Guide to the Papers of Dudley Glastonbury
MS 9387
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Dudley Glastonbury
- Title
- Papers of Dudley Glastonbury
- Date Range
- 1883-1990
- Collection Number
- MS 9387
- Extent
- 3.36 metres (24 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- National Library of Australia
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Research files containing copies of primary and secondary documents compiled by Dudley Glastonbury in his research for an unpublished work on the history of the public service in Papua New Guinea. The main emphasis of the collection is on the development of the public service in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and the establishment of educational and training bodies including the Public Service Institute and the Australian School of Pacific Administration. There are also files on more general topics including the early history of British New Guinea (Papua) and German New Guinea, local government, native affairs, political and economic development, missions, employment of non-Europeans, the origins of mandate, army occupation and war years, post-war reconstruction and public health.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn234155).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Dudley Glastonbury, National Library of Australia, MS 9387, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.
Provenance
The Glastonbury Papers were donated by Rosa Glastonbury, the wife of Dudley Glastonbury, under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1992.
Related Materials
When the papers were acquired they included papers of Edward Campbell, given to Glastonbury by Campbell to assist him in his research into Papua New Guinea. These papers have been accessioned separately at MS 9474. Cassettes of the 1981 ABC oral history project on the Australian administration of Papua New Guinea (directed by Tim Bowden) were transferred to the Oral History Section. Publications belonging to Glastonbury were added to the Library's published collection or discarded.
Papers of Brian Essai, who succeeded Glastonbury as Principal of the Public Service Institute, are held at MS 8165.
War papers of Dudley Glastonbury are held by the Australian War Memorial at PR 89/120.
Arrangement
The papers have been organised into two series: research files and other papers of Dudley Glastonbury. When the research files arrived in the Library, they were in labelled drop files, roughly in chronological order by the subject matter of the files, although the order seemed somewhat disturbed. The order of the research files, as far as it can be ascertained, has been retained.
Biographical Note
Dudley I. Glastonbury was born in Glenelg, South Australia, on 11 June 1910. He was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Science (1930) and Bachelor of Arts (1933) from Adelaide University, and Bachelor of Education (1946) from Melbourne University.
Prior to 1939 Glastonbury was a secondary school teacher with the South Australian Education Department. When war commenced he joined the RAAF and served for over six years, becoming Senior Education Officer with the rank of Squadron Leader.
In 1945 Glastonbury joined the staff of the Ministry of Post-war Reconstruction and, following a two year period with the School of Education at the University of Melbourne, he took up an appointment as Senior Research and Projects Officer in the Industrial Training Division of the Commonwealth Department of Labour and National Service.
In 1954 Glastonbury became the inaugural Principal of the Public Service Institute, which had been established in Papua and New Guinea to provide in-service training courses and conduct evening classes for the further education of Territory public servants. During his term of office to September 1957, he arranged the organisation and supervision of in-service training at all levels, the development of book and film libraries, liaison with academic institutions in Australia and overseas, and the provision of diploma courses of study at university level by arrangement with the Department of External Studies at the University o Queensland. He also played a primary role in laying the foundations for the selection and training of the first non-European entrants to the Public Service in an Auxiliary or 4th Division.
Glastonbury returned to Australia in September 1957 and, after occupying various positions including first Principal Training Officer of the Country Roads Board, Victoria, he concluded his career at Melbourne High School where he taught year 12 mathematics. Glastonbury retired from official life in 1976 but continued his academic pursuits with research on the Territory of Papua and New Guinea until his death.
Glastonbury died in Melbourne on 12 July 1991.
Compiled by Brian Essai and Jill Daly, 2001
Item Descriptions
Series 1. Research files on the history of the public service in Papua New Guinea, 1883-1989
Files assembled by Glastonbury in 1979-1989 while researching the history of the public service in Papua New Guinea. Glastonbury hoped to write a monograph on the topic, but was unable to complete the project.
The files contain photocopies of articles and chapters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reports, theses, and copies of documents copied from the Australian Archives, Queensland State Archives, National Library of Australia, Papua New Guinea National Archives and other repositories. Interspersed with this material are meticulous notes, drafts, summaries of readings and bibliographic references kept by Glastonbury. The papers date from about 1883 until 1989.
The headings in the file list below are based upon the headings on file dividers used by Glastonbury. The original order of material within files has been maintained.
Pre-war years: Missions (includes 'The London Missionary Society Samoan missionaries along the Papuan coast' by Ruta Sinclair, BA Honours sub-thesis, 1979) (File 16) - Box 3
Pre-war years: 1950s- the Territory government and administration, 1950-84 (includes photographs) (File 18-19) - Box 3, 4
Early Post War Years: Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA)- basic information (war years and early post-war) (File 31) - Box 6
Early Post War Years: Brian Jinks 'Policy, planning and administration in Papua New Guinea, 1942-1952, with special reference to the role of Colonel J.K. Murray' (PhD, University of Sydney, 1975) (File 36) - Box 7
Public Service- General (includes Commonwealth Public Service; Great Britain; A report on arrangements appropriate to a national public service for Papua New Guinea by the Papua New Guinea Committee on Arrangements Appropriate to a National Public Service for Papua New Guinea, 1972) (File 41-42) - Box 8
1950s public service (2) - control- Public Service Commissioner (includes correspondence relating to the career of Thomas Aubrey Huxley, 1977-89) (File 44) - Box 9
1950s: Native administration - A.M. Healy's thesis 'Native administration and local government in Papua 1880-1960' (PhD, ANU, 1962) (File 51) - Box 10
1950s: Geography of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (Public Service Institute, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1955) (File 59) - Box 12
1950s: Brian Essai Outline of the economics of Papua and New Guinea (Public Service Institute, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1955) (File 60) - Box 12
Public Service Institute: Public Service Institute - origins and development, 1954-55 (File 61) - Box 12
Public Service Institute external studies (2), University of Queensland, after 1956 (File 64) - Box 13
Public Service Institute: In-service training (2) - Training Within Industry higher appointments (File 68) - Box 13
Public Service Institute: ASOPA (Australian School of Pacific Administration), 1950s (File 69) - Box 14
Training and employment of natives: Asians and mixed race (1) - history, naturalisation (File 76) - Box 115
Training and employment of natives: Asians and mixed race (2) - employment- basic (File 77) - Box 115
Training and employment of natives: Asians and mixed race (3) - assistant medical practitioners (File 78) - Box 115
Series 2. Other papers, 1929-90
General files, mainly containing newspaper cuttings, relating to Papua New Guinea and other matters. The series also includes a 1929 diary, photographs, files on a proposed project on Broken Hill and several items of personal correspondence (see also series 1, folder 108 for further personal correspondence).