Kiribati titles from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau collection

Compiled April 2015 Short titles and some notes only. See PMB on-line database catalogue at http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/ for information sheets and detailed reel lists.

PMB Manuscript series of Microfilms AU PMB MS 09 Title: Tapu: a tale of adventure in the South Seas (a novel) Date(s): After 1894 (Creation) Moors, Harry J. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Harry J. Moors (1854-1926) was born in Detroit and died in Apia, Western Samoa. As an agent for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration, he made several voyages to the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands around 1880 to recruit labourers for Hawaii's sugar plantations. In 1883, he settled in Apia, Western Samoa, and became a successful trader and planter. Moors was closely associated with Robert Louis Stevenson during the novelist's five years (1889-1894) in Samoa and in 1910 he published a book of reminiscences entitled With Stevenson in Samoa. Moors stated in that book that Stevenson had once urged him to write down some of the 'wonderful stories' he had related to Stevenson about his early career. Moors acted on this encouragement, and after Stevenson died, he wrote two novels, of which Tapu: A Tale of Adventure in the South Seas is one. Neither of the novels was published. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, September 1968:4. The novel is based on Moors' experiences in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands as a labour recruiter for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration. The title page states that it is from the diary of John T. Bradley. Preface by Arthur Mahaffy. AU PMB MS 10 Title: The Tokanoa: a plain tale of some strange adventures in the Gilberts (a novel) Date(s): After 1894 (Creation) Moors, Harry J. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Harry J. Moors (1854-1926), was born in Detroit and died in Apia, Western Samoa. As an agent for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration, he made several voyages to the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands around 1880 to recruit labourers for Hawaii's sugar plantations. In 1883, he settled in Apia, Western Samoa, and became a successful trader and planter. Moors was closely associated with Robert Louis Stevenson during the novelist's five years (1889-1894) in Samoa, and in 1910 he published a book of reminiscences entitled With Stevenson in Samoa. Moors stated in that book that Stevenson had once urged him to write down some of the wonderful stories he had related to Stevenson about his early career. Moors acted on this encouragement, and after Stevenson died, he wrote two novels, of which The Tokanoa: A plain tale of some strange adventures in the Gilberts is one. Neither of the novels was published. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, September 1968:4 The novel is based on Moors' experiences in the Gilbert Islands as a labour recruiter for the Hawaiian Board of Immigration. The title page states that it is compiled from the diary of John T. Bradley, labor agent.

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AU PMB MS 69 Title: Gilbertese myths, legends and oral traditions Date(s): 1916 – 1930 (Creation) Grimble, Sir Arthur Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Sir Arthur Grimble went to the Gilbert Islands as a cadet administrative officer in 1913 and became Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1926. He was transferred to the West Indies in 1932 and died in London on December 13, 1956. Grimble devoted much of his spare time in the Gilberts to collecting the myths, legends and oral traditions of the local people. Those recorded on this microfilm were collected between about 1916 and 1930. Gilbertese myths, legends and oral traditions (643 pages). A detailed list appears at the beginning of the microfilm. It includes creation myths, voyaging tales, songs, especially of ancient voyages and war, spells and witchcraft practices. AU PMB MS 89 Title: Journal Date(s): 7 August 1838 – 22 June 1842 (Creation) Alden Lieutenant James Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war Vincennes, the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes. The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands. See also PMB 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter Pambu Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7. AU PMB MS 121 Title: Ethnographic Notes on South Pacific Islands Date(s): 1899-1900 (Creation) Townsend, Charles H. and Moore, H.F. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Townsend and Moore were members of the US Fisheries Commission aboard the U.S. Fisheries Commission Steamer Albatross which made a cruise to the South Pacific in 1899 - 1900 under Commander Jefferson F. Moser, USN. Ethnographic notes on the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Society Islands, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Ellice Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands. AU PMB MS 124 Title: Catalogue of ethnographical collections Date(s): 1838-1842 (Creation) United States Exploring Expedition Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB 89 and 146. AU PMB MS 129 Title: Journal Date(s): 1874 and 1878 (Creation) Turner, Dr George Alexander Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Dr Turner (son of the Rev. Dr George Turner, author of Samoa A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, London, 1884) was a medical missionary in Samoa from 1868 to 1879. The journal describes two voyages through the Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Groups in the mission ship John Williams. The first voyage was from 26 May to 2 August 1874; and the second from 11 May to 21 July 1878. Much of the material is on mission matters, with occasional reference to matters of more general interest. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu January-March 1971:22, pp.1-6.

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AU PMB MS 141 Title: Correspondence with LMS stations in the Pacific Islands Date(s): 1877 - 1947 (Creation) London Missionary Society – Samoan District Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928. Reel 1: Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in: * Cook Islands, 1910-37 (English, local language) * Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1877-1940 (some damaged) (English, Gilbertese) * Niue, 1907-39 * Tokelau Islands, 1907-42 * Tutuila (American Samoa), 1908-47 Reel 2: Correspondence with American Samoa, 1908-47 (English, Samoan). AU PMB MS 219 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1790-1870 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. JOSEPH MAXWELL; ?; 1867-8; Continued from reel PMB 218 MARENGO; Skinner; 1855; Hawaii, Marianas LYDIA; Haswell; 1802; Manila, Guam MALOLO; Bridges; 1868-70; Micronesia LOGAN?; ?; 1836-38; (not copied) MENTOR; ?Suter; 1819; China MENTOR; ?; 1843-; Pacific, NW Coast USA MASSACHUSETTS; Bartlett; 1790; NW Coast USA, Hawaii MASSACHUSETTS; Bartlett; 1790-93; China MAYFLOWER; ?Colt; 1839-41; Australia, East Indies POTOMAC; ?; 1836; Orient POTOMAC; ?; 1838; East Indies PEARL; ?; 1810; Canton Of special interest on this reel (MALOLO; 1868-70) Interesting facts about trade in Marshall and Kingsmill Islands, i.e. southern Gilbert Islands. AU PMB MS 233 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1838-1875 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. STELLA; Blackmer; 1864-66; Continued from reel PMB 232 SEA RANGER; Cornell; 1874-75; Atlantic DRACO; Braley; 1866-68; Atlantic RICHMOND; Hussey; 1857-60; Atlantic BOGOTA; Manter; 1840-42; Atlantic OSCEOLA; Hogan; 1868-70; Atlantic NORTHERN LIGHT; Smith; 1871-75; South Atlantic, Juan Fernandez

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Islands, Hawaii, Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Island, Marianas WILLIAM BAKER; Sandford; 1838-39; Atlantic MATTAPOISETT; Brightman; 1841-42; North Atlantic AU PMB MS 249 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1834-1886 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. CANTON PACKET; Shearman; 1845-49; Continued from reel PMB 248 WASHINGTON; Jeffris; 1834-36; Indian Ocean FENELON; Baker; 1840-42; Indian Ocean DELIGHT; Tripp; 1839; North Atlantic AGATE; Tripp; 1840-41; North Atlantic NAPOLEON; Akin; 1868-72; South Atlantic, Cook Islands, Norfolk Island, Kermadecs, New Zealand, Tonga COMMODORE MORRIS; Winslow; 1873-76; Atlantic SCOTLAND; Seabury; 1860; North Atlantic PHAROS; ?; 1861; North Atlantic TEKOA; Benson; 1862-63; Atlantic C.H. COOK; Gelett; 1867-68; North Atlantic ROMAN; Wordell; 1857-59; South Atlantic, Western Australia, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Hawaii, New Zealand, Marianas EMMA C. JONES; Gifford; 1870; New Zealand TROPIC BIRD; Stanton; 1881-83; South Atlantic TRITON; ?; 1840-41; South Atlantic, New Zealand EUGENIA; ?; 1851-55; Atlantic, Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands DANIEL WEBSTER; Sanborn; 1863-64; North Atlantic LAGODA; Nye/Whiteside; 1882-86; Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands AU PMB MS 258 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1820-1871 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. HENRY TABER; Packard; 1868-71; Atlantic, Hawaii, Marquesas, Society Islands, Marianas ROUSSEAU; Spencer; 1866-70; Galapagos, Juan Fernandez Islands ROUSSEAU; Pope; 1853-57; Juan Fernandez Islands, Hawaii, Line Islands, Kermadecs MAGNOLIA; ?; 1834-38; South Pacific MENKAR; Snow; 1848-49; Hawaii MASSACHUSETTS; Nickerson; 1849-50; Gilbert Islands, Nauru, Carolines FALCON; Gardner; 1852-54; Atlantic, Galapagos, Juan Fernandez Islands, Hawaii, Society Islands, Pitcairn Island DRAGON; ?; 1820-21; Atlantic GEORGE AND SUSAN; Coggeshall; 1821-24; Atlantic, Easter Island ANN ALEXANDER; Coggeshall; 1824-25; Atlantic BY CHANCE; Coggeshall; 1825-26; Atlantic BY CHANCE; Coggeshall; 1826-28; Atlantic ALBION; ?; 1833; Atlantic AU PMB MS 259 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1833-1872 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ALBION; ?; 1833; Continued from reel PMB 258 MARY FRAZIER; Hazard; 1853-56; Hawaii, Gilbert Islands, Carolines JAVA; ?; 1837-39; New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands CORTEZ; ?; 1842-46; Juan Fernandez Islands, Hawaii, Ellice Islands, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Society Islands, Futuna CONGAREE; Cushman; 1846-50; Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands CONGAREE; Malloy; 1846-50; Juan

