Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. CANTON; Sherman; 1874-78; Continued from reel PMB 733 ARCHER; ?; 1856-61; Pacific SYREN; Perkins; 1868-69; Pacific STAFFORD; Francis; 1851-54; Pacific PACIFIC; ?; 1851-54; Pacific ROBERT MORRISON; ?; 1854-57; Pacific MARIA; Macy; 1832-34; Pacific OROZIMBO; Bartlett; 1840-43; Pacific Of special interest on this reel (MARIA; 1832-34) Good record of shipboard life generally - of ports, of gaming and of gossip; comments on learning on board - many 'darkies' learned to read and write

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ONTARIO; Bunker; 1824-27; Pacific LINDA STEWART; ?; 1877-81; Pacifc CHARLES DREW; Bonly; 1839-42; Pacific BHERING; Snow; 1842; Pacific LAFAYETTE; Ray; 1856-61; Pacific NIGER; Jernegan; 1852-56; Pacific

Of special interest on this reel (LINDA STEWART; 1877-81) In quarantine at Talcuhuano with smallpox cases from April to 29 June 1880; sent boats to help SAPPHO which was on fire, 26 June 1880.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. NIGER; Jernegan; 1852-56; Continued from reel PMB 736 Maury, Lieut. M.F., U.S. Navy (Compiler); Whale chart of the world compiled from materials in the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, 1852 ALERT; Phelps; 1840-41; Pacific (Private journal to wife) ACUSHNET; Rogers; 1845-48; Pacific AWASHONKS; Lawrence; 1851-54; Pacific UNIDENTIFIED; ?; 1835-36; Pacific OHIO; Baker; 1854-58; Pacific LEONIDAS; Cleveland; 1833-37; Pacific SYREN; Johnson; 1871-73; Pacific

Of special interest on this reel (ACUSHNET; 1845-48) Sketches, including one of ACUSHNET; notes on ports of call, masts, sails; newspaper extract on MOBY DICK and ACUSHNET; (OHIO; 1854-58) Mr Slater put ashore in tent with two men to attend him; smoked ship - probably smallpox - Chatham Island, 30 November 1856

There are five items:

1. The Norfolk Island Whaling and Sharking Co. Ltd., Minutes of workers' meetings, November 1938, August-December 1939, July 1940, September 1941. Documents relating to banking transactions of the Council of Elders, 1903. Copy of the will of Francis Mason Nobbs, 12 December 1907. Probate of Nobbs' will, 12 July 1909. Obituary of Nobbs by the Deputy Administrator, 30 June 1909.
2. Account of provisions received and issued to colonial prisoners at Norfolk Island, January 1854.
3. The Demon a biography written by Henry Garrett, a prisoner on Norfolk Island c.1846-53, in response to Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, with notes by R.N. Dalkin.
4. The 'Bounty' and After. A short history of the mutineers of the 'Bounty' by A.S. Gazzard. Published by the Norfolk Island Weekly, 1943.
5. Evidence taken at Norfolk Island by Commissioner Alexander Oliver during an inquiry into the administration of Norfolk Island affairs, 1903.

Concerns the origin and dispersal of the tribes of Israel. There are several references to Polynesian origins, especially chapters 26-28.

Watson (1899- ) was born at Fife, Scotland. he went to the Cook Islands in 1930 after working in New Zealand and Australia. He established a firm of clothing manufacturers in Rarotonga which later became United Island Traders Ltd. He was a member of the Rarotonga Island Council for seven years, a member of the Cook Islands Legislative Council for six years, and a member of the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1960.

Watson says in an introduction that William Oliver left Devonshire, England, to seek his fortune in Australia in the early 1860s. The narrative is 'an account of his adventures taken almost word for word from a diary kept between 1862 and 1892.' The narrative gives an informative account of life in Rarotonga and the Society Islands. The history of the diary is obscure, but is referred to in an article in the Pacific Islands Monthly for July 1936, p.30.<BR>Oliver died in the Cook Islands in 1906.

This series of wills was rescued by the staff of the Department from files damaged during Cyclone Heta in January 2004.

The will are arranged by village and the name of the will-maker. The villages are: Alofi, Alofi South, Tamakautoga, Avatele, Hakupu, Liku, Lakepa, Mutalau, Toi, Hikutavake, Tuapa and Makefu. Wills on reels 4 and 5 are arranged chronologically irrespective of village.
See Finding aids for details.

The Reverend D.T. Reddin was born in Stepney, Adelaide, in 1880. Orphaned at the age of eight, he and his brothers and sisters were fostered to different families after a short stay in the Livingstone Home - a Methodist Home for children. In 1888 he was fostered to the Nicholas family in Yundool, Victoria and joined the Royal Australian Artillery in 1900. In 1903 he bought is way out of the army and joined the Police. During this period he became involved in mission work and held evangelical meetings. He was invited to address a Home Mission demonstration in Melbourne in 1907 and in July of that year was chosen to assist the Rev. W. Vawdon at North Melbourne Central Mission. With financial assistance from a benefactor, James Morrissey, he became a theological student at Queen's College and was ordained in March of 1910. Appointed as a missionary to New Ireland, he left for Kavieng in April and subsequently spent two years at Omo village. He returned to Australia to complete his studies and married Miss Kelso in June 1914. He and his wife and three children returned to Omo in 1921 but by 1924 Mrs Reddin was in poor health due to malaria and they returned to Australia in 1925.

The typescript consists of eight chapters and covers the period 1888 to 1914. He describes his life as a farmer, a soldier a policeman and a missionary, his work with the Central Mission and his commitment as a Christian. Reddin briefly refers to the years 1914 to 1925 in the last two paragraphs of the final chapter.

The Women's Clubs News was published in Port Vila prior to independence in Vanuatu.

Women's Club News Reel 1, Mar 1971: May 1971: Aug 1971: Nov 1971: Feb 1972: May 1972: Aug 1972: Dec 1972: Mar 1973: Jun 1973: Sep 1973: Jan 1974: Apr 1974: Oct 1974: Apr 1975: Sep 1975: Nov 1975: Mar 1976: Jun 1976: Nov 1976: Feb 1977: Nov 1977: Feb 1978: Jun 1980.