The papers are:<BR>1. Royal Correspondence - outward 1918<BR>2. Royal (and other) Correspondence - inward 1918<BR>3. Miscellaneous Papers 1918<BR>4. Consular Correspondence 1918<BR>5. Royal Correspondence - outward 1919<BR>6. Correspondence 1919<BR>7. Reports 1919

At the beginning of 1815, Samuel Hill, a sea captain, calculated that he had lost $7,000 since the beginning of the war of 1812. To repair his fortunes, he undertook the command of the Ophelia on a speculative voyage from Boston to Chile, China and return. On his return, after an absence of 20 months, he embarked almost immediately on a second and similar voyage in the Packet. On this voyage three trips were made from Chile to China. the Packet returned to Boston after a voyage of four years, eleven months and 24 days.

Informative accounts of proceedings and places visited on the voyages outlined above. On the first voyage, Hill visited or sighted the following Pacific Islands: Juan Fernandez, Galapagos, Hawaii, Ebon Atoll, Aranuka (Gilbert Islands), Santa Ana and Bougainville (Solomons), New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands and Mapia. The accounts of Hawaii, Bougainville and Mapia are especially interesting. On the second voyage, Hill was in Hawaii on three occasions. He also landed on Agrigan in the Marianas. Otherwise he generally kept clear of the islands.

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Minute Books 1941 - 1955

Kubary, a Pole, was employed as an ethnologist and naturalist by J.C. Godeffroy & Son to do scientific work in the Pacific Islands.

Cippings of articles by Kubary from Polish newspapers and journals (in Polish) concerning the Caroline Islands, Samoa, Rarotonga, the Tokelau, Ellice and Marshall Islands.

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.

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Minute Books of Executive Committee 1931 - 1944

A draft manuscript thesis (not submittted) in German on the history of German colonial territories in Melanesia 1866-99. The thesis is in two sections. The first concerns 'economic interests and those interested in the establishment of the German colonial regime in Melanesia'. The second section concerns 'the New Guinea Company and its protectorate in Melanesia'.

The Methodist Church in New Zealand sent its first missionaries to the Solomon Islands in 1902, and since then it has also sponsored missionaries to Papua New Guinea. The minute books filmed as PMB 520 to 0525, cover the activities of New Zealand missionaries in those territories.

Minute Books, 1910 - 1920

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Minute Books 1928 - 1931

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Minute Books 1933 - 1942