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1. Official Diocesan records, consisting chiefly of correspondence, financial records and reports. The records document the full range of the activities of the Catholic Church in the Cook Islands, including such matters as: relations with the Holy See; regional relations with the Delegations Apostolic in Sydney and Wellington, with CEPAC (Conferentia Episcopalis Pacifici) and with neighbouring Dioceses; parish activities; diocesan management and personnel; Catholic education in the islands; theological and liturgical matters; the activities of the lay apostolate and youth clubs; relations with the civil government of the Cook Islands; relations with the Netherlands Province and with the Marist Fathers; relations with other Christian Churches; relations with international mission aid societies; and records of church property. (Reels 1-49 and Reel 11A)
2. Dictionary, Rarotongan/Dutch, by Mgr Ubald Lehman, vol. 2, c.1940s. (Reel 49)
3. Parish registers of baptisms, marriages, deaths, confirmations and school enrolment, 1894-1993. (Reels 50-51)
4. Diaries of Mgr Bernadine Castanie, 1921-39 (in French) and of Bishop Ubald Lehman, 1939-48 (in Dutch). (Reel 52).
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Eastman and his wife Winifred (nee Grimwade, married 1914) ran the London Missionary Society Mission in Rarotonga from 1913 to 1918 and the LMS Gilbert Islands Mission from 1918 to 1947. The Gilbert Islands Mission, which was based at Rongorongo on the island of Beru included the Ellice Islands, Nauru, Ocean Island and the Phoenix Islands. Eastman, who was awarded an OBE in 1946, retired to Swanage, Dorset in 1949. For further information see Norman Goodall, A History of the London Missionary Society, 1895-1945 (OUP, 1954) <BR>and John Garrett, Ways across the ocean in Bernard Thorogood (ed.), Gales of Change: responding to a shifting missionary context: the story of the London Missionary Society, 1945-77 (Geneva, 1994) pp.188-190. See also PMB 478 for Eastman's Rarotongan-English Dictionary, 1918.

Reel 1: Personal correspondence, 1914-69.
Reel 2: Cook Islands - newsclippings, typescripts and pamphlets, 1914-18.
Mss of Notes on Rarotongan Grammar, 1913.
Personal notebook, 1918-46.
Gilbert Islands Mission reports and newsletters, 1918-47.
Reel 3: Gilbert Islands Mission financial and administrative papers, 1918-50 and papers on education, 1922-48.
Reel 4: Sermons in English and Gilbertese: Old Testament, 1917-47, New Testament, 1918-22.
Reel 5: Sermons - New Testament, 1923-44.
Reel 6: Sermons - New Testament, 1945-47 (undated sermons at end of sequence)
Reels 6-7: Research material on the history, culture and flora of the Gilbert Islands, including mss and typescript extracts and transcripts from other sources, printed and roneoed documents, notes, drafts and maps.
Reel 7: 1922 mss transcript/revision of an English/Gilbertese vocubulary originally compiled by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Reels 7-8: Mss working draft of an English Gilbertese vocabulary assembled by Eastman.
Reel 8: 1948 typescript draft of Eastman's published English/Gilbertese vocabulary. 170 photographs taken in the Cook Islands and the Gilbert Islands.
Reels 8-11: 48 books and pamphlets printed in Samoa and the Gilbert Islands, 1892-1978. 38 of these publications are in Gilbertese, three are in Rarotongan and the remainder are in English. A complete inventory of publications filmed is available.

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Born on the island of Matuku in the Lau group, Fiji, Tuilovoni trained as a teacher in Suva in the 1930s. After teaching at the Methodist Primary School on Bau, he decided to become a Methodist minister. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey where he gained a Bachelor of Divinity. On his return to Fiji he was appointed Principal of the Bible School at Davuilevu and Director of the Young People's Department of the Methodist Church, a position he held until 1967. Between 1961 and 1963 he studied for a Master of Sacred Theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1964 he was appointed first President of the newly created Fiji Methodist Conference. Upon the completion of his Presidential term in 1967 he was appointed Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, a position he held until 1972 when he was reappointed as President of the Methodist Conference. In 1978 he moved to Sydney to serve as Associate State Secretary for the Board of Missions in the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. He ended his career doing parish work in Wellington, New South Wales. He died in Sydney in 1983.

