Bishop Harry Tevi was the second Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Vanuatu, Church of Melanesia. He was Bishop from 1980 until 1990. (See PMB 1334 Information Sheet for details of the Diocese.) Bishop Tevi trained for the priesthood at St Peter's College, Siota and was the first ni-Vanuatu to be ordained as a Bishop in 1969. He was a Lecturer at the Bishop Patterson Theological College in Honiara. Bp Tevi died in November 2011.

Documents rescued, identified and re-arranged on site, at the abandoned Diocese of Vanuatu administration building, Sarakata, 2008 & 2009, consisting of correspondence files, 1979-1986.
Reel 1 was microfilmed in 2010. Reels 2-4 were microfilmed in April 2011. These papers were found when sorting through additional ACOM boxes at Sarakata, Luganville. Papers that were already in folders were sorted in chronological date order, but kept in folders. Papers that were loose in boxes, were sorted in chronological date order and placed in folders by date.
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Dr Peter Cahill is a former projects officer of the Department of the Administrator in Konedobu, Port Moresby, where his interest in the history of PNG developed. His research concentrated on the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain. His article dealing with the Chinese in between the Wars was published in The Journal of Pacific History in July 1996. He also published an article on the Expropriation Board 1921-1927, and carried out further research work on pre-1900 European traders and pre-1942 European planters.
His work on collecting Papua New Guinea documentation held by Australians who have lived and worked in PNG during the Australian colonial administration blossomed into the New Guinea Collection at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.

This file consists of correspondence with Jennifer Terrell (editor of the Journal of Pacific History), Hank Nelson, Pat Hopper, Marie Clifton-Bassett (editor of Una Voce), Peter Stone, Donald Denoon, Jim Kemsley re comic strip Ballantyne, Anne McCosker, W.L. (Wandering Wally) Doe, S.G.C. Simpson (Rabaul Photographics), Maxwell Hayes, Gananath Obeyesekere, Tessa Jones, Lance Oakley, Ken Brown, B.L. (Betty) Wood, and others.

Brother Leak was born in 1942 in Castlemaine Victoria. He joined the Marist Brothers Teaching Order in 1960 and was appointed to Papua New Guinea in 1974. He taught 1974 - 79 at St Xavier's High School in the East Sepik province; 1980-82 at Wabag High School in the Enga province; 1985-92 at St Joseph's Rigu on Bougainville. 1993 at Gizo in the Solomon Islands.
He is now teaching at Red Bend Catholic College in Forbes after teaching for thirteen years at Assumption College Kilmore.

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Richard (Dick) Keevil was a British Colonial Serviceman from 1942-1971. In 1944 he participated in the Chindits Special Forces in Burma as a Platoon Commander. In 1945 Dick was recruited by the Colonial Office to take on a role as Development Officer in Nigeria. Keevil worked on agricultural development and communication in Africa and in 1952 married Margaret and later had two children, Frances and Lesley. In 1958 Keevil relocated, with his family, to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. He worked for the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Agricultural Department and initially lived in Auki, Malaita where he was to develop the cocoa industry. In the late 1960s, Keevil was transferred to Honiara to develop education services within the Agricultural Department. Keevil compiled and published articles in The Solomon Islands Farmer (see PMB Doc 530), local newspapers and presented radio broadcasts for the national radio network. He later collected and published Custom stories of the Solomon Islands (see PMB Doc 510) and instrumental in establishing the Solomon Islands National Agricultural show in 1969. In February 1974 he hosted Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips at the Solomon Islands Agricultural show (see PMB Photo 57). Keevil was instrumental in developing several charities including the Solomon Islands Crippled Society and the US Marine Veterans Association. He helped to design and build the Henderson American War Memorial dedicated to coast watchers and the American marines at the Henderson airport (see PMB Photo 57). Dick Keevil left the Government in 1971, bought land and established a farm and riding school at Henderson, 10 miles east of Honiara. In 1981 Dick Keevil wrote his memoirs in two volumes before returning to live in Australia.

