PAMBU NEWS
Digital
copies of specific documents on PMB microfilms can now be
scanned to disk, quite economically, for research users. The PMB is
developing
a strong digital capacity. For example, eleven rolls of PMB microfilms
of
Tuvalu land records (about 7,000 frames) have been scanned by W & F
Pascoe Pty
Ltd to one DVD, which holds pdf image files matching each of the
documents. The
disk copies have been made for the Tuvalu National Library and
Archives, which
does not have a microfilm reader, and for the British Library which
helped fund
the Tuvalu pilot project through its Endangered Archives Programme.
The British
Library/Lisbet
Rausing Foundation have allocated a further grant to Richard Overy and
the PMB
to continue working with the Tuvalu National Library and Archives on a
major
archives reformatting project in Funafuti and the outer-islands in
2006-2007.
We expect to begin in late September 2006.
Over
the last six months the PMB staff have mainly been occupied with
in-house processing and domestic microfilming. Fr Kevin Kerley’s
personal
papers documenting his work in Bougainville, 1988-1998, were surveyed at the Marist
Fathers’ monastery in Hunters Hill, Sydney, and part has been microfilmed. Fr
Kerley was one of very few non-Bougainvilleans who stayed ‘behind the
lines’
during the Bougainville crisis.
Fred
Archer’s papers on the New Guinea island of Wuvulu, which are held
by Mrs Mary Roberts, were microfilmed in Brisbane. Mr Archer managed
Agita
plantation on Wuvulu for a period, and maintained his links with the
island
through his later life. Mrs Roberts has completed her biography of Fred
Archer,
her uncle, and is looking for a publisher.
Ms
Julie Olsson, of the Nauru Rehabilitation Committee, and Professor
Barry Connell, the former Chief Justice of Nauru, put together a
complete
transcript of the proceedings of the Commission of Inquiry into the
Rehabilitation of Worked-out Phosphate Lands in Nauru, 1987-1988, for
the PMB
to microfilm (PMB 1268). The original transcripts are now held on
long-term
loan by the National Library of Australia until such time as an
adequate
archival facility is available in Nauru.
The
NLA lent the PMB its copy of Rev Shirley Baker’s very fragile, An
English and Tongan Vocabulary, also a Tongan and English Vocabulary,
with a
list of idiomatic phrases; and Tongan Grammar, 1897. It has been
microfilmed (PMB Doc 470) and the PMB has also produced an OCR’d
scanned version
of the dictionary.
A good
run of the Pangu Pati Newsletter has also been microfilmed
from copies on loan from the NLA and the Melanesian Studies Research
Centre
(UCSD).
Sheryl Stanborough, the Yap
State Archivist, who visited Canberra in May with Anna Lemoilug Itimai,
Assistant
Yap Archivist, lent the PMB a rare set of contemporary Yapese
newspapers, now
microfilmed, as follows:
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PMB
Doc 475, The
Rai Review (District Administration, Yap, West Caroline Is.),
Vols.1-5,
1963-1968.
-
PMB
Doc 476, Mogethin
(Office of the Governor of Yap State.) Vols.1-3, 1983-1985.
-
PMB
Doc 477, Yap
State Bulletin (Yap State Government, FSM), Vols.1-10, 1989-1999.
-
PMB
Doc 478, The
Yap Networker, Vols.1-7, 1999-2005.
The newspapers are about to
be returned to the Yap State Archives, together with a digital copy of
the
microfilms for reference use.
Sr
Nancy White's papers on teaching with the Anglican mission, Oro
Province, PNG, 1948-1967, have been arranged, listed and microfilmed
(PMB
1260). The papers are to be returned to Professor John Waiko in Port
Moresby,
but the PMB has not been able to make contact with him recently.
Dr Roy
Scragg lent the PMB a copy of his thesis, Lemankoa 1920-1980: A study of the effects of
health
care interventions on the people of a pre-industrial village in North
Solomons
Province, Papua New Guinea
(1983), and some
related
papers which have been microfilmed (PMB Doc 473). Dr Scragg also
deposited 68
files of Sir John Gunther’s papers
on
health administration in PNG. The PMB has made a preliminary list of
them.
Hank
Nelson’s comprehensive
papers on kuru disease (the laughing death) in PNG, 1956-2001, have
been
arranged and microfilmed in part (PMB 1271). They include Sir John
Gunther’s
file on kuru, 1956-1976, which holds his correspondence with D. Carleton Gajdusek, V. Zigas, Roy Scragg,
S.G.
Anderson, F.M. Burnet and D.M. Cleland, and which documents the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine
jointly awarded
to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries
concerning
new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.
Hank
Nelson also transferred papers of David Moorhouse, a kiap,
intelligence officer, and advisor to mining companies on land matters
in PNG. A
detailed list of Mr Moorhouse’s papers is available from the PMB, but
access
arrangements have not yet been clarified.
Other
records which the PMB has received for microfilming, include:
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correspondence of the Banaban Heritage Society;
-
Professor Ted Wolfers’ letters from PNG 1967-1971 (PMB
1276);
-
transcripts of interviews and lectures on aspects of
PNG history, 1972-75, collected by Professor Donald Denoon (PMB 1250);
-
Paul
and Dulcie
Grant’s, Kweli Times: A Short History of the Apostolic Church
Vanuatu
1946-1965 (PMB Doc 472);
-
documents
collected
by Lionel Rhys Healey, OBE, relating to murders committed on 6 Nov 1953
in
Telefomin, PNG (PMB 1265);
-
A
Warwai Ure
Iesu Karisito, a translation
of
Gospel stories into the Blanche Bay dialect, New Britain, by Rev.
