The Minutes, in Tongan, are contained on two reels as follows:<BR>Reel 1: 1950 - 71<BR>Reel 2: 1972 - 79

The registers cover the periods 1835 - 1884 and 1888 - 1922.

The registers, numbered F203, cover the periods 1830-33, 1850-54 and 1859-1923. Duplicate registers precede the original for the period 1884-1923.

The registers are numbered and cover the following periods:<BR>F202 - 1840-71<BR>F204 - 1872-82 (each entry is across two facing pages)<BR>F205 - 1883-97<BR>F206 - 1892-1921<BR>F205 - 1923<BR>F207 - 1924-25<BR>F208 - 1910-24<BR>F205 - 1925-72 (pp. 242-64 spoiled in filming)

The registers are in several numbered volumes as follows:<BR>F213 - 1830-33, 1848-72<BR>F214 - 1872-79<BR>F215 - 1880-84<BR>F216 - 1886 - 1913<BR>F217 - 1924-29

Membership roll of church workers on Ha'apai, 1875-1927

Verguet went to the Solomon Islands as a Marist missionary in December 1845 and remained there until early 1847. He was the author of two works on the Solomons, Histoire de la premiere mission catholique au vicariat de Melanesie (1st edn, Brussels 1854; 2nd edn, Paris 1861) and Grand archipel des Iles Salomon: son etendue, sa fertilite (Marseilles, 1883). At the time of writing the dissertation, he was canon of the Cathedral of Carcassonne, France

The dissertation is preceded by a letter dated 24 April 1893 to the Very Rev. Father Monfat. It gives Verguet's views on a proposal to resume mission work in the Solomons, including the type of ship required, mission houses and plantations. There are numerous sketches of harbours and anchorages.

The Lost Caravel was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd., Sydney. The book puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies.

The correspondence includes comments on the book following its publication and Langdon's subsequent research into related matters discussed in the book. The correspondence is in three parts:<P>1. General correspondence, 1975-80<BR>2. Correspondence, 1978-87, re the conservation of two iron cannon retrieved from Amanu Atoll, French Polynesia, in 1969<BR>3. General correspondence, 1981-1987<BR><P>A calendar for each section of correspondence precedes the correspondence itself on the microfilm. Sections 1 and 3 are filmed in alphabetical order by correspondent and then in chronological order; section 2 is microfilmed in chronological order.<P>Reel 1: Section 1, A - Kish<BR>Reel 2: Section 1, Ko. - Z; Section 2 to 1986<BR>Reel 3: Section 2, 1987; Section 3.<P>For Langdon's pre-publication correspondence on The Lost Caravel, see PMB 551.

Consists partly of Dr Gilson's drafts for Samoa 1839-1900 and partly of notes and documents relating to the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Niue and Papua New Guinea. The Cook Islands material, which is more extensive than the rest, is drawn from a wide variety of sources and includes Gilson's correspondence with Lionel Trenn and a document by Lional Trenn regarding land tenure in the Cook Islands. The 1946 U.K. Secretary of State's dispatch on cooperative movements in the Pacific in F.14 is followed by a reprint of H.E. Maude's cooperative movements in GEIC (May 1950, South Pacific). See also PMB 1003.

The contents are listed in condensed form below but the complete inventory appears on reel 1, with notes by PMB, and is available on request.<P>Reel 1: Preliminaries; files 1-2 The Politics of a Multicultural Community. Samoa 1830-1900, introduction, bibliography of Gilson, abbreviations, bibliography of book, miscellaneous correspondence on book; Chapters 1-6(2 copies)<BR>Reel 2: file 2 cont. - file 3; Chs 7-12(2 copies)<BR>Reel 3: file 3 cont. - file 4; Chs 13-16<BR>Reel 4: file 4 cont. - file 8g; Chs 2, 13; revised footnotes; Vaisala Papers; Samoan educational texts 1948-50<BR>Reel 5: file 8h - file 14; Samoan education texts cont.; papers presented at Hancock Seminar on British tropical dependencies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1951; Proclamation re election of King of Samoa, 1888-9; notes on German administration; notes on Samoan social structure etc.; translation of Maretu's journal; Secretary of State, despatch on cooperative movements in Pacific, 1946<BR>Reel 6: file 15 - file 24; Material on Papua/New Guinea includes press cuttings, statements, letter re land tenure; Miscellaneous material on GEIC, includes general notes, amendment to tax regulations no.11 1915, King's regulation on recruiting and employment of native labourers no.1 1915; annual report cooperative societies officer 1947/48/49; notes on French admin. in Oceania 1842-1903; bibliography/Society Islands; Material on Fiji, press cuttings and notes; American policy in tropics; South Seas Commission Conf. papers 1947; Tupper report on visits in HMS Pylades 1899; Cook Islands/notes re Journal of House of Reps (NZ) Series A3 1891-1931<BR>Reel 7: file 24 cont. - file 29; Gilson's Cook Islands papers; notes on LMS material; official organisations; bibliography; NZ Parliamentary debates 1900-37<BR>Reel 8: file 29 cont. - file 41; Cook Islands material; N.Z. official docs.; elections 1947-50; trade & industry; Lionel Trenn<BR>Reel 9: file 42; Cook Islands land matters<BR>.
See Finding aids for details.

Major Fleming was a member of the crew which undertook the survey flight.

The entries are on a day-by-day basis describing the survey which took 17 days from Monday, 5 July to Wednesday, 21 July 1965. The survey party was to assess the suitability of certain airstrips in PNG for Caribou operations. They recorded details of local conditions, climate, terrain, local customs and the people and places encountered during the trip. They made a 'base' at Mt Hagen and travelled to many outlying areas - northwest to Green River, north to Angoram, east to Minj and south to Balimo and Wasua, visiting many other small settlements on the way.