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London correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 1207
  • Collection
  • 1902-1923

See PMB 1174 and 1175 for administrative history of the Pacific Islands Co Ltd and the Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd.

PPC Sydney, Letters between J.T. Arundel and A.H. Gaze, 1902-1906;
PPC Sydney & Melbourne, Correspondence-out to London, 1904-1909;
PPC Sydney & Melbourne, Correspondence-in from London, 1904-1909;
PPC Melbourne, Correspondence-in from London, 1909-1923.
See also PMB 1174-1176, 1205-1206, J.T. Arundel & Co, Pacific Islands Co Ltd & Pacific Phosphate Co, and PMB 480-495, 497-498, for diaries, corresp. & further papers of J.T. Arundel & A.F. Ellis. See Finding aids for details.

Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd, Sydney and Melbourne Offices

Papers on tuberculosis, other health matters and conservation in Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB MS 1182
  • Collection
  • 1952-1991

Dr Stanley C. Wigley graduated MB BS, University of Melbourne, with honours and the exhibition in Medicine in 1944. After a year at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and served a period at Bonegilla, where he became interested in tuberculosis. In 1947-48 he was Resident Medical Officer in the Chest Wing of the Repatriation General Hospital in Melbourne. As a Wunderly Scholar in 1948 he worked as a house physician at the Brompton Hospital, London, and undertook voluntary research work on respiratory physiology at Hammmersmith. In 1950 Dr Wigley returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and conducted chest clinics in Victoria.
In 1956 Dr Wigley spent three months in New Guinea where he carried out a Tuberculosis survey along the Sepik River. In 1957 he was appointed Specialist Medical Officer (Tuberculosis) in the TPNG Department of Public Health, in charge of the Tuberculosis Control Unit based in Port Moresby, with responsibility for the management of the tuberculosis problem in PNG. Under Dr Wigley’s direction an effective tuberculosis control program was undertaken by mobile regional units using innovative large scale out-patient treatment programs which achieved significant reductions in infection rates in the general community. Dr Wigley’s achievements are reflected in his publications which include papers on tuberculosis, leprosy, lung cancer and pneumonia. Dr Wigley retired in 1974.

Official and unofficial correspondence, published and unpublished articles, reports and conference papers by Wigley and others, survey and research records on tuberculosis control and treatment in PNG, lecture notes on public health in PNG, annual reports and other records of the TB Control Unit in PNG, records of District Medical Officers’ Conferences, annual reports of the Department of Public Health, papers relating to the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea, papers given to meetings of the Papua and New Guinea Scientific Society, reports on the development of conservation areas and parks in PNG. 57 files. See Finding aids for details.

Stanley C. Wigley (1917-2000)

Letter books

  • AU PMB MS 1252
  • Collection
  • 1896-1905

Letter books of Reverend Thomas Watt Leggatt. He was a Scottish missionary based on Malekula, Vanuatu (previously New Hebrides) representing the Presbyterian Church of Australia c.1895-1905. He was ordained in Melbourne in 1886 and became Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1931.

The material is as follows:
Press-copy letter-book, May-Nov 1896, Ms., ff. 1-69, indexed. Written from Aulua Mission, Malekula, New Hebrides. Informative, detailed letters including, ethnographic observations on the people of Malekula, the number of their languages; Report of the “Amy Gertrude Russel” Mission Station, Aulua, Malekula, New Hebrides, year ending August 13th 1896; cover note addressed to Rev Leggatt’s father for a cask of 192lbs of arrowroot together with a 50lb bag of raw coffee being shipped to Melbourne; and letters to TWL’s brother Andrew, Mr Watson, Mr Langridge, Mr Paton, Dr and Mrs Annand, Mrs Scott, Mr Rolland, Mr Baker and Mrs C.B. Anderson.

