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Research material collected by Karen McDowell for her doctoral thesis 'Constitutional Development in Nauru', La Trobe University, 1987. It consists mainly of photocopies of newspaper articles, journal articles, books, government reports, yearbooks, law reports, parliamentary debates and United Nations publications as well as letters from academics and public servants, all as listed in the bibliography which is included in the collection.

BOX 1
Final copy of PHD thesis with replaced pages, July 1987.
Final copy of Footnotes to PHD thesis with replaced pages July 1987.
Nauru Bibliography.

BOX 2
Parliamentary Reports, 1922-1935.
Nauru - Canberra Davidson File I.

BOX 3
Canberra Law Workshop VI, 22-24 April 1982 Folder I.
Nauru articles, newscuttings and letters.

BOX 4
Constitutional Convention Debates, First Session, Meetings 1-9, 3-15 Jan. 1968
Constitutional Convention Debates. First Session, Meetings 11-18, 18-29 Jan. 1968.

BOX 5
Australian Territories & ‘Australian Foreign Affairs Record’ & Stewart Firth, ‘German Labour Policy Naura & Angour, 1906-1914’.
Reports to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Administration of the Territory of Nauru for the years 1963-64, 1964-65, 1965-66.

BOX 6
Rules, Regulations & Orders, 1968-71; Ordinances, 1968
Rules & Regulations, Nauru,1968-71, 1972 & 1974. 
Old Laws applying to Nauru (adopted)

BOX 7
‘The Western Pacific Islands’ by Austin Coates, 1970
‘The Composition of Legislation’ by Elmer, A. Driedger, 1976
Various articles, briefing notes etc.

BOX 8
‘The Nauru Post’, 1980
Nauru IV.  Includes Public Service Act, 1971, Leprosy  etc,

BOX 9
Includes: South Pacific Dossier; Appendices Original part 1; Article 61; Record of Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, 5/1/1968; Legislative Council – meetings of first session, 1966

BOX 10
Includes: Bill of Human Rights – Articles, opinions etc,; ‘The Problem of the people’ by C. Brunsden Fletcher; ‘The Coral Sea’ by Alan Villiers; ‘The Pacific World’ by Fairfield Osborn; ‘From a South Seas Diary’ by Sir Henry Luke; NZ Parliament Delegation 1958; ‘Pacific Islands Monthly’, 1940-49

BOX 11
Includes: Constitution, Solomon Islands; ‘Constitutional Development in Nauru’, article by Karen McDowell for Peter Sack conference; Jamaican Constitution; Western Samoa; Cook Islands, Niue Constitution; Miscellaneous Constitutions; Nauru Bibliography.

BOX 12
‘The Nauru Post’, 1981
Nauru Legislation. Australian Statutes applied to Nauru By Laws Repeal & adopting Ordinance 1922.
Nauru Island Agreement Act, 1919 & 1932; Ordinances 1938-59; Laws in Force as at 31 Dec. 1937.

BOX 13
Includes: ‘Samoa Mo Samoa’ by J.W. Davidson, 1967; Material from Guy Powles & Supply Act 1977 Constitutional Crisis; ‘Race Relations & Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea’ by Edward Wolfers, 1975; Nauru – Phosphate & Political Progress’ by Nancy Viviani, 1970; Race, Class & Rebellion in the South Pacific’ 1979; ‘Labour & the Law in Papua New Guinea’ by D.W. Smith, 1975; ‘Constitutional & Administrative Law’ by O. hood Phillips, 1967.

BOX 14
Constitutional Convention 1968 Debates, Second Session, Meetings 10-18.
Nauru VI: British & Australian Trade in the South Pacific ,1918; Class C Mandates, 1920-22;  British Phosphate Report & Accounts 1922-24, 1926, 1929-31; Report into British Phosphate Commission 1926, 1962-63, 1965-70.

BOX 15
United Nations Report on the Administration of Nauru1949-54, 1962-63

BOX 16
Constitutional Convention 1968 Debates, Second Session, Index to Meeting 1.
United Nations Report on the Administration of Nauru1958-59

Box 17
‘Nauru Bulletin’, 1981-83 & Government Gazettes, 1981-82
‘The Pacific Islanders’, by William Howells, 1973

BOX 18
‘Pacific Island Monthly’, 1984-85; ‘Islands Business’, 1984
‘The South Seas in the Modern World’ by Felix Keesing.

BOX 19
Report of Delegation to the Meeting of Forum Government Officials on Regional Fisheries Policy & Forum Fisheries Agency held at Honiara, Solomon Islands, May 1979.
‘Human Law & Justice’ by Julius Stone, 1968
‘The Nauru Post’, 1979-81.
‘Pacific Perspective’, 1980.

BOX 20
Includes: Nauru Bibliography Supplementary Material.
‘The Application of the European Convention on Human Rights’ by J.E.S. Fawcett, 1969.
‘Judicial Review & Fundamental Rights’ by S.N. Ray, 1974.
‘The Labor Problems in the Pacific Mandates’ by J.A. Decker, 1940.
Report of the 1981 Meeting of Pacific Islands Law officers, 1981.
‘Linking the Pacific – A Report of an International Seminar on New Zealand & the Pacific Basin Concept April 1980’.
‘Nauru Phosphate Narrative’, 1977.

