[NEW GUINEA] Papua. Annual Report for the year 1913-14.

At head of title: 1914. Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later quarter calf over cloth boards with gilt-lettered title piece to spine; pp. 195, followed by [2] folding maps and [2] pages of b/w photographic plates; the title page with some light staining and ‘Discarded’ stamp of the Papuan Government, but a good copy.

Substantial report that covers every aspect of the Papuan colonial administration, economy and society at the outbreak of World War One.