MS 8339 Papers of H.A.J. FRYER (1910-1993)
- Papers
- 1929- 1986
- 9.8m (70 boxes) plus one folio bag
- Available for reference
The papers of surveyor and planner H.A.J. Fryer were received from Mr
Fryer in 1986. They cover most periods of his career and include
correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, slides, films, maps,
publications and objects. There are also drafts of memoirs, historical
compilations, technical articles and creative writings. The larger runs of
correspondence are from Fryers parents, wife, children and friends, but
there are occasional letters from colleagues such as G.A.V. Stanley.
As far as they can be determined, Fryer's own file titles form the basis
of most of the description. Sometimes files have several titles, they use
technical jargon (for example Scarps or Strats) or the
contents do not match the title.
The University of Papua New Guinea holds negatives of many of Fryer's
photographs.
| 1910 |
Herbert Albinus Jackson (Jack) Fryer born
on 6 May. |
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Educated at Melbourne and Sydney high
schools and trained as geological surveyor and geophysical engineer |
| 1928-34 |
Worked in Australia |
| 1934-38 |
Geological surveyor for Oil Search
Limited |
| 1938-39 |
Geodetic engineer with Australian
Petroleum Company |
| 1940-42 |
Supervised the development of first
petroleum drilling areas in PNG |
| 1942-46 |
During World War II he worked for Allied
Intelligence Bureau and the Royal Australian Survey Corps in Bendigo, compiling
maps of little known areas of Papua New Guinea. He then retuned to PNG to
work for the Allied Intelligence Bureau, during which time he went on many
patrols, mostly in the Sepik District. |
| 1944 |
Married Estelle Morgan while on
leave. |
| 1947-53 |
Returned to Australia to work as a
surveyor in general private practice and as a consulting engineer
(petroleum). |
| 1954-73 |
South-East Asian period. Fryer worked
mostly in Singapore for Land Development (OIC, 1954-56), Resettlement (OIC,
1956-57), Economic Development Board (Chief Planner, 1956-59) |
| 1973 |
Retired to Cairns and later to Yass |
| 1993 |
Died 20 August. |
Children: Adrienne and Christopher
Note: In many of his writings, Fryer used the pseudonym Jonathan
Jackson.
Key to initialisms
| AIB |
Allied Intelligence Bureau (Australian
Government) |
| APC |
Australian Petroleum Company |
| EDB |
Economic Development Board, Singapore |
| OIL |
Oil Search Limited (Sydney) |
| OSL |
Oil Search Limited |
| PAP |
Papuan Apinapi Petroleum |
| PNG |
Papua New Guinea (UPNG=University of Papua
New Guinea) |
| RASC |
Royal Australian Survey Corps |
| SDS |
Survey Department, Singapore(?) |
| TNG |
Territory of New Guinea |
| 1 |
Correspondence, 1929-84 |
| 2 |
Diaries and notebooks, 1934-86 |
| 3 |
Business papers, 1949-75 |
| 4 |
Historical writings |
| 5 |
Papua New Guinea, 1934-79 |
| 6 |
Singapore, 1954-79 |
| 7 |
Technical and general writings |
| 8 |
Professional and technical notes |
| 9 |
Albums, 1934-79 |
| 10 |
Prints and negatives, 1930s - 1979 |
| 11 |
Maps |
| 12 |
Objects |
| 13 |
Miscellaneous |
Series 1 Correspondence, 1929-84
These files and titles have been maintained as Fryer created them. In
all but a few cases, file covers have been kept. Many sequences overlap, so the
files have been arranged by the earliest date. Apart from members of
Fryers family there are no major runs of letters from significant people,
but there are occasional letters from G.A.V. Stanley.
| BOX 1 |
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| 1 |
Letters to Mother, 1936-38 |
| 2 |
Letters home, 1938-39 |
| 3 |
Letters from parents, 1940-41 |
| 4 - 9 |
Letters, [from] Estelle, 1944-67 |
| 10 |
Correspondence with son and daughter,
1966-72 |
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| BOX 2 |
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| 11 |
Children's letters, 1968-71 |
| 12 |
Private letters 1961 |
| 13 - 18 |
Family letters, etc., 1960-79 |
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| BOX 3 |
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| 19 |
Letters (sundry) 1929-46. Many relate to
employment. |
| 20 |
Personal correspondence, 1931-61.