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Fernandez, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, Society Islands MERCURY; Malloy; 1859-60; Indian Ocean OSCEOLA; Cornell; 1865-66; North Atlantic OSCEOLA; Malloy; 1866-68; North Atlantic EUROPA; Mellen; 1866-72; South Atlantic, Hawaii, Marquesas ANSEL GIBBS; Chapell; 1860-61; North Atlantic AU PMB MS 264 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1830-1869 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. CANADA; Worden; 1846-49; Continued from reel PMB 263 ST GEORGE; ?; 1845-47; Indian Ocean, Hawaii, Christmas Island, New Zealand HEROINE; Borden; 1835-36; South Atlantic MARTHA; ?; 1836-38; South Atlantic, Indian Ocean MARTHA; ?; 1852-57; Galapagos Islands, Gilbert Islands, Ocean Island, Ellice Islands, Hawaii PANTHEON; Jenney; 1845-49; Tasmania, Society Islands, Hawaii, New Zealand, New South Wales, Kermadecs, Walpole Island, New Hebrides, Norfolk Island FLORIDA; Fitch; 1849-50; Pacific ALEXANDER MILLIKEN; Fitch; 1852-53; Atlantic STELLA; Hathaway; 1855-60; Galapagos, Juan Fernandez Islands SALLY ANN; Netcher; 1830-32; South Atlantic, Indian Ocean BENJAMIN RUSH; Eddy; 1841-45; Juan Fernandez Islands, Marquesas, New Zealand, Hawaii, Marianas, Galapagos Islands CAPE HORN PIGEON; Gibbs; 1866-67; Atlantic EDITH MAY; Keith; 1867-69; Atlantic GOLCONDA; Chase; 1835-38; Indian Ocean AU PMB MS 267 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1833-1881 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. GOOD RETURN; Swift; 1844-47; Continued from reel PMB 266 HIBERNIA; Ludlow; 1866-69; Atlantic, New Zealand, Hawaii JANUS; Swift; 1833-35; South Atlantic, Indian Ocean JANUS; Swift; 1835-37; South Atlantic, Indian Ocean MARCIA; Billings; 1857-61; Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Tuamotus, Marquesas LANCASTER; Almy; 1851-54; Hawaii, New Zealand ANN ALEXANDER; Sawtell; 1845-49; South Atlantic, Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, Gilbert Islands, Marianas, New Zealand MILO; Soule; 1849-51; Indian Ocean, North Pacific, Hawaii, Cook Islands, New Zealand MILO; Soule; 1851-55; Atlantic, Hawaii, Society Islands, Marquesas, Cook Islands, Kermadecs MARS; Wicks; 1878-81; South Atlantic Of special interest on this reel (ANN ALEXANDER; 1845-49) Accounts of relations with women AU PMB MS 273 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1835-1887 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. FRANKLIN; Mandley; 1885-87; Continued from reel PMB 272 E.B. CONNELL; Costa; 1884-85; North Atlantic E.B. CONNELL; Foster; 1885; North Atlantic E.B. CONNELL; Foster; 1885-86; North Atlantic E.B. CONNELL; Costa; 1883-84; North Atlantic CONDOR; ?; 1835-39; South Atlantic CONDOR; ?; 1839; Australia CONDOR; ?; 1839-41; Indian Ocean, Western Australia SARATOGA; Harding; 1849-52; Hawaii ALMIRA; Osborn; 1864-66; Atlantic, Marquesas, Hawaii SPLENDID; Fish; 1866-67; New Zealand, Cook Islands ALASKA; Norton; 1867-69; Atlantic, Western Australia, New Guinea, East Indies ANTELOPE; Battene; 1855-59; South Atlantic, New

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Zealand, Society Islands, Hawaii, Marianas, Cook Islands ADELINE; Peets; 1850-51; New Zealand, Hawaii JEANETTE; Peets; 1852-54; Hawaii SOUTH BOSTON; Peets; 1855-57, Pacific SOUTH BOSTON; Peets; 1855-57; Hawaii, Gilbert Islands SOUTH BOSTON; Peets; 1857-58; Hawaii OLYMPIA; Potter; 1847-51; Atlantic, Juan Fernandez Islands, Marianas, Solomons, Ellice Islands, Bonin Islands, Hawaii, Samoa, New South Wales, New Zealand AU PMB MS 284 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1836-1864 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. JOSEPH MEIGS; Winsor; 1849-50; Continued from reel PMB 283 MONSOON; Winsor; 1851-52; Atlantic, Indian Ocean CLIPPER SHIPS sailing to San Francisco, 1849-55 LAGODA; Maxfield; 1841-43; Atlantic, Western Australia, Tasmania, East Indies, Pacific WASHINGTON; ?; 1838-40; Atlantic, Australia WASHINGTON; ?; 1840-42; Indian Ocean, Australia CORAL; Seabury; 1839-42; Atlantic, Galapagos Islands, Society Islands CORAL; Seabury; 1842-46; South Atlantic, Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii CORAL; Seabury; 1846-50; Galapagos Islands, Atlantic, Juan Fernandez Islands CORINTHIAN; ?; 1836-39; Juan Fernandez, Galapagos Islands ALFRED GIBBS; Nickols; 1859-64; Marquesas, Galapagos Islands TWO BROTHERS; Clark; 1858-63; Gilbert Islands, Ocean Island, Solomons, New Guinea, Kermadecs, Samoa, Tokelau Islands, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales AU PMB MS 289 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1791-1913 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. OCEAN QUEEN; ?; 1873; Atlantic (VARIOUS SHIPS); Seabury; 1861; Atlantic (VARIOUS SHIPS); ?; 1867-69; Atlantic (VARIOUS SHIPS); Seabury; 1872-73; Atlantic HENRY CHAUNCEY; Seabury; 1869; Atlantic GRANADA; Seabury; 1873-74; Far East ARIZONA; ?; 1870-71; Far East (VARIOUS SHIPS); Gifford; 1854-64; Hawaii, North Atlantic MERCURY; Gifford; 1875-76; Indian Ocean RAJAH; Fisher; 1851-54; Hawaii JOSEPHINE; Smith; 1903-07; Atlantic, Indian Ocean A.M. NICHOLSON; Smith; 1909-12; Atlantic, Indian Ocean MOONLIGHT; Taber; 1860; Atlantic CAPE HORN PIGEON; Scullen; 1891-92; Carolines, Marianas NIAGARA; Howland; 1809; North Atlantic WILLIAM & ELIZA; Howland; 1811; North Atlantic AVERICK HEINEKEN; Stetson; 1838-40; Atlantic, New Zealand TUSCALOOSA; Taber; 1840-42; South Atlantic, Western Australia, South Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Ellice Islands, Gilbert Islands AVERICK HEINEKEN; De Wolf; 1838-39; Indian Ocean, Australia, New Zealand TUSCALOOSA; De Wolf; 1840-43; Atlantic, Western Australia, Tasmania, Samoa, Marianas TUSCALOOSA; ?; 1843-44; Carolines, Ocean Island, New Hebrides, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Tonga POLLEY; ?; 1791; Atlantic SALLY; ?; 1793-99; Atlantic A.M. NICHOLSON; Smith; 1913; Atlantic YOUNG PHOENIX; Holmes; 1885; North Pacific TRIUMPHANT; Johnson; 1875-77; Pacific, Atlantic Of special interest on this reel (CAPE HORN PIGEON; 1891-92) Vessel seized at Vladivostok and then released. AU PMB MS 290 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1754-1892 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

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For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. TRIUMPHANT; Johnson; 1875-77; Continued from reel PMB 289 NEW ENGLAND; Baldwin; 1830-31; Hawaii TRIUMPHANT; Johnson; 1877-78; Pacific, Atlantic FERNESS ABBEY; Libbey; 1879; ? SYREN; ?; 1879; Atlantic, Pacific DETROIT; Johnson; 1880; Pacific, Atlantic JOSEPHINE; Frary; 1846-49; Hawaii, Far East, East Indies, Atlantic TAMERLAND; Burbank; 1877; Atlantic (FRAGMENT OF LOG); ?; 1843; Indian Ocean, Australia HENRIETTA; Ellis; 1851-55; Atlantic WILLIAM BAYLIES; Bartlett; 1886-87; South Atlantic, Juan Fernandez Islands, Hawaii LOTTIE BEARD/PEDRO VARELA; Ricketson; 1885; Atlantic THREE SISTERS; Chase; 1809-10; Atlantic JOHN D. WINTHROP; Cook; 1889; Hawaii, Marianas, Marshall Islands ROZARIO; Coffin; 1891; North Pacific STAMBOUL; Waldron; 1892; North Pacific SYMRNA; Chase; 1853-57; Indian Ocean, Western Australia, East Indies MONTGOMERY/ELIZABETH/JAMES MAURY; Chase; 1858-62; South Atlantic, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, New Zealand, Kermadecs, Ellice Islands MORNING STAR; Colcord; 1875; Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Carolines SEAFLOWER; ?; 1754; North Atlantic JOSEPH PEABODY; Peterson; 1856-57; Atlantic, Pacific SHARON; Johnson; 1845-51; Marquesas, Pitcairn Island H.L. SCRANTON; Wood; 1846-47; Atlantic CONDOR; Taber; 1832-33; South Atlantic FRANCIS HENRIETTA; Russell; 1833-34; Atlantic, Pacific Of special interest on this reel (SHARON; 1845-46) Descriptions of visits to Marquesas and Pitcairn Island AU PMB MS 302 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1845-1859 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. GEORGE & SUSAN; Taber; 1845-48; Hawaii JAVA; Lawrence; 1854-55 FRAMES 144-494 are owned by Mr Martin Walter. Last known address (1970) New Bedford Cordage Co., New Bedford, Mass. 02740 Moctezuma; Tower; 1847-49; Juan Fernandez Islands; Hawaii, Far East EMILY MORGAN; Chase; 1854-59; Gilbert Islands, Carolines, Far East, Hawaii, Society Islands HECTOR; Norton; 1852-56; Galapagos Islands, Pitcairn Island The following held in NEW BEDFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY HEGARTY, Reginald B.; Lists of logbooks and other documents held in the Melville Whaling Room, AU PMB MS 415 Title: Logbook and diary Date(s): 1868 – 1871 (Creation) Fowler, Captain James Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Captain Fowler went to the Pacific in 1868 as captain of the London Missionary Society vessel JOHN WILLIAMS III. He was dismissed in 1871 because of his treatment of the islanders. The logbook begins on 12 November 1868 when Captain Fowler left London. It continues to 25 February 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III passed Jervis Bay, NSW. It resumes on 30 March 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III left Sydney for a cruise to the Pacific Islands, which extended to Tahiti, back to the New Hebrides and then to Raiatea before returning to Sydney on 31 December 1869. The cruise took in Raiatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Aneityum, Mare, Lifu, Uvea, Tubuai and Savai'i. The logbook resumes again on 4 April 1870 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III was at Huahine. Subsequent calls were made at Raiatea, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Mitiaro, Mauke, Atiu, Tutuila, Niue, the Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, the southern New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. The JOHN WILLIAMS III returned to Sydney on 20 December 1870. Captain Fowler returned to England in 1871 in the ship BUCKLEY CASTLE. AU PMB MS 416 Title: Journal of the United States exploring expedition Date(s): 11 August 1840 – 19 February 1842 (Creation) Hudson Captain William L.

