These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of New Caledonia which are designated Oceania Nova Caledonia (ONC) in the Marist Archives. The ONC material fills four large filing cabinets which are listed as APM I ONC, APM II ONC, APM III ONC and AMP IV ONC. The ONC files are not as well organized as the other Pacific vicariates and they contain many unclassified and unnamed sections. Please also see PMB MS 161.

These papers from cabinet APM II ONC comprise:

• Correspondence of Mgr Hilarion Fraysse, 1904-05. Many of the letters are signed H. Alphonse
• Correspondence of Claude-Marie Chanrion, 1888-1919
• Correspondence of Fr Benoit Forestier, 1864-67
• List of publications on New Caledonia and dependencies
• Sketch maps of parts of New Caledonia
• Miscellaneous papers on various subjects including extracts from a letter of Bro. Jean-Pierre Dubreuil of 26 April 1847

John Kolia was born in Sydney in 1931 as John Alexander Collier. He attended Sydney Grammar School and completed his secondary education in England in 1951. Having enrolled in a medical course at the University of London, he returned to Australia and commenced work in PNG as a medical assistant for the Australasian Petroleum Company which was involved in oil exploration in the Gulf and Western Districts of Papua. After visiting London again in 1958, Kolia returned to Sydney where he completed teacher training. He took up a teaching position in New Britain in mid 1960, and in 1964 joined the Catholic Mission at Vanimo as a teacher. In 1966 he returned to Port Moresby. While teaching at Bavaroko, Kolia enrolled in the University of PNG, completing his BA (Hons) in 1971. He was awarded a PhD in 1975 for his research among the Balawaia people in the Rigo sub-district where he had been living in Tauruba village since 1972. At that time he changed his name from Collier to the phonetic form, Kolia. From 1971 Kolia had been employed at the UPNG as a research assistant, but by 1973 he was mostly occupied in editing the journal Oral History. When the Institute of PNG Studies was established in 1974, it took over production of Oral History and Kolia joined its staff. Kolia became a naturalised citizen of newly independent PNG in 1976. His History of the Balawaia was published in 1977, followed by a formidable body of literary work: eight novels, several short stories, plays and long poems, and press articles on anthropological topics. He was also an editor of the IPNGS journal, Bikmaus, and edited a collection of poems, Melanesian Thoughts and Words. He worked as a Project and publications officer at the PNG Institute of Technology from 1989 until 1992.
(Mainly from Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982.)

CONTENTS: Nancy Lutton’s correspondence with and about Kolia, 1979-1992;
Press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, 1978-1993;
Unpublished verse;
Theatre programmes and poster, 1981;
Photograph and other documents;
Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982;
Duplicated typescripts by John Kolia, 1976-1993;
Other publications, by, edited by, or about Kolia, 1979-1981.
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The Australian School of Pacific Administration was established in 1946 to train officers of the Australian administrations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and in the Northern Territory. In 1973 its name was changed to the International Training Institute (ITI) following an alteration in its administrative arrangements. Its remarkable library was established by Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, and subsequent library staff, but was disbanded when the ITI was closed down in the late 1980s. Part of the Library’s Hallstrom Pacific Collection has been kept intact and is currently held by the University of NSW Library. Most of the remainder has been dispersed, however Professor Hank Nelson rescued the material microfilmed here.

40 record items, as follows:
/1-10, ASOPA course materials and 1965 Handbook; TPNG Department of Eduction curriculum and syllabus materials;
/11-15, TPNG school readers;
/16-30, TPNG school magazines;
/31-34, research papers on education and social change in PNG;
/35-40, other ephemeral publications.
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For ASOPA administrative documents and further ASOPA course papers see PMB 1158: Australian School of Pacific Administration, Reports, correspondence and related papers, 1946-1992. 2 reels. (Available for reference.)

Adrian Martin Geyle, BA (UQ), M.Ed. (UNSW), was born 17 February 1930, Victoria, Australia. He commenced work in PNG in 1951 as a Cadet Patrol Officer in the Western District at Lake Murray and Kiunga Patrol Posts, patrolling with senior patrol officers and solo, then as Patrol Officer OIC Gaima Patrol Post and at Daru HQ. Later, in the Sepik District, Mr Geyle was appointed Patrol Officer OIC at Green River Patrol Post, as a/OIC Angoram Patrol Post (short time), and at Wewak HQ. Finally, in 1955 he worked as Patrol Officer at Madang HQ, Madang District.
After resigning in mid-1955 on health grounds, Mr Geyle returned to work as a field assistant with two oil search companies until 1958, one in the Gulf District (APC), the other in an uncontrolled area of the Upper Sepik (Enterprise of New Guinea).
From 1966 to 1970 Mr Geyle undertook administrative duties in the Department of the Public Service Commissioner, Port Moresby and Lae, as a contracted officer, in recruitment and regional taxation advisory roles.
(Copies of seven patrol reports pertaining to the above are held at the National Library, Canberra, NLA MS 8142.)