Correspondents include family, friends and colleagues. |
| 21 |
Letters, private, 1934-38. Correspondents
include mother. |
| 22 - 23 |
Letters In/Out 1938-39. Many business
letters by Fryer. |
| 24 |
Correspondence, reports etc., 1936-38, 'To
and from JNM, GAVS, AKME & HDE'. [J.N. Montgomery of Oil Search, G.A.V.
Stanley, H.D. Eve] |
| 25 |
Oil Search Limited, Sydney. Correspondence
1934 - March 1938 |
| 26 |
Odd letters, 1938-39 |
| 27 |
Correspondence, New Guinea, 1939 |
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| BOX 4 |
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| 28 |
Australian Petroleum correspondence,
1938-39 |
| 29 |
Personal correspondence, 1936-45
One-page summary of diary 1934-35 |
| 30 |
Correspondence (overseas), 1942-54.
Includes parents. |
| 31 |
Letters and printed matter, 1942-70 |
| 32 |
Correspondence, 1945-47 |
| 33 |
Australian business, 1947-58, 'Parkes
financial'. |
| 34 |
Correspondence, 1950-52 |
| 35 |
Correspondence (overseas), 1942-56 |
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| BOX 5 |
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| 36 |
Parents' correspondence, 1950-62 |
| 37 |
'Personal Letters Sundry', 1953-66 |
| 38 |
'Personal Letters Sundry', 1956-59 |
| 39 |
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1958-64 |
| 40 |
Personal letters, 1958-66 |
| 41 |
Personal letters, 1959-61 |
| 42 |
Letters and cards from Adrienne and Chris,
1962-71 |
| 43 |
Various letters, 1962-78 |
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| BOX 6 |
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| 44 |
Correspondence, 1964-79 |
| 45 |
Personal correspondence, 1966-67 |
| 46 |
Letters, 1966-68 |
| 47 |
Correspondence, 1970-71 |
| 48 |
Correspondence re son, 1971 |
| 49 |
Personal letters, 1972 |
| 50 |
Personal correspondence, 1973 |
| 51 |
Personal letters and cards, 1973-74 |
| 52 |
Correspondence, 1973-77 |
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| BOX 7 |
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| 53 |
Correspondence, 1973-79 |
| 54 |
Personal letters, 1976-77 |
| 55 |
Correspondence, 1977-79 |
| 56 |
Correspondence, 1980-84 |
| 57 |
'Attention filing': correspondence and
other documents, 1980-83 |
| 58 - 59 |
Cards, invitations and menus |
Series 2 Diaries and notebooks, 1934-86
The diaries and notebooks contain daily notes of a personal nature, on
financial matters, geological work, as well as notes on travel in Australia and
overseas. Most are dated and many have been annotated later, presumably for
Fryer's memoirs. The carbon notebooks function as letterbooks, containing
copies of letters sent to family, friends, colleagues. The notebooks have also
been used for recording surveying data, detailing overseas trips and Fryer's
literary jottings.