Francis
Trafford Walker, and Rev. Walker’s, Reflections on the Work of the
Missionary, written on his return from New Guinea in 1930 (PMB
1264);
-
letters
of Cyril
G.F. Cartwright from Ocean Island (Banaba) and the Gilbert Islands
(Kiribati),
1934-1937 (PMB 1261);
-
and
papers
deposited at the Royal Geographical Society by Leo Austen relating to
his
expedition to the upper Fly and Tedi Rivers area of Papua in 1922 (PMB
1272).
Pacific
Research Collection established at the ANU
A Pacific research
resources
project will begin operation in the ANU Archives in July. Professor
Stewart
Firth, Director of the ANU Pacific Centre, will chair the project
committee.
Part of the ground floor of the ANU Library’s Menzies Building will be
renovated to provide a special area for Pacific scholars and students
to meet
and study, and for the Library to show-case its Pacific reference
materials.
An archivist will
be
appointed for three years to work on consolidating and disseminating
research
records gathered by Pacific scholars at the ANU over the last 50 years
and by
other Pacific researchers in Australia. In addition, a half-time
cataloguer
will be appointed for one year to integrate massive amounts of printed
material, accumulated with the research records, into the ANU Library’s
catalogue.
The Pacific research resources project will develop a strong
web-presence,
making the research materials which it collects easily accessible.
There are many
research
records in the Coombs Building and at the offices, homes, garages and
sheds of
Pacific researchers in Canberra and elsewhere in Australia. The Pacific
Research Collection will provide a secure repository for such material
and, at
the same time, build a unique research resource for Pacific studies.
The late Professor
Stephen
Wurm’s papers and audio recordings (34 archives boxes) have already
been
transferred from the PMB to the ANU Archives. With the permission of
their
owners, other research records that the PMB and Division of Pacific and
Asian
History have accommodated will also be transferred to the ANU Archives
for
inclusion in the Pacific Research Collection. They include records of
Sir Colin
Allan, Dorothy Shineberg, Ric Shand, Dorothy Crozier, Bill Coppell,
Alan Ward,
James Jupp, Peter Sack, Robert Norton, Hank Nelson, Donald Denoon and
Robert
Langdon. The ANU Archives will accession and permanently accommodate
those
records and other Pacific research material collected by the resources
project.
The project is
funded for
three years by a combination of the International Centre for Excellence
Asia-Pacific, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and the
ANU’s
Division of Information.
Adam
Matthew Publications awarded distribution rights for PAMBU
PAMBU has reached
an agreement with Adam Matthew Publications that grants the scholarly
publisher
exclusive global rights to sell and market selected PAMBU titles to
universities, colleges and theological centres around the world.
Khal Rudin, Sales
& Marketing Director for Adam Matthew Publications, said he is
delighted
that ‘this agreement will enable PAMBU to get further global
recognition for
their excellent holdings of archives, manuscripts and rare printed
material
relating to the Pacific Islands. It will also further enhance our
reputation of
supplying quality research material and strengthen our offerings of
material
relating to Pacific Island history and culture’.
For further information about Adam Matthew Publications
please visit
their website www.ampltd.co.uk.
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Jacob Hevelawa, Director of the PNG National Archives
and Records Services, has just been awarded an MBE for services to the
public
service. Here he is working on administration archives at Losuia,
Kiriwina,
Trobriand Islands, in March 2000.
AUSTRALIANS IN PAPUA NEW
GUINEA – A
DOCUMENTARY RECORD
Some
years ago the then President of the Retired Officers’ Association of
Papua New
Guinea (ROAPNG) became concerned that valuable research material in the
form of
diaries, letters, manuscripts, patrol reports, maps and photographs
risked
being destroyed as their owners moved on. Through Una Voce, the
Association’s quarterly journal, he suggested it be collected and
preserved.
Peter
Cahill, a Papua New Guinea historian, was approached to co-ordinate the
collection, collation and – where possible – the identification of
items. He in
turn approached the Librarian in charge of the Fryer Special
Collections Library
within The University of Queensland Library who recognised the value
the
material would be to students and researchers.
It was decided to house it in Fryer as the ROAPNG Papua New
Guinea
Collection. The Collection has since been re-named the Papua
New Guinea
Association of Australia Collection and complements other Papua
New Guinea
collections in Australia.
The
material donated is a unique record of how (mainly) Australian men and
women –
public servants, missionaries, business employees or private
individuals –
lived and worked as they guided Papua New Guinea to Independence in
1975. Their
success was acknowledged by Sir John Guise, the first Governor-General
of Papua
New Guinea, in his Independence Day comment that the Australian flag
was being
lowered, not torn down.
The
drive to collect and preserve material has proved embarrassingly
successful. A very brief sample of the
diverse holdings includes:
-
the
Summary section of D.J. Clancy’s Special (Patrol)
Report ex Lake Murray (19)47/48 in the Elevala/Black/Strickland and
Nomad
Rivers;
-
diary
of an escape from Japanese forces Madang/Mt Hagen
January-May 1942;
-
pre-war
photographs of European lifestyles in Rabaul and
other New Guinea centres;
-
industrial
relations material including surveys, wage determinations,
arbitration hearings, awards 1980/1981; transcripts of industrial
disputes;
-
confidential
circular of 25 Feb 46 – “Execution of
Japanese war criminals”;
-
a
set of water-colour paintings of Papua New Guinea pre-WW
II native costumes;
-
(calendar)
prints of pre- and post-war aircraft;
-
report,
sketch map and CD of area photographs of the
Telefomin murders in November 1953;
-
a
diary of the occupation of Rabaul during WW1;
-
Christmas
Dinner menu on board the S.S. Katoomba
1941 at sea between Port Moresby (sic) and Brisbane;
-
Tom
Grahamslaw’s
personal copy of his Recollections of Angau – 27th January
1942 to 25th
October 1945;
-
an
extraordinary collection of ANGAU related material including
District maps, plans and command structure;
-
diaries
and other
records of an Anglican Church medical missionary in the Gona/Buna area
from ca.
