The Advisory Council acted as adviser to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Administration. It held nine meetings. It was then superseded by a House of Representatives, consisting of 23 elected members, two ex-officio members and five appointed members. The inaugural meeting of the House of Representatives was held in Tarawa in December, 1967.

First meeting - 30 September - 5 October, 1963
Second meeting - 3 March - 6 March, 1964
Third meeting - 2 November - 6 November, 1964
Fourth meeting - 12 November - 19 November, 1965
Sixth meeting - 3 February - 4 February, 1966
Seventh meeting - 5 August - 11 August, 1966
Eighth meeting - 21 October - 27 October, 1966
Ninth meeting - 14 July - 20 July, 1967

Correspondence from Bishop Julian Vidal of the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji. Most of the letters were printed on the Mission press.

Oscar Rondahl’s mother, Grace Coe, was a half sister of Queen Emma. His father was Capt. J.M. Rondahl. He was born at Kabakaul, New Britain, in 1905, and took over family plantations in New Britain, including:
• Rainau Plantation, purchased from Mrs Schmidt in 1937;
• Kap Kap (Birara “B” & Kab Kab “C”), part also purchased from Mrs Schmidt in 1937; part purchased from Graham Mirfield; part purchased from Oscar Rondahl’s sisters, Ricka and Tilly; part inherited;
• Kabakaul Plantation, property formed into a private company, known as Rondahl Limited, after the death of Oscar Rondahl’s brother; all shares in the company purchased by Oscar Rondahl in 1937;
• Makurapau Plantation, transferred to Oscar Rondahl under a deed of gift from his father in 1927;
• Induna Plantation, purchased by Oscar Rondahl as virgin land from J.J. Gilmore in 1931.

Virginia Adam is a great niece of Oscar Rondahl.

Vital records of Oscar Rondahl and family, 1918-1991
Plantation titles, etc., 1935-1969
Papers on the Estate of A.J. Eilertz, 1949
Paper on August Y. Chang of Metlik Plantation, New Ireland, 1949
Trip files of Oscar Rondahl, 1969, 1974 & 1978
Correspondence, 1942-1988
Press cuttings, maps and photographs.
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G.A.V. Stanley (Uda Baroma) (b. Sydney, 1904), geologist, biblographer and historian, went to Papua in 1927 and spent most of his life there until his death in October 1965. He graduated BSc from Sydney University in 1926 with first-class honours, a double major in geology and geography and a dissertation on the Jenolan Caves. He undertook postgraduate work in Ontong Java and the Solomons and participated in a University of Queensland survey of the Great Barrier Reef. He worked with a number of oil companies in Papua and New Guinea and was awarded the DSC for his war service with RANVR and the Far Eastern Liaison Organisation (FELO). He married Palu Hehuni and had two children, Artur and Anne. In 1962 he returned to Australia to work with the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra. In 1965 he developed cancer and returned to Port Moresby where he died in October of that year. The material in this collection was left with a colleague in Canberra in 1965 and did not come to light until that colleague's death in 1989.

The material on these five reels mostly relates to surveys undertaken for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Oil Search Limited (OSL) and the Australian Petroleum Company (APC). The collection consists of folders, notebooks, letterbooks and envelopes. Each has been given an Item number, a total of fifty-one. The material includes letters, reports, maps, equipment and stores lists, indigenous labour arrangements, photographs and other documentation related to geological survey work. A detailed guide has been prepared and is available on request from the Bureau.<BR>Reel 1 Items 1-10 <BR>Reel 2 Items 11-19<BR>Reel 3 Items 20-26<BR>Reel 4 Items 27-42<BR>Reel 5 Items 43-51
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Thesis presented through the History Department to the University of Papua and New Guinea for examination for the degree of Master of Arts, by Peter Henry Cahill, BA (Qld.) on 1 December 1972.

PART I - 1885/1921 Introduction, The German Period, The Australian Military Administration.

PART II - 1914/1942 Immigration, The Chinese Community, The Search for Identity, Education, Preparations for War

PART III – 1942-1945 Invasion and Occupation

PART IV – 1945-1960 After the War, Education, Post-War Immigration, Segregation and Separation, A Question of Loyalty, Citizenship, Welcome Citizens?, Conclusion.

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Archdeacon Gill (d.1954), a member of a family of Pacific missionaries, joined the Anglican mission to Papua in 1908. He was ordained at Dogura in 1910, and his first parish was nearby Boianai, where he remained until 1922. He then moved to the Mamba district, where he established a temporary station at Manau on the mouth of the Mamba (or Mambare) River. Two years later, at Duvira, he began work on what was to be his head station until 1942, when it was destroyed by the Japanese. In 1943, he began building a new mission station at nearby Dewade. He retired in 1952 and died in England two years later.

Typed transcripts of Archdeacon Gill’s letters, Jan 1942-Dec 1944, photocopied for Professor Hank Nelson from the originals held in the New Guinea Collection at the UPNG Library, together with Professor Nelson’s correspondence with Nancy Lutton, the New Guinea Collection Librarian, and Professor Nelson’s notes on the letters.

See also PMB 40: Letters of Archdeacon Gill, 1897-1928.

From the series, Terrain Study (Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area, Allied Geographical Section), No.59.

Vol.1: Text and Maps
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps
Appendices

Vol.2: Photographs
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps

Sir Arthur Grimble went to the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) as a cadet administrative officer in 1914 and became Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1925 - 1933. He was posted to the West Indies in 1936, retiring 1948. Grimble died in London on December 13, 1956. Grimble devoted much of his spare time in the Gilberts to collecting the myths, legends and oral traditions of the local people. Those recorded on this microfilm were collected between about 1916 and 1930.

Gilbertese myths, legends and oral traditions (643 pages). A detailed list appears at the beginning of the microfilm. It includes creation myths, voyaging tales, songs, especially of ancient voyages and war, spells and witchcraft practices.
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