company, the wharf railway line and men working to move cargo. Two photos show members of the Papua and New Guinea Constabulary presenting arms, and one is of a building displaying an Australian flag and two flags of the United States, a clear reminder of the importance of Samarai to the Allies in World War 2.

En route to Lae in the Morobe District of New Guinea, now the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, the boat passed Gesila Island and berthed at Kwato Island. On Kwato, Frank photographed the London Missionary Society (LMS) Church. In the port of Lae, Frank photographed landing craft AB2348 with many men, possibly labourers, on board, and the ship MV Malaita again.
In Madang District, four photographs are of the coastline and buildings, one possibly of the administrative headquarters of the district and business establishments, and a detailed scene of a wharf, including men working to move cargo. On the mainland, three photographs show beautiful trees including one of a long archway of trees, and at the cemetery, the 1914 grave of Willi Wohlgemuth, a machinist probably on the mission ship, for the Divine Word Mission at Sek (Alexishafen). In 1913 the Mission sub-divided for sale land on Doilon Plantation just south of Alexishafen, and Wohlgemuth got Block 3, 160 hectares, but died of appendicitis on 1 March 1914. (Amtsblatt 1914, 45, 91.) One photograph captures a well maintained corrugated iron building with “1913” clearly shown and another an aerial view of MV Malaita at a wharf.

Four photographs were taken in or near Goroka, probably at Humilaveka, in the Eastern Highlands District of New Guinea, and all relate to an airstrip – kunai (grass) buildings, fences, people watching and a biplane, a De Havilland 84 Dragon.
The four photographs taken of Manus Island are of the main port of Lorengau. Various types of water craft, possibly pieces of equipment left after World War 2, buildings and the main wharf, are shown in these photos.
Probably on his way back to Australia, Frank took a photograph in the China Straits showing three different types of boat, and one other.

The photographs were given to Helen and Ray Spark in 1976. They met him on a trip with their two daughters to Melbourne from Wewak in Papua New Guinea where they were living, Ray then working at the Wewak hospital. They got talking and Frank told them he had some old photos of New Guinea. He said he took the photos when he was a student doing an internship there in December 1949- March 1950. Under Frank’s care, a son was born to the Sparks in April 1976. Frank gave the photos to the Sparks in the brown manilla envelope. On it in pencil is the note “These pictures were taken Dec 1949 March 1950”: presumably the handwriting is Frank’s.

The brief descriptions on most photos are Frank Forster’s own. Additional information has been added to these descriptions, much of it based on the work Bill Gammage did in 2018 when asked to look at the images by the Bureau.

This collection consists of two reports written by Carl Franke, Cadet Agriculturist, for the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries (DASF), Territories of Papua and New Guinea, during the period 1947-1948. The first report, ‘Report On – General description of; native agriculture in; and rubber production at Kokoda – Sub-district of the Northern District of Papua’, describes climate (including rainfall), population (including social, spiritual/sorcery), vegetation, religious missions, effects of war, land use systems, food crops, livestock, health and nutrition, trade and economics. It reports on Kokoda sub-districts: Autembo-Wairopi-Hungiri, Biagi, Wawanga-Managalasi and Chirima. It also reports on a government rubber plantation at Kokoda, noting that pre-war records were destroyed during World War II. It describes the processing stages, including preparing land, tapping, standardising, coagulating, smoking, drying or curing, and packing.

The second report, ‘A Report on the Agricultural Potentiality of the Goilala Sub-district of Papua’, describes the location, including communications infrastructure, population, language groups, climate (including rainfall), customs, kinship and marriage, social organisation, chieftainship, politics, diet and feasts, sorcery, religious missions, health and nutrition, land use and tenure, gardens, crops, and economics. The report also includes Franke’s patrol diaries.

Both reports contain photographs and hand-drawn maps.