1948 to ca.1995.
The
list goes on. The catalogue can be viewed online at: www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/
The
Collection number in UQFL387. Note that
it is not yet digitised, so individual items cannot be viewed on-line.
Advice of items
received is
placed regularly in the PNGAA’s Newsletter Una Voce.
Dr Peter Cahill
June
2006
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MICROFILMING
PACIFIC ISLANDS
RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (UK)
In
the absence of plans elsewhere, the Australian National University
Library
began ordering microfilm copies of Colonial Office files on the Pacific
Islands
in 1994. (See:
Maureen Kattau, ‘Microfilming of Pacific Records in the Public
Record Office’, Pambu, 5:4, Nov 1996.)
This microfilming
program continues Australian Joint Copying Project microfilms of
Colonial
Office file series on the Western Pacific (CO 225 and CO 537) and Fiji
(at CO
83). The Public Records Office (now National Archives) has supplied the
ANU
Library with 35mm microfilms of selected files in the following series:
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CO 83, piece Nos.245/1-264/4, Colonial
Office: Fiji, Original Correspondence, 1948-1951, 10 reels.
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CO 1023, piece Nos.1-238 (gaps), Colonial
Office: Hong Kong and Pacific Department: Original Correspondence,
1946-1955, 12
reels. The files include some dealing with particular islands
individually and
others relating to the region as a whole and to Colonial Development
and
Welfare schemes, the South Pacific Commission and the Western Pacific
High
Commission.
- CO
1036, piece Nos.1-1355 (gaps), Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office:
Pacific
and Indian Ocean Department: Registered Files (PAC Series), 1952-1964,
82
reels. This series contains records relating to the following
territories in
the Pacific Ocean: Fiji, Tonga, the
Pitcairn Island Group, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Hebrides,
Solomon
Islands, Christmas Island and other smaller Pacific islands and groups;
and
also to matters affecting the Pacific generally, including the work of
the
South Pacific Commission.
In
2005-2006 the ANU Library continued the copying program – the National
Archives
has supplied the Library with microfilms of selected files in the CO
1036
series, piece Nos. 1361-1615 (gaps), 1964-1966, adding a further 16
rolls to
the collection. The microfilms are available for reference in the
Menzies
Building of the ANU Library. The ANU Library plans to order further
microfilms
of files in CO 1036, completing the series to 1967. It will also
commence
orders for microfilm copies of files in the subsequent series:
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FCO 32,
Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pacific and
Indian
Ocean Department and Pacific Dependent Territories Department:
Registered
Files, 1967-1976, dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the
South
Pacific Commission and the Western Pacific High Commission, Fiji,
Tonga, the
New Hebrides, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Solomon Islands and Pitcairn.
Duplicate copies of
these
microfilms are available from the National Archives, Reprographic
Ordering
Section.
Ewan Maidment
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
AUSTRALIA ACQUISITIONS TRIP TO
FRENCH POLYNESIA AND THE COOK ISLANDS MAY 2006
Earlier
this year, I was fortunate to be asked to conduct an acquisitions trip
to
French Polynesia and the Cook Islands on behalf of the National Library
of
Australia. Both excited and nervous at the prospect, I consulted a
number of
reports by other librarians who had conducted similar trips, both from
the
National Library of Australia and overseas libraries. One of those
reports was
Kathryn Creely’s interesting report of her collecting trip to PNG,
Vanuatu and
New Caledonia in July 2002 which appeared in the June 2003 issue of Pambu.
In
the same spirit of information sharing, I am contributing this brief
survey of
my own Pacific excursion.
NLA
acquisitions visits to the region began in the early 1990s as a means
of
supplementing the material that is acquired through the more usual
channels of
library suppliers and publishers. The most notable and successful visit
was
conducted by Adrian Cunningham in 1995. Adrian on his three week
journey also
took in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands and, thus, his report
became my
main reference point in preparing for the trip. While some material had
been
acquired directly from the Cook Islands by an NLA staff member
holidaying there
in 2001, French Polynesia had not been attempted again since Adrian’s
visit.
Prior
to leaving Australia, I prepared listings of NLA holdings for serials
and
monographs to take with me, as well as a list of items found on other
databases
(such as Library of Congress, National Library of New Zealand) and
websites,
which NLA did not hold.
I
set up meetings at the Service des archives de la Polynésie française, Université de la
Polynésie française and Institut
de la Statistique de la Polynésie française
before arriving in Tahiti and these meetings occupied my first two days
there.
After that, however, I was on my own, reliant on a list of contacts I
had drawn
up prior to leaving Australia, the advice of staff from other
institutions,
which I visited along the way, and a letter of introduction in French.
I
achieved more success than could perhaps be expected from such methods
(particularly considering my limited French!), mainly due to the
friendliness
and helpfulness of everyone I met. I was also extremely fortunate that
my visit
fortuitously coincided with the annual Salon du lire, now in
its 5th
year. Most of the major publishers and booksellers were represented at
the Salon
and this enabled me to speak to many more people than would have been
possible
had I been relying on transport by foot or taxi, which would have been
the case
otherwise.
As
my pre-trip research had shown, commercial and government publishing in
French
Polynesia is reasonably active compared with many other areas of the
Pacific.
There are four or five major commercial publishers in French Polynesia.
M.
Morillon, Director of the Service des archives, estimated that
approximately 15
new commercial titles are published each year, but the number may be
higher
than this as between them Au Vent des Iles and Editions le
Motu
have published at least 16 titles within the last twelve months.