Memorabilia of R.A. Keevil includes unpublished memorabilia of Dick Keevil’s time with the British Colonial Service in Africa (1921-1957) and the Solomon Islands (1958-1983). The memoirs cover Keevil’s life pre-war, the War, Africa, the Solomon Islands and Australia.
Corrections to the text (in pencil) were made by Paul H.Brown, who worked with Dick Keevil in the Solomon Islands.
This title also includes the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Agricultural Department, Malaita, Auki Visitors Book from 1958-1968.
See PMB Photo 57 for a selection of Keevil’s photographs in the Solomon Islands.
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Fulvio Favetta was a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea from 1 Oct 1968 to 30 Nov 1980. He was on the first intake of married officers and his wife, Suzanne, and one year old son Mark joined him in PNG on 1 Nov 1968 after he completed a one month induction course at Kwikila. From 1968-1972 Fulvio worked as a patrol officer in the Northern District, in Tufi and Popondetta. From 1972-1980 he worked in the Southern Highlands District, in Tari and Mendi. He was promoted to Assistant District Officer while in Tari and to District Officer when he transferred to Mendi at the end of 1975. In Mendi he was appointed executive officer to the local Area Authority (precursor to Porvincial Government) and finished his career in PNG as Provincial Finance Officer for the Southern Highland Provincial Government. His longest patrol (Tufi Patrol No 3 of 69/70) was 51 days to the Lower Musa area in the Northern District, now Oro Province.

During his patrols he inspected places for the purpose of initiating civil works, land for possible purchase for cattle projects,observed Cape Nelson Council’s 5th Annual elections, patrolling part Sohe part Aiga Census Divisions to conduct land investigation prior to alienation of land to be used for resettlement of Aiga & Aioma people, census revisions in Cape Nelson & Dyke Ackland Bay Census Divisions (1971), investigated widespread food shortage induced by prolonged drought around Tari (1972), encouraging economic development in the Haibuga-Munima/Iumu Census Divisions (1973), political education, making lists of sand and gravel sources in the South Basin and Benaria Census Divisions (1973), census revisions and area studies of Puijero/North Basin Census Divisions (1974), situation reports for Tari, that included Situation Report No. 1 (Introduction; Population – Distribution and Trends; Social Groupings; Leadership; Land Tenure and Use; Literacy; Standard of Living; Missions; Non-indigenes; Communications; Technical; and Clerical Skills; The Stage of Political Development; The Economy of the Area; Possibilities of Expanding the Economy; Attitude towards Local Government; Attitude towards Central Government; Accommodation, services and facilities, plus Appendices (1974), investigating a murder in the Homa in the Benaria Census Division (1974), repair suspension bridge on Tagari River; and to commernce work on community centre at Hangapo, in East Basin Census Division (1974), annual census, village record and general administration in the Haibuga/ Munima Census Division (1975), supervise House of Assembly by-election in Etoro, Waragu and Orogo Census Divisions (1975).

Favetta returned to Australia and later worked as a Custom Officer in the Commonwealth Government from 1982 until his retirement in 2006.

Patrol reports, related documents and correspondence 1969-1975.
Field Journal (1968-1977).

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One carton of papers and audio recordings sent to Professor Hank Nelson by Professor George H. Gadbois of the University of Kentucky in October 2010; transferred to the PMB from Professor Nelson’s room in the Coombs Building in August 2011.

