The YWCA of Fiji was established in Suva in 1961. Anne Walker and Ruth Lechte arrived in 1962 from Melbourne to set up a YWCA kindergarten and youth program. They moved to the upstairs section of the old Suva Town Hall in 1963. By 1966 the Y was operating clubs and classes, sports and recreations as well as three kindergartens. Amelia Rokotuivuna opened a Branch in Lautoka in 1968. In 1970 tenders were let for a new centre, financed by overseas funds. The five-storey building was constructed on land next to Sukuna Park. A new specialised kindergarten was opened in Des Voeux Road in 1972. Anne Walker became Youth Director and National Programme Coordinator. Ruth Lechte was Executive Director of the YWCA of Fiji till May 1973 when she was succeeded by Amelia Roktuivuna. Ms Rokotuivuna is now President of the YWCA of Fiji.

Constitution, regulations, bye-laws and other administrative and policy papers, 1978; National Council minutes, Jan 1979-Mar 1993; National Executive Committee minutes, Dec 1978-Jun 1994; Programme Committee, Aug 1963-May 1984 (gaps); Public Affairs Committee minutes, 1974-1984; Pre-School Committee minutes, 1975-1981; Youth Club minutes, 1965; annual report 1973; Convention reports, 1976 & 1990; press cuttings, 1965-2000; displat book, “Role of Women in Fiji”, 1968-1970; printed material on construction of headquarters in Suva. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

The Solomon Islands YWCA was established in 1975 and became operational in 1978. It is one of the oldest indigenous controlled non-government organisations in the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands YWCA is affiliated with the World YWCA. The purpose of the Solomon Islands YWCA is to develop the leadership and collective power of young women and girls around the Solomon Islands to achieve justice, peace, health, human dignity, freedom and sustainable environment for all people. The Solomon Islands YWCA has provided a wide range of services and programs for Solomon Islands women including the YWCA hostel, the YWCA kindy and programs for young people.
The Solomon Islands YWCA currently has a national office in Honiara and a branch in Munda, Western Province.
The Solomon Islands YWCA archive includes correspondence, the Constitution, Board and Executive meeting agendas, papers and minutes, funding and grant applications and reports, financial statements, reports and addresses by the President, annual reports and press releases.

Reel 1: 1975-1984
Reel 2: 1985-1986
Reel 3: 1987-1996
Reel 4: 1997-2009
See Finding aids for details.

These documents, reconstructed after Cyclone Heta flooded the Justice Archives in Niue, register applications to the High Court of Niue on land matters.

Register of Applications, case Nos.2560-4472, Nov 1985-Jan 1991, pp.18-49;
Register of Applications, case Nos.4473-7022, Jan 1991-Oct 1995;
Register of Applications, case Nos.7569-8600, Jan 1997-Feb 2002.
Applications to the Land Court published in the Niue Gazette, Nos.1-3, Jan, Jun & Nov 2003, and Nos.1-4, 2004.

Stephan Lehner (1877-1947) arrived in New Guinea as a lutheran pastor in August 1902. He worked mainly among the Bukawa people of the Huon Gulf.

The papers comprise:

1. Der Bukawac-Stamm
2. Die Naturanschauung de Bukawac
3. Spiritismus, Totemismus und Animismus des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
4. Die Blut-theorie beim Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
5. Psychologie des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
6. Sitten und Rechte des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
   No item 7 listed
7. Volksgesundheit und Wachstumsaussicht des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
8. Der Engolg der Mission beim Melanesierstamm der Bukawac
9. Geschichtliche Skizze des Bukawac-Stammes
10. Jabem-Marchen und Sagen (This work is by H. Zahn)
11. 'Maja'
12. Opa
13. Unidentified. Some of these papers, which were apparently being prepared for publication in a book about 1945, were published earlier in anthropological journals. There may be some variation between versions as published and those microfilmed. See An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea, vol.1, p.150-51 (Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968).

Methodist affairs in Fiji were administered by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London until the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church in 1855 when Fiji became a District of the New South Wales Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church. The Fiji District was administered by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia situated in Sydney and by the District Chairman whose office was in Bau till 1903 and in Suva after that date. In 1964 the Methodist Church of Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia.<BR>See also PMB 1062, 1063 and 1093.

Minutes and journals of the Fiji District Annual Synod, 1854-1945. Fiji District correspondence, 1869-1899. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

The Research School of Pacific Studies, established in 1948, was one of the four founding Research Schools of the Australian National University. The foundational departments of the School were Pacific History, Geography, Anthropology and Sociology and International Relations. Within a few years, other disciplines or sub-disciplines emerged: Linguistics, Biogeography and Geomorphology, Economics and Political and Social Change. The broad thrust was the social sciences and to a lesser extent the humanities.

The New Guinea Research Unit was created within the School in 1961. Other cross-disciplinary research carried out in the School include the Austronesian Project, the Economic History of Southeast Asia Project, the Transformation in Communist Regimes Project, Resource Management in Asia Pacific and State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project.

Several distinguished academics have been associated with the School including W.E.H. “Bill” Stanner, Siegrfried “Fred” Nadel, Derek Freeman, A.L. “Bill” Epstein, A. L. Basham, Stephen Wurm (who later established the department of linguistics), Jack Golson, C.P. “Patrick” Fitzgerald, Wng Ling, Jim Davidson, Harry Maude, Richard “Dick” Gilson, Francis West, W.R. “Bill” Crocker, Arthur Burns, J.A. Modelski, Lord Lindsay, J.D.B. “Bruce” Miller, O.H.K. “Oskar” Spate, J.N. “Joe” Jennings, Harold Brookfield, Donald Walker, Sir John Crawford, T. Scarlett Epstein, D.M. Bensusan-Butt, W. Max Corden, Heinz Arndt, Hedley Bull, C.A. Blyth, E.K. “Fred” Fisk, David Bettison, Ron Crocombe, Marion Ward and Ron May.

In 2010 the Research School of Pacific Studies became the College of Asia and the Pacific. The College now includes the following schools:
Crawford School of Economics & Government
School of Culture, History & Language
School of International, Political & Strategic Studies
School of Regulation, Justice & Diplomacy
Australian Centre on China in the World
ANU-Indiana University Pan Asia Institute (PAI)

For more information see: The Coombs : a house of memories. editors: Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley, Canberra : Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, c2006 http://epress.anu.edu.au ,
and http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/

Division of Pacific and Asian History Annual Reports, 1952-2008.
See Finding aids for details.

Annual list of ministers, compiled 1924 - 1972 for the period 1888 - 1971<BR>Terms of appointment for ministers who have served in Tonga, 1822 - 1906

Documents relating to the establishment and operation of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, 1967-1977; Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Museum and Art Gallery of Papua and New Guinea, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976; Catalogues and Guides published by the Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1965-1974.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

The title of the publication and the place of publication vary as described by P. O'Reilly Bibliographie de Tahiti ... (Paris, 1967), ref. 7151. Contains letters and articles from Sacred Heart missionaries in French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Easter Island and Hawaii. See PMB Doc 182-193 for subsequent issues.