Government
publishing also appears very stable and institutions like the Institut
de la
Statistique, Imprimerie Officielle and Institut d'émission d'Outre-Mer
(IEOM)
seem to have well set-up publishing and distribution networks.
My
visit to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands was quite a contrast to my week
in
Tahiti. Prior to my departure, I had contacted the National Library of
the Cook
Islands and Justina Nicholas, the Chief Librarian, kindly arranged an
itinerary
for my visit, which was a great help. I visited 17 institutions or
government
departments and one bookshop during my three days on the island.
Commercial
publishing in the Cook Islands is almost non-existent; except for a few
rare
privately published books, most non-government publications are
published in
New Zealand or elsewhere in the Pacific. However, there is a small but
important amount of government documents being published. One of my
most
important and successful visits in terms of acquiring publications was
visiting
the Parliament where I was able to purchase back issues of a number of
parliamentary publications for NLA.
A
major difference between this trip and Adrian Cunningham’s visit in
1995 is the
increased availability of websites in the region, particularly for
government
departments. The currency and use of these websites varies
significantly, but
in both French Polynesia and the Cook Islands some government
publications are
now available online as well as in print. While none of the commercial
bookshops I contacted have websites yet, at least two commercial
publishers in
French Polynesia do and this should make it easier to order and select
titles
from the region in future.
The
summary of material acquired is listed below, but it is difficult to
put a
quantifiable figure on the value of the information I gathered or
contacts I
made. For me, this was the most important aspect of the trip, but it
will take
a significant amount of follow-up work to capitalise on these results.
In
conclusion, I would like to endorse Kathryn Creely’s comments when she
wrote in
2003 that: ‘the one constant that I found in the course of this trip
was the
genuine helpfulness of the people encountered. Without their
assistance, this
trip would have been a failure.
In
French Polynesia the following institutions were contacted:
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Service
des archives de la Polynésie française;
-
Société
des études océaniennes;
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Institut
de la Statistique de la Polynésie française;
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Université de
la Polynésie française;
-
Imprimerie
Officielle;
-
Conseil
économique, social et culturel (CESC);
-
Institut
d'émission d'Outre-Mer (IEOM);
-
Chambre
de Commerce d’ Industrie, des Services et des
Métiers de Polynésie française (CCISM);
-
Service
du Commerce Extérieur;
-
Assemblée de la Polynésie
française;
-
Haut-commissariat
de la République en Polynésie
française;
-
Direction
de la Santé;
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Librairie
Te Tiarama;
-
Eglise
protestante maohi;
-
Hachette-Pacifique (Salon
du lire);
-
Librairie Archipels
(Salon du
lire);
-
Littérama'ohi (Salon du lire);
-
Centre
IRD de Tahiti (Salon du lire);
-
Musée de Tahiti et des Iles
(Salon du
lire);
-
Editions
des Mers Australie (Salon du lire);
-
Librairie
Klima (Salon du lire & Bookshop in
Papeete);
-
Librairie
Vaima (Salon du lire & Bookshop in
Papeete);
-
Service du tourisme de la
Polynésie
française (Salon du lire & by telephone);
-
Editions le Motu (Salon du
lire);
-
Editions Haere Po Tahiti (Salon
du lire);
-
Au Vent des Iles (Salon du
lire);
-
Centre de Recherche et de
Documentation
Pédagogiques (Salon du lire);
-
Odyssey (Salon du lire);
-
Direction
de l’environnement (by telephone only);
-
Librairie Pureora;
-
Service de la pêche;
-
Bibliothèque
de la Maison de la Culture.
Summary
of publications obtained in French Polynesia: 52 monographs; 73 serial
issues
(including 24 missing issues), 2 maps.
In
the Cook Islands the following institutions were contacted:
-
National
Library of the Cook Islands;
-
Ministry
of Culture;
-
Cook
Islands Library & Museum Society;
-
University
of the South Pacific Centre in Cook
Islands;
-
Ministry
of Justice;
-
Cook
Islands Statistics Office;
-
Ministry
of Health;
-
Ministry
of Finance and Economic Management;
-
Bounty
Bookshop;
-
Parliament;
-
Ministry
of Agriculture;
-
Ministry
of Education;
-
Survey
Office, Ministry of Works;
-
Ministry
of Marine Resources;
-
National
Environment Service;
-
Takamoa
Theological College;
-
Cook
Islands Tourism Corporation;
-
Office
of the
Prime Minister.
Summary
of publications obtained in the Cook Islands: 26 monographs, 29 serial
issues
(including 20 missing issues), 3 maps.
Note: I will be
writing a
more detailed account of the trip. If you would like a copy, please
contact me
at the address below.
Meredith Batten
National Library
of
Australia
Canberra ACT 2600,
Australia
Email:
mbatten@nla.gov.au
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New Guinea Papers of Ivan
and Mary Clark at the NLA
In January this
year Noreen
Clark transferred papers of her parents to the National Library of
Australia
Manuscripts Section. Her father, Ivan Clark (1898-c.1942) was a medical
assistant at Rabaul Hospital c1930-1942, went on patrols into New
Guinea, and
witnessed the 1937 eruption of Mt. Vulcan. His wife Mary (1902-1975),
returned
to Sydney in 1940 for Noreen’s birth, but Ivan remained and was killed
after
the Japanese invasion of Rabaul.
The papers
(Acc06/3) amount
to 5 shelf cm and are on open access. They cover the period 1926-1939.
They
consist of Mary Clark’s journal and letters to Norah McManus, 1930-1933
from
Salamaua, Lae, Kavieng and Lorengau; letters of Ivan Clark to Mary
Clark, 1937,
regarding the volcanic eruption at Rabaul, with photos, issues of the Rabaul
Times for 4, 9 and 11 June 1937, a copy of Walkabout, March
1939,
containing an article on ‘Rabaul’s volcanic eruptions’; and an album of
photographs, c.1926-1929, entitled ‘Glimpses of Rabaul’, but containing
photographs of people, dances, crops, volcanoes, views etc. in
New
Guinea as well as New Britain.