Papers by Professor Gadbois, Elections in Papua New Guinea: a search for a framework of analysis (1977), and The Representative Roles and Accountability of Legislators in Papua New Guinea (1978) draw on his research in PNG (PMB 1372/108 & 110). The data for this research was collected during the second half of 1974. The subjects were 73 backbenchers of the PNG House of Assembly. They were interviewed using a standard set of questions set out in the Interview Schedule for Legislators, in two versions (PMB 1372/102). The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu, and recorded on cassettes (PMB 1372/Cas01-Cas99); the written (typescript) versions of the interviews are all in English (PMB 1372/1-100). Most of the interviews were conducted by students of the University of Papua New Guinea, and these interviewers are frequently identified by name on the written versions of the interviews. A Memorandum from Professor Gadbois to an (unspecified) Research Committee provides a rationale for the form of the study (PMB 1272/103). The recorded material does not include material for all those interviewed. In some cases the interviewee is represented on more than one cassette. A few of the cassettes seem to be unrelated to the interviews: e.g. Chatterton (Radio) and Somare (Newsmakers) but no doubt are relevant to PNG politics. One tape is simply labelled “?” (PMB 1372/Cas 101-104).

Transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the PNG House of Assemby (1974).
Code book interview schedule and research committee paper.
Lists of the Members of the House of Assembly (1964-1976).
Research files and publications.
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E.A. (Ted) Freeman O.A.M. served, with his wife Dorothy, as a medical missionary under the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides from 1963-1970. During this time he worked as a medical superintendent at the Paton Memorial Hospital.

Whilst in the New Hebrides, Ted often worked in difficult situations. He attended to many different kinds of medical emergencies, established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught family planning and supervised the training of many local and expatriate doctors and nurses whilst working in the New Hebrides.

Various correspondence, diaries, some printed memorabilia.

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The Te Rangi Hiroa Fund was established in 1968 during the first Waigani seminar. The Fund was named after Sir Peter Buck, the distinguished Maori ethno-historian, and was administered by Secretary of the Fund Rev. Dr Sione Latukefu, of the University of Papua New Guinea History Department.

The Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition was an annual prize for:

(a) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university in the South Pacific Islands;
(b) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university outside the Pacific Islands.

The Paul Morawetz Award was a small scholarship available to assist Pacific Islanders with outstanding aptitude for historical work to pursue post-graduate studies in Pacific history.

Correspondence relating to the administration of the fund, submission of essays and awarding of prizes; submitted competition essays; applications for the Paul Morawetz Award.

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John Cranston McInerney was born in 1916, grew up on the land near Koorawatha and Cowra, NSW, and went to school at St Patrick’s College, Goulburn. He graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1941, enlisted in the Australian army in September that year, serving as a Medical Officer ranked as Lieutenant in the 2nd 14th Light Field Ambulance in New Guinea and then as Captain in the 2nd 2nd Commando Squadron. He went back to New Guinea after the war, learnt to fly and became District Medical Officer at Wewak. He died after his Auster aircraft crashed into the sea at Vanimo, March 1953.

This journal was mostly written in New Guinea, September 1943 till July 1944, much of it in the Chimbu, Eastern Highlands, Wahgi Valley and Ramu River areas. As well as accounts of Dr McInerney’s military experiences, the journal includes Kuman vocabularies, notes on legends, customs and practices of the Dengla-Maguagu people and an account of stone axe making by Dom people in the Wahgi Valley.
The original is a black-covered A5 notebook with a small area of water damage at the top of each page. This damage must have happened before 1953, as John McInerney has in places re-written over the washed-out area. His handwriting, in both ink and pencil, is very small and difficult to decipher. The microfilm of the original Ms. is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. The Mitchell Library and National Library of Australia also have a copy of this typescript which is transcribed from much enlarged photocopies of the original Ms. The black notebook is presently in the care of Gavan McInerney and Sally McInerney.

This news sheet was issued by the New Zealand administration in Niue in both Niuean, as Tohi Tala Niue, and English, as Niue Newsletter, until January 1966 when a bi-lingual edition was published under the title, Tohi Tala Niue.

Tohi Tala Niue (Niuean), Vols.1-11, 13, Oct 1953-Dec 1965 (gaps);
Niue Newsletter (English), Vols.1-13, Oct 1953-Dec 1965 (gaps);
Tohi Tala Niue (bi-lingual), Vols.1-17, 1966-1982 (gaps).
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