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Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland

Photographs from Papua New Guinea, mainly New Britain and New Ireland

  • AU PMB PHOTO 1
  • Collection
  • 1911-1943

Sister Lida Tonkin (Mrs L. Gill), a nursing sister from Young, NSW, first arrived at the Methodist Mission at Raluana in New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in 1916.

The photographs and post cards include events, daily life and traditional customs practiced in Rabaul in the early 20th century. Funerary and marriage customs are represented. There is a good set of photographs on traditional fishing (PMB Photo 1_31 to PMB Photo 1_46). Other images show canoe building and sailing, basket, broom and string making and traditional houses, mission life and the Malabunga hospital. Dances, such as the Kulau dance, carvings used in dances and the

Tonkin, Lida

Papua New Guinea research materials: comparative colonial administration, background papers

  • AU PMB MS 1007
  • Collection
  • 1906 - 1975

Background papers for a book tentatively entitled 'Comparative colonial administration' by R.S. Parker and Norman Mellor. See also PMB 1005 and 1006.

Labelled files of correspondence, notes, published, semi-published and manuscript material various in form and production method. File headings are those used by Professor Parker, with notes in brackets supplied by PMB. A file heading sheet precedes each file. Within each file, the order of items is that used by Professor Parker. No detailed inventory of contents is available.

Reel 1: Introduction, R.S. Parker; File List: Subject index; Comparative colonial administration; Correspondence
Reel 2: General theme and planning of book; Current reading matter; Economic development policies - general; Micronesian history and policies
Reel 3: Pacific bibliographies; Papua New Guinea (general)
Reel 4: Papua New Guinea papers to be sorted (government 1960s; political development; statistics; demography)
Reel 5: Papua New Guinea bibliographies; Papua New Guinea biography (includes book reviews)
Reel 6: Chapter VII Evaluation of policy (background for chapter incomplete at March 1989)

Parker, Robert Stewart

Papua New Guinea research materials: comparative colonial administration, chapters

  • AU PMB MS 1005
  • Collection
  • 1870s - 1970s

The 'Chapters' are for a book, tentatively entitled Comparative colonial administration, dealing with Australian and U.S. approaches to colonial administration from the 1870s to 1970s, by R.S. Parker and Norman Mellor. Chapters 1 and 7 had not been completed at the time of filming, March 1989. See PMB 1006 and 1007 for notes and background materials.

Reel 1: Introduction by R.S. Parker, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
Reel 2: Chapter 4, Chapter 5
Reel 3: Chapter 6

Parker, Robert Stewart

Papua New Guinea research materials: comparative colonial administration, notes for chapters

  • AU PMB MS 1006
  • Collection
  • 1870s - 1970s

Background notes for the 'Chapters' reproduced in PMB 1005, for a book tentatively entitled 'Comparative colonial administration', by R.S. Parker and Norman Mellor. See also PMB 1007.

Manuscript and typed notes, published and semi-published material. File headings are those used by Professor Parker, with notes in brackets supplied by PMB. A file heading sheet precedes each file. Within each file, the order of items is that used by Professor Parker. No detailed inventory of file contents is available.

Reel 1: Introduction, R.S. Parker; Ch. 1 - Introduction files; Ch. 2(a) - Motives for enquiry
Reel 2: Ch. 2(b) - Indigenous political structures; Ch. 2(c) - Population
Reel 3: Ch. 2(d) - Economic resources; Ch. 2(e) - German and British policies
Reel 4: Ch. 3(a) - Military to 1950 (file empty); Ch. 3(b) - Government to 1950; Ch. 3(c) - Economic to 1950; Ch. 3(d)i - Education to 1950; Ch. 3(d)ii - Health to 1950; Ch. 3(d)iii - Welfare to 1950; Ch. 4(a) - Military to 1960; Ch. 4(b) - Governance to 1960
Reel 5: Ch. 4(c) - Economic to 1960; Ch. 4(d)i - Education to 1960; Ch. 4(d)ii - Health to 1960; Ch. 5(a) - Military to 1960s; Ch. 5(b) Governance to 1960; Ch.5 - Governance 1960s A-C; Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 1-7
Reel 6: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 8
Reel 7: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s E and F; Ch. 5(4)(c) - Economics in 1960s
Reel 8: Ch. 5(d)i - Education in 1960s; Ch. 5(d)ii - Health in 1960s
Reel 9: Ch. 6(a) - Military in 1970s; Defence; Ch. 6D - Governance in 1970s
Reel 10: Ch. 6D iii - Geographically uniform; Ch. 6D v - Administrative Executive Council; Ch.6D vi - Legislative; parties; Ch.6D vii - Legal institutions; Ch. 6D viii - Administration; Ch. 6 - Governance 1970s: E local government
Reel 12: Ch. 6(c) - Economics 1970s
Reel 13: Ch. 6(d)i - Education in 1970s; Ch. 6(d)ii - Health in 1970s

Parker, Robert Stewart

New Guinea Territory Reports to the League of Nations

  • AU PMB DOC 315
  • Collection
  • Sept. 1914 - June 1940

The first report covers Sept. 1914-30 June 1921: all subsequent reports are for 1 July - 30 June. For Annex C of the Report for 1921/22 see PMB Doc 316.