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Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Captain Hudson (1794-1862) was commander of the US ship PEACOCK, one of the vessels of the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific, 1838-42, commanded by Commodore Charles Wilkes. He later transferred his flag to the PORPOISE. The journal begins when the expedition was en route from Fiji to Honolulu, and gives an account of the PEACOCK's visits to the Hawaiian Islands, Oregon, Southern California, the Line, Phoenix and Tokelau Islands, Samoa, the Ellice and Gilbert Islands, and the wreck of the PEACOCK at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. After Hudson had transferred his flag to the USS PORPOISE, he crossed the Pacific to the Philippines, Sooloo Islands and Singapore. (The journal is a continuation of that filmed as PMB 146, which covers the Expedition's activities from 20 August 1838 to 8 August 1840) AU PMB MS 463 Title: Miscellaneous unpublished items Date(s): c. 1894 – 1928 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432 The items are: 1. Accounts of Fijian secret societies - le 'vaki ou nanaga'; les Kalou Vatu; le keibuca; les kai nakauvadra. (These are contained in a small exercise book and are thought to have been written by Father J. de Marzan, SM.) 2. Brief histories of Fiji mission stations - Tailevu, Tunuloa, Naiserelagi, Suva, Ba and Yasawa, Kadavu, Lomary, Rotuma - and lists of principal dates. 3. A 'sketch' entitled 'Slavery in Fiji'. It is dated Levuka, Fiji, 22 June 1894 and is said to be a translation of a German 'communication' in the Geographische Gesellshaft (sic) of 1895. The author states that he had spent 23 years in the Pacific, 'the last twelve of them in Fiji'.: 4. Correspondence, 1903, concerning alleged Bible burnings.: 5. Church statistics, 1900-19.: 6. Reports on native clergy, 1921-22.: 7. An abridged Fijian grammar - 'Petit abrege de Grammaire Vitienne'. It bears the name of Father A. Deniau, SM, but does not appear to be in his handwriting.: 8. Letters re medical matters to and from Bishop J. Vidal, 1906-10, and Bishop C.J. Nicolas, 1924-28.: 9. An account of a visit to Lau by Father J.M. Oreve, SM, dated Suva, 30 August 1923.: 10. 'Notes concernant l'Imprimerie', by Father P. Clement, SM, dated 'retraite 1922'.: 11. Papers relating to Father J.V. Pujebet's removal from Nukunau Island, Gilbert Islands, 1917-1919. AU PMB MS 512 Title: Journals of voyages in the ships Ophelia and Packet Date(s): 1815-1822 Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: At the beginning of 1815, Samuel Hill, a sea captain, calculated that he had lost $7,000 since the beginning of the war of 1812. To repair his fortunes, he undertook the command of the Ophelia on a speculative voyage from Boston to Chile, China and return. On his return, after an absence of 20 months, he embarked almost immediately on a second and similar voyage in the Packet. On this voyage three trips were made from Chile to China. the Packet returned to Boston after a voyage of four years, eleven months and 24 days. Informative accounts of proceedings and places visited on the voyages outlined above. On the first voyage, Hill visited or sighted the following Pacific Islands: Juan Fernandez, Galapagos, Hawaii, Ebon Atoll, Aranuka (Gilbert Islands), Santa Ana and Bougainville (Solomons), New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands and Mapia. The accounts of Hawaii, Bougainville and Mapia are especially interesting. On the second voyage, Hill was in Hawaii on three occasions. He also landed on Agrigan in the Marianas. Otherwise he generally kept clear of the islands. AU PMB MS 539

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Title: Expedition narrative and sketchbooks Date(s): 1838-1842 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes, made an extensive survey of many Pacific island groups. After rounding Cape Horn in March 1839, the expedition visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and the Phoenix, Tokelau, Gilbert and Ellice (now Tuvalu) Islands. The expedition returned to the United States via the Cape of Good Hope in June 1842. There are three sets of documents: 1. A narrative of the expedition by George M. Colvocoresses, a lieutentant. 2. Sketchbooks made by George F. Emmons, 1839-41, an officer of the Peacock 3. Sketchbooks made by Henry Eld, Jr., 1838-42 AU PMB MS 570 Title: Diary Date(s): 18 May 1894 – 1 October 1895 (Creation) Cullen John A. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The author was second officer in the London Missionary Society steamship John Williams A diary of voyages in the John Williams 1. From London towards Sydney via the Cape of Good Hope (18 May - 30 June 1894) 2. From Sydney towards New Guinea via Niue, Rarotonga, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Samoa (5 October - 22 November 1894) 3. From Sydney to the Pacific Islands and return. Calls were made at New Guinea, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Ellice, Gilbert and Cook Islands (15 March - 1 October 1895) AU PMB MS 664 Title: Archives Date(s): 1879-1889 (Creation) Societe des Missionnaires Du Sacre-Coeur: Vicariate Apostolic of Melanesia and Micronesia Extent and medium: 3 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The Societe des Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur was founded at Issoudun, France, on 8 December 1854, by Fr Jules Chevalier. Headquarters of the mission have been in Rome since 1905. The documents are inventoried on pp.361-2 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. The inventory, with annotations, is reproduced at the beginning of the first reel. The documents include some relating to the Marquis du Ray's and the Nouvelle France projects; journal extracts, notes, letters, decrees of the S.C. Propaganda. Reel 1: 1879 - 1882 (a. - d.) Reel 2: 1884 - 1889 (e. - v/c Navarre 1884) Reel 3: 1884 - 1889 (v/c Navarre (contd) - Verjus) AU PMB MS 669 Title: Archives Date(s): 1893 – 1952 (Creation) Societe des Missionnaires Du sacre-Coeur: Vicariate Apostolic of the Gilbert Islands Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 664 for full entry. The documents are inventoried on pp.377-80 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. The inventory, with annotations, is reproduced on the film. Records for Nauru are also included as that island comes within the Vicariate. The documents comprise letters, reports, memoranda, statistics, correspondence, and records of the S.C. Propaganda. NOTE: dates at the beginning of the film are incorrectly given as 1897 - 1950.

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AU PMB MS 738-767 Title: Papers Date(s): 1852 – 1929 (Creation) American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Extent and medium: 30 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The papers comprise reports, correspondence, statistics, minutes, estimates, cables, financial statements, abstracts, newspaper clippings and biographical sketches of missions, and missionaries in the field, in Micronesia, predominently the Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Islands. Also included are the logs of various missionary vessels, including the Morning Star, Hiram Bingham, Robert Logan and the Carrie and Annie. The letters, reports, etc. are contained in 19 volumes, the logs and other documents being contained in other volumes. Each volume contains an index to the contents. A detailed entry is given for each of the 30 reels of film in the series PMB 738 to 767. Volume 1: Letters and reports, 1852-59, from mission stations at Ponape and Kusaie, Caroline Islands; also material from Ebon, Marshall Islands, and Abaiang, Gilbert Islands. The correspondence is mainly from Hiram Bingham, Edward Doane and Luther Gulick. Also a report of a visit to the Marquesas Islands of the Morning Star. Volume 2: Documents, 1852-59, relating largely to the Morning Star and the voyages it made from Honolulu to the Micronesian mission stations and also the Marquesas. AU PMB MS 772 Title: Whaling logbooks, and other documents, copied in New England (USA) repositories Date(s): 1830-1902 (Creation) New England Microfilming Project Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200 For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Date of voyage; Area or places visited.d PLEASE NOTE: PMB 768 to 783 - the names of the captains or logkeepers were not readily available for inclusion in these entries. Some of the names may be located in the indexes mentioned above. EUROPA; Memo of Captain Barker, 1880 CALIFORNIA; 1901-1902; Pacific ABRAHAM BARKER; 1871-75; Pacific ALBATROSS USS; 1899; ? AURORA; 1858-60; Pacific (Account Book) PIONEER; 1851-54; Pacific WATKINS; Outfit for whaling voyage, n.d. DAUPHIN; record of voyage in poem form, 1820-22 CALIFORNIA; 1851-54; Pacific List of ships and barques, 1830-76 Of special interest on this reel (DAUPHIN; 1820-23) Good descriptions of ports; rescued survivors of ESSEX off Cape Horn, 23 February 1821; (EUROPA; 1880) Reference to islanders in Kingsmill Group, i.e. southern Gilbert Islands; (ABRAHAM BARKER; 1871-75) Whale drawings; captain's wife on board; Governor and entourage taken to Ha'apai, Tonga; (ALBATROSS USS; 1899) Record of Agassiz Exploring Expedition. Sketches, watercolours and photographs of landfalls, of islanders and of tools, boats, etc.; encounters with missionaries and royalty, including Tupou II of Tonga; disease in the islands; pearl diving at Kikueru AU PMB MS 917 Title: Minutes, reports, notes and correspondence Date(s): 1935 – 1968 (Creation) London Missionary Society, Ellice Islands Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The papers comprise minutes of the General Assembly of the Ellice Islands Church, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966; reports on annual visitations to the Ellice Islands and Tokelau, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955; notes on the Ellice Islands, 1958; 'Church and Mission in the Gilbert Islands - A New Pattern', 1958, 1959; minutes of discussions between Rev. Brian E. Ranford and others, Nui, 1962; annual report of the church, 1967; minutes of the executive committee meetings, 1967; 'Ikunga o te Fono Lasi i Funafuti,' 1968; correspondence of Ranford, 1958-67. (A more detailed listing appears at the beginning of the microfilm.) AU PMB MS 967 Title: Diary Date(s): 2 May – 16 December 1914 (Creation) Donaldson T.H. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm

