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=== House Notes ===
1919.11.11 proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by H.S. Harrison 11 Nov. 1919
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
A.P. Lyons, Resident Magistrate of the Western. Division of the Territory of Papua who travelled from Daru by boat in 1916<br />Mr. Lyons has been over 28 years in Papua. He joined the Public Service on the 10th April, 1906, as a Clerk in the Government Secretary's Department. Eight months later he was promoted Assistant Resident Magistrate, Northern Division, and sent to Kokoda. From Kokoda he went to Buna and helped to build and establish the Government Station there. For a few months after that work was over he acted as a Customs Officer at Samarai. Then he went to<br />Ioma as Assistant Resident Magistrate, and, a few months later, was promoted Resident Magistrate, Mambare<br />Division. Since then Mr. Lyons has been all over Papua. He went to the Lakekamu Goldfield, in January, 1910, as<br />Resident Magistrate and Warden. After twenty-one months there, he was Acting Resident Magistrate, Central<br />Division, for three months. For over eight years he was Resident Magistrate, Western Division ; then, for three years, he was Resident Magistrate and Warden, South-Eastern Division. He next went to Samarai as Resident Magistrate, Eastern Division, and he left that position in October, 1930, to become the Director of the Public Works Department. When Captain C. R. Pinney, M.C., who was Director of Mines and Agriculture, left Papua to become Administrator of Norfolk Island, Mr. Lyons was appointed Director of Mines and Agriculture in his place.<br />[The Papuan Villager 20 Sept. 1934]
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
Notes on the Gogodara tribe of Western Papua<br />JRAI v. 56, (July-Dec. 1956)<br />
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
ANU Fryer Library, MC 270. Photographs of Papua New Guinea, including funeral of Sir Hubert Murray, and Lakekamu goldfield.