| BOX 8 |
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Carbon notebooks |
| 60 |
1937-39 (Papua New Guinea); 1957 (Bali and
Australia) |
| 61 |
1939 (Papua New Guinea) |
| 62 |
1938, 1940 (2) (Papua New Guinea) |
| 63 |
('NG Strats') |
| 64 |
1942 |
| 65 |
1942-43 |
| 66 |
1947-48 (Parkes) |
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| BOX 9 |
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Carbon notebooks |
| 67 |
1946 (RASC) |
| 68 |
1949-50 (PAP) |
| 69 |
1950-56 |
| 70 |
1953-55 (At Sea and Singapore) |
| 71 |
1957-59 (Australian ship and
Singapore) |
| 72 |
1960-68 |
| 73 |
1960 (UK) |
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| BOX 10 |
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Carbon notebooks |
| 74 |
1961-69 |
| 75 |
1960-63 (Singapore-UK by ship) |
| 76 |
1963-68, 1964-66 (Singapore) |
| 77 |
1965 (to UK and return) |
| 78 |
1966(?) |
| 79 |
1967(?) |
| 80 - 81 |
1970 |
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| BOX 11 |
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Carbon notebooks |
| 82 |
1970 |
| 83 - 84 |
1970-71 |
| 85 |
1971-86 |
| 86 |
1972 |
| 87 |
1972-73 |
| 88 |
1975 |
| 89 |
1974-75 (Income tax, private letters,
general correspondence) |
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| BOX 12 |
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Carbon notebooks |
| 90 |
'Hints to explorers, 1A' |
| 91 |
'Hints to explorers, 2' |
| 92 |
'Hints to explorers, 3' (see also Series
7) |
| 93 |
Carbon notebook, n.d. |
| 94 - 96 |
Group of 14 notebooks entitled 'Papua New
Guinea 1934-45, Army Service, SA 1946' |
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| BOX 13 |
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Diaries |
| 97 - 98 |
Papua New Guinea diaries, 1934-1935 |
| 99 |
Papua New Guinea diary, 'Book 1', pages 1
- 79 (1934) |
| 100 |
PNG diary, 'Book 2', pages 1 - 82
(1934-35) |
| 101 |
PNG diary, 'Book 3', Folio 1, 1936-42 |
| 102 |
1929-35 |
| 103 |
1936, 1938 |
| 104 |
1937 |
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| BOX 14 |
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Diaries |
| 105 |
1940-41 |
| 106 |
1943 |
| 107 |
1944-45 |
| 108 |
1946 |
| 109 |
1947-48 |
| 110 |
1947-53 (Australia), 1949-50 (PNG) |
| 111 |
1951 |
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| BOX 15 |
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Diaries |
| 112 |
1952 |
| 113 |
1954, 1956, 1957, 1959 |
| 114 |
1963, 1968, |
| 115 |
1971-72 |
| 116 |
Notebooks |
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| BOX 16 |
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| 117 - 121 |
Notebooks |
| 122 |
Diary/letter, 1967, written by Fryer from
Singapore to Estelle Plus list of films, 1954-57, at rear of volume (p.
84) |
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| BOX 17 |
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| 123 |
Papuan Apinapi Petroleum - Directory and
Index |
| 124 |
PAP notebook, July-November 1949 |
| 125 |
PAP notebook, 1950, Lesi Tider
(Papua) |
| 126 |
PAP diary, 1949 |
| 127 |
PAP letters and notes, 1950 |
| 128 |
PAP notes |
| 129 - 30 |
PAP letters and notes, 1949-50 |
Series 3 Business Papers, 1949-75
Dates are approximate, as there are many undated items within files. In
most cases Fryers own file titles have been used.
| BOX 18 |
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| 131 |
House purchases, 1971-75 |
| 132 |
Transport Singapore-Australia,
1973-74 |
| 133 |
Personal finance, 1962-64 Business
information, 1962-64 |
| 134 |
Trip to Singapore 1953 and letters,
1949-53 |
| 135 |
Miscellaneous, 1975 |
| 136 |
Miscellaneous, 1971-74 |
| 137 |
HAJ Fryer Personal, 1962-82. Relates to
will, property, passports |
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| BOX 19 |
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| 138 |
Repatriation, 1972-75 |
| 139 |
Taxation, personal reports, 1955-59 |
| 139(a) |
[Employment], 1961-62 |
| 139(b) |
Loose papers, APC packing slips, 1939 |
| 139(c) |
Legal |
| 139(d) |
Old income tax, shares |
Series 4 Historical writings
'The good oil' is the title of Fryer's unpublished memoirs, with the
sub-title 'A personal history of the search for oil in Papua New Guinea as seen
by one member of a geological team in PNG 1920-79'. A separate volume of
memoirs is entitled 'A special war: a personal narrative history of the PNG
War, 1942-46'. This series contains different versions of the manuscripts, with
some variations in title.