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Description: Donaldson was one of about 40 British employees of the British-owned Pacific Phosphate Company on Nauru when World War I broke out. Nauru was then a German colony. On 6 September 1914, the Germans deported the British employees to Ocean Island, part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. On 3 November 1914, an Australian force under Colonel W. Holmes, arrived at Ocean Island in the company's ship Messina, reembarked the British employees and returned them to Nauru, which was placed under Australian military control. The diary gives an account of these events and those preceding and following them. AU PMB MS 1009 Title: Samoa 1830-1900 drafts and research materials and Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG Date(s): 1830-1954 (Creation) Gilson Richard P. Extent and medium: 9 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Consists partly of Dr Gilson's drafts for Samoa 1839-1900 and partly of notes and documents relating to the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Niue and Papua New Guinea. The Cook Islands material, which is more extensive than the rest, is drawn from a wide variety of sources and includes Gilson's correspondence with Lionel Trenn and a document by Lional Trenn regarding land tenure in the Cook Islands. The 1946 U.K. Secretary of State's dispatch on cooperative movements in the Pacific in F.14 is followed by a reprint of H.E. Maude's cooperative movements in GEIC (May 1950, South Pacific). See also PMB 1003. The contents are listed in condensed form below but the complete inventory appears on reel 1, with notes by PMB, and is available on request. Reel 1: Preliminaries; files 1-2 The Politics of a Multicultural Community. Samoa 1830-1900, introduction, bibliography of Gilson, abbreviations, bibliography of book, miscellaneous correspondence on book; Chapters 1-6(2 copies) Reel 2: file 2 cont. - file 3; Chs 7-12(2 copies) Reel 3: file 3 cont. - file 4; Chs 13-16 Reel 4: file 4 cont. - file 8g; Chs 2, 13; revised footnotes; Vaisala Papers; Samoan educational texts 1948-50 Reel 5: file 8h - file 14; Samoan education texts cont.; papers presented at Hancock Seminar on British tropical dependencies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1951; Proclamation re election of King of Samoa, 1888-9; notes on German administration; notes on Samoan social structure etc.; translation of Maretu's journal; Secretary of State, despatch on cooperative movements in Pacific, 1946 Reel 6: file 15 - file 24; Material on Papua/New Guinea includes press cuttings, statements, letter re land tenure; Miscellaneous material on GEIC, includes general notes, amendment to tax regulations no.11 1915, King's regulation on recruiting and employment of native labourers no.1 1915; annual report cooperative societies officer 1947/48/49; notes on French admin. in Oceania 1842-1903; bibliography/Society Islands; Material on Fiji, press cuttings and notes; American policy in tropics; South Seas Commission Conf. papers 1947; Tupper report on visits in HMS Pylades 1899; Cook Islands/notes re Journal of House of Reps (NZ) Series A3 1891-1931 Reel 7: file 24 cont. - file 29; Gilson's Cook Islands papers; notes on LMS material; official organisations; bibliography; NZ Parliamentary debates 1900-37 Reel 8: file 29 cont. - file 41; Cook Islands material; N.Z. official docs.; elections 1947-50; trade & industry; Lionel Trenn Reel 9: file 42; Cook Islands land matters AU PMB MS 1023 Title: Extracts from the Bingham family papers Date(s): 1857-1941 (Creation) Selected Papers on the Pacific Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: There are 20 items on this reel, most of which are Gilbertese linguistic materials by both Clarissa and Hiram Bingham II. A detailed inventory is available on request. NOTE: The contents list at the beginning of the reel is incorrect. The items are:

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1. 2 news clippings (a) on death of Rev. H. Bingham 1939 (b) Early Punahou Land Title History 2. Part of bible dictionary by Mrs Bingham (Gilbertese) 8p. 3. Obituary of Henry Obookiah; photograph of Charles Salter 4. Title page only of a book, A Narrative of five youth from the Sandwich Islands, Obookiah, Hopoo, Tennooe, Honooree, and Prince Tamoree ... (New York: N. Seymour, 49 John St., 1816) 5. Title page only of, The Memoirs of Henry Obookiah ... (New Haven: Office of the Religious Intelligencer, 1818). Obookiah died at Cornwall, aged 26, on Feb. 17 1818 and was involved in establishing a mission school there. 6. Appendixes - List of subseries of Letters from Officers Commanding Expeditions (Entry 25). Annotation reads 'Preliminary checklist, Naval Records Collection'. References to collections, registers of logs, journals, private papers etc. 7. Article from The Friend 1941, 'Hymns in Hawaiian', Ethel Damon; Bernice Judd 8 & 9. Drawings and plans by G. Holmes(?) 10. List of Gilbertese Words, 1906 11. Gilbertese Frequentatives by Moses Kaure, 1906 12. 1500 taeka ni Kiribati 13. 180 Gilbertese-French words 14. Kaure's first list of 60 varieties 15. Gilbertese/English definitions 16. Gilbertese Definitions (Bingham) 17. Supplement (to above?) includes notes on numerals 18. Gilbertese words not in common use on Apaiang and Tarawa collected from manuscript dictionary of Rev. J.M. Channon (Bingham) 19. A Gilbertese Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 20. The journal of Minerva Clarissa Bingham of her voyage from Boston to Micronesia, 1857-1858. AU PMB MS 1032 Title: The Pateman papers: a collection of Gilbertese traditions Date(s): c. 1900 (Creation) Pateman Emily May Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Emily May Pateman was born in Croydon, England on 26 March 1893. On 15 February 1922 she was dedicated as a missionary with the London Missionary Society and on 25 February sailed for the Gilbert Islands to work as a teaching missionary with Miss B.E. Simmons at Rongorongo, Beru. In December 1941, the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific ordered that all European women and their children must leave the islands due to the Japanese advance. On 10 December they boarded the John Williams IV and sailed for Suva where they were told that the Japanese had invaded the Gilbert Islands within three hours of their departure. May (her preferred name) Pateman returned to the Gilberts in April 1945 having spent the intervening years in education work with the Fiji government and at Papauta Girls School in Samoa. She was the founder and an active member of the Gilbert Islands Girls Guide movement. Through the Mission Press in Beru she published a number of works including The New School Reader, 1940; Aia Karaki ni Kawai I-Tungaru (Myths and Legends of the Gilbertese People), 1942; a Revised Gilbertese Grammar and Composition and a revised edition of Children of the World and Their Homes. May Pateman collected the stories on this microfilm over a period of time and used most of them in Aia Karaki ni Kawai I-Tungaru. This detailed listing of the contents has been prepared by Mr K. Uriam. The first seven items are listed by author, the remaining eleven items are numbered with the prefix PP (Pateman Papers). In the first seven items the Kaure material appears twice, the second time being a copy of the first. PP3, Rikini Karongoa, was not available for copying. IOTAMO: (comp.) n.d. Rongorongon Beru ai Karakin Nikunau (The Story of Beru from the island of Nikunau) (a) Rongoronon te anti ae Tioba ae te Buraeniman (b) Rongorongon Tabuariki (c) Rongorongon Akaoia ma ana tautaeka ni karokoa maon mitinare ake Rilo ao Teimaeriu aika i Tamoa iaon Nikunau (d) 'Ikaboengina ao kaboeboe'

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(e) Karakin te kai are 'Tekanawa' (f) Te Koraki mai Tamoa ao manin wa KAURE: n.d. Te Karaki Nikawai (Traditions from Abaiang and Tarawa tradtions) KAURE: Te Karaki Nikawai (Traditions from Abaiang and Tarawa traditions. Copy of Kaure, copier unknown, November, 1926) TIBWERE, E.: (comp.) 1915. Karakia I-Tungaru (The history of the Gilbert Islands collected from Ten Teuea [Tarawa] Nariki [Tarawa] and Tabuia [Abaiang]) TIBWERE, E.: (comp.) 1932. Te Katei ni Kiribati (Notes on Gilbertese Customs and Traditions) collected from Nei Teeta (Abemama) and Ten Taumoa (Abemama), and serveral other old men of Abemama TIONE, M.K.: 1927. Taeka Nikawai mai Tabiteuea (Traditions of Tabiteuea) (a) Antia Kain Aiwa: te Atua-aani-mwemwe; Taburitokia-te-rang; Taburitokia-te-aomata; Nei Aibong (e aki taromauriaki); Kabunang; Nei Tituabine; Karubenimataiti; Nei Ongaonga; Tabuariki (mai roun Tauua) (b) Aia buaka Taranga ma Auriaria (mai round Teingoa. R) (c) Taekan Nei Ku (Tauua) (d) Taekan Takoronga (Tauua) (e) Taekan aia buaka Kabu ma Narim aika Mitinaren Aiwa i Tabiteuea TIROBA: Karakin Tarawa (Tarawa Stories) (a) Nei Aaai ma Kaobunang: Nei Aai; Kaobunang; Te bunroronga (b) Rongorongon Teraka ma te tia kabung (c) Rongorongon Tabuaki ma te tei are e anaia PP1: Compiler unknown. n.d. Rikini Karongoa (Stories and Genealogical lists of Karongoa, Beru) PP2: Auatabu. n.d. Rongorongon Beru (Stories from Beru) PP3: Rikini Karongoa (copy of PP1 with slight variation) Not available for copying PP4: Iotamo. June, 1927. Rongorongon Nonouti ao tabeua riki (Nonouti traditions and other stories) (a) Rongorongon Nei Tewnei ao kain Temotu i Nonouti (b) Taian Buaka iaon Nonouti: Kaitu ma Uakeia; Ana buaka Karakaua (c) Rongorongon te aomata ngkoa ae arana Teikao (d) Moan rokon te Aro i Nonouti (e) Nei Tewenei i Nonouti (f) Nareau-te-tei (g)Rongorongon Tembane (h) Rongorongon manangan Kamoki ao taani ira [blackbirders] (i) Morei are kain Tarawa ao ana kariki i Nikunau (j) Rongorongon Beia ma Tekaai ao aia kariki PP5: Compiler unknown. n.d. Rikini Kourabi ae i Tabiteuea ao tabeua riki (Tabiteuea traditions of Kourabi and other stories) (a) Rikini Kourabi ae i Tabiteuea (b) Tekan Bue ma Rirongo (c) Moan Kateirikin Kiribati ni karokoa Nei Teweia (d) Te bai n aoraki ni Kiribati ae bain te mka (e) Mitinaren Kamatu ao uruan aia boua n anti kain Aiwa PP7: Compiler unknown. (Ieriko, 22 August, 1921). Rongorongon te moan Maneaba i Kiribati n roro ngkoa ao tabeua riki (The First Maneaba in Kiribati and other stories) (a) Rongorongon te moan Maneaba i Kiribati n roro ngkoa ma aomata aika mataniwia ma aia Inaki (b) Te Bo-ma-te-maki ao Eutakin Karawa (c) Tekai-n-tikuaba (d) Ana kariki Bakoa ma Aakoia (e) Rikin Takoronga (f) Inaki aika akea aia taeka ma aia makuri n te Maneaba (g) Te 'Kawa ni Kamaiu' (h) Katean te Maneaba ni Kamaiu ma aran baata i rarikina (i) Inakin te Maneaba ae aki baina te taeka (j) Inaki ni Kabotua are n te maneaba i Taribo i Tabiang