The Tuilovini papers, which are written in a mixture of English and Fijian, were arranged by Tevita Baleiwaqa in 1987 into the following series:

Reel 1:

1. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1947-75
2. Correspondence re Ecumenism, 1961-68
3. Academic transcript, Drew University, NJ
4. Writings (roneoed and printed), 1948-63
5. Methodist Young People's Department, 1951-63
6. Correspondence and other papers re Wesley F. Pigeon and Inez Hames, 1946-50 and 1982-87

Reel 2:

7. Church and Unity in the South Pacific, STM Thesis, Union Theological Seminary, 1962
8. Typescript sermons, 1952-83 (bulk 1969-83)
9. Church music and hymns, 1960s-82 (bulk 1978-82)
10. Notebooks (2), 1971-72
11. Diary, 1975

Reel 3:

12. Very detailed diary, 1982 (in Fijian)
13. Correspondence and printed material re Setareki's time in Australia, 1979-83
14. Devotional material for Sydney house groups (roneoed and typescript), c.1980-82
15. Transcripts of oral history interviews about Tuilovoni conducted by Tevita Baleiwaqa, 1986
16. Setareki Akeai Tuilovoni and the Young People's Department of the Methodist Church in Fiji (1951-1967) by Tevita Baleiwaqa, Bachelor of Divininty Thesis, Pacific Theological College, 1987

Hilda Steadman was the wife of Reverend W. Rex Steadman, who worked as a Methodist Minister in Fiji beteen 1912 and 1940. During their time in Fiji the Steadmans devoted themselves to working with the Indian community. Between 1912 and 1920 they were based at Navua, from 1920 to 1926 they ran the Indian Mission Church and Boys' School at Toorak (Suva), during 1926/27 they worked at Lautoka, after which they returned to Australia for five years. In 1932 they returned to Fiji and spent the next eight years at Rewa organising the Methodist Indian educational system. During her time in Fiji Hilda founded the Indian Women's Benevolent Society. In 1940 the Steadmans retired to South Australia.

The papers include the following items:

• letter by Hilda to her parents written from Naduri, Vanua Levu, 17/10/20 (10p.)
• newspaper clippings, 1920-41 Indian work in Fiji, mss, 6p.
• Navua, 1912, typescript, 3p.
• The Rewa sojourn, t/s, 3p.
• Medical work in Fiji, mss, 6p.
• Welfare work among the women of Fiji, t/s, 5p.
• Reminiscences of Mrs A.J. Small (wife of Methodist Missionary in Fiji) t/s 25p.
• obituary for Mrs Steadman, 1975
• 214 photographs, 1913-40, depicting the following: the work of the Methodist Church in Fiji, students, colleagues, friends and family of the Steadmans, members of the Indo-Fijian community, scenes in various parts of Fiji. Most photographs are identified.

After graduating from Manchester University, Roy Davies joined the British Overseas Civil Service in 1944. He served first as a cadet with the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and later became a Solomon Islands District Commissioner on Malaita. From 1957 to 1962 he was Secretary of the Government of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. He retired in 1972.

A 368 page typescript with mss corrections, footnotes, index and maps, c. 1970. Divided into 43 chapters, with an introduction, this manuscript gives the author's reminiscences of the Masina Rule Movement in the Solomon Islands during the years 1944-47. Based on contemporary notes recorded in his personal diary and on other personal papers from the time, Davies constructs an account of Masina rule from the viewpoint of the British colonial administrators.

Also included on this reel is a 45 page typescript by Davies entitled 'The Marching Rule and the British Solomon Islands Government', dated April 1980.

E atoga Magareva and E mau takao tupuna no Magareva, Part 1. Te mau atoga tehito, and Part 2. Te mau kapa tehito.