From
the NLA manuscripts catalogue.
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New Book by Mary Mennis
Mary
Mennis has put together her work on culture and change in Madang
Province, based on the oral traditions:
A Potted History of
Madang. Traditional Culture and Change on the North Coast of Papua New
Guinea
A
Potted History of Madang is
published
by Lalong Enterprises, 11 Jethro St, Aspley, Queensland, 4034,
Australia.
Phone: +61 7 3263 6327; Fax: +61 7 3263 5121; Email: lalong@iinet.net.au. Copies are
available
from the publisher at a price per copy of $AUD75. Postage is additional
and is $AUD10
within Australia and $AUD20 for economy airmail overseas. For multiple
copies,
please enquire for postage. Purchase of 2 or more copies will attract a
discount of 10%. Booksellers’ discount is available.
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The Shipping Gazette and
Sydney General Trade List (1844-1855)
A number of
Australian
newspapers from the 1840s and 1850s were recently made available online
by the
Australian National Library as part of the Ferguson Project. One of the
most
useful of these is The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General
Trade
List, as it contains, among other things, much material on the
Pacific
islands. Below is a list of some of these articles, organised by the
islands
referred to, together with the relevant date and page number of the
issues
concerned. These can be viewed online at, http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/
Achilles Island (Tuvalu
Group ?) –
The
Sydney brig Portenia calls in 1847 to recruit labourers to work
in rural
New South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Amargura
(Fonualei, Tonga
Group) –A description of a volcanic eruption on the island, in October
1847
(14/11/46, 316).
Anatam (Aneityum,
Vanuatu) – A description of the island in 1844 by Captain T. Beckford
Simpson
(9/8/45, 200). The Velocity (Captain Kirsopp) arrives in Sydney
with 65
Pacific Islanders, including 16 from Anatam, to work as shepherds in
the
Maneroo district (24/4/47, 471). The Portenia calls at Anatam
to recruit
labourers to work in rural New South Wales (25/9/47, 608). A plan to
establish
a bay whaling station here (18/1/51, 17). Visit in 1854 by British
survey
vessel HMS Torch (28/8/54, 157 & 11/9/54, 172-3). Details
of a visit
by the survey vessel HMS Herald in 1854 (23/10/54, 203 &
8/1/55,
262).
Ascension Island (Ponape,
Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia) – A
description of the
island and the fifty or so European beachcombers living there (11/5/44,
61-62).
Auckland Islands (south
of NZ) – A proposal by Mr Enderby in London to establish a
whaling
colony at the Auckland Islands (22/5/47, 501 & 7/8/47, 571). More
about the
new whaling colony (12/5/49, 133 & 25/8/49, 219). Progress report
on the
colony (19/1/50, 22). Report of discontent as the Auckland Islands
(13/4/50,
105). A detailed description of the Auckland Islands by Lt Governor
Enderby
(29/3/51, 97-8). Annual report of the Southern Whale Fishery Co in
London.
(12/7/51, 201). The Auckland Island colony to be abandoned (1/5/52,
118).
Bashee Islands
(south of
Taiwan?)– Description of the islands in 1844 when HMS Vestal
visited
(15/11/45, 284).
Bonin Islands (Ogasawara
Islands) – A description of these islands and their potential
as whaling
base (24/8/44, 159).
Byron’s Island
(Nikunau,
Kiribati) – The brig Portenia calls in 1847 to recruit
labourers to
work in rural New South Wales (25/9/47, 608)
Caroline Islands
– A
description of Ponape by T. Beckford Simpson (11/5/44, 61-62).
Chain Islands
(Anaa
Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago) – Description of an unsuccessful
sandalwood
voyage in 1843 by survivor Henry Clarke (20/9/45, 236-237).
Chatham Island
– Details
of the piratical seizure here of the brig Hannah in March 1844
(23/11/44, 237). Account of the loss of the whaler St Peter
(Captain
Young) of New Bedford (11/6/55, 125).
Christmas Island –Ten
seamen from the US whaler Robert Fulton rescued from Christmas
Island
and taken to Samoa (2/4/53, 98).
De Peyster's
(Nukufetau,
Tuvalu) – The Portenia calls to recruit islanders to work in
rural New
South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Eeg (Nui) –
The Sydney
brig Portenia calls here in 1847 to recruit labourers to work
in rural
New South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Ellice Islands
(Tuvalu) –
see De Peystris Island.
Eronan (Futuna,
Vanuatu)
– The Portenia calls in 1847 to recruit labourers to work in
rural New
South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Euromanga
(Erromanga,
Vanuatu) – A list of visiting vessels that were cut out there and their
crews
killed between 1841 and 1848 (18/1/51, 16–17).
Fiji – The
Scottish
trader John Foster is killed (30/11/50, 314). Visit by British survey
vessel
HMS Torch in 1854 (28/8/54, 157 & 11/9/54, 172-3). See
also
Ovalau and Vanua Lavu.
Gambier’s Islands
(Timoe
and Mangareva) – brief account (26/10/44, 207).
Gilbert Islands
(Kiribati) – see Byron's, Halls, Hope, Matthew and Perout Islands.
Guadalcanal
(Solomon
Islands) – Reports of the disappearance and search for the Sydney
businessman
Benjamin Boyd (29/11/51, 344; 20/12/51, 368; 14/8/52, 218; 25/6/53,
187).
Hall’s Island
(Maiana,
Kiribati) – The Italian brig Rosa (Captain Ferran) attacked on
23 April
1853 while trading for coconut oil. The Captain, mate, four crewmen
killed
& also about twenty of the attackers before they were driven off
(16/7/53,
207).