CONTENTS:
Currents and Customs: stories of a tribal kind, Part 1, Ts., pp.1-70, photographs;
Currents and Customs: stories of a tribal kind, Part 2, Ts., pp.1-60, photographs;
Iuri 1954, Ts., pp.1-30, photographs.
N.B. Mr Geyle wishes to point out an error in locality for his story about the manufacture of club-heads, reprinted in Customs and Currents, Part 2, p.10, from Una Voce, Sep 1998. Based on his patrol diaries, since rediscovered, the locality is Pare country, up the Fly River from Kiunga, into the Elevala River tributary, not Iuri Border Mountains people.
See also PMBPhoto16 for digital copies of this material.

The first successful commercial sugar plantation was established on Kauai, Hawaii in 1835. Since this time the sugar industry has been a significant part of the Hawaiian economy and had a significant impact on the course of Hawaii's history. The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (HSPA) was founded in 1895 as an unincorporated, voluntary organization of sugar plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands. Its objective was to promote the mutual benefits of its members and the development of the sugar industry in the islands. It conducted scientific studies and gathered accurate records about the sugar industry.
The HSPA also actively campaigned to bring workers to Hawaii. The Association opened offices in Manila, Vigan and Ilocos Sur to recruit Filipino workers and provide them free passage to Hawaii. The HSPA became a powerful organization reaching as far as Washington, D.C., where it successfully lobbied for legislation and labor and immigration policies beneficial to the sugar industry of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association archives were donated to the Manoa Library, University of Hawaii in 1995. The archives are held in the Hawaii and Special Collections section of the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii, see: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/hawaiihspa.html.

CONTENTS This microfilm consists of press cuttings files from the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association archive. The cuttings are mainly from the Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hilo Tribune-Herald. Other sources include: Pacific Science Association Information Bulletin, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times. Most of the files include a list of “cross references” to published articles and books.
Reel 1 – HSPA 1-2
Reel 2 – HSPA 2-23
Reel 3 – HSPA 24-29
Reel 4 – HSPA 29.1-52
Reel 5 – HSPA 53-98
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Robert Edward Buffett was a Norfolk Islander, who died on Norfolk Island in 1953 at the age of 90. The book in which the journal was kept was originally owned by a Portuguese or Brazilian seaman, Manuel Jose. Some pages in Portuguese are in his hand at the beginning of the book, which he presented to Buffett.

The journal gives an account of a whaling voyage in the New Bedford bark CANTON from 1881 to 1885 and in the bark PETREL in 1887. Buffett signed on the CANTON at Norfolk Island. The bark subsequently visited many islands in the Pacific.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

The purpose of the index, published as Where the Whalers Went, (Robert Langdon, ed.), Canberra, 1984, is to facilitate research into the logbooks copied on microfilm under the New England Microfilming Project organised by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau in 1970 and 1976. The logbooks are principally those of American whalers and traders that visited the Pacific in the 19th century. With related material, such as account books, correspondence, charts and newspaper clippings. The logbooks were copied as PMB 200-400 (the first part, 1970) and PMB 540-45; 571-580; 671-699; 720-900 (includes the American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions); 910-911; 914-915; and 953-958 (the second part, 1976). The index supersedes the Bureau's publication Thar She Went (Robert Langdon, ed.), Canberra, 1979 and includes information on several island groups that were not covered in the publication. These groups are the Bonin, Galapagos, Juan Fernandez, Kermadec, Line and Phoenix groups of islands.

This book is rare. The Departmental Standing Instructions were issued to Patrol Officers to assist them to undertake their work in Papua New Guinea. Patrol Officers worked in the field with indigenous people in the administration of Districts. The intention of the publication was to present instructions and advice in a concise and consolidated form.

The first volume encompasses the wide range of duties and tasks carried out by the Department of Native Affairs. As situations changed and stages of development progressed, separate memoranda were issued and Officers were instructed to interleave new instructions into the existing publication. In 1970 there had been so many changes in the conditions and circumstances of the Patrol Officers job that the Department decided to issue a revised, second edition.

Between 1962 and 1970 the Department underwent two reorganisations: from the Department of Native Affairs to the Department of District Administration, to the Division of District Administration within the Department of Administrator.

Departmental Standing Instructions, General Field Administration Vol.1, 1962, with updates, and General Field Administration Vol.1, Revised 2nd edition, 1970.
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