| BOX 20 |
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| 140 - 141 |
'Our War in New Guinea' |
| 142-44 |
'A Special War, 1942-46'. Original
manuscript |
| 145-47 |
'A Special War', - 1983 version |
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| BOX 21 |
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| 148-49 |
'The Good Oil' - first rough draft of
Volume 1 |
| 150-52 |
'The Good Oil' [copy] - Volume 1 |
| 153-55 |
'The Good Oil', Volume 1 - revised 27
August 1982 |
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| BOX 22 |
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| 156-59 |
'The Good Oil' - basic material for 'PNG
Diary', plus some other basic material and 'old stuff of PNG, Volume 2' |
| 160-62 |
'The Good Oil', Volume 2 |
| 163 |
'The Good Oil' - 'scraps, New Guinea' |
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| BOX 23 |
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| 164-66 |
'The Good Oil' by Jonathan Jackson |
| 167 |
The original manuscript of part of 'The
Good Oil', retyped as a war story: 'A Special War, 1942-46' |
| 168 |
Original manuscript of 'The Good Oil' |
| 169 |
'The Good Oil' - notes and lists of
illustrations |
| 170 |
'PNG bits', 1938' |
| 171-72 |
Initial four chapters of 'A Special
War' |
Series 5 Papua New Guinea, 1934-79
Fryer began working in New Guinea with Oil Search Limited in 1934 and
his first period there lasted until 1946. He subsequently re-visited in 1949,
1973 and 1979 but maintained a continuing interest in Papua New Guinea history,
language and culture. The files in this series, which have been kept as Fryer
created them, mostly relate to his business and military activities, but there
are also articles and manuscripts which overlap with Series 4. His
autobiography The good oil (see Series 4), focuses on Papua New
Guinea and spans 1920-1979. It covers not only Fryers personal
experiences but also the early search for oil. A second volume of his memoirs,
A special war, deals with PNG during World War II (see Series
4).
| BOX 24 |
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| 173 |
OSL Correspondence, 1934-35 |
| 174 |
OSL Base Correspondence, 1936-38 and OSL
news, 1936 |
| 175 |
OSL Correspondence 1936 and 1938-39 |
| 176 |
Letterbook, 1938, PNG |
| 177 |
Personal correspondence and notes,
1939-73 |
| 178 |
Staff letters, 1936-38 |
| 179 |
Business letters, 1935-38 |
| 180 |
Sundry PNG correspondence, 1935-42 |
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| BOX 25 |
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| 181 |
Survey Reports, 1936-41 'Scraps[sic]
TNG' (i.e. Scarps, Territory of New Guinea) |
| 182 |
Army Surveys, PNG, WWII |
| 183 |
Various reports, 1934-35 |
| 184 |
Various reports, oil search, earthquake,
language etc. |
| 185 |
Miscellaneous reports |
| 186-87 |
Military papers, PNG, 1941-45 |
| 188 |
Various notes, military instructions,
surveys, maps, 1942-45 |
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| BOX 26 |
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| 189 |
Miscellaneous notes on PNG, 1930s,
1950s |
| 190-91 |
Miscellaneous notes re PNG. WWII |
| 192 |
PNG notes, 1935-45 |
| 193 |
PNG notes, 1934-50 |
| 194 |
Articles, unfinished manuscripts |
| 195 |
Travel notes, language |
| 196 |
PNG travel, 1942-43 |
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| BOX 27 |
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| 197 |
German-Pidgin vocabulary Pidgin
English-Motu - outline notes, 1942 (in plastic bag) |
| 198 |
Various lists - medical, languages, stores
etc. |
| 199 |
APC packing lists, 1938-39 |
| 200 |
PNG Earthquake, 1935 |
| 201-4 |
Geographic/astronomical information and
Eve's memorial |
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| BOX 28 |
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Publications, including ordinances,
reports, medical notes, issues of The Papuan villager, edited by F.E. Williams,
Government Anthropologist, 1930 |
Series 6 Singapore, 1954-79
Fryer worked in Singapore as Officer-In-Charge, Land Development, from
1954-56. He then became OIC of Resettlement (1956-57) as well as being Chief
Planner of the Economic Development Board (1956-59). Fryer maintained his
involvement with planning in South-East Asia, often in an advisory capacity,
beyond his retirement. An outline of Singapore's administrative and surveying
history can be found in Folder 207.