Hanea (Tuamotus)
– Visit
by pearl shell divers in 1843 (20/9/45, 236).
Hawaiian Islands
(Sandwich Islands) – A description of these islands, the economy,
government, etc.
(28/9/44, 184). A group of Hawaiians adrift in a whaleboat are rescued
by the
yacht Wanderer, February 1850 (11/5/50, 137).
Hope Island (Arorae,
Kiribati) – The Sydney brig Portenia calls in 1847 to recruit
labourers
to work in rural New South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Howe's Island (Lord
Howe
Island) – Description of the island in 1844 when HMS Vestal
visited
(15/11/45, 284). Visit in 1854 by British survey vessel HMS Torch
(28/8/54, 157 & 11/9/54, 172–3). Details of 1854 visit by survey
vessel HMS
Herald (23/10/54, 203).
Isle of Pines –
Sailing
directions for the island, (26/10/44, 206). The Sydney brig Portenia
calls here in 1847 to recruit labourers to work in rural New South
Wales
(25/9/47, 608). A detailed description of the island and its
inhabitants;
visitors are advised to go ashore well armed and to be on their guard
(3/3/49,
58). A list of visiting vessels cut out between 1841 and 1848 (18/1/51,
16).
Details of a visit in 1854 by the British survey vessel HMS Torch
(28/8/54, 157 & 11/9/54, 172–3). Details of 1854 visit by survey
vessel HMS
Herald (23/10/54, 203).
Jane Island
(Micronesia)
– Description of the island in 1844 when HMS Vestal visited
(15/11/45,
284).
Kergulan Island
(Kerguelen, Indian Ocean) – A description of the island by Sir James
Clark Ross
(14/8/52, 221).
Kings Mill Islands
– see
Mulgrave Island.
Lefou/Lafou
(Lifou, New
Caledonia) – A visit for sandalwood in 1844 by Captain T. Beckford
Simpson
(9/8/45, 201 & 23/8/45, 214–15 & 13/9/45, 228–30). The Velocity
(Captain Kirsopp) brings to Sydney 65 Pacific Islanders, including 23
from
Lafou to work on Ben Boyd's Maneroo stations as shepherds (24/4/47,
471). The
Sydney brig Portenia calls to recruit labourers to work as
shepherds in
rural New South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Loyalty Islands (New
Caledonia)– The HMS North Star about to leave Sydney for these
and other
islands to investigate “the late outrages committed on different
British
vessels” (22/6/44, 99). A detailed description of the island and its
inhabitants (3/3/49, 54). A British naval vessel calls to show the flag
and
discourage attacks on visiting ships (18/1/51, 16&17). Visit in
1854 by
British survey vessel HMS Torch (Captain Lewis) (28/8/54,157).
See also
Mare
Mackill’s Island
(Pingelap, Caroline Islands) – Captain Obed Luce and a boat’s crew from
the US
whaler Boy are massacred here (13/9/51, 266).
Manua (Samoan
Group) –
Castaways arrive there in 1843 (20/9/45, 237).
Mare (Loyalty
Islands,
New Caledonia) – The ten man crew of the Sydney sandalwood
vessel Sisters
are killed by natives (23/3/44, 2). Captain Lewis of the Will–o–the
Wisp
is tried in Sydney for shooting three unarmed natives here (10/4/51,
138, &
17/5/51, 146, & 28/6/51, 190).
Marquesas –
Account of
the political & economic situation there (17/8/44, 154).
Matthew Island (Abaiang
or Marakei Island, Kiribati) – Details of 1854 visit by HMS Herald
(23/10/54, 203).
Mulgrave Island,
Kings Mill
Group (Mili, Marshall Islands) – Natives kill 13 crewmen from the
US whaler
Triton in January 1848 (13/5/48, 111 & 8/7/48, 163).
Navigator Islands (Samoa)
– Description of visit to islands in this group (23/1/47, 378). See
also Samoa.
New Caledonia –
Two
Hobart men killed on a sandalwood voyage (20/2/47, 407). Captain
Cunningham and
seven seamen from the Sydney sandalwood schooner Vanguard
killed in
October 1847 (13/11/47, 644). Clash between natives and the crew of the
Sydney
vessel Avon on a sandalwood voyage (22/9/49, 241–2). A British
naval
vessel calls to show the flag and discourage attacks on visiting ships.
Article
includes a list of visiting vessels cut out between 1841 and 1848 and
crews
killed (18/1/51, 16&17). Visit in 1854 by British survey vessel HMS
Torch
(Captain Lewis) (28/8/54, 157).
New Georgia Group
(Solomon Islands) – Eight native youths brought to Sydney on the Bride
by the Rev. Maurize to be educated in New South Wales (9/8/51, 225).
New Hebrides –
A visit in
1844 by Captain T. Beckford Simpson is described (9/8/45, 200). A
description
of these islands and a plan to trade, whale and build boats here
(12/6/47,
516). A British naval vessel visits to show the flag and discourage
attacks on
visiting ships (18/1/51, 16&17). Visit in 1854 by British survey
vessel HMS
Torch (Captain Lewis) (28/8/54, 157). Details of 1854 visit by
survey
vessel HMS Herald (23/10/54, 203). See also Euromanga.
New Zealand – A
description
of Otago and sailing directions for entering the harbour (23/11/44,
238).
