Britain proclaimed a Protectorate over Papua in 1884 and in 1888 annexed it as a Crown Colony. In 1895, gold was discovered, and mining accounted for the overwhelming proportion of mineral activity prior to the First World War. The fields were
in terms of articulation, dissolution of the original system, and emigration of the displaced resources (labour and capital). The decisive dissolution of the original system's values and ideology was achieved by Christian missionaries. The Pacific war