| BOX 29 |
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| 205 |
Survey Projects, Transmission Lines,
1950 |
| 206 |
Survey for title, Malaya, 1930,
1952-53 |
| 207 |
'Survey, SDS Records', 1954. Contains
'Singapore Land and Survey Records', by J.K. Barrie, 1954 (30p.) |
| 208 |
Survey and Planning, 1961-76 |
| 209 |
Various Jurong reports, 1961-64 |
| 210-212 |
Air surveys, 1968-69 |
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| BOX 30 |
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| 213 |
Economic Development Board. Annual report
[1963] |
| 214-5 |
Jurong New Town - comprehensive report,
(1961?) |
| 216 |
Survey notes, 1972? |
| 217 |
Master Plan, First Review |
| 218 |
Houses - plans |
| 219 |
Planning |
| 220 |
Singapore Planning and Urban Research
Group, 1969-71 |
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| BOX 31 |
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| 221 |
Notes on industrial site planning,
1961-66(?) |
| 222-25 |
Jurong Town 'Private copy', 1961-63 |
| 226-228 |
Industrial estates, 1954-73 |
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| BOX 32 |
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| 229 |
Singapore Industrial Estates, 1955-67,
Exposition |
| 230 |
General RA Statistics [Resettlement Area?]
Flatted factories [contains calculations of floor space requirements]
Jurong Road Location, 1961 Press cuttings |
| 231 |
Jurong, 1966-69? |
| 232 |
Jurong Development, 1961 |
| 233 |
Singapore Improvement Trust, 1960-61 |
| 234 |
Singapore Improvement Trust, 1955-59 |
| 235 |
Economist Intelligence Unit (SE Asia) Pte
Ltd - Articles of Association, 1963 Jurong - Acreages |
| 236 |
State of Sabah Public Works Department.
Road notes, ca.1962 |
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| BOX 33 |
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| 237 |
Rural Commission, 1958-59 |
| 238 |
Statistical matters (roneoed copies)
'UN-SCP Planning, 1970' [Singapore Planning Project] Loose papers |
| 239 |
Land Development Unit, 1954-55
Planning patterns |
| 240 |
Freshwater Basin in Johore Straits,
1962 |
| 241 |
Correspondence, circulars, 1963-67 |
| 242 |
Survey methods and organisation -
roads |
| 243-4 |
Mapping, 1972(?) |
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| BOX 34 |
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| 245 |
Winds in Singapore Planning
overseas |
| 246 |
Malayan oddments, 1954-56 |
| 247 |
Singapore oddments, 1954-60 Geology
of Jurong Physiography of Singapore |
| 248 |
Geology, 1966 |
| 249 |
Miscellaneous calculations, assumptions,
data Development of water catchments and tidal flats |
| 250-1 |
Aerial photographs, plans |
| 252-3 |
Used material, 1961-67 |
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| BOX 35 |
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| 254 |
Management and maintenance
Consultancy - Sydney Services, 1970 Loose papers |
| 255 |
Government Contract Matters, 1953-65 |
| 256 |
Personal file, 1954-61 |
| 257 |
Gratuity, 1957-61 |
| 258 |
Miscellaneous, 1954-59 |
| 259 |
Loose papers, 1963-71 (approx.) |
| 260 |
Loose papers, 1947-55 |
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| BOX 36 |
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| 261 |
Loose papers, 1966-67 |
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Loose papers: papers presented at Kuala
Lumpur Forum 1-6 July, 1973 |
| 262 |
Loose papers, 1960s and 1970s, including
curriculum vitae and record of service |
| 263 |
Loose papers, 1960s |
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Papers prepared for K.L. Forum, 1-6 July
1973 |
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| BOX 37 |
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Various pamphlets, publications, maps,
e.g: Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group. Spur, issues 68-71
Annual reports Submission for Survey and Engineering Design for East-West
Highway, West Malaysia. Government of Malaysia Director of Public Works
(1970) |
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| BOX 38 |
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| Folder |
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| 264 |
Historical articles (printed) Lt-Col.
H.P.G. Clews. 'Memories of 2 Australian Field Survey Company, 1940-44' (n.p.,
1966) Andrew Nathan. 'The Jurong Story'. In the Far-Eastern Economic
Review (reprint of 16-page supplement published on 27 August 1964, Volume XLV,
No. 9 The Story of Singapore: Programme and Guide to the Exhibition and
Pageant, 1956 'Past-planning and development of Jurong', by H. Fryer, from
the Journal of the Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group, September
1971 |
| 265 |
United Nations Economic Commission for
Asia and the Far East. Reclamation of tidal swamp of Singapore: Report of the
Advisory Group on Development of Deltaic areas (October 1965) Singapore
Government Gazettes, 1958, 1972, 1970 Unpublished or semi-published
reports. Economic Development Board Singapore. Development of Jurong New Town,
1960-67 (Sept. 1967) Colony of Singapore. Master plan report of survey
(Government Printing Office, 1955) Federated Malay States. Survey
Department. Departmental regulations, Volume 2 (n.d.) 'Primary
triangulation, Malaya' (n,d.) Federation of Malaya. Survey Department.