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(k) Inakin Kaburara (l) Rongorongon ana kariki Naareau are natin Naatibu (Taekan Bakoauea) (m) Rikin Obaia 'te buraerae' PP8: Compiler unknown. n.d. Te Taeka Nikawai mai Nukantewa (Stories of the Past from Nukantewa) (a) Te Bomatemaki (b) Bue ma Rirongo PP9: Rongorongon Tabakea ma Bakewa ao tabeua riki (Story of Tabakea and Bakewa and others)(a) Rikini Karawa ma aonaba (b) Rongorongon te anti ae arana Temamang (c) Rongorongon Tabakea ma Bakewa PP10: Taekan Nein-Riki (The Story of Nein-Riki) PP11: Arobete. Moan Rikin Aaba (Origins of the Lands) AU PMB MS 1057 Title: Research notes on the Gilbert Islands Date(s): c. 1956 – 1962 (Creation) Maude, H.E. (Henry Evans) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Educated at Cambridge, Harry Maude spent the years 1929-48 working as a civil servant and administrator in various Pacific Islands, in particular the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. From 1948-57 he worked for the South Pacific Commission, following which he worked as a Research Fellow for the Australian National University Research School of Pacific Studies until 1971. He has published widely on aspects of Pacific Islands history and was a prime mover in the establishment of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. The bulk of his personal papers are held at the University of Adelaide Barr-Smith Library. A refined version of some of Professor Maude’s research notes on the history of the Gilbert Islands has been published as, H.E. Maude (compiler), The Gilbert Islands Observed. A source book of European contacts with and observations of the Gilbert Islands and the Gilbertese, Adelaide, Homa Press, 2006; 148pp. Seven volumes of typescript and Ms research notes and transcripts relating to the history of the Gilbert Islands, microfilmed in the following order: Gilbert Islands (general) 1870-1879 Gilbert Islands (general) 1880-1889 Gilbert Islands (general) 1890-1899 Gilbert Islands (general) undated Gilbert Islands (general) to 1849 Gilbert Islands (general) 1850-1859 Gilbert Islands (general) 1860-1869 The documents in each file are arranged in chronological order. The notes were taken from such sources as the Archives of the Western Pacific High Commission and various newspapers. Interleaved is some of Maude's original correspondence relating to the Gilbert Islands. Topics covered in the notes include missions, the labour trade, copra, customs, trading activities, health, education, historical events, murders, Ocean Island and visits of ships. AU PMB MS 1073 Title: Papers Date(s): 1913 – 69 (excluding publications) (Creation) Eastman Rev. George Herbert Extent and medium: 11 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Eastman and his wife Winifred (nee Grimwade, married 1914) ran the London Missionary Society Mission in Rarotonga from 1913 to 1918 and the LMS Gilbert Islands Mission from 1918 to 1947. The Gilbert Islands Mission, which was based at Rongorongo on the island of Beru included the Ellice Islands, Nauru, Ocean Island and the Phoenix Islands. Eastman, who was awarded an OBE in 1946, retired to Swanage, Dorset in 1949. For further information see Norman Goodall, A History of the London Missionary Society, 1895-1945 (OUP, 1954) and John Garrett, Ways across the ocean in Bernard Thorogood (ed.), Gales of Change: responding to a

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shifting missionary context: the story of the London Missionary Society, 1945-77 (Geneva, 1994) pp.188-190. See also PMB 478 for Eastman's Rarotongan-English Dictionary, 1918. Reel 1: Personal correspondence, 1914-69. Reel 2: Cook Islands - newsclippings, typescripts and pamphlets, 1914-18. Mss of Notes on Rarotongan Grammar, 1913. Personal notebook, 1918-46. Gilbert Islands Mission reports and newsletters, 1918-47. Reel 3: Gilbert Islands Mission financial and administrative papers, 1918-50 and papers on education, 1922-48. Reel 4: Sermons in English and Gilbertese: - Old Testament, 1917-47 - New Testament, 1918-22. Reel 5: Sermons - New Testament, 1923-44. Reel 6: Sermons - New Testament, 1945-47 (undated sermons at end of sequence) Reels 6-7: Research material on the history, culture and flora of the Gilbert Islands, including mss and typescript extracts and transcripts from other sources, printed and roneoed documents, notes, drafts and maps. Reel 7: 1922 mss transcript/revision of an English/Gilbertese vocubulary originally compiled by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Reels 7-8: Mss working draft of an English/ Gilbertese vocabulary assembled by Eastman. Reel 8: 1948 typescript draft of Eastman's published English/Gilbertese vocabulary. 170 photographs taken in the Cook Islands and the Gilbert Islands. Reels 8-11: 48 books and pamphlets printed in Samoa and the Gilbert Islands, 1892- 1978. 38 of these publications are in Gilbertese, three are in Rarotongan and the remainder are in English. A complete inventory of publications filmed is available. AU PMB MS 1077 Title: Papers relating to the Gilbert Islands Date(s): 1942 – 1977 (Creation) Maude, H.E. (Henry Evans) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Author/editor of a number of publicaitons on the Gilbert Islands, including An Anthology of Gilbertese oral tradition (Suva, USP, 1994), Maude was the British colonial administrator in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1929-48. For further biographical details see PMB 1057. 1. The Genealogical Book of the Royal Family of Abemama. 98 page handwritten copy from the Genealogical Book of Paul I. Simon (1916), copied by John R. Tokatake on Kuria Island, 1960. Written in Gilbertese, this copy was sent to Maude by the Catholic priest Father Ernest Sabatier in 1964.

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2. Circular notices, mostly addressed to village chiefs of the Gilbert Islands, from the Japanese Department of Civil Administration in the Gilberts, October 1942-May 1943. Written by Miyoshi, the District Officer and Resident Commissioner who was based on Uma, these 35 notices are mostly single page typescripts in the Gilbertese language. The original notices are accompanied by typescript English translations carried out by Reid Cowell in 1970. AU PMB MS 1113 Title: Camohe: a history of four generations of the Carpenter family Date(s): n.d. (1980s) (Creation) Melrose, Ray Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: W R Carpenter & Company Limited was registered in Sydney in 1914. The company was founded by Walter Randolf Carpenter. He was subsequently joined by his brothers, J A and W H Carpenter and, still later, by his two sons, R B and C H Carpenter. The company was initially involved in shipping and trading island produce in Papua, including copra, cocoa, trochus, beche-de-mer and green snail shell. After 1920 it became involved in copra plantations in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea and extended its interests to the Solomon islands, and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1938 it pioneered an air link between Sydney and Lae. After the War, in which Carpenters suffered heavy losses, the company was restructed as a holding company. In 1956, when R B Carpenter was Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Carpenter Group purchased the retail operations of Morris Hedstrom & Co in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. This is a poor quality photocopy of the original, Ts., 97pp., given to the Bureau by Pepita Carpenter. Ch.1, Pioneering the Pacific, pp.1-3; Ch.2, The Costa Rica Packet, pp.4-7; Ch.3, Treasure in Trochus, pp.8-9; Ch.4, A Small Beginning and a Stumble, pp.10-13; Ch.5, The Company Regained, pp.14-16; Ch.6, Between the Wars – an Era of Expansion, pp.17-21; Ch.7, The Creative Years – Shipping, pp.22-25; Ch.8, The Creative Years – Aviation, pp.26-31; Ch.9, The Creative Years – Merchandising, pp.31-38; Ch.10, The Creative Years – The Plantation Industries, pp.34-38; Ch.11, Sir Walter – Thoughts and Theories, pp.39-45; Ch.12, Stranded in Canada, pp.46-50; Ch.13, The Ravages of War, pp.50-53; Ch.14, Gains and Some Losses, pp.54-59; Ch.15, A New Chairman – Growth Continues, pp.60-65; Ch.16, The Tradition Maintained, pp.66-70; Ch.17, The Pattern Changes, pp.71-79; Ch.18, Some Turbulent Years, pp.80-84. Appendix 1, Profit and Dividend History, pp.85-86; Appendix 2, A Brief History of the Major Elements of the W R Carpenter Group in Australia…, pp.87-91; Appendix 3, Extracts from correspondence between J M Hedstrom and W R Carpenter, 1920-1922, following takeover of W R Carpenter & Co Ltd by Morris Hedstrom Ltd, pp.92-97. AU PMB MS 1129 Title: Lists of archives of the New Hebrides British Service and related records Date(s): 1974 (Creation) Western Pacific Archives Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The Western Pacific Archives, although located in Fiji, was a department of the Solomon Islands Government, jointly administered by the Deputy Governor and the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. It was established in 1971 to take over control of the archives of British regional administration (the Western Pacific High Commission) and of local territorial administration (Resident Commissioners' and District Commissioners' Offices in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Gilbert and Ellice Crown Colony and the New Hebrides Condominium). These are the National Archives of Vanuatu's copies (copy No.3) of the WPA's lists of the New Hebrides British Service (NHBS) archives, consisting of Lists Nos. NHBS 1/I Vols 2 & 3, and 1/II, 2-7, 9-16, 18 & 19 (of a total of 19 NHBS lists), together with List Nos. WPHC 2 & 31 of High Commission material relating to the New Hebrides, an unnumbered list of correspondence of the British Agent in North Santo and a list, the Vila Archives, of manuscripts and other documents relating to Vanuatu collected by the WPA. The NHBS and WPHC archives were transferred from Suva to the UK in 1978 and are still held by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1998). The Vila Archives are held in the National Archives of Vanuatu. AU PMB MS 1137 Title: Judgements, together with Privy Council judgements relating to Fiji cases Date(s): 1949 – 1986 (Creation) Fiji Court of Appeal

