These documents originallyformed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

CONTENTS Records of the LMS, Samoan District, held at the Australian National University, but not previously microfilmed by the PMB, in folders numbered 1-45 and one bundle of papers, mainly consisting of correspondence, reports and some minutes. Some documents are too brittle to microfilm without destroying them.
See also PMB 95-97, 126-132 & 141-144.
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.

Rev. Francis Trafford Walker and Mrs Emma M. Walker, his wife, travelled from Sydney to Rabaul on the SS Mataro in June 1925 to take up posts in New Britain with the Overseas Mission of the Methodist Church of Australasia. They were stationed at Kabakada from July 1925, and then at Watnabara, where their son Gordon born on 7 Mar 1927. Having taken furlough in Sydney from March until June 1928, they returned to Kabakada. In April 1929 they shifted Vunairima, where their daughter, Enid, was born on 12 May 1929.
In January 1930, when Gordon contracted a severe form of malaria, they returned to Australia.
Chronology supplied by Gordon Walker, Feb 2006:

Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, New Brirain District, George Brown College, 1927, A Warwai Ure Iesu Karisito, written by F. Trafford Walker (Principal), language revised by Apelis To Maniot (Head Tutor), Ts., 159pp. This is a series of lectures in the Blanche Bay dialect setiing out a complete narrative of the life of Jesus Christ. Rev Walker writes in the Preface that the “language employed in this work is the pure Blanche Bay dialect, and every effort has been made to eliminate all foreign influence in order that the true native tongue might be preserved…. Apelis To Maniot … has thrown himself into the task of preserving for his fellows the language of his ancestors. ”

Rev. F. Trafford Walker, Reflections on the Work of the Missionary, Ts., 34pp., incomplete, plus notes. Includes the following chapters: ‘Rev. W.H. Cox’, ‘A Superintendent of a Circuit’, ‘Running a Circuit’, “Working Under a Chairman’, ‘Quarterly Meetings’, ‘Medical Work’, ‘Handling Disputes’, ‘Religious Teaching’, and ‘Other Missions’. Together with lecture notes, Ts., 1 leaf, Ms., 2pp.

See also: PMB Photo 7, Rev. Francis Trafford Walker and Mrs Emma M. Walker: Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain, 1925-1930.

Jerry W. Leach is a Professor and Director of the American Studies Center at The American University in Cairo. While carrying out fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands for his doctoral dissertation, the anthropologist Jerry Leach (producer and narrator of the renowned ethnographic film Trobriand Cricket) surveyed and microfilmed important archives kept in the archipelago's main centre, Losuia (see PMB 1177).

Jerry Leach also compiled this lexicon of words, on cards, adapted mainly from English into the Kiriwina language over the period 1969-1972. The dictionary has been added to by Ralph Lawton.

In 1983, Leach edited a book with Sir Edmund Leach on “The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim exchange” (ISBN 0 521 23202 3). He has also written other major works including the “Parliamentary Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea”, “Public Officials' Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea” and "Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket" University of California Media Center. Jerry Leach is the producer and narrator of the renowned ethnographic film “Trobriand Cricket”.

Ralph Lawton was a missionary for over 10 years during the 1960s-1970s in the Trobriand Islands. Through his missionary work he became an expert in the language of the Trobriands. He is currently working on a lexicon of Kilivila, the Kiriwina Language from the Trobriand Islands.

A lexicon of words adapted mainly from English into Kilivila, the Kiriwina Language from the Trobriand Islands over the period 1969-1972.

First issued in April 1970.

Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep/Oct, Nov & Dec 1970;
Jan/Feb, Mar, Apr/May, Aug, Oct/Nov 1971;
Dec 1971/Jan 1972, Feb, Mar, Apr/May, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov/Dec 1972.

Includes statement on the relationship between the Pangu Pati and ‘liberal businessmen’, n.d. (1970 or 1971); Ts., roneo, 6pp.

Jun/Jul, Sep 1971 and Jun 1972 are missing.

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.
See Finding aids for details.
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.)