Ian Downs (1915- ) joined the Department of District Services in the Territory of New Guinea in 1936 and, as a patrol officer, served in most districts. After wartime naval service, he returned to the Territory as a district officer and later served as District Commissioner in the New Ireland, Madang and Eastern Highlands districts. He resigned from the Administration in 1956 and became a coffee planter near Goroka. He was president of the Highland Farmers and Settlers' Association from 1957 to 1968 and a member of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea in the same period.

The papers comprise:

1. Patrol reports in Morobe, Madang and New Ireland districts, 1936-49
2. Annual reports, Chimbu sub-district, 1939-40
3. Monthly reports, Chimbu sub-district, 1939-40
4. Census figures, New Ireland district, c.1949. See also PMB 609

Jean Baptiste Octave Mouton (1866-1946), a Belgian, was a member of the Marquis de Rays' expedition which established a colony at Port Breton in New Ireland in 1881. When the colony collapsed in 1882, Mouton remained in New Guinea near Kokopo. He settled in Australia in 1929 but retained interests in the Territory, particularly as owner of the Rabaul Printing Works which published the Rabaul Times.

Reel 1:

1. Memories of J.B.O. Mouton, typescript, c.1931
2. Ms. of part of Memories of J.B.O. Mouton (in French)
3. Passport, December 1915-24
4. Certificate of naturalization, 13 August 1921
5. Share certificate of Sarang Plantation Ltd, 1911
6. Notice of meeting and balance sheet of Rabaul Recreations Ltd, 4 April 1935
7. Appointment of Attorney, 1914
8. Correspondence with the firm of J. Martens, Hamburg, 1919-26
9. Ledger, 1926-29
10. Papers re lease of Rabaul Times by R.V. Wallace, 1930-33
11. Balance sheets, Rabaul Printing Works, 1929-38
12. Audit reports, Rabaul Printing Works, 1931-33
13. Papers re war damage compensation claims, 1942-48

Reel 2:

14. Correspondence with manager of Rabaul Times, J. Hoogerwerff, 1937-42.
15. Copies of letters from Gordon Thomas (editor of Rabaul Times) to J. Hoogerwerff, 1933

The papers comprise: Some correspondence of Bishop John Coleridge Patteson for the years 1855, 1858, 1861, 1863, 1865 and 1871; Rev. John Palmer's journal to his sister in England (1863-1864), describing his voyage to Erromanga, New Hebrides and the mission there; copy of a letter by Mr Welchman (29.11.1891) entitled Voyage of the 'Southern Cross', describing the first voyage of the Southern Cross from England to New Zealand; miscellaneous correspondence (1952-53) including some by Dr C.E. Fox, at that time the longest actively serving member of the Melanesian Mission; music and words of a dance from the Qatnapnei district of Raga, New Hebrides, with English commentary.

Sandars, a former officer in the British Army, went to the Solomon Islands in 1928 to join the armed constabulary. He was one of the most important District Officer and District Commissioners on Malaita throughout the 1930s until 1947. He died in NSW in March 1975.

The papers comprise:

1. Autobiography covering the years 1928-43
2. A diary kept from 23 November 1942 - 7 April 1943
3. Autobiography, 1896-1923

Please see PMB MS 184. These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives.

The documents comprise material in the following files:

1. ON 418 Mgr Brayer, 1896-1918
2. ON 418 Mgr Darnand, 1905-34 (contents 1920)
3. ON 498 T.O.R.M. Epistolae Ad Admin General (1877, 1892-1920)
4. ON 5700-1 Collegiae (1895)
5. ON 600 Activitas Pastoralis (Conferences Theologiques, 1886)
6. ON 6100 Aleipata (1900), Apia (1870-1)
7. ON 61 208 Apia Epistolae (1848-54, 1875-90, 1910, 1855-57)

The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920.

Managers' Reports on Annual Balances: Reel 1: contains reports for 1920-34; Reel 2: 1935-49; Reel 3: 1950-52.

Dr J. Graham Miller and Mrs Flora Miller were missionaries in Vanuatu for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. They served on Tongoa Island in the Shepherd Group from 1941 to 1947, when Dr Miller became principal of the Tangoa Teachers Training Institute on Santo Island, where they remained until 1952. In 1971 they were invited, by the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides, back to Tangoa to set up a Presbyterian Bible College and to prepare for national leadership of the College in 1973. Dr Miller's papers relate to the development and inauguration of the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides, the South Pacific Missionary Conference, 1947, Morpeth NSW and his 1961 John G. Paton Memorial Lecture.

Some of the pages are copied from barely legible typescript, roneo, manuscripts or photocopies. The contents are:

1. Introduction by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
2. The Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides 1839-1948: Introduction by J. Graham Miller, including, (p.3), explanatory notes on the 12 papers which follow
3. South Pacific Missionary Conference, Morpeth NSW 1947: Introduction and contents list by J. Graham Miller; Correspondence between J.G. Miller, J. Whitesed Dover, H.H. Barton and the South Pacific Commission regarding the questionnaires; Replies to the questionnaires and reports of commissions - Women's work (A.E. Downs); education; church community and state; native culture; the indigenous church, including an account of the church cooperative store on Tongoa, the first cooperative in Vanuatu.
4. The John G. Paton Memorial Lecture 1961: the practice of church discipline in a young church illustrated from the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides, now Vanuatu, by J.G. Miller.

A collection of published papers by many different authors on the botany of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). The papers appear on the microfilms in alphabetical order by author, and are preceded by a full index. The authors are:

Reel 1: Balansa, Benjamin to Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore
Reel 2: Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore and Gris, Arthur, to Fournier, E.
Reel 3: Fournier, E., to Jardin, Edelstan
Reel 4: Jardin, Edelstan to Nadeaud, Jean
Reel 5: Nadeaud, Jean to Spring, A.F.
Reel 6: Theriot, J., to Vouaux, L.

Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

Correspondence with private individuals and institutions (continued from reel PMB 587): E. Schmidt-Dergitz, 1899-1904; Heinrich Schnee, 1901-34; Erich Schultze, 1904-16; Paul von Schwabach, 1910-18; Theodor Seitz, 1912-13; Ellen von Siemens, 1902-24; Harry von der Velde, 1914-16; Max Warburg, 1913-29; Paul Wolff-Metternich, 1915-34; Deutsche Gesellschaft, 1915-34; Gesellschaft fur Ostasische Kunst, 1930; and Deutsches Ausland Institut, 1928-34. NOTE: Schnee was the first acting governor of German New Guinea and was acting governor of Western Samoa during Solf's absence in 1902. He was later in the German Colonial Office. Schultze was governor of Western Samoa from Solf's departure to 1914.