These reports were gathered by Dr Peter Sack, Senior Fellow in Law, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1957-1998, as part of his research on land ownership systems and cultural patterns of inheritance and ownership which effect land tenure in Papua New Guinea. See also PMB 1147.

<LI>Reports on land matters in PNG: S. Rowton Simpson on the role of maps and boundaries in land registration, 1967, and on land problems, 1969; Magistrates’ Land Law Survey, 1968; four reports by D S Grove on land matters, 1970; Sinaka Goava’s inquiry into land matters, 1973; and others.</LI>
<LI>Several reports specifically on land matters on the Gazelle Peninsula, including: I FG Downs on Tolai unrest, 1969; a report by the PNG Land Titles Commission on East New Britain, 1971; J P O’Shea on claims made by the people of Tagi Tagi village in the Kokopo Sub-District, 1972; W H Biscoe on alienated land problems, 1973.</LI>
<LI>Three reports on administration of justice and law and order issues in PNG: David P. Derham on Administration of Justice in TPNG, 1960; an anonymous report on problems facing the administration of justice, n.d.; William Prentice on the developing state of lawlessness, 1979.</LI>
<LI>Together with a report by G P Nazareth on registration of customary land in the Solomon Islands, 1971</LI>.

<b>The ANU Law Library's detailed finding aid for these papers is available in <a href="http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/Onlinematerials/Sackpapers/Sackpapers.rtf"> [rtf format]</a>and <a href="http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/Onlinematerials/Sackpapers/Sackpapers.PDF"> [pdf format]</a>.</b><P><B>See Finding aids for details.</B>