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Thomas Nevison Simpson was born in London on 18 March 1909. In May 1924 (aged 15 years) he came to Adelaide with the last batch of boys under the Barwell Scheme of South Australia. In 1928 he took the local preachers' examination and became a member of the Methodist Church. In 1936 he completed studies at Wesley College in Adelaide and at the University of Sydney. In August 1936 he was sent to the Methodist Mission in Rabaul, New Britain, and then to the Mission at Kavieng in New Ireland where he was Assistant Minister. In December 1936 he was sent as the first Methodist Missionary to New Hanover where he was stationed at Ranmelek. Nellie Sudlow and Tom Simpson were married in Rabaul in September 1937. Nellie and their daughter, Margaret, were evacuated from Kavieng in December 1941, but Tom Simpson stayed on at Ranmelek where he was captured by the Japanese. The last communication from Tom Simpson was dated 5 January 1942. Nellie Simpson died in July 1992.

Correspondence from Tom Simpson to Nellie Ludlow and from Tom and Nellie to her family, together with press cuttings and related documents, 1936-1942, arranged and summarised by their daughter, Margaret Henderson. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress is the national trade union centre of Papua New Guinea. It originates from meetings of PNG workers' associations held in Madang and Lae from 1964. It was not until December 1969 that the Federation of Workers' Associations, the predecessor of the PNG TUC, was formally constituted. Registration as an industrial organisation was granted on 7 March 1970. Paulus Arek was elected the first President, and Michael Kaniniba, of the Lae Miscellaneous Workers' Union, was the first of General Secretary of the Federation. Based in Lae during the 1970s, the Federation adopted the current name, PNG Trade Union Congress, in September 1974. With the support of PANGU activists, membership of the TUC expanded and in 1976 the Port Moresby trade unions, which had organised a rival trade union centre, the Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, affiliated to the PNGTUC.

The records microfilmed consist of a batch of minutes and correspondence for the period 1968-1984, which appear to be the only surviving records from the time when the TUC was located in Lae, together with later minutes, circulars, press releases and other papers.<BR>Minutes of meetings, 1969-1980 (gaps); Biennial Conference papers, 1983-1996; Executive Council meetings: various papers, 1985-1989; Management Board meeting papers, 1986-1990; meetings with Port Moresby based affiliates, 1989-1992; miscellaneous administrative and management papers, 1985-1988; general correspondence, 1968-1984; international correspondence, 1973-1984; circulars and memoranda, 1985, 1987-1992, 1995 (gaps); press statements, 1985-1995; papers and reports (including some agenda papers), 1974-1990; speeches, mainly by Lawrence Titimur, 1987-1990; South Pacific and Oeanic Council of Trade Unions, Conference No.2, Brisbane, meeting papers, Nov 1993. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

From a family of Russian emigr‚s based in Paris, Nicola‹ Michoutouchkine set out travelling in the Near and Middle East, India and South East Asia in 1953. After a period of conscription and work in New Caledonia, Michoutouchkine wound up settling in Port Vila in 1961 with Aloi Pilioko, a Futuna Islander artist. They collected more than 6,000 indigenous art objects from right across the South Pacific which they have been exhibited, with their own works, in Noumea, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, Russia and Central Europe, Taiwan and Indonesia.

Travel journals. The journals record the comments, sketches and verse of the artists, political and religious leaders, and other people Michoutouchkine met on his travels. They also hold travel documents, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and ephemera. As well as tracking Michoutouchkine's journey, the journals indicate the artistic influences he experienced and document aspects of his artistic development.

Reel 1, Vol. 1, 2 Sep 1953-Nov 1953, Vol 2, Nov 1953-Aug 1954, Vol 3, Aug 1954-Nov 1954
Reel 2, Vol 3, Nov 1954-Jan 1955, Vol 4, Feb-Jul 1955, Vol 5, Aug 1955-Jan 1956
Reel 3 Vol 5, Aug 1955-Jan 1956, cont.