Mr Norman Wilson was a Patrol Officer in Papua New Guinea from 1962 until 1979. His wife, Deirdre, was a secondary school teacher in PNG for eight years. Mr Wilson completed the Australian School of Pacific Administration preliminary training course in August 1962 and undertook the ASOPA long course in 1966. He was a Patrol Officer in the East Sepik District at Maprik, other outstations and Wewak from 1962 to 1968, then in the Chimbu District at Karamui and Chauve until 1970 when he was transferred to the Eastern Highlands as District Political Education Officer. He was responsible for the planning and implementation of the district political education program which was one of the most successful in the country. Mr Wilson was an active member of the Eastern Highlands Cricket Association and a member of the Management Committee of the J.K. McCarthy Museum. After independence Mr Wilson remained in Goroka as Deputy District Commissioner, EHD, until 1979.

Personal papers of Norman Wilson, 1967 & 1972; ASOPA Law course papers, 1966; Electoral Commission, Electoral Boundaries Commission and related material, 1964-78; Eastern Highlands – Political Education, Provincial Government and Elections, 1970-78; Eastern Highlands papers – general, 1968-78; Resettlement of Chimbus at Karamui., 1971; TPNG, Dept of the Treasury, circulars, 1947-49; TPNG, circulars, 1963-75; Public Service Association of PNG, reports, conference papers and circulars, 1970-73; Publications of the Department of Information and Extension Services and the Political Education Committee, 1968-72; Sundry printed material, 1955-77. See Finding aids for details.