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Extent and medium: 12 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The Fiji Court of Appeal was established in 1949 as the highest court of appeal, short of the Privy Council, for Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission jurisdiction. After the dissolution of the WPHC, the Fiji Court of Appeal continued to sit as the appeal court for Kiribati and Tuvalu. Prior to 1949 appeals from the Supreme Court of Fiji were taken to the Privy Council. Appeals from the Fiji Court of Appeal to the Privy Council were still possible after 1949, until the coups, when that right was abolished. Under the direction of Judge Michael Scott a complete set of judgements Fiji Court of Appeal was compiled and indexed in 1991/92, with the help of a grant from the Asia Foundation. The judgements were photocopied from informal compilations and from original case files. Three sets of the photocopied judgements were made, each set comprising 22 thick volumes, amounting to almost 13,000 A4 pages. Fiji Court of Appeal judgements delivered from 1949-1996, Supreme Court of Fiji judgements delivered in 1996, and Privy Council judgements delivered between 1936-1986. AU PMB MS 1144 Title: Papers relating to her nutrition surveys in PNG, Fiji, Tonga and Niue, together with other South Pacific Health Service reports, by Susan Holmes, on nutrition surveys in Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands Date(s): 1947-1954 (Creation) Doreen Langley (1920-1998) Extent and medium: 35mm microfilm Description: Doreen Langley graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc in biochemistry and bacteriology. She began working at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. She then went back to Melbourne to be a dietitian at the 4th General US Army Hospital. After further study of nutrition Langley went to Papua New Guinea in 1947 as one of two women in a team of eight Australian scientists undertaking a survey of nutrition and the production, preparation and storage of food. She went to Gambia in 1950 with the British Medical Research Council Nutrition Unit and to Fiji, Niue and Tonga with the South Pacific Health Service, 1951-1954, collecting data concerning heights, weights and general nutritional status; family meals, local foods recipes and customs regarding food. Ms Langley was Principal of the Women’s College at the University of Sydney from 1957 till 1974. Doreen Langley, PNG Nutrition Survey Expedition, diary notes, letters, press cuttings, original records, reports and publications, 1947; Fajara, Gambia, West Africa, nutrition survey, letters and diary notes, 1950; South Pacific Health Service, Fiji, diary notes, letters, maps and photographs, 1951-1953; Niue Island and Tonga Survey reports, diary notes, letters and photographs, 1952-1953. Susan Holmes’, Nutrition Survey Reports: Western Samoa, 1951; BSIP, 1952; Gilbert Islands, 1953; Cook Islands, 1954; Indian households, 1954. N.b. 105 official photographs documenting the PNG Nutrition Survey in 1947 are held in the Women’s College Archives at 20/6/60. AU PMB MS 1153 Title: Manuscripts collection Date(s): 1832-1972 (Creation) Fiji Museum Extent and medium: 5 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The Fiji Museum Reference Library holds manuscripts and archives transferred to the Museum from time to time. A section of these is microfilmed here at PMB 1153. Researchers should also note that further archives and manuscripts collected by the Museum have been transferred to the National Archivers of Fiji, including papers relating to the Fiji Arts Council, the Fiji Society, the National Trust and a large collection of papers relating to ornithological research undertaken by Fergus Clunie until the late 1980s. “D Series” manuscripts held in Fiji Museum Library, including: Swanston journals, Vols.1-6, 1857-1885; Swanston letters, 1853-1880; Richard Philp, diary, 1872; R A Derrick, “History of Fiji”, Journal F, 1955; J B Thurston, “Journal of Voyage from Ovalau, Fiji, to the New Hebrides”, 1871, and other Thurston papers; Rev D Cargill, journal, 1842-43; Rev J Hunt, diary, 1839-1841; Sir William Allardyce Collection, 1876-1886; Sir Everard im Thurn papers; Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Codes of laws, 1894-1921; W G Woolnough papers on the geology of Fiji, c.1907; Brewster Papers; Lomaloma Papers, 1874-1959; Boyne Papers, 1865-70s; Connor

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Papers, 1903; Rev Thos Williams papers, 1847; Wesleyan Mission documents, Fiji and Tonga, 1838-1878; David Cargill papers, 1832; Fiji Museum Papers, 1930-1942; and many others. AU PMB MS 1154 Title: Archives Date(s): 1974-1996 (Creation) Kiribati Island Overseas Seamens Union Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The world-wide merchant marine is a crucial source of employment for i-Kiribati and remittances from this work are fundamental to the Republic’s economic well-being. The inaugural meeting of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Overseas Seamen’s Union was held on 22 Dec 1971. In January 1976 the organisation changed its name to the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu Overseas Seamen’s Union and then, in 1979, to the Kiribati Islands and Tuvalu Overseas Seamen’s Union following the declaration of the independent republic of Kiribati. The name was changed to the Kiribati Islands Overseas Seamen’s Union in 1994. There were major changes in leadership in 1994 and again in 1996 when the current leadership was elected. The Union’s archives are kept in a cupboard near the back door of the KIOSU office, a single story office building in the port of Betio. The main series of archives consist of:

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See reel list for further details. AU PMB MS 1155 Title: House diaries and accounts of the Mission Date(s): 1921-1967 (Creation) Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kiribati Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was founded at Issoudun in France by Rev. Fr Jules Chevalier in 1882 in association with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC). The foundress of the community was Mother Marie Louise Hartzer. The Congregation established a half-way house to the Missions in Sydney, began their mission on Thursday Island, then extended to Yule Island in Papua, in August 1887, and to Rabaul in 1891. The first group of DOLSH Sisters arrived in the Gilbert Islands in 1895, lead by Sister Isabel, and a second group, including Sister Clémentine, arrived in January 1899. In 1923 Sister Isabel was replaced as the Superior in the Gilbert Islands by Sister Yvonne. She was succeeded by Sister Clémentine in 1933. The DOLSH Sisters stayed on in the Gilberts during World War II. House diary (in French), 1921-1945; House diary (in French), 1946-1967; Photographs of Sister M. Clémentine Pineau and others; Sister Mary Clémentine Pineau’s Account of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Kiribati, 1898-1961 (in English); Sister Mary Oliva Lynch’s, Account of the MSC Mission in Kiribati, including biographies of priests, brothers, sisters, catechists and others (in Gilbertese). AU PMB MS 1156 Title: Journal Date(s): Not mentioned Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: This is the journal of Mr Taptulu’s grandfather Tatai of Nui. Nui is a northern island in Tuvalu where the Kiribati language is spoken. The journal, in Kiribati, includes an account of Tatai’s visit to Samoa, his training there as a missionary and his return to Nui; a genealogy of Nui; and, lastly, an account of the visit to Nui by the canoe Toantebuke, including a list of those on board. There is also a typed transcript in Kiribati of the text of the journal. AU PMB MS 1166 Title: Archives

