Mansel Dean (1914- ) was born in the Paton Memorial Hospital, Port Vila, Vanuatu, the daughter of David and Winifred Griffiths. She spent her childhood on her parents' plantation at Lenakel, Tanna, where they also owned the store. Her family later moved to Norfolk Island where they owned a banana plantation.

The contents include:

• Mansel Dean's notes on her childhood years on Tanna, including references to local customs and her family life;
• a photograph of her parents taken on Tanna;
• copies of the birth certificates of herself and her sister Mary Winifred (the first white baby to be born on Tanna);
• a letter written by her mother about Christmas on Tanna.

Repeated attacks of malaria resulted in the sale of the Tanna copra plantation to Burns Philp. Shortly after their arrival on Norfolk Island a disease decimated the banana palms.

Please see PMB 738 for full entry.

Continued from PMB 759 - Volume 18: Reports, estimates etc. 1910-19.
Volume 19: Correspondence, minutes, statistics and reports, 1920-29, from Kusaie and Jaluit. The correspondents are Elizabeth Baldwin, Jane Baldwin, Carl Heine, Jessie Hoppin, George and Mrs Lockwood and Mathilda Maas. Some reports relate to islands under Japanese mandate (continued on PMB 761).

Jai Ram Reddy (born on 12 May 1937 in Lautoka, Fiji) is an Indo-Fijian statesman who has had a distinguished career in both legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government. He was admitted to the Bar in New Zealand in 1960 and in Fiji in 1961. Between 1966 and 1970 he was Crown Counsel and Principal Legal Officer in the Attorney-General’s Office. Between 1970 and 1997 he was a senior partner of a law firm.

Reddy entered politics when he was appointed to the Senate in 1972, by the then leader of the opposition Sidiqu Koya. In 1977 he became leader of the National Federation Party (NFP). In this role he was Leader of the Opposition in the Fijian Parliament between 1977 and 1984; and again between 1992 and 1999.

Judge Reddy briefly served as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice in the Bavadra Government until its overthrow in a military coup in 1987. Judge Reddy was a Member of the Constitutional Review Commission which reviewed the 1990 Constitution of Fiji and removed all discriminatory provisions against Indo-Fijians. In 1998 Judge Reddy was made a Companion of the Order of Fiji in recognition of his service to Fiji. In 2000 he was appointed President of the Fiji Court of Appeal but resigned his commission in August that year, following the overthrow of the lawfully elected government. He was re-appointed President of the Fiji Court of Appeal in January 2002, and retains his commission as Justice of Appeal (on leave).

File labelled "Prime Minister", 1978-1996.
File labelled "Governor-General", 1977-1984.
File labelled "Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, House of Reps", Apr 1987-Feb 2009.
J.R. Reddy Speeches (also speeches by other individuals).
See Finding aids for details.

The compilation of this index was sponsored by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. It does not claim to be exhaustive. References taken from other indexes and reference books have not been checked.

The index is in alphabetical order by ship. It gives the captain's name; description of vessel; period of voyage; the location of published and unpublished accounts; and the vessel's itinerary, particularly in the Pacific Islands.

Reel 1: Acheron to Ringdove
Reel 2.: Rocket to Zebra

Vance, a New Zealander, was a member of the South Sea Evangelical Mission who served at Makwanu, Malaita, from 1931 to 1940.

The 'notes' concern the languages of Wanoni Bay, Star Harbour and Makira, San Cristobal. Vocabularies are given for the Wanoni Bay and Star Harbour languages. It is not certain that the notes were compiled by Vance.

