A Solomon Islands Branch of the Queensland Kanaka Mission was formed in 1904. It established a principal station at Onepusu on the west coast of Malaita in 1905 and changed its name to the South Sea Evangelical Mission in 1907. The Mission continued to operate in the Solomon Islands, and in New Guinea after World War II, till it was localised in the 1980s. Post-war issues of Despatches cover the political events in Malaita and include a special issue on “Marching Rule” (No.109). Early editions of Despatches were issued by A. Kenny, Melbourne Secretary of the SSEM.

Prayer Notes, 12 issues, Mar 1932-Apr 1933; Despatches from the SSEM, Nos.1-52, 54-69, 73, 75-99, 101-128, Jun 1933-Jul 1956.

This early edition of Sylvia Masterman’s, An Outline of Samoan History (67pp., Ts., roneo, maps, appendices), was published by the Western Samoan Education Department in 1958. It consists of 17 chapters, as follows:

1. The Polynesian People
2. Polynesian Voyages
3. Samoa before 1830
4. European Exploration of the Pacific
5. The Coming of Missionaries
6. The Growth of Trade. The Germans in Samoa
7. The United States and Samoa
8. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand Interests in Samoa
9. Strife in Samoa 1835-1880
10. The Troubled Years 1880-1889
11. An Attempt at International Control 1890-1900
12. German Samoa 1900-1914
13. New Zealand Occupies Western Samoa 1914
14. Western Samoa becomes a mandated territory
15. The Years of the ‘Mau’ 1926-1936
16. Towards Self Government
17. American Samoa

Appendices: 1. Pili the Father of the Samoan Race; 2. The ‘Callipoe’;

3. Robert Louis Stevenson; 4. Volcanic Eruption in Savaii – 1905;
4. Comparative Word List; 6. Chronology; 7. Word List

A later edition was published in Samoan and English in 1980.

Tusitala was published by the Women’s Club in the Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Mai Te Ulu Kalapu Fafine. The newsletter was edited by Roddy Cordon, Women’s Education Officer, Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Tusitala is mainly written in Tuvaluan (Ellice Islands) language.

35 issues of the newsletter, Feb 1966-Aug 1972.
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