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Date(s): 1989 – 1999 (Creation) South Pacific and Oceania Council of Trade Unions Extent and medium: Reels 1 – 10; 35mm microfilm Description: Pacific Conference No.4 of the ICFTU/APRO held in Port Moresby in 1987 resolved that the ICFTU consider establishing a structure within the ICFTU that would provide a forum for the South Pacific and have an Oceanic identity. The conference also resolved that the ICFTU/APRO education program in the region should be expanded so that there was greater ability to plan and implement activities at the local level. As a result of those decisions the ICFTU/APRO education project was established in June 1988 with the appointment of a full-time educator. The project operated from a Brisbane office, located in the Queensland ACTU building. ICFTU/APRO Regional Conference No.14 held in Bangkok in 1988 endorsed the formation of specific structure for the South Pacific, including the appointment of a full-time executive officer to work alongside the project educator. It was resolved that an inaugural conference would be convened to formalise the establishment of the new body which replaced the Pacific Trade Union Forum and became known as the South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions (SPOCTU). SPOCTU operated as the peak council of the trade union movement in the Pacific Islands, representing affiliated organisations in Fiji, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Conferences were held every two years and an intensive program of training workshops was undertaken, often in conjunction with the Pacific office of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council. • Minutes of SPOCTU Conferences and Steering Committees meetings (ACTU copies), 1989-1999. • ICFTU/APRO, Pacific Trade Union Forum and SPOCTU steering Committees, Conferences and Projects files, 1987-1998. • Commonwealth Trade Union Council, Pacific Trade Union Education Liaison Committee: meetings, 1992-1996. • SPOCTU Country files: Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Cook Islands, 1992-1998. • SPOCTU Circulars to affiliates, 1990-1998. See Finding aids for details. See also Pacific Unionist, 1989-1998, at PMB Doc 553. AU PMB MS 1168 Title: Papers on Pacific Island land matters Date(s): 1945-1997 (Creation) Ward, Alan Extent and medium: 10; 35mm microfilm Description: Alan Ward is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, NSW and contract historian for the Waitangi Tribunal, New Zealand. His Master's thesis was on the East Coast Maori Trust, in the Gisborne region of New Zealand's North Island where he was born and raised. During this research Ward became interested in customary Maori land tenure and its conversion to forms of title cognisable in the New Zealand courts and intended to facilitate land transfer and economic development. This interest lead to subsequent research on land tenure in the Pacific islands, particularly in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea and to employment in land administration in the latter two countries. Emeritus Professor Ward is the author of a number of books on land issues in PNG, New Caledonia and New Zealand, the most recent being An Unsettled History: Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today (Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1999). Almost half of this record group is concerned with PNG. These papers were gathered when Ward was Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea and adviser to the Land Evaluation and Demarcation Project Study (LEAD). The collection includes correspondence, notes, articles and papers, draft legislation and press cuttings. A small portion of these papers relate to politics and land matters in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Africa, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Banaba, French Polynesia and Guadeloupe. The remainder of the documents are mainly concerned with New Caledonia between 1947 and 1990 and were assembled by Ward at La Trobe University, Melbourne, through the 1980s, particularly during the years of political uncertainty in the French Territory from 1984 to 1990. The complete, two hundred page calender of microfilmed documents held in the Alan Ward papers is available. [rtf format], [pdf format]

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AU PMB MS 1172 Title: Marshall Islands Resource Materials Date(s): 1946-1993 Extent and medium: 17 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Giff Johnson is a professional journalist, currently editing The Marshall Islands Journal. He helped form the Micronesia Support Committee in Honolulu in 1975 and edited its journal until the Micronesia Support Committee merged with the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre in 1983. The Marshall Islands Resource Materials include administrative papers and publications of the Micronesia Support Committee, together with materials gathered for its campaigns in support of political independence in Micronesia and for a nuclear-free and de-militarized Pacific. The papers include: detailed documentation of and commentary on Micronesian political status negotiations, agreements and Compacts, 1969-1984; files on the militarization of Micronesia, 1973-1986; detailed files documenting the effects of nuclear tests in the Pacific, 1944-1984; and documents on waste dumping, health and education. The research potential of the Resource Materials is strengthened by Giff Johnson's informed selection of press articles from a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. See Finding aids for details. See also PMB Doc 447, Micronesia Support Committee Bulletin and related publications. AU PMB MS 1214 Title: High commission, Fiji, pamphlets Date(s): 1874-1881 (Creation) Gordon, Sir Arthur (1829-1912) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, first Baron Stanmore (1829-1912) was born in London and served from 1854 to 1857 as a member of the House of Commons. Gordon served as Governor of Trinidad (1866-1870), Mauritius (1871-1874), Fiji (1875-1880), New Zealand (1880-1882) and Ceylon (1883-1890). From 1877 to 1882 he also served as High Commissioner and Consul-General for the Western Pacific. A collection of 33 pamphlets, bound in one volume, formed by Sir Arthur Gordon when Governor of Fiji and Western Pacific High Commissioner, consisting of parliamentary papers and printed correspondence relating to Western Pacific islands other than Fiji, including New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. The pamphlets also include: reports on the cesssion of Rotuma, pearl shell fisheries in the Torres Strait, the labour trade, the Intercolonial Conference of 1881; papers relating to conflicts, kidnappings and murders in the islands involving the ships “Borealis”, “Sandfly”, “Aurora”, “Leslie”, “Winifred”, “Miranda”, “Isabelle”, “Cormorant”, together with reports by Commodore Wilson on murders on the coast of New Guinea; general reports on conditions and commerce in the islands by W. Seed and Sterndale; Capt. W.H. Marshall’s report on his observations of the Ellice, Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Islands in the HMS “Emerald”, 1881. See also PMB 1213 and 1215. AU PMB MS 1220 Title: Micronesian collection Date(s): 1852-1923 (Creation) Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Extent and medium: Reels 1-14; 35mm microfilm Description: Funded by the Hawaiian Evangelical Society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and by the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, the mission commenced when B.G. Snow, A.A. Sturges and Luther H. Gulick and their wives sailed out of Boston in November 1851. In Honolulu Rev. Ephraim Clark, Secretary of the Hawaiian Missionary Society, Rev James Kekela and two other Hawaiian missionaries, Daniela Opunui and Berita Kaaikaula and their wives joined the party which sailed for the Carolines, Marshalls and the Gilbert Islands on 15 July 1852. Mission stations were established in Kosrae and Ponape in August and September 1852. In 1857 George Pierson opened the first Protestant mission station on Ebon in the Marshalls. In the same year Hiram Bingham Jr. with his wife set up a mission station on Apaiang in Kiribati (then the Gilbert Islands), but poor health forced Bingham to return in 1864. He was replaced by two other American missionaries, Horace Taylor and Alfred Walkup, and several native Hawaiian pastors. In all nineteen Hawaiian families went to Kiribati – more than twice the combined number who travelled to the Marquesas, Marshalls and Carolines. The missionary work was gradually given up owing to

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changes in sovereignty in the Micronesian islands. The last missionary to work in Kiribati was Daniel P. Mahihila who went to Maiana in 1892 and returned to Hawai’i in 1904. (From notes by Kanani Reppun, Librarian, Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library, Honolulu.) The Micronesian Collection, 1852-1923, consists of 7.5 linear feet of manuscript material. The main series is correspondence of missionaries and Hawaiian pastors from Micronesian islands, as follows: Ruk, Ponape, Kenan, Kosrae and Yap in the Caroline Islands; Apaiang, Tabian, Tarawa, Tabiteuea, Marakei, Maiana, Butaritari in the Kiribati group; Mille (Mulgrave), Ebon, Majuro, Jaluit, Arno, Namrik in the Marshalls; and Nauru and the Mortlock Islands. The papers also include: church statistics; reports of general and committee meetings; mission station reports; records of voyages of the mission ships, including the Morning Star; printing, publishing and postal records; education and training reports; and records of the Woman’s Board of Missions. AU PMB MS 1222 Title: Papers on the Catholic diocese of the Caroline Islands Date: 1670-1999 (Creation) Hezel, Francis X., Sj. Extent and medium: Reels 1-7; 35mm microfilm Description: Fr Francis Hezel came to Micronesia as a Jesuit scholastic in 1963, taught at Xavier High School for three years, and then returned to the US for three years of theological studies. When this was finished, Fr Hezel returned to Micronesia in 1969 to resume teaching at Xavier High School. In 1973 Fr Hezel was appointed principal of the School. He continued as the top administrator there until 1982, when he moved to the mission center to work as full-time director of the Micronesian Seminar which was based in Chuuk for ten years and subsequently on Pohnpei. Between 1992 and 1998 Fr Hezel also served as Jesuit regional superior in Micronesia. While Fr. Francis Hezel was studying theology at Woodstock College, MD, during the late 1960s, he inherited the then small collection of books that young Jesuits who had returned from Micronesia pored over in an effort to prepare themselves for their eventual return to the islands. During the summer of 1968, one year before his ordination, Fr Hezel was admitted into the East-West Center program where he took courses in Pacific history and wrote a bibliographic essay on the history of the Catholic Church's engagement in Micronesia that was not long afterwards published in Journal of Pacific History (Vol.5, 1970). That kicked off Fr Hezel’s career in local history and motivated him to find still more about church activities in the islands. The result can be found in his files and most of what fills the shelves of the Micronesian Seminar library. Two series of the files have been microfilmed, as follows: Series I. General. Bibliographies, archival sources, chronologies, lists of missionaries. Series I, cont. Jesuit Mission – Marianas, Guam. Series I, cont. Jesuit Mission – Marianas, Guam. Series I, cont. Spanish Capuchins in the Carolines, 1885-1905. Series I, cont. Gilberts, Marshalls and Nauru. Series II. Documentation of Catholic Missions in Micronesia in the 20th Century. Most of the early documents in these two series are photocopies from Jesuit and Capuchin archives in Europe and elsewhere, together with English translations of some of the Spanish and Latin originals. There are a number of original mission documents among the more recent material, such as church statistics, mission station reports, the Mission Bulletin, house diaries, records of the Mercedarian Sisters, and accounts of WWII experiences, including the execution of Spanish SJs in Palau. There are also unpublished manuscripts on the history of the mission by Fr Thomas McGrath, Fr. Higinio Berganza, Fr Callistus Lopinot, Fr Faustino Hernández, Fr. John Curran and Fr Hezel. AU PMB MS 1261 Title: Letters from Ocean Islands (Banaba) and the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) Date(s): 1934-1937 (Creation) Cyril G.F. Cartwright (d.c. 1943) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Cyril Cartwright took an appointment with the British Colonial Service in the Glibert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) in 1934. In June 1934 Mr Cartwright toured the Central Gilbert Islands and in July he was appointed acting District Agent in the Southern Gilbert Islands, based at Beru. He returned to Ocean

