Initially monthly, afterwards irregular. A leaflet published by the Seli Hoo Editorial Collective, Sydney, 5 November 1977 and included with the first issue of Seli Hoo, describes it as a monthly news bulletin on Vanuaaku and New Caledonia, produced by supporters of the struggle of the people of Vanuaaku (New Hebrides) and the Kanak people of New Caledonia for independence. The leaflet is included on the microfilm.

No. 1 (November 1977): 2: 3: 4: 6 (October 1978). Includes leaflet but lacks issue 5, date unknown

Bimonthly illustrated magazine, edited by Bob Dixon, Tahiti, and directed towards anglophone yachts-people and tourists visiting French Polynesia. Ceased publication with vol. 2, no. 5 (1969)

No. 1 (January 1966) - 2 no. 4 (September/October 1969). Set complete except for final issue vol. 2, no. 5 (1969)

In 1898 German New Guinea came under the direct adminstration of the Reich. Prior to this, from 1885, the area comprising the north-eastern part of the New Guinea Mainland, known as Kaiser Wilhelmsland, and the Bismarck Archipelago, were administered by the New Guinea Compagnie. The territory was later expanded to include other island groups.

Each report covers the period April of one year to March of the following year. The reports, photocopies of the originals, are bound into 5 volumes. Volume 1: 1898 - 1900/1901. Volume 2: 1901/1902 - 1902/1902. volume 3: 1903/04 - 1904/05. volume 4: 1905/06. volume 5: 1906/07 - 1907/08. They contain reports and statistics on administrative and commercial activities, climate, geology, botany and progress reports on education and the work of various missions. The Pacific Colonies represented in these reports are: German New Guinea: Caroline Islands: Solomon Islands: Mariana Islands and Palau.

Prior to 1907 the reports (A3 in Appendices to the Journals of the H. of R.) were entitled Proceedings of the British Resident, Rarotonga and consisted mostly of letters, and enclosures of various kinds including the annual report, to and from the Resident, the Resident Agent at Niue and the New Zealand Premier. After 1907 the annual report appeared as the first item in the A3. Later A3's included reports from the Resident Commissioners of the Cook Islands and Niue and also Cook Islands ordinances.

The series lacks reports for 1896/97/98 and 1903, 1918, 1920/21 and 1929. The report dated 1945 covers the four years from 1942 due to measures of war economy. Most of the earlier reports include an index and some contain photographs and maps. The reports on this reel were bound into two volumes. A contents list appears at the beginning of the reel and is available on request from the Bureau.

During the mid 1970s Micronitor (News from the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific) changed its title to The Micronesian Independent

Micronitor: Vol. 3 No. 5 (1 Feb. 1972) Micronesian Independent: Vol. 7 No. 22 (25 June 1976) to Vol. 11 No. 10 (5 Sept. 1980)

Geoff Walls coordinated the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division's Biological Diversity Project for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands funded by the Commonwealth Science Council from 1986 to 1988. The author's summary report Traditional uses of plants in New Zealand and the Pacific ... (Havelock North, DSIR Oct. 1988) was distributed to PMB Member Libraries in July 1989.

4 papers:<BR>Paper No. 1: Commonwealth Science Council Biological Diversity Project perennial plants of New Zealand and South Pacific Islands, project plan for 1986. January 1986 - 4 pages<BR>Paper No. 2: Cook Islands visit, July-August 1986: reports on a visit as part of the Commonwealth Science Council's Biological Diversity of Perennial Plants project. September 1986 - 21 pages. Identifies for future research plants of high traditional human value throughout the Pacific: notes serious effects of mealy bug infestation of pandanus on production and sales of Atiu women's handicrafts: draws attention to Bill Sykes' work towards a comprehensive flora of the Cook Islands: summarizes discussions with Cook Islanders on traditional plant uses<BR>Paper No. 3: Commonwealth Science Council Biological Diversity Project, New Zealand and the Pacific: progress report, March 1987 - 14 pages<BR>Paper No. 4: Commonwealth Science Council Biologial Diversity Project, New Zealand and the Pacific: regional position paper, prepared for Commonwealth Science Council, November 1987 - 13 pages. Describes progress 1986-1987: defines project's aims as cataloguing information regarding existing plant use: conserving the traditional knowledge and the plants: and facilitating current and future plant use: recommends project development for future action.