Handbook of the Topographical Branch. Volume 1: Surveys for the one inch to one
mile map (1950) Ministry of National Development. Revised master plan;
with statement (1965) |
Series 7 Technical and general writings
This series includes articles, synopses, outlines and notes on numerous
subjects, as well as creative writings. They consist mainly of short pieces on
numerous topics, whereas Series 4 contains longer, more focused compilations.
Because of the need to summarise some untitled material, in this series
Fryers own file titles have largely been distinguished by quotation
marks.
| BOX 39 |
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| 266-66(a) |
'Domestic land
navigation' |
| 267-70 |
H.A.J Fryer. 'Conjectures
on the formation, movement and erosion of continental land masses' (1969) |
| 271-72 |
'Tektites' |
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| BOX 40 |
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| 273-79 |
Articles, various pieces,
'oddments' |
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| BOX 41 |
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| 280 |
'The three Rs' |
| 281 |
'Poetry and poetic prose'
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| 282-23 |
A manuscript record
of PNG, 1938-79 (from records of all kinds)' |
| 284 |
C.W. Brazenor. Memoirs
of the National Museum of Victoria. Published by the Trustees, 1959 |
| 285 |
'Planning: past, present,
future' |
| 286 |
'Continental drift' |
| 287 |
'Some oddments about
Australia and sheep' |
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| BOX 42 |
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| 288 |
'Uncle Bine's Hints to
Explorers' by Jonathan Jackson |
| 289 |
'Commercial and fiscal law'
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| 290 |
The Hong Kong Writers' Club
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| 291 |
Political study course,
1969 |
| 292 |
Pan-Malayan Committee for
Radio Courses Adult Education |
| 293-95 |
Various notes and articles
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| BOX 43 |
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| 296 - 302 |
Various notes and
articles |
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| BOX 44 |
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| 303 - 310 |
Various notes and
articles |
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| BOX 45 |
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| 311 - 318 |
'Suggestions for books',
etc. |
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| BOX 46 |
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| 319 - 21 |
'Suggestions for books',
etc. |
Series 8 Professional and technical notes
This series overlaps slightly with the previous one, but contains mainly
notes rather than complete writings. It includes lecture notes, articles,
issues of journals, symposium papers. A few letters are scattered amongst the
notes.
| BOX 46 (cont.) |
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| 322 |
'Space and leisure: preliminary
proceedings of a symposium to be held at...the University of Queensland,
November 1974' Issues of journals, some with loose notes inserted |
| 323-24 |
Town Planning. General notes - Cumberland
and New South Wales, 1939-59 |
| 325 |
Survey lectures, 1964 |
| 326 |
Town planning lecture notes, 1947 |
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| BOX 47 |
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| 327 |
Town and country planning, 1950-52 |
| 328 |
Town planning, 1964-75 |
| 329 |
Town planning - mapping |
| 330-31 |
Survey and planning |
| 332 |
Surveys: costs, techniques |
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| BOX 48 |
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| 333 |
Survey course, 1955-59 |
| 334 |
Study: land measures and conversions,
effect of moon and tides, 1955-64 |
| 335 |
Course notes: continental masses and
tides |
| 336 |
Study: industrial engineering |
| 337 |
Study: inland waterways, tank water
supply |
| 338-39 |
University of Sydney study course, 1946 -
economics |
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| BOX 49 |
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| 340-41 |
External study course - economics, 1946
(University of Sydney) |
| 342 |
Course notes: modern office procedures and
methods, 1962 |
| 343 |
Various Various manuals, texts and
notebook (in bag) |
Series 9 Albums, 1934-79
These albums contain photographs, souvenirs, postcards and other
items.
| BOX 50 |
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| Trip albums (3): |
1957-60 Europe 1953-57 1959-60
Europe |
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| BOX 51 |
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| Trip albums(3) |
1960-63 (England); 1961 (England,
Continent) World Tour (1965) |
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| BOX 52 |
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| Papua New Guinea (3) |
1934-50; 1937-38; n.d. |
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| BOX 53 |
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| Papua New Guinea albums: |
1934-50 1937-49 Small album,
n.d. Small album, ca. 1937-39 |
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| BOX 54 |
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| Papua New Guinea albums: |
Australia and New Guinea, 1972 'Basic
photo reference, UPNG' Spiral scrapbook of cuttings and photographs, ca.
