Autumn Leaves is a publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was the church's first children's magazine.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church in Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. See also PMB 109 for items from Vols. 22-24 of Autumn Leaves. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.

• Arretes du Gouverneur etablissements francais de l’oceanie Commissionaire de Roi pres la Reine des Iles de la Societe, Papeete, 1846. 55pp.
• Te Mau Faaue Raa a Te Tavana, Papeete, 1845. 39pp.
• E Ture no te faatia raa i te Apoo raa mataeinaa, Papeete, 1855. 23pp.
• Apoo Raa i mati 1852. Te mau ture i faatia hia e te apoo raa iriti raa ture, Papeete, 1851. 23pp.
• Apoo raa i mati 1851. Te mau ture i faatia hia e te apo raa iriti raa ture, Papeete, 1851. 8pp.
• E mau ture iriti hia i roto i te apoo raa a te mau iriti ture..., Papeete, 1848. 66pp.
• Lois revisees dans l’assemblée des legislateurs au mois de mars de l’annee 1848 pour la conduite de tous, sous le gouvernement du Protectorat dans les terres de la Societe, Papeete, 1848. 60pp.

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From the series, Terrain Study (Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area, Allied Geographical Section), No.59.

Vol.1: Text and Maps
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps
Appendices

Vol.2: Photographs
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps

While carrying out fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands for his doctoral dissertation, the anthropologist Jerry Leach (producer and narrator of the renowned ethnographic film <I>Trobriand Cricket</I>) surveyed and microfilmed important archives kept in the archipelago's main centre, Losuia. These records were drawn upon for Dr Leach's research on the Kabisawali Movement, which had emerged in 1972 in opposition to the last years of Australian colonial rule. Kabisawali promoted Trobriand control of their own economic and political affairs. Between 1972 and 1977 Kabisawali opened and operated trade stores and invested in copra, transportation and tourism. While it enjoyed political support and some economic success through the mid to the late 1970s, the movement as a whole had gone into decline by 1980. However, its legacy was significant, reflected in changes such as the decision to abolish the Kiriwina Local Government Council in 1990 and replace it with a Kiriwina Community Government that includes a chamber of traditional chiefs (see <I>PMB 1165</I> for further details). While most of these papers do not directly concern the Kabisawali movement they do provide an historical context for understanding the formation of Kabisawali. As Leach wrote in 1982 (287-288) <I>'For over eighty years, a set of islands made up of relatively or potentially self-sufficient units without overall organisation or a socio-economic centre have been undergoing uneven centralization'</I>(1) These papers help document these historical processes.

Dr Leach selected documents as they related to his research interests. The photographs are 35mm negatives from a Pentax Spotmatic spliced together into rolls. Lighting conditions were far from ideal so some of the exposures are hard to read. Most of these papers are district and local government administrative records. They include annual reports along with files on taxation, chiefs, health, censuses, statistics, patrol reports, mission relations, World War II, village councils and the Kiriwina LGC, cricket, court cases, education, and village constables and officials. See also <I>PMB 1165.</I>
<P> (1) Source of quote: Leach, Jerry W. 1982. 'Socio-historical conflict and the Kabisawali Movement in the Trobriand Islands'. In Ron J May (ed) <I>Micronationalist movements in Papua New Guinea</I> Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU. Canberra. pp.249-289. <BR>
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The judicial power of the Kingdom of Tonga is vested in the Supreme Court, the Magistrate's Court and the Land Court. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice and such other judges as the King may appoint. The Chief Justice was a member of Privy Council until 1942. There is a right of appeal to the Privy Council from decisions of the Supreme Court in its civil jurisdication. Under the 1903 Statutes the Minister of Lands, subject to appeal to the Privy Council, was given power to hear all disputes affecting land. In 1917 a Land Commission was set up to deal with disputes and calims affecting land. This Commission was vested with the power and status of the Supreme Court. In 1921 this Commission was abolished and the Land Court was formally constituted with power to hear and determine all disputes and claims and questions of title affecting land or any interest in land. The Land Court consists of the Land Court Judge, at present the Chief Justice, who sits with an assessor. The duty of the Assesssor is to advise the Judge on Tongan custom. He has no voice in the decisions of the court.