These reports were published by the German Colonial Office for the years 1903/04 to 1911/12 and cover the German Colonies in Africa and Oceania. They were compiled by Government medical officers in charge of health services in the Colonies.<BR>Earlier medical reports were published as part of the annual reports from the Colonies. The report for 1912/13 was being prepared for publication when war broke out and publication did not proceed. A shortened version (60 pages) was published in the Archiv fur Schiffs- und Tropenhygiene vol.28 (1924), Beiheft 1. This journal is available in the Library of the University of Queensland.

The contents comprise statistics on morbidity and mortality of European and local population (if treated by European doctors) with commentaries and case studies: reports on public health: details on the setting up of hospitals etc.: maps of the distribution of 'tropical' diseases (Africa only): lists of articles published by German medical researchers: veterinary reports from the African colonies.<BR>Reel 1 - vols 1-3: 1904/05 - 1906/07<BR>Reel 2 - vols 4-6: 1907/08 - 1909/10<BR>Reel 3 - vols 7,8: 1910/11 - 1911/12<BR>Each volume appears to contain records from 1 April of one year to 31 March of the following year. All are indexed into five major geographical areas. The contents of the first four volumes are listed in these five geographical areas but from vol.5, 1908/09 onwards the indexes are more detailed.

The Betela Dance Troupe grew out of the Betela Youth Club formed in 1960 on Rarotonga by Mrs Lily Jonassen. The Jonassen family was prominent in the troupe with Anne Jonassen for many years troupe leader. Its repertoire of Polynesian traditional dances included fire, drum and war dances, and others such as Ru's canoe, created by Jon Jonassen. Between 1968 and 1977 the troupe made many visits to Japan, in 1976 staying 6 months on Namegawa Island and taking part in Japanese television dramas. See also Jon Jonassen: The Betela Dance Troupe through the years in PMB 1001: Pambu 3(2) January-March 1989.

5 brochures of colour photographs and Japanese text, with occasional English captions. Dated between 1972 and 1976, they provide scenes of dances performed on Namegawa and elsewhere in Japan, and include a history and description of the Betela Dance Troupe with photographs and biographical details for Anne Jonassen and all other troupe members dancing at the time of the visits.

Dr Georges Renaud, a French medical officer, travelled or worked in Tahiti, Australia, Fiji and the Wallis Islands. As Medical Officer on Wallis Island between 1932-1933, he collected, for the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, stone axes and arrows, pearl shell fish lures and scale models of traditional houses and double canoes. His book Les iles Wallis was written in 1983, and based on his own observations and on discussions with Wallis Islanders, on the health, social organization and material culture of Wallis Island during the early 1930s.

The copy microfilmed by the Bureau was a photocopy lent to the Bureau by the Association These-Pac of Noumea. Some pages are illegible. The author's contents page (p.144) is reproduced both at the beginning and the end of the text, which begins with page 3 and ends on page 144. The text includes sketches not listed in the author's preface. These are listed in the microfilm in the preliminary pages supplied by the Bureau.

This series was published fortnightly by the German Administration in Rabaul. Local people were trained as printers and in other areas of the printing industry and the paper was produced using these local tradesmen.

These photocopies of the originals have been bound into 11 volumes, including two supplements to the 1913 issues (Vol.IV): one on the establishment of the botanic gardens at Rabaul by Dr Gerhrmann and the other on types of shell and molluscs by M. Braun. An index appears at the beginning of each volume. The page numbers are sequential from issue number one to the end of the last issue for each year.