Guide to the Papers of Dudley Glastonbury

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MS 9387

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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files containing copies of primary and secondary documents compiled by Dudley Glastonbury in his research for an unpublished work on the history of the public service in Papua New Guinea.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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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.

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.

Introduction (File 1) - Box 1

Pre-war years: Perspectives, 1981-85 (File 2-5) - Box 1

Pre-war years: Early Australian interests (File 6-7) - Box 1, 2

Pre-war years: Protectorate- events leading to possession (File 8-9) - Box 2

Pre-war years: The interregnum years in Papua (File 10) - Box 2

Pre-war years: The possession- Sir William MacGregor (File 11-12) - Box 2

Pre-war years: Papua- the Murray years (File 13-14) - Box 3

Pre-war years: Education- Murray period (File 15) - Box 3

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: Anthropology and cadet training (File 17) - Box 3

Pre-war years: 1950s- the Territory government and administration, 1950-84 (includes photographs) (File 18-19) - Box 3, 4

Pre-war years: German New Guinea (File 20) - Box 4

Pre-war years: Mandate- army occupation/origins of mandate (File 21) - Box 4

Pre-war years: Mandate- General Ainsworth report (File 22-23) - Box 4

Pre-war years: Mandate administration (File 24-25) - Box 4, 5

Pre-war years: Education in the mandate territory (File 26) - Box 5

War years (WWII)- international (U.N.) (File 27) - Box 5

War years- Australia: general/official (File 28) - Box 5

War years- the Territories (File 29) - Box 5

War years- Australian Directorate of Research (File 30) - Box 6

Early Post War Years: Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA)- basic information (war years and early post-war) (File 31) - Box 6

Early postwar- Territory (1)- general (File 32) - Box 6

Early postwar- Territory (2)- public service (File 33) - Box 6

Early Post War Years: Transition- war to civil bases (File 34) - Box 6

Early post-war Australia (File 35) - Box 7

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

Early Post War Years: Sir Percy Spender year (1950) (File 37) - Box 7

Early Post War Years: Health (File 38) - Box 7

Early Post War Years: 1950s Australia and Sir Paul Hasluck (File 39-40) - Box 7, 8

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 (1) - ordinances, regulations etc (File 43) - 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 public service (3a) - progress (File 45) - Box 9

1950s public service (3b) - progress- Public Service Commissioner reports (File 46) - Box 9

1950s: Political development (File 47) - Box 9

1950s: Co-operatives (File 48) - Box 10

1950s: Commonwealth departments (File 49) - Box 10

1950s: Department of Native Affairs - field staff (File 50) - Box 10

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: Economic development (File 52) - Box 10

1950s: Finance (File 53) - Box 10

1950s: Native affairs general (File 53) - Box 10

1950s: Apprenticeship (File 54) - Box 10

1950s: Agriculture (File 55) - Box 11

1950s education- general (File 56) - Box 11

1950s education - progress (File 57) - Box 11

1950s: Law (File 58) - Box 11

1950s: Lands (File 58) - Box 11

1950s: Communications - post and telegraph (File 58) - Box 11

1950s: Departments miscellaneous (File 58) - Box 11

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 (2), 1956-60 (File 62) - Box 12

Public Service Institute external studies (1), University of Queensland, to 1955 (File 63) - Box 13

Public Service Institute external studies (2), University of Queensland, after 1956 (File 64) - Box 13

Public Service Institute: Library services (File 65) - Box 13

Public Service Institute: Matriculation studies (File 66) - Box 13

Public Service Institute: In-service training (1) - general, miscellaneous (File 67) - 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

Public Service Institute: Auxiliary division (1), 1946-55 (File 70) - Box 14

Public Service Institute: Auxiliary division (2), 1956-57 (File 71) - Box 14

Public Service Institute: Auxiliary division (3), 1957-1960s (File 72) - Box 14

Public Service Institute: Pre-entry training (Auxiliary Division) (File 73) - Box 14

Training and employment of natives: Employment of non-Europeans (File 74) - Box 115

Training and employment of natives: Administration servants (File 75) - Box 115

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

1960s: International influences (File 79) - Box 16

1960s: Australia (File 80) - Box 16

1960s: The Territory (File 81) - Box 16

1960s: Justice (File 82) - Box 17

1960s: Economy (File 83) - Box 17

1960s: Political development (File 84) - Box 17

1960s: Education (File 85) - Box 17

1960s: Labour matters (1) - official (File 86) - Box 17

1960s: Labour matters (2) - Department of Labour and National Service and tripartite missions (File 87) - Box 18

1960s: Reconstruction of public service, to end of 1961 (File 88) - Box 18

1960s: Reconstruction of public service, 1962-64 (File 89) - Box 18

1960s: Reconstruction of public service, after 1965 (File 90) - Box 18

1960s: Reconstruction of public service, Papua New Guinea papers (File 91) - Box 19

1960s: Administration College - events leading up to its establishment (File 92) - Box 19

1960s: Administration College - development and operation (File 93) - Box 19

1960s: University of Queensland, after 1966 (File 94) - Box 19

1960s: ASOPA (Australian School of Pacific Administration), 1960s (File 95) - Box 19

1960s: University of Papua New Guinea, University of Technology (File 96) - Box 20

1960s: Industrial training (File 97-98) - Box 20

1960s: Mental health and psychological services (File 99) - Box 20

1960s: Psychology, 1966-72 (File 100-1) - Box 20, 21

1960s: Careers in the public service, 1963-66 (File 102) - Box 21

Public service, 1970s (File 103) - Box 21

Miscellaneous notes and papers (File 104-5) - Box 21

Bibliography and references (File 106-7) - Box 21, 22

Correspondence, 1977-90. Includes personal correspondence and correspondence relating to Glastonbury's project (File 108-10) - Box 22

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).

Diary of a University of Adelaide geology expedition to the Flinder's Ranges, 1929. The trip was led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The diary includes sketches and photographs and is accompanied by personal correspondence, 1976-89 and a newspaper cutting, 1983 (File 1) - Box 23

Internationalism, race, colour, 1964-68 (File 2) - Box 23

Man, society, individualism and freedom, 1964-68 (File 3) - Box 23

Education, 1964-90 (File 4) - Box 23

Newspaper cuttings from Australian newspapers on Papua New Guinea, 1969-87 (File 5) - Box 23

Cuttings, 1977-79 (File 6) - Box 23

Cuttings, 1979-85 (File 7) - Box 23

Cuttings, 1985-86 (File 8) - Box 24

Cuttings, 1987-89 (File 9) - Box 24

Broken Hill, 1979-90 (File 10-11) - Box 24

'An Opposition perspective on the relationship between Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea'. Speech by A.S. Peacock, 1986 (File 12) - Box 24

Psychology, 1990 (File 13) - Box 24

Other papers, 1974-91 (File 14) - Box 24


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