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Island in June 1935 where he eventually became Government Secretary. Mr Cartwright remained on the Island, with four other Europeans, after most of the GEIC and Phosphate Commission staff and some of the Chinese and Gilbertese labourers were evacuated in early March 1942. Mr Cartwright died during the Japanese occupation, probably in 1943. (See A. Elllis, Mid-Pacific Outposts, 1946; p.22 & p.148.) Mr Cartwright’s letters track his voyage from England to Sydney on the MV Moultan, January-February 1934; and from Melbourne to Ocean Island in March 1934 on board the MV Triona. They go on to describe many aspects of life on Ocean Island, which was the Colony headquarters at the time, Tarawa, and the Southern Gilbert Islands. The letters are mainly addressed to Mr Cartwright’s mother. A few are original letters, but most are transcript copies typed from the originals by Mr Cartwright’s cousin, Maud, for circulation among his family. (See letter dated 12 Feb 1936.) The letters include detailed descriptions Ocean, Tarawa, Maiana, Nikunan, Onotoa, Arorae, Tamana, Beru and Tabiteuea Islands, and of transport (including, government ships, boats, surf-boats, canoes and railway vehicles), accommodation of all types (with sketches), communications, food and other provisions, native and colonial governments in the GEIC, Gilbertese dances (including the ‘Barei’ dance performed on Beru), and Mr Cartwright’s daily round on Ocean Island. There are also comments on rivalry between Protestant and Catholic missions, an account of transfer of 50 lepers from Gilberts to Makogai leper settlement in Fiji, and descriptions of BPC recruiting practices in the Gilbert Islands. Mr Cartwright’s letters include accounts of his associations with Gilbertese, Elllice Islander, Nauruan, Ocean Islander and Chinese workers, as well as with traders, missionaries and European officers of the Colonial Service and the British Phosphate Commission. Among others, the letters refer to James Burns (Burns Philp & Co), Mr Barley (GEIC Resident Commissioner) and his wife, Mr Leembrugggen (Government Secretary), Major Swinburne (Senior District Officer), Mr Clarke (Treasurer) and Mrs Clarke, Mr Bentley (Accountant) and Mrs Bentley, Mr Methuen (Police Officer) and Mrs Methuen, Mr English (Clerk of the Treasury), Kumkee (On Chong’s Butaritari manager), Captain Heyen (Australian master on the On Chong’s ship, the Macquarie), Narruhn (Burns Philp manager at Butaritari), Mr Kansaki (manager of Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha at Butaritari), Fr Guichard (Roman Catholic Priest at Butaritari), Mr Murdoch at Kuria, Harry and Honor Maude at Beru, Noa (Native Magistrate, Tabiteuea), Timau (Chief Kambure, Tabiteuea), Bishop Kempthorne, Mr Barrrack (Auditor), Captain Forbes (temporary master of Govt ship Nimanoa), the Eastmans (missionaries at Beru), Sir Arthur Richards (High Commissioner); and Mr Cartwright’s Islander servants and assistants, Temate and Kilifi (the latter an Ellice Islander), Iebeta and Barao (house boys), Kaburara (Interpreter), Teariki (Police orderly). AU PMB MS 1275 Title: Papers on constitutional development in the Pacific Islands Date(s): 1901-1985 (Creation) Lynch, C.J. (Joe) Extent and medium: 8 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: C.J. (Joe) Lynch was born on 6 June 1924 in Albury, New South Wales. He married Jean Marian Lane and had one daughter, Elizabeth. Joe Lynch died in May 1985. Joe Lynch was admitted as Barrister, Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1949. He worked as a legal officer at the Department of Territories from 1949-1952. He worked as a legal officer at the Department of Law in Papua New Guinea from 1952 and was the Deputy Crown Law Officer and Assistant Secretary from 1955. From 1961 he worked as a legislative draftsman and drafted the constitutions of Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu (finalised after his death). He also completed post constitutional drafting for Kiribati and pre-constitutional drafting for the Marshall Islands. Joe Lynch was the Constitutional Draftsman and Special Legislative Counsel in Papua New Guinea from 1972 until Independence. He continued to undertake work on legislation for Papua New Guinea until around 1978. He was also the Acting Secretary for Law on several occasions. This archive includes notes, drafts and published papers by Joe Lynch, and other authors, relating to the political and constitutional development of Pacific Island countries. Many of the papers are dated from the 1960s-1980s, during a time when many of these countries achieved independence. Joe Lynch wrote extensively and published many journal articles, papers and books on the political and constitutional development of Pacific Island countries. These papers include the comparison of constitutions from different Pacific Islands, Westminster law, Parliamentary Ministerial Systems and political development in the Pacific. The documents are arranged by country; firstly with papers written by C.J. Lynch, arranged chronologically; followed by papers by other authors, arranged chronologically. Published papers have not been microfilmed.

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Series List PMB 1275/1/1-58 PNG - C.J. Lynch Manuscripts 1959-1980 PMB 1275/2/1-55 PNG - Other Authors 1901-1985 PMB 1275/3/1-24 General – Other authors 1963-1982 PMB 1275/4/1-2 Cook Islands – Other authors 1964, 1982 PMB 1275/5/1-2 Fiji - C.J. Lynch Manuscripts 1984 PMB 1275/6/1 Fiji – Other authors 1970 PMB 1275/7/1-6 Kiribati – C.J. Lynch Manuscripts 1979-1980 PMB 1275/8 Kiribati – Gilbert Islands – Other authors 1974-1982 PMB 1275/9 Marshall Islands – C.J. Lynch Manuscripts 1980-1984 PMB 1275/10 Marshall Islands – Other Authors 1975-1984 PMB 1275/11 Micronesia – Other Authors 1952, 1974 PMB 1275/12 Nauru – Other Authors 1968 PMB 1275/13 Pacific Constitutions 1984 PMB 1275/14 Palau – Other Authors 1979-1981 PMB 1275/15 Solomon Islands – Other Authors 1976-1982 PMB 1275/16 Truk – Other Authors 1982 PMB 1275/17 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 1980 PMB 1275/18 Tuvalu - C.J. Lynch Manuscripts 1979-1984 PMB 1275/19 Tuvalu – Other Authors 1974-1984 PMB 1275/20 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) – Other Authors 1978-1980 PMB 1275/21 Western Samoa – Other Authors 1970,1982 PMB 1275/22 Yap – Other Authors 1979-1981 PMB 1275/23 Law related papers – C.J. Lynch 1972-1982 PMB 1275/24 Law related papers – other authors 1971-1984 PMB 1275/25/1-2 C.J. Lynch – correspondence 1974-1982

Correspondence, 1989-1999 (reels 1-3) Subject files (reels 4-6) Constitution of Fiji (reels 6-9) Filing systems (gaps) (reels 9-10) National Federation Party and Elections (reels 10-12) Speeches (reel 12) Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act (ALTA) (reels 12-15) Files on Women's Issues (reels 15-17) Other files (reels 17) Printed material (reel 17-18) Serials (reel 18)

AU PMB MS 1277 Title: World YWCA, South Pacific Area, Ofis Blong Ol Meri, circulars, leaflets, reports, newsletters and posters Date(s): 1892-1991 (Creation) Lechte Ruth and Goodwillie Diane Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The World YWCA started a South Pacific Project in 1974 with Ruth Lechte as staff person. In 1982, Ofis Blong Ol Meri was established with Diane Goodwillie as Co-ordinator. In May 1983, Edith Enoga from Papua New Guinea was appointed as Communications Development Officer. Ofis Blong Ol Meri was a project to serve the needs of women in the Pacific Islands (especially PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Kiribati and Tuvalu). It worked mainly with non-government women’s groups. (From leaflet, n.d., 1983?) Circulars, leaflets and reports, 1982-1987; Newsletters, 1983-1991; Photographs; Calendars, 1984-1988; Related Publications, 1994-2002. AU PMB MS 1289

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Title: Archives Date(s): 1886-1986 (Creation) Catholic Diocese of Narawa and Nauru Extent and medium: 19 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Gilbertese catechists trained in Tahiti and established Catholicism on Nonouti in the early 1880s. In 1886 the Gilbert Islands were allocated to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) Vicariate of Melanesia and Micronesia, which also covered Papua and New Britain. The first MSCs (Fr Bontemps, Fr Joseph Leray and Br Conrad Weber) arrived in Nonouti in 1888, and succeeded in establishing the Catholic mission in a number of the Gilbert Islands in some cases against Protestant opposition. In 1897 a Vicariate Apostolic of the Gilbert Islands was established, comprised of the Gilberts, the Ellice Islands, Nauru and Ocean Island. In 1903 the Catholic headquarters moved from Nonouti to Butaritari. The Vicars Apostolic were: 1890-1897 - Mgr. Couppé MSC, (Vicar Apostolic of New Britain) 1898-1927 - Mgr Joseph Leray, MSC 1927-1933 - Mgr. Joseph Bach, MSC 1938-1961 - Mgr Octave Terrienne, MSC 1961-1966 - Mgr Pierre Guichet MSC 1966 Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru was established. 1966-1979 - Mgr Guichet continued as Bishop of the Diocese 1979-to the present - Bishop Paul Mea MSC The records are held in the Bishop’s House, Teaoraereke, Tarawa (2007). The papers were identified by Sister Margaret Sullivan FNDSC and the Bishop's assistant, Beitaake. They are arranged under the following categories, roughly following the system which Fr Amerigo Cools used for his arrangement and description of the archives of the Archdiocese of Papeete and the Dioceses of Rarotonga and Taihoe (Marquesas). A. Church Authorities B. Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru C. Diocesan Personnel D. Congregations E. Education F. Sacraments G. Apostolate / Social Communications H. Relations - Civil Authorities J. Relations with other Religious Bodies K. Donations (Mission Aid Societies; Overseas Aid) L. Church Property. Lands, Ships, Seaplane, etc. N. Finances MS Manuscripts PM Printed Material AU PMB MS 1290 Title: Papers on the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands Date(s): 1879-1927 (Creation) Woodford, Charles Morris Extent and medium: 5 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Charles Morris Woodford was born in 1852 and educated at Tonbridge School in England. He settled in Suva about 1882 and from Fiji visited Kiribati (the Gilbert Islands group), as Government agent on the ketch Patience. In 1886, as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society he made the first of three successive explorations of the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal, where he was the first white man to penetrate the interior to any distance, collecting natural history specimens for the British Museum. His experiences are described in his book A Naturalist Among Headhunters (1890). In 1895 Woodford became Acting Consul and Deputy Commissioner at Samoa, and in the following year