Royal Commission on Late German New Guinea

Appointed by Letters Patent dated 12 August 1919 by the Hughes government. The commissioners were Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (chairman), Atlee Hunt, Secretary of the Department of Home and Territories, and Walter Lucas of Burns Philp. It visited the territory between August and December 1919.

1. 20 May 1920Interim and final reports laid before the House of Representatives (and the Senate the next day).

Its interim and final reports had been presented to the government by March 1920 and were laid before Parliament on 20 and 21 May 1920, ending the commission. The majority (Hunt and Lucas) opposed Murray's proposal to combine the territory with Papua under one administration; the government accepted the majority view, keeping the territories separate and expropriating German property.

• Future government of the former German New Guinea
• Treatment of German property and residents
• Relationship of the territory to Papua

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