Press-copy letter-book, Sep 1897-Oct 1905, Ms., ff.1, 9-165, indexed. Also written from the Aulua Mission, Malekula, New Hebrides. Includes letters to Mr Hardie, Convenor, Foreign Mission Cmte, Presbyterian Church of Victoria; also correspondence with the Western Pacific High Commission requesting including request to register the birth of TWL’s daughter, Lillie Faith Leggatt; letters passing on mission news to Mr Langridge, Mrs Tomkins, Miss Sutton, Mr Johnstone, Dr Cook and others, including Dr Geo Smith of Edinburgh with news that the French on the South coast were not driving out Rev TWL’s teachers; and an order for supplies. This letter-book includes a list of teachers in the Aulua District, Malekula, stating their names, location, salary and supporters (1899), and reports on indigenous teachers supported by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria or by the John G. Paton Fund (Samuel, Semuku, Taripoa, Tarivaka, Samson, David, Solomon, Abel & Albam studying at the Teachers Training Institute, Santo (Apr 1900); detailed reports (Apr 1900) on the following teachers: Josua at Ambilbarap; Noa; Ambongluan and wife Mogur; Paul and his wife Letok-Surur who opened a new station on Koliviu in the Maskelyne Islands; Harry Martin at the village of Batinir (Bakineer); Nambogsia of Burambar teaching at Sakau, one of the Maskeleyne Islands with Moses; Luke at the village of Pandru-lemp (?); Ebram at village of Bobambu (?); Alek at the Institute; Japhet and his wife Letubunka who were students at the Training Institute, Santo; and Thomas Erskine. There are also letters to the teachers and scholars at Presbyterian Sabbath Schools in Melbourne (Kensington, Kew, Malvern, Toorak, South Yarra) including reports on teachers and students supported by the various Sabbath Schools, namely Samuel, Josiah; Japhet; Taripoa and his wife Lelang; Ambongbaita and his wife Letis.

See also: Rev. T. Watt Leggatt’s diaries, 1901-1908, at PMB 86 and his newspaper clippings relating to the New Hebrides, c.1891-1905, at PMB 87.

The following material available at National Library Australia:

  1. Leggatt, T. Watt, First printings in language of Aulua, Malekula [New Hebrides], 1890-1892.
  2. Leggatt, T. Watt, Mission work in Malekula, New Hebrides, 1891.
  3. Leggatt, T. Watt, Newspaper clippings relating to the New Hebrides, [ca.1891-ca.1905] [microfilm] Mfm PMB 87
  4. Leggatt, T. Watt, Malekula, New Hebrides [1892]. 5. Leggatt, T. Watt, Nembu sa atua : Pagkumu ca Aulua, Malekula, New Hebrides, 1893.
  5. Leggatt, T. Watt and Watt, Agnes C. P. (Agnes Craig Paterson), 1846-1894. Agnes C.P. Watt : twenty-five years' mission life on Tanna, New Hebrides / biographical sketch and introduction by T. Watt Leggatt, 1896.
  6. Leggatt, T. Watt, Morning rays on Malekula [1897?].
  7. Leggatt, T. Watt, Numene ta Apostol Hera, 1897.
  8. Leggatt, T. Watt, First book and hymnal : Pangkumu and Aulua, Malekula, New Hebrides, 1897.
  9. Leggatt, T. Watt, Diaries 1901-1908 [microform] mfm PMB 86
  10. Leggatt, T. Watt, Ensurua naho i tok rien nerambulet bembui tui: Aulua, Malekula, New Hebrides, 1902.
  11. Leggatt, T. Watt, Nasuruan ivoi Marik i tos, 1906
  12. Leggatt, T. Watt, John G. Paton, D.D., missionary to the New Hebrides : a memorial life for our children / by T. Watt Leggatt and W.M.M. Alexander. [1907?].
  13. Leggatt, T. Watt, How rain came up through the earth on Aniwa [1924].
  14. Leggatt, T. Watt, Mission to the Aborigines in South Australia : statement and appeal from the Board of Missions, by T. Watt Leggatt, H.C. Matthew, 1937.