1949-79 |
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| BOX 55 |
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| Papua New Guinea albums: |
Four small undated albums; one small album
ca. 1942-43 |
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| BOX 56 |
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'Adrienne's [album] supplemented by her
Daddy', 1954-70. Contains greeting cards, postcards, photographs, souvenirs
Small album: North Australia, PNG, plus loose photographs found ca. 1934
War photographs (in folder), PNG 1942-43 |
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| BOX 57 |
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| Singapore: |
Album, Singapore Album, 1971-72
Album, Canberra, Condobolin, packing for Singapore 1953, Parkes, Singapore
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| BOX 58 |
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| Australia: |
Undated album: various places Album
ca. 1942 - Melbourne, South Australia, Papuan trip Album: family snapshots,
wedding photographs some Canberra images ca. 1948, 1952 Album: mostly
Australian scenes, 1950s |
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| BOX 59 |
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| Australia - Hong Kong: |
Album: Hong Kong and Australia 1972 [seems
to be only postcards of Hong Kong] Album: Australia 1970 - postcards,
souvenir of voyages in 'Australasia', WA, Canberra, NSW Album: family
snapshots ca. 1932 and historical scenes |
Series 10 Prints, negatives and films, 1930s- 1979
Most of the photographs relate to Papua New Guinea, but there are also
images of Australia, (especially in the 1930s and 1950s), and of Singapore and
overseas trips.
According to Fryer, all of the 'good' negatives of his photographs of
PNG are preserved in the 'Port Moresby archives' (i.e. those at the University
of Papua New Guinea).
| BOX 60 |
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Several small envelopes of negatives,
together with a few letters from Nancy Lutton of the University of Papua New
Guinea, 1979, referring to Fryer's own numbering system and his related
letterbooks. There are some photocopies of photographs. Larger envelopes of
negatives and prints including 'After War Pictures' (prints), 1949-50, 1973,
1979 'War pictures', 1943; 'Non-war picture'; 'Pre-war pictures' |
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| BOX 61 - 62 |
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Packets of negatives, loose prints and
postcards'Papua New Guinea before the War', Volume 1 |
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| BOX 63 |
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Loose negatives and slides; indexes to
photograph titles |
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| BOX 64 |
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65 Slides |
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| BOX 66 |
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Films, slides and film records book. There
are 3 reels of film in canisters. Silhouette of Fryer |
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| Box 67 |
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13 film canisters. Some are numbered and
identified: 13 - Townsville, Hong Kong, Cairns, Philippines; 10 - Indonesia,
Melbourne; 12 - Children's show, Manly, Koala Farm, Taronga, Blue Mountains,
Camperdown, Brisbane, Townsville, South Coast |
Series 11 Maps
| BOX 68 |
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Australia, PNG maps. Some printed, some
draft. Includes 'Proposed official plan of the Metropolitan Toronto Planning
Area' |
Series 12 Objects
| BOX 68 (cont.) |
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Printing block; surveyor's pouch 'made in
1930 by Eckford's Australia at Taree' |
Series 13 Miscellaneous
| BOX 69 |
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| Folder |
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| 344 |
Personal - army decorations |
| 345 |
Personal - cards and documents |
| 346 |
Personal - schools (Adrienne and
Christopher) |
| 347-49 |
Personal - testimonials and the like |
| 350-51 |
Notes, photograph of surveying equipment,
letters on processing of negatives at Australasian Petroleum Company (1940),
drawings, cuttings |
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| BOX 70 |
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| 352 |
Miscellaneous printed items |
| 353 |
Miscellaneous issues of The Beam: magazine
of the British European Association (1970-74) |
| 354 |
Press cuttings Revised Motu grammar
and vocabulary (1930) by R. Lister-Turner and J.B. Clark |
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| Folio bag |
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Professional certificates Maps
Scrapbook of contact prints of PNG images |
Guide prepared January 1999 |