Supreme Court of Tonga: civil and divorce registers, 1905-1992; adoption registers, 1987-1992; criminal registers, Tongatapu, 1969-1992; Civil action registers, 1985-1992; miscellaneous judgements, 1975-1992; miscellaneous appeal judgements, 1986-1995; photographs of Mr Justice George Scott CJ, Mr Justice Henry Stead, Roberts CJ and Mr Justice D. B. Hunter. Land Court of Tonga: minute books, 1923-1940; registers, 1923-1991; land case files (selected documents from available files), 1947-1992. Court of Appeal: miscellaneous judgements, 1990-1995; Privy Council Court of Appeal judgements, 1924, 1954-1988.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Charles Karius and Ivan Champion crossed from the Sepik to the Fly River in 1928 stimulating students of the non-denominational Melbourne Bible Institute (MBI) to become interested in missionary work in the upper reaches of the Fly River and its tributaries. Their mission was planned under the auspices of the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (WEC)and received support from Norman Lumsden who was Men’s Superintendent at the MBI and Australasian Secretary of the WEC. In 1931 the WEC Home Committee in London split, forming the Unevangelised Fields Mission. Almost all of the Australian Home Council and missionaries transferred to the UFM.
In early 1932 the directors of Papuan Industries gave the UFM their exhausted plantation at Madiri among the Kiwai people on the Fly River. Three UFM missionaries, Albert Drysdale, Theo Berger and Gordon Rodgers, attempted to establish a mission at Madiri and to resurrect the plantation, but failed due to lack of resources. The plantation was then leased to Mrs Janet Cowling while the UFM retained the bungalow and some other buildings as the Mission HQ. Drysdale extended the mission among Gogodala people, establishing a Mission station in the village of Balimo in February 1934. By 1935 there were four UFM missionaries at the head station of Madiri, three at Balimo, two at Awaba on the Arimia River, and by November another station at Wasua on the Fly River was being prepared.
In the late 1930s the Mission lost personnel and suffered other setbacks, but recovered after 1939 following the appointment of J.T. Storey as General Secretary of the Home Council in Melbourne, L.E. Buck as Chairman, and George Sexton as Field Leader. These three men retained their positions for 30 years, giving stability and direction to the Mission which in 1940 expanded into Gogodala territory and shifted its HQ to Wasua.
The Australian missionaries were evacuated in December 1941, leaving the mission stations in charge of evangelistic converts who consolidated Christianity among the Gogodala people. After the War the UFM established a Bible School and an indigenous pastorate. In 1954 a Gogodala district church council, consisting of senior pastors, was constituted, parallel to the missionaries’ own field council.
In 1947 the Mission purchased a diesel ketch, Marino II, to help establish new mission stations in the upper Fly, Alice and Strickland River areas. In 1949 the UFM established a mission station at Lake Kutubu and from there opened other stations in the Southern Highlands, including Tari which became the HQ of the Church and the Mission. The UFM churches officially constituted a national church, the Evangelical Church of Papua, in July 1966.
The UFM had three autonomous Home Councils. The UFM Governing Council for Australia and New Zealand, based in Melbourne, was responsible for the administration of the work in the fields of Papua and West New Guinea. The Governing Councils of North America and the United Kingdom were jointly responsible for the field work in Africa and Brazil. North America was solely responsible for the fields of Haiti, Dominica and British Guiana, and also assisted in the work in West New Guinea. (UFM, Principles and Practice of the Unevangelized Fields Mission, Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, UFM, 1962.)

In 1969 UFM, Australia and New Zealand Branch, independently changed its name to the Asia Pacific Christian Mission in order to facilitate extension of its activities in the Asia-Pacific region and went on to establish missions in West Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia, and the Philippines.
In 1998 the APCM and Pioneers USA formally merged, to form Pioneers International. APCM's former Director, Doug McConnell became the Pioneers International Director.
Notes above from Ross Weymouth, “The Unevangelised Fields Mission in Papua, 1931-1981”, Journal of Pacific History, 23:2, 1998, pp.175-190.