BOX 21
Nauru Bibliography – final.
‘Basic Documents on Human Rights’, Ian Brownlie (ed.), 1971.
‘Pacific Islands Monthly’, 1980-81, 1982, 1985.
Nauru Bibliography by N.H.L. Krauss, 1970 & correspondence, 1982.
‘The New South Pacific’ by R.G. Crocombe, 1973.
‘Trusteeship in the Pacific’, 1949.
‘Land Tenure in Niue’, 1977.

BOX 22
‘Legislative Drafting’ by G.C. Thornton, 1978.
‘Statutory Interpretation in Australia’ by D.C. Pearce, 1981.
‘Oxford Journal of Legal Studies’, vol. 1 No. 2, 1981.
‘Australasian Universities Law Schools Assoc. Conference 1981.
‘Reforming Westminster Institutions: Constitutional Reform in NZ’ by Geoffrey Palmer, 1985.
‘Reform of Family Law in Papua new Guinea’ by H. McRae.
‘Three Islands’, 1971.
‘The Decolonisation of Niue’ by Terry Chapman, 1976.
Legislature. 

BOX 23
High Court of Australia – Judgment in Attorney-General of Victoria and Non-Government Schools in Australia, 1981.
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law – Bill of Rights (Gareth Evans).
‘Constitutionalism and Comstockery’ by A. Blackshield, 1966.
‘The Courts and the Canadian Constitution’, 1971
Nauru – College Gazettes, 1982.
‘Law in a Changing Society’ by W. Friedmann, 1972.
Judiciary Act.
Nauru – Case Law (Constitutional).

BOX 24
‘Caught by a Nazi Raider’ by  G.A. Barley, 1941.
UN Resolutions, Vol. 1, 1946-48.
‘European Influence in the Pacific 1513-1914’ by Everard Thurn, 1915.
‘New Hebrides The Road to Independence’, 1977.
Fifth South Pacific Judicial Conference papers, 1982.
‘Pacific Islanders under German Rule’ by P.J. Hempenstall, 1978.
‘The Cheyenne Way’ by Llewellyn & Hoebel and extracts from other books.
‘The Constitutions of Niue & the Marshall Islands’ by A. Quentin-Baxter, 1982.
‘Underdevelopment in Kenya’ by Colin Leys, 1975.
Constitution – Papua New Guinea.
UN Institute for Training & Research – Status & Problems of Very Small States & Territories, 1967.
United Nations Report of the Trusteeship Council, 1964-65.
'United Nations Bulletin', July 1, 1949.

BOX 25
Nauru in 1962.
Complete Appendices – spare Part I.
Reports of Legal Cases, 1900s-1970s.
Parliamentary Debates, 1919-65.
Newscuttings and other extracts, 1914-83.

BOX 26
Nauru – Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, 4 Jan. 1968.
Nauru – Minutes of Legislative Council Sitting, 22 Aug. 1966.
Nauru Bibliography – drafts.
Bibliography on Nauru.
British Phosphate Commissioners Nauru Phosphate Industry Functional Summary.
British Phosphate Commissioners Nauru Phosphate Industry Transfer of Management Committee Stage I Documentation, 1968.
Guam File.

BOX 27
Nauru 9.
‘Pacific Islands Monthly’, 1960-69.
‘Pacific Islands Monthly’, 1967-80.

BOX 28
General: ‘Legal Theory’ by W. Friedmann, 1967; ‘The Canadian Bill of Rights’ by W.S. Tarnopolsky, 1975; ‘Statutory Interpretation in Australia’ by D.C. Pearce, 1975.
General: ‘Australia’s Constitution’ by Colin Howard, 1978; ‘How We Are Governed’ by C.R. Forell, 1980; ‘The Government of Victoria’ by Jean Holmes, 1976.

BOX 29
Nauru I: ‘The British Year Book of International law, 1976-77’; ‘Ocean island & nauru’ by Albert Ellis, 1936; ‘The History of Nauru’; Canberra Law Workshop, 1982 Folder II.

BOX 30
Nauru – Canberra Davidson File II
Nauru VII. Mid-Pacific Outposts 1946 (Ellis).

BOX 31
Miscellaneous Constitutions.
Acts of Parliament, 1946-51.
Queensland Criminal Code.
BOX 32 
Nauru Ordinances, 1960-67.
Republic of Nauru Acts 1968-71

BOX 33
United Nations Trusteeship Council – Reports of Meetings, 1952, 1959.
Parliamentary Reports, 1920-24.
Parliamentary Debates, 1919-21.
‘United Nations Review’, Vol. 6. No. 12, 1960

BOX 34
‘Pacific Islands Monthly’, 1979, 1981-83.
Part 2 The Public Service.

BOX 35
Republic of Nauru Acts, 1919, 1973-79.
‘Britain and the South Seas’ by harry Luke, 1945.
‘The Motor Vessel Triaster’, 1955
‘Phosphate Deposits of Ocean and Pleasant Islands’, by F. Danvers Power, 1904.
Miscellaneous articles relating to Nauru.,

Karen F. McDowell research papers concerning Nauru, ca. 1900-1987

Statutory regulations ... : being the regulations issued under the Regulations Act 1936.

Police law in New Zealand / by J.H. Luxford.

Aboriginal customary law : a source of common law title to land / Ulla Secher.

Rules, regulations and by-laws under New Zealand statutes / edited by H.H. Ostler.

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