Reel 1: Sept. 1914 - 30 June 1924
Reel 2: 1 July - 1924 - 30 June 1935
Reel 3: 1 July 1935 - 30 June 1940

New Guinea Territory

Papua New Guinea research materials: Papua New Guinea politics and administration

  • AU PMB MS 1008
  • Collection
  • 1906 - 1975

R.S. Parker was a member of the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea, 1962-1969. He also advised the Administration on organisational policy, organised and assisted in public service training courses, represented Administration employees on the public service arbitration tribunal and gave evidence at the local officers' arbitration case in the 1960s.

Labelled files with file headings used by Professor Parker. A detailed inventory of file contents is not available. Reel contents are given below in a condensed form - a more complete list of General Contents is available on request.

Reel 1: Introduction; File List: PNG general
Reel 2: 4 files - Constitutional development and Planning Committee Reports 1st & 2nd Interim (terms of reference, appointments)
Reel 3: 1 file - Constitutional Planning Committee recommendations/draft<
Reel 4: 2 files - Constitutional Planning Cmt. Final Report; Constitution - Government proposals
Reel 5: 2 files - Constitution - Texts and national name; and the Courts
Reel 6: 2 files - District Administration - evolution; (miscellaneous)
Reel 7: 2 files - reel 6 cont. - official reports
Reel 8: 3 files - Native Affairs, recruitment, training; ASOPA Sen. Officers' Course; Executives and Under Secretaries (miscellaneous)
Reel 9: 3 files - reel 8 cont. - Execs and Under Secs (transfer of executive power); land law/administration
Reel 10: 3 files - Laws and law drafting; legislative councils; local government councils
Reel 11: 5 files - Politics; anti-corruption policy; Bougainville political disturbances; Cargo cults; Election prospects/1964
Reel 12: 3 files - Politics; Election 1968; law/administration; Gazelle political disturbances
Reel 13: Politics; House of Assembly
Reel 14: 4 files - Politics - House of Assembly; members; parties
Reel 15: 12 files - Politics - House of Assembly; 10 parties; miscellaneous papers (various names); Public Service (miscellaneous)
Reel 16: 2 files - reel 15 cont.; Public Service Association
Reel 17: 3 files - reel 16 cont.; Public Service Association Press Statements; employment security scheme
Reel 18: 3 files - Public Service - recruitment; salaries; local officers' case 1965-67
Reel 19: University College for PNG
Reel 20: 2 files - Urban government; Urban local government.

Parker, Robert Stewart

Diary, miscellaneous papers and correspondence

Diary, miscellaneous papers and correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 497
  • Collection
  • 1900 - 1951

Ellis (1869-1951) was born in Queensland and educated in New Zealand. In the 1890s he became an employee of the Pacific Islands Company Ltd of London, which was involved in the guano industry on islands in the Coral Sea and the Phoenix Group (Kiribati). In 1900, he became curious about a rock which was used as a doorstop in the Sydney office of his company and this led to the discovery of the phosphate deposits on Ocean Island and Nauru. He was a prominent figure in the Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd in 1902. After the phosphate company was bought out by the British, Australian and New Zealand governments after World War I, he became commissioner for New Zealand on the British Phosphate Commission, which was established to exploit the phosphate deposits on Ocean Island and Nauru. He was the author of three books, Ocean Island and Nauru (1936), Adventuring in Coral Seas (1937) and Mid-Pacific Outpost (1946).

The documents on the microfilm include: 1. Ellis' diary for May 1900 when he went to Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati to establish the phosphate industry there; 2. Clippings on the phosphate industry from various newspapers and journals; 3. Correspondence covering the period 1920-51.

Ellis, Albert Fuller

'Fiji - 70 years and one month': the memoirs of William (Tui) Johnson

  • AU PMB MS 1017
  • Collection
  • 1900 - 1970

William Johnson (1900-1980) was born in Suva, Fiji, the son of Henry Johnson, a Canadian. He spent his early years on his parents' plantation at Tavua, Viti Levu. During WWI he attended Melbourne Grammar School and then returned to Fiji to work for Clive Joske's trading company, later W.R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. Johnson eventually became manager for the South West Pacific.

The manuscript, of about 200 pp., is a photocopy of the original which no longer exists. The photographs referred to in the margins were not made available for microfilming. The writing is humerous and includes references to local characters, traditions, social events, commercial activities and daily life in general.<BR>Further references to Johnson will be found in Robert Langdon, ed., Cumulative Index to Pacific Islands Monthly, 1945-1955, (Canberra: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 1984).

Johnson, William Grainger

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