Formed on 28 February 1976, PALIKA (Parti de Libération Kanak) called for nationalization of nickel mining, industries and banks. Two PALIKA members were elected to the Territorial Assembly in 1977, including Nidoish Naisseline who represented Mare. PALIKA became a founding member of the Independence front (Front Indépendantiste) in 1979. In 1981 PALIKA moved under the umbrella of the FLNKS (Front de Libération Nationale de Kanak et Socialiste). By 1999, following the Noumea Accord of May 1998, Palika had become an established force in New Caledonian politics winning 6 of the 19 pro-independence seats in the Congress of New Caledonia, and forming the largest block in the northern provincial assemblies, and the Party continues to be crucial component of mainstream politics in New Caledonia. (D. Chappell, “Political Review: New Caledonia”, The Contemporary Pacific 12.2, 2000; pp.515-520.)

Nos. 1-211 (gaps), 1976-2006.
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Jane Tinney was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 30 June 1867. She went to British New Guinea (later Papua) as a Methodist missionary in 1892 and was stationed at Dobu. She resigned owing to ill health in 1902. Later she did mission work among the Aborigines in the Northern Territory.

The diary covers Jane Tinney's career with the Methodist Mission in British New Guinea.

Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

Correspondence with private individuals (Continued from reel PMB 586): Gottlieb von Jagow, 1914-34; H. Knipping, 1900-04, 1920-30; Richard von Kuhlmann, 1912-17; Richard Kuenzer, 1912-35; Karl Max Lisknowsky, 1914-18; Emil Ludwig, 1916-18; Adolf-Friedrich Mecklenberg, 1913-16; Albrecht Mendelssohn, 1922-31; Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, 1922-35; Anton Mentz, 1916-18; Walther Rathenau, 1911-18; Otto Riedel (manager of the Deutsche Handels-und Plantagen-Gesellschaft), 1905-26; Paul Rohrback, 1913-18; F. Rose, 1900-06; Friedrich Rosen, 1898-1932; Erich von Salzmann, 1921-32; and E. Schmidt-Dergitz, 1899-1904. Note: Rose and Schmidt-Dergitz were Pacific specialists in the German Colonial Office. (Cont. on PMB 588)

Mary Helen Margaret Leishman was born at Bunbury Western Australia on 17 April 1902. She died on 7 May 1995 in Launceston, Tasmania. Helen Leishman gave 22 years service to the Anglican Church's Melanesian Mission in the Solomons and New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) as both lay missionary nursing sister, then as a member of the religious sisterhood, the Community of the Cross. That Community corporately moved to the Roman Catholic church in July 1950, after which Helen Leishman spent more than 38 years in a Carmelite Monastery in Tasmania.

Helen Leishman trained as a nurse in Perth WA, completing her midwifery in Adelaide SA. While living and working in Perth she heard a clergyman preach on the work of the Anglican church's overseas missions. Some time later, on an impulse, she enquired about missionary life, was accepted on the spot, sent to Mission headquarters, Siota, Solomon Islands for training, then was assigned to a school in the New Hebrides.

Her enculturation programme was conducted by the Community of the Cross, an Anglican Sisterhood of three members established only a year previously. She subsequently joined the Community. She taught in the Community's school, was nurse, dentist, midwife and otherwise multi-skilled member of the Community, became the de facto mother of the babies taken in as orphans, taught personal and community hygiene and mothercraft to the older students at the school, trained indigenous women who joined the Community in hygiene, child care, midwifery and other elementary medical skills. Either alone, or with colleagues (mostly one or two Taina), she worked in remote locations, went periodically to distant islands to preach Christianity, teach, and attend to the sick. She was in the Solomons during World War II when the Japanese invaded, remained in seclusion in the mountains under the protection of the indigenous people until after the battle of Guadalcanal, when evacuated to the New Hebrides. After some years back in the Solomons the Sisters decided to join the Roman Catholic church, an event described by Mother Margaret Wilson, the Community Superior (see PMB 145). (From T.W. Campbell, “The Hidden Lives of Helen Leishman”, <i>Women-Church</i>, 33, Spring 2003.)

These letters cover the period 1930 to 1948. The originals, held privately, are to be placed with St Mark's Library, Canberra ACT. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>