The UFM archives were arranged by J.R. Story in 1965. Mr Storey notes that, “No minute book dealing with the years 1923 to 1930 is in possession of the U.F.M. As the Mission was then the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade, presumably the minute book was delivered to the W.E.C. at the time of the formation of the U.F.M. The earliest correspondence in the U.F.M. files dates back to 1925 when Messrs Sharpe, Roberts & Symes proceeded to Brazil. The first U.F.M. Minutes are dated 5/9/31.” (1965)
The files were re-arranged for microfilming purposes by the PMB in 2007-2009 and item numbered using prefix ‘APCM’. Cross references to the earlier item numbers are given in the listing.
Reel 1-5: APCM 1-36. U.F.M. Australian Branch Council Minutes, 1931-1965 & APCM Minutes and Agendas.
Reel 6-7: APCM 37-48. UFM P.N.G. Field Council, agenda, minutes and meeting papers, Evangelical Church of Papua, Missionary Affairs Committee, minutes, APCM Irian Jaya Field committee minutes and reports, APCM Philippines Annual Field Conference and Field Committee minutes.
Reel 7-8: APCM 49-55. UFM NSW Council minutes, 1953-1999.
Reel 9: APCM 56-63. UFM/APCM Victorian and Queensland Council minutes and agenda, 1965-1999.
Reel 10: APCM 64-74. APCM Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia Council minutes, 1961-1999.
Reel 11: APCM 75-81. UFM/APCM New Zealand Council minutes, 1950-1997; copies of UFM London & Nth American minutes, 1952-1960.
Reel 12-13: APCM 83-95. UFM histories, 1946-1980.
Reel 13-16: APCM 96-124. UFM correspondence, 1930-1990.
Reel 17-19: APCM 125-138. UFM PNG and NSW circulars, 1958-1992.
Reel 20-24: APCM 139-140. APCM Missionary Prayer Letters, A-Z, 1978-1995.
Reel 24: APCM 141-145. UFM/APCM Annual Reports, 1953-1979, Diaries and reports, 1953-1990.
Reel 24-25: APCM 146-153. UFM /APCM Papua field and station reports, 1945-1988.
Reel 25-27: APCM 154-187. UFM/APCM West New Guinea (Irian Jaya) reports, minutes, press cuttings, prayer letters, etc., 1948-1999.
Reel 28: APCM 188-191. UFM/APCM Missions in Indonesia, minutes, reports and correspondence, 1951-1982.
Reel 28: APCM 192-198. UFM/APCM Ladies’ Auxillary, Victoria and South Australia, minute books, 1961-1988.
Reel 28-29: APCM 202-210. UFM International, copies of minutes, reports and other papers, 1931-1982.
Reel 29-30: APCM 211-212. Evangelical Church of Papua, constitution, minutes, reports and other papers, 1965-1989.
Reel 30: APCM 213-216. Other organisations – Evangelical Alliance of the South Pacific, Christian Broadcasting Service, Melanesian Council of Churches, Sudanese Missionary Fellowship, Woodlands Family Home 1959-1990.
Reel 30: APCM 217-224. Personnel, candidate material, statistics, 1964-1993
Reel 30-31: APCM 225-232. Education – Bokondini School, Awaba High School, Dauli Teachers College, Goroka High School, Tari “A” School, 1972-1989.
Reel 31-32: APCM 233-244. Subject files and sundry papers 1936-1989.
Reel 32-34: APCM 245-254. Documents microfilmed out of sequence and press cuttings.
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The Union is the oldest and most successful of the blue collar unions in PNG. The union had its origins in the ethnically based welfare societies formed in Port Moresby in the late 1950s. Waterside workers were also active in the PNG Workers’ Association and its successor the Port Moresby Workers’ Association in the 1960s. The Central District Waterside Workers’ Union was established at a public meeting in Port Moresby on 24 July 1968 and registered under the PNG Industrial Organisations Ordinance on 28 January 1969. Between 1977 and 1980 the CDWWU embarked on a series of amalgamations with the Overseas Seamen’s Union, the Rabaul Workers’ Association, the Madang Waterside Workers’ Union and the Lae Stevedoring Union. The amalagamated union, the PNG Waterside Workers’ and Seamen’s Union, the first national private sector union in Papua New Guinea, was registered on 8 January 1980. The name of the organisation was changed to the Papua New Guinea Maritime Workers Industrial Union on 18 October 1993. (See Michael Hess, <I>Unions Under Economic Development: private sector unions in PNG</I>, Oxford University Press, 1992.)

<LI>Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, Submission to the Urban Minimum Wages Board. Ts., roneo, 228pp., Aug 1974;</LI>
<LI>PNG Maritime Workers Industrial Union, Circulars to National Executive Council Members and Branch Presidents, Jun 1991-Jul 1997;</LI>
<LI>Press cuttings on industrial matters in Papua New Guinea, 1970-1990;</LI>
<LI>Further press cuttings on industrial matters in PNG, n.d.;</LI>
<LI>Rough list of non-current files held in the PNG Maritime Workers Industrial Union’s Port Moresby office in May 1994 and since destroyed, May 1994</LI><P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

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
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