Guide to the Maslyn Williams Map Collection

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MFC 35

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Collection Summary

Creator
Maslyn Williams, Ronald (Ron)
Title
Maslyn Williams Map Collection
Date Range
ca. 1935-1962
Collection Number
MFC 35
Extent
12 items
Language of Materials
Multiple languages
Repository
Special Collections (Maps)

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/917881).

Conditions Governing Use

Some of the items within this collection, including some that have been made available as digitised images, are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], Maslyn Williams Map Collection, National Library of Australia, [item number]'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired by the National Library of Australia from Maslyn Williams in 1978.

Maps are also held in the Papers of Maslyn Williams, 1850-1995. View the catalogue record at https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1791626>.

View the catalogue record for Ronald Maslyn Williams interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection at ORAL TRC 1/272-273.

Biographical / Historical

Journalist, filmmaker and writer. Robert Ronald Maslyn (Ron Maslyn) Williams was born in England in 1911. In the 1920s, he moved to Australia where he grew up in the New England and Southern Highlands districts of New South Wales. He studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and worked as a journalist prior to a career in filmmaking. In 1935 Williams joine National Studios, assisting Frank Coffey. With the Studio's closure in 1938, Williams joined Australia's first government filmmaking unit: the Commonwealth Government's Cinema and Photographic Branch. In 1940, he joined the Official War Film and Photographic Unit as a writer-producer and served under Frank Hurley in the Middle East. He transferred to the Australian Information Bureau in New York in 1945 and then to the Canadian Film Board in 1946. Williams made films in Europe and Australia gaining several awards including a gold medal at the Venice Bienalle. He was Head of the PNG Division of the Film Unit from 1955, his documentary work included ethnographic films made in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. In 1962, he ceased filmmaking and turned to writing. He became the author of books on Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and China and also published a history of the phosphate industry, and four novels. Williams' autobiography, His mother's country (1988), won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award in 1988 and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, 1989. Williams died in Bowral, New South Wales, in 1999.

Item Descriptions

North Bainings Area, Scale 1 inch equals 4 miles (Item 1)

Shows Sub-Division boundaries, walking tracks, rivers, Native villages, plantations, saw-mills, posts, and radio transmitters. Plantations listed. 'Map of Bainings Area' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

Traced from map of P.O. Haywood (9-11-57) by L.G. Hart C.P.O.

[G]azelle Peninsula (Revised), Scale : 1 inch = 1 mile, 20 December 1960 (Item 2)

Shows villages, roads, tracks, airstrips, Native L.G. Council Chambers, Tolai Project fermentaries and buying points, traders, registered centres (not buying), council boundaries (approximate). 'Tolai Country' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

D.A.S.F, [Department Agriculture Stock and Fisheries] Taliligap. Signed.

Gazell Peninsula, Scale : 1 inch to 1 mile, 31 December 1958 (Item 3)

Shows villages, roads, tracks, airstrips, Native Local Government Council Chambers, Council Cocoa Fermenteries, Council boundaries (approximate). Areas A and B marked on map. Annotated in red and orange. 'Map of Rabaul Area + Gazelle Peninsula' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

D.A.S.F. [Department Agriculture Stock and Fisheries] Taliligap.

Eastern Highlands District, Scale - 1 inch = 2 miles, 7 March 1962 (Item 4)

Statement of Responsibility

O. Alder [?]

Statement of Responsibility

Shows district and Census boundaries, administrative stations, mission stations, roads (trunk and secondary), major mountains, Census Divisions and Units, and airstrips. 'E. Highlands' annotated on verso.

Kairuku Sub-District, Scale 4 miles: 1 inch, 12 April 1958 (Item 5)

Shows Census Division Boundaries, roads (vehicular and horse), air strips, Mission stations, copra plantations, rubber estates, and rice cultivation. 'Mekeo' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

Overlay from Yule Is. and Aroa Sheets. By I.D. Gibbins C.P.O.

Inland Gulf District (Kerema Sub-District). Kukukuku Area. Kerema Patrols Nos 6, 8 & 9 of 1961-2 in Conjunction Menyamya Patrol No. of 1961-2, Scale : 1" = 2 mile, 1 August 1961 - 31 October 1961 (Item 6)

Shows airdrop sites, resthouses/barrackes, potential airfield sites, patrol post sites under consideration, temporary patrol capsites, patrol routes, and average and general patrol times. Includes list of references (patrol reports).

Map notes location of massacre and remains. Annotation 'Raiders (Yaba Massacre) came from here' and '"Gus" Anderson drowned here' in pen on recto. 'Kukukuku Country. Map showing location of massacres' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

A.T. Carey, A.D.O. J.L. Hastings, A.D.O. T.A. Steen [?], P.O. J.R. Hicks C.P.O. J.M. Visser C.P.O.

T. Steen.

[Gulf Country and Central New Guinea Oil areas], Scale 1 : 1,000,000, 1953 (Item 7)

Shows transhipment bases, current drilling areas and abandoned. Includes table of distances in nautical miles. 'Oil Areas (Gulf Country + Central NGuinea.' annotated on verso.

Statement of Responsibility

Compiled by Australasian Petroleum Company, Port Moresby

Nouvelle Guinée (Item 8-9)

Map 8 has various colour pencil markings on map and "- in film - Jack Hid[e]s" annotated in blue pen on recto. Map 9 has small red annotation.

North West Tari Patrol. Map to illustrate Patrol Report no. 2 of 1955/56, Scale. 1 : 100,000 (Item 10)

Shows doubtful water courses, patrol routes, base camps, major group names and patrol camp sites. Map annotated in red.

Related Materials

A map of the journeys of the Hagen-Sepik Patrol, 1938-39 is held in the Rare maps collection. View the catalogue record at MAP RM 2955.

A map to illustrate North West Tari Patrol Report No. 1 1955-1956 is held in the General map collection. View the catalogue record at MAP G8161.S73 1956.

Statement of Responsibility

Patrol conducted by - J.P. Sinclair.

Lutheran Mission. New-Guinea (Lutherische Mission in Neuguinea) (Item 11)

Recto shows pictorial map in colour showing mission-stations, government-stations, colleges, landing-grounds, and medical missions. Verso shows black and white map of eastern New Guinea wiht government-stations, mission-stations, and a boundary marked, and including index map.

Statement of Responsibility

Karl Voster.

Papouasie. Districts de la Mission Catholique en 1935, Échelle = 1: 442.400 (Item 12)

Colour map. Shows principle and secondary stations. Annotated in blue pen (leeter in a place name scrubbed out). Includes insets of Papua at 1:10.000.000, Samarai at 1:510.000 and Cape York and Torres Strait at 1:2.362.438.

Statement of Responsibility

Commandant H. Tropé, Cartographe. Bellevue (S. & O.).


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