Leggatt, Thomas Watt

Administrative records

  • AU PMB MS 1278
  • Collection
  • 1851-1973

These documents originallyformed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

CONTENTS Records of the LMS, Samoan District, held at the Australian National University, but not previously microfilmed by the PMB, in folders numbered 1-45 and one bundle of papers, mainly consisting of correspondence, reports and some minutes. Some documents are too brittle to microfilm without destroying them.
See also PMB 95-97, 126-132 & 141-144.
See Finding aids for details.

London Missionary Society, Samoan District

Applications to the land court.

  • AU PMB MS 1259
  • Collection
  • 1985-2003

These documents, reconstructed after Cyclone Heta flooded the Justice Archives in Niue, register applications to the High Court of Niue on land matters.

Register of Applications, case Nos.2560-4472, Nov 1985-Jan 1991, pp.18-49;
Register of Applications, case Nos.4473-7022, Jan 1991-Oct 1995;
Register of Applications, case Nos.7569-8600, Jan 1997-Feb 2002.
Applications to the Land Court published in the Niue Gazette, Nos.1-3, Jan, Jun & Nov 2003, and Nos.1-4, 2004.

Government of Niue, Justice, Lands and Survey Department, Land Court.

A Warwai Ure Iesu Karisito, translation of Gospel stories into the Blanche Bay dialect, and Rev. Walker’s, Reflections on the Work of the Missionary, written on his return from New Britain, PNG.

  • AU PMB MS 1264
  • Collection
  • 1927-1930.

Rev. Francis Trafford Walker and Mrs Emma M. Walker, his wife, travelled from Sydney to Rabaul on the SS Mataro in June 1925 to take up posts in New Britain with the Overseas Mission of the Methodist Church of Australasia. They were stationed at Kabakada from July 1925, and then at Watnabara, where their son Gordon born on 7 Mar 1927. Having taken furlough in Sydney from March until June 1928, they returned to Kabakada. In April 1929 they shifted Vunairima, where their daughter, Enid, was born on 12 May 1929.
In January 1930, when Gordon contracted a severe form of malaria, they returned to Australia.
Chronology supplied by Gordon Walker, Feb 2006:

Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, New Brirain District, George Brown College, 1927, A Warwai Ure Iesu Karisito, written by F. Trafford Walker (Principal), language revised by Apelis To Maniot (Head Tutor), Ts., 159pp. This is a series of lectures in the Blanche Bay dialect setiing out a complete narrative of the life of Jesus Christ. Rev Walker writes in the Preface that the “language employed in this work is the pure Blanche Bay dialect, and every effort has been made to eliminate all foreign influence in order that the true native tongue might be preserved…. Apelis To Maniot … has thrown himself into the task of preserving for his fellows the language of his ancestors. ”

Rev. F. Trafford Walker, Reflections on the Work of the Missionary, Ts., 34pp., incomplete, plus notes. Includes the following chapters: ‘Rev. W.H. Cox’, ‘A Superintendent of a Circuit’, ‘Running a Circuit’, “Working Under a Chairman’, ‘Quarterly Meetings’, ‘Medical Work’, ‘Handling Disputes’, ‘Religious Teaching’, and ‘Other Missions’. Together with lecture notes, Ts., 1 leaf, Ms., 2pp.

See also: PMB Photo 7, Rev. Francis Trafford Walker and Mrs Emma M. Walker: Photographs documenting the Methodist Missions at Kabakada, Watnabara and Vunairima, via Rabaul, New Britain, 1925-1930.

Walker, Francis Trafford

Dictionary of Kiriwina Borrowings, with some additions by Ralph Lawton

  • AU PMB MS 1377
  • Collection
  • 1969-1972

Jerry W. Leach is a Professor and Director of the American Studies Center at The American University in Cairo. While carrying out fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands for his doctoral dissertation, the anthropologist Jerry Leach (producer and narrator of the renowned ethnographic film Trobriand Cricket) surveyed and microfilmed important archives kept in the archipelago's main centre, Losuia (see PMB 1177).