Describes Auckland in 1844, the Three King’s and the Bay of Islands and
its
decline as a whaling port (9/8/45, 200). A description of Auckland,
Port
Nicholson, Nelson, Wellington and offshore islands including the Three
Kings,
Poor Knights and the Hen & Chickens by a crewman on the British
hydrography
vessel North Star in 1846. (10/4/47, 453–56). The Hobart whaler
Macquarie
(Captain Campbell) seized at the Bay of Islands in August 1847 for
trading
a firearm to a Maori (25/9/47, 607; 9/10/47, 617; 23/10/47, 627). A
group of
sealers in 1847 find a wreck, near Bluff Point, believed to be the brig
Active
lost in 1814 (16/10/47, 624). An account of a visit by HMS Herald
in
1854 (8/1/55, 262). Sailing directions for various harbours on the New
Zealand
coast (3/9/55, 207).
Norfolk Island
– A letter
about the disorderly state of affairs at the island (11/1/45, 13).
Visit by
British survey vessel HMS Torch (Captain Lewis) in 1854
(28/8/54, 157).
Ovalau (Fiji
Islands) –
Visit in 1854 by British survey vessel HMS Torch (Captain
Lewis)
(28/8/54, 157). Account of a visit by HMS Herald in 1854
(8/1/55, 262).
Perout Island
(Beru?,
Kiribati) – The Sydney brig Portenia calls to recruit labourers
to work
in rural New South Wales (25/9/47, 608).
Pitcairn Island –
A
description of Pitcairn and the Bounty mutineer descendants
living
there. Says forty–nine mostly American whalers called there for
supplies in
1846. (31/3/49, 82). Another account of the island and its inhabitants
by
Captain Worth of HMS Calypso (26/5/49, 141). Long description
of the
island and its inhabitants by one of four seaman stranded there
(19/10/50,
272–3). Description of the island and the cost of supplies there
(30/11/50,
314).
Pleasant Island
(Nauru) –
Description of the island and its inhabitants, including the many
European
beachcombers and some of their outrages. Also a list of whalers that
had
recently visited the island (8/6/44, 85–86). A statement regarding the
taking
of the US whaler Triton off this island on 2 December 1852
(13/11/53,
224).
Prince of Wales
Island (Torres
Strait Islands) – Brief account of the rescue by the survey ship Rattlesnake
of Barbara Crawford who had been shipwrecked on this island five years
earlier
(9/2/50, 41).
Raven Islands
(Ngatik,
Caroline Islands) – Description of the islands when HMS Vestal
visited
in 1844 (15/11/45, 284).
Rota (Mariana
Islands) –
Description of the island when HMS Vestal visited in 1844
(15/11/45,
284).
Rotumah (Rotuma)
– The
Sydney brig Portenia and the schooner Velocity arrived
in search
of labourers to work in rural New South Wales, but gunfire is exchanged
with
the islanders, and the 2nd mate of the Portinia, Mr
Rhodes,
is killed (18/9/47, 603; & 25/9/47, 608).
Samoa – An
account of the
islands and their people (30/5/46, 152). See also the Navigator
Islands, Upolo
and Manua.
Sandalwood Island
(Sumba,
Indonesia) – Description of this island (13/7/44, 121)
Society Islands
– A long
description of this group of islands (17/5/45, 124).
Solomon Islands
–
Reference to HMS North Star about to leave for these and other
islands
to investigate “the late outrages committed on different British
vessels”
(22/6/44, 99). See also Guadalcanal, Treasury Island and the New
Georgia Group.
Soma Soma
(Fiji) – Visit
in 1854 by HMS Torch (Captain Lewis) (28/8/54, 157).
Spratly Islands
– Captain
Spratley of the whaler Cyrus and his discoveries (26/4/44, 101).
Stewart’s Island (Sikaiana)
– Description of the island when HMS Vestal visited in 1844
(15/11/45,
284). A boats crew from the Tasmanian whaler Fortitude (Captain
Bailey)
is lost off the coast on 7 December 1846 (6/2/47, 394).
Strong’s Island (Kosrae,
Eastern Caroline Islands) –Account of attack on London whaler Harriett
(Captain Bunker) (31/8/44, 163).
Sunday Island (Kermadac Group) –
Description of
the island and the Halstead family, its only inhabitants, by an officer
of HMS Herald
in 1854 (8/1/55, 262).
Tahanea (Tuamotus) – Visit by pearl shell
divers in
1843 (20/9/45, 236).
Tahiti –
Details of
expenditure by the British consul on sick crewman landed from vessels
from New
South Wales in 1842 (20/6/46, 178). A recent visitor describes the bad
influence of white beachcombers at this and other islands (23/1/47,
378). A
description of Papeete Harbour (31/3/49, 82).
Takumea (Takume,
Tuamotus) – Visit by pearl shell divers in 1843 (20/9/45, 236).
Tanna (Vanuatu)
– The Velocity
(Kirsopp) returns to Sydney with 65 Pacific islanders including 26 from
Tanna,
to work on Ben Boyd's Maneroo stations as shepherds (24/4/47, 471). The
brig Portenia
and schooner Velocity call for labourers to work as shepherds
in rural
New South Wales (25/9/47, 608). The Isabella Anna reports that
the
islanders thought those taken away on the Portenia and Velocity
had been killed by the whites and that therefore their wives had been
put to
death, as required by tradition (18/12/47, 667). A list of vessels cut
out here
& the crews killed between 1841 and 1848 (18/1/51, 16–17). Sydney
vessels
are warned against calling at Tanna due to recent clashes with the
natives
there (24/1/52, 31). Account of visit by HMS Herald in 1854
(8/1/55,
262). A boat from the Jane trading off the island was attacked
&
robbed by natives and three men speared (12/11/55, 253).
Timor –
Description of
Timor and Copang in 1845 (3/1/46, 5&6).
Tonga – see
Amargura and
Vavau.
Torres Strait –
Long
account of voyage through Torres Strait by Lt C.B. Yule in command of
HMS Bramble
while surveying the strait & part of the New Guinea coast in 1846
(13/3/47,
420).