Jerry Leach also compiled this lexicon of words, on cards, adapted mainly from English into the Kiriwina language over the period 1969-1972. The dictionary has been added to by Ralph Lawton.

In 1983, Leach edited a book with Sir Edmund Leach on “The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim exchange” (ISBN 0 521 23202 3). He has also written other major works including the “Parliamentary Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea”, “Public Officials' Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea” and "Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket" University of California Media Center. Jerry Leach is the producer and narrator of the renowned ethnographic film “Trobriand Cricket”.

Ralph Lawton was a missionary for over 10 years during the 1960s-1970s in the Trobriand Islands. Through his missionary work he became an expert in the language of the Trobriands. He is currently working on a lexicon of Kilivila, the Kiriwina Language from the Trobriand Islands.

A lexicon of words adapted mainly from English into Kilivila, the Kiriwina Language from the Trobriand Islands over the period 1969-1972.

Leach, Jerry W.

Pangu Pati Nius (Pangu Political Party of Papua New Guinea)

  • AU PMB DOC 465
  • Collection
  • Apr 1970-Dec 1972

First issued in April 1970.

Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep/Oct, Nov & Dec 1970;
Jan/Feb, Mar, Apr/May, Aug, Oct/Nov 1971;
Dec 1971/Jan 1972, Feb, Mar, Apr/May, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov/Dec 1972.

Includes statement on the relationship between the Pangu Pati and ‘liberal businessmen’, n.d. (1970 or 1971); Ts., roneo, 6pp.

Jun/Jul, Sep 1971 and Jun 1972 are missing.

Pangu Pati Nius

Course and syllabus materials, publications on education in Papua New Guinea and other rare publications relating to PNG

  • AU PMB DOC 474
  • Collection
  • 1941-1971

The Australian School of Pacific Administration was established in 1946 to train officers of the Australian administrations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and in the Northern Territory. In 1973 its name was changed to the International Training Institute (ITI) following an alteration in its administrative arrangements. Its remarkable library was established by Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, and subsequent library staff, but was disbanded when the ITI was closed down in the late 1980s. Part of the Library’s Hallstrom Pacific Collection has been kept intact and is currently held by the University of NSW Library. Most of the remainder has been dispersed, however Professor Hank Nelson rescued the material microfilmed here.

40 record items, as follows:
/1-10, ASOPA course materials and 1965 Handbook; TPNG Department of Eduction curriculum and syllabus materials;
/11-15, TPNG school readers;
/16-30, TPNG school magazines;
/31-34, research papers on education and social change in PNG;
/35-40, other ephemeral publications.
See Finding aids for details.
For ASOPA administrative documents and further ASOPA course papers see PMB 1158: Australian School of Pacific Administration, Reports, correspondence and related papers, 1946-1992. 2 reels. (Available for reference.)

International Training Institute Library, formerly the Hallstrom Pacific Library of the Australian School of Pacific Administration (Asopa):

The Yap Networker

  • AU PMB DOC 478
  • Collection
  • 1999-2005

Successor to the Yap State Bulletin. Privately published by Nugan Yu Waab Inc., Colonia, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia. Ceased publication following typhoon and financial problems.

Reel 1.
Vol.1, Nos.1-28, 25 Jun-30 Dec 1999
Vol.2, Nos.1-52, 7 Jan-29 Dec 2000
Vol.3, Nos.1-52, 5 Jan-28 Dec 2001
Vol.4, Nos.1-10, 4 Jan-8 Mar 2002
Reel 2
Vol.4, No.11-52, 15 Mar-27 Dec 2002
Vol.5, Nos.1-52, 3 Jan-26 Dec 2003
Vol.6, Nos.1-18, 2 Jan-17 Dec 2004
Vol.7, Nos.1-2, 21 Jan & 11 Feb 2005

The Yap Networker

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