Treasury Island
(Solomon
Islands) – Five crewmen of the Sydney whaler Nelson killed by
the
islanders (7/3/46, 63). About 200
natives try to take the schooner Jessie on June 16, 1852, but
are beaten
off by Captain D’Almagne and his crew (31/8/52, 237).
Upolo (Samoa) –
The
Hobart cutter Breeze is wrecked here on 23 July 1846 (10/4/47,
456).
Account of hurricane that struck the island on 16 March 1847
(5/6/47,512).
Vanua Lavu
(Vanua Levu,
Fiji Islands) – Visit in 1854 by British survey vessel HMS Torch
(Captain Lewis) (28/8/54, 157).
Vavau – (Tongan
Group) A
description of the island and a recent volcanic eruption there
(23/1/47, 378).
Wallis Island –
A wages case in Sydney concerning a vessel built and
registered on
the island hinged on whether or not the island ruled by King Lavilus
was an
independent state (21/11/46, 318; 5/12/46, 333; 30/1/47,
385).
Wear (Ware? Island) – The Sydney brig Portenia
calls here to recruit labourers to work in rural New South Wales
(25/9/47,
608).
Mark Howard,
Melbourne
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PMB 1236 CLARKE,
George (1932-2005) Tuvalu physical development plans, reports and
related
papers, 1973-1993.
1 reel. (Available for reference.)
The British
government had sent out town planners to Funafuti in 1960 to guide
development
of the increasingly crowded urban settlement and in 1973, following a
major
cyclone, it constructed new housing at Funafuti. By 1993, when George
Clarke
visited Tuvalu to carry out his survey, the Tuvalu government was
lobbying for
new houses. The late George Clarke was an architect and town planner by
profession, who also worked as a consultant on human settlements for
the World
Bank, United Nations, AusAID and others. He was concerned about the
slumming
down of Pacific communities and consequent health decay. His report
addresses these
problems and tries to stimulate cultural revival and eco-tourism.
(George
Clarke’s father, William Clarke, had helped established the Bita-paka
wireless
station, near Rabaul, in 1924 and subsequently became Manager of AWA
Australia-Pacific Radio, making many trips back to New Guinea.)
CONTENTS:
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D.
Ball, Funafuti physical development plan, 1973.
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Simeona Iosia and Sheila Macrae,
A Report on
the Results of the Census of the Population of Tuvalu, 1979.
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Lars Carlstedt, Consultancy
Report on Land
Title Registration in Tuvalu, 1984.
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T.J. Bell, Tuvalu: Road
Improvements and
Maintenance, Funafuti Atoll, 1987.
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Government of Tuvalu, Housing
Task Force.
Working Papers, 1992.
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George
Clarke, Life and Living in Tuvalu: steps towards sustainable
strategies with
particular reference to housing, infrastructure and land use, 1993.
See
Reel List for details.
PMB 1237 SHAND, R.T.
Papers & publications on rural development, economics and
labour in
Papua New Guinea, 1947-1992.
5 reels. (Available for reference.)
Professor R.T. Shand is a
distinguished academic whose more recent research focuses on
agricultural
development in South Asia. He was based in the Department of Economics,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University,
from 1961 until 1999. His early interest in agricultural economics in
Papua New
Guinea, in particular cash crop development, is documented in these
papers.
Professor Shand directed a 3-year study of the development of
cash-cropping in
PNG for the Reserve Bank of Australia, 1963-65. In 1967-1968 he was a
member of
a committee advising on the first Five Year Plan for the economic
development
of PNG. In 1970 he was a member of a Board of Inquiry into Rural
Minimum Wages
in PNG. He has also been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on
matters
relating to PNG and was a member of its 1975 Mission to PNG.
CONTENTS Unpublished
papers on rural development, economics and labour in Papua New Guinea.
The
papers include reports on agricultural economics and cash crops by the
Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) and the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Organisation (CSIRO), 1947-48; reports on PNG
economics and development by Raymond Firth, J.W. Davidson, O.K.H.
Spate, C.S.
Belshaw and T.W. Swan, 1951-53; J.G. Crawford’s file on ANU projects in
PNG,
1959; various government, bank and international organisations’
reports,
1947-1991; report and transcript of a Board of Inquiry into Rural
Minimum Wages
in PNG, 1970.
See Reel List for details.
PMB 1238
GREENPEACE NZ / PEACE MEDIA ORGANISATION. Campaigns
against nuclear testing in the Pacific:
press cuttings and scrapbooks, 1973-1975, 1985. 1 reel.
(Available for
reference.)
Barry Mitcalfe, who
died in
1986, envisaged a new group, the Peace Media Organisation, having two
distinct
thrusts. One was to engage in peace research and the other was to
demonstrate
to the world the strength of New Zealand’s opposition to French testing
in the
Pacific and peoples’ longing for a peaceful world. (Mitcalfe’s papers
are held
at the University of Canterbury Library.) The documents microfilmed
Greenpeace
New Zealand Office in Auckland record NZ press reactions to the protest
voyages
of the Fri and Greenpeace III (formerly Vega)
in 1973. The
Pacific Peace Odyssey documentation includes minutes of a Greenpeace NZ
meeting
on 25 Sep 1974 attended by Irene Peterson, Bruce Peterson, David
Moodie, Betty
Johnson, Elaine Shaw and Wendy Armstrong.
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Peace
Media
Organisation, Press cuttings, Feb-Dec 1973.
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Greenpeace
New
Zealand Pacific Peace Odyssey, Apr 1974-Jun 1976.
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Greenpeace.
A
scrapbook compiled by the crew of the Rainbow Warrior I,
Mar-Jun 1985
while transferring 260 Marshallese forced to leave their homeland of
Rongelap Atoll
to resettle on Majuro Atoll, 160km away.
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