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Tuvalu linguistic materials

  • AU PMB MS 919
  • Collectie

The materials comprise:

  1. Tuvalu word list (Melitiana Kaisami, editor)
  2. Lessons in Tuvaluan (Gary D. Crawford, comp.)
  3. Draft Tuvalu word list.

The first two documents were prepared c.1977 by members of the United States Peace Corps to assist volunteers. The third document is much older, but its provenance is unknown.

Crawford Gary D. and others

Tuvalu physical development plans, reports and related papers

  • AU PMB MS 1236
  • Collectie
  • 1973-1993

The British government had sent out town planners to Funafuti in 1960 to guide development of the increasing crowded urban settlement and in 1973, following a major cyclone, it constructed new housing at Funafuti. By 1993, when George Clarke visited Tuvalu to carry out his survey, the Tuvalu government was lobbying for new houses. George Clarke, is an architect and town planner by profession, who has worked as a consultant on human settlements for the World Bank, United Nations, AusAID and others. He was concerned about the slumming down of Pacific communities and consequent health decay. His report addressses these problems and tries to stimulate cultural revival and eco-tourism. (George Clarke’s father, William Clarke, had helped established the Bita-paka wireless station, near Rabaul, in 1924 and subsequently became Manager of AWA Australia-Pacific Radio, making many trips back to New Guinea.)

  • David Ball, 'Funafuti physical development plan', 1973.
  • Simeona Iosia and Sheila Macrae, 'A Report on the Results of the Census of the Population of Tuvalu', 1979.
  • Lars Carlstedt, 'Consultancy Report on Land Title Registration in Tuvalu 1984.'
  • T.J. Bell, 'Tuvalu: Road Improvements and Maintenance', Funafuti Atoll, 1987.
  • Government of Tuvalu, Housing Task Force. Working Papers, 1992.
  • George Clarke, 'Life and Living in Tuvalu: steps towards sustainable strategies with particular reference to housing, infrastructure and land use', 1993.

See Finding aids for details.

Clarke, George

Solomon Islands papers

  • AU PMB MS 1365
  • Collectie
  • 1912-2005

James L.O.Tedder was raised in Wamberal, NSW, attended the local primary school, and Gosford High School. He served for a few months as a deck boy in the merchant navy and spent two years in the AIF, the last year in 13th Small Ships in New Guinea. After the War he spent four years at Sydney University graduating with Bachelor of Economics with three years of geography and three years of political theory.

In February 1952 James Tedder was appointed as an Administrative Officer cadet in the British Colonial Service and was posted direct to the Solomon Islands. Following two months in Central District, he was posted to Malaita as District Officer Aoke to serve under V.J. Andersen. In November 1953 he was posted to Malu`u as District Officer. In August 1954 he was sent to the Devonshire Course in Cambridge. Confirmed in his appointment in March 1955 he was posted to Kira Kira in June as District Commissioner Eastern. In May 1959 he was appointed as Census Commissioner for the sample census organised by Dr Norma McArthur. In June 1960 he was appointed District Commissioner Malaita while Michael M. Townsend was on leave.

A posting for six months as Assistant Secretary Social Affairs followed the six months in Malaita. Then he was posted to Western District as District Commissioner for a year. Following leave he was posted to Honiara as District Officer Guadalcanal in October then District Commissioner Central as from January 1963. In 1967 he was promoted to Administrative Officer Grade A and awarded the MBE which was conferred by the Queen in May while on a Local Government attachment to three Councils in the UK.

On 1 January 1972 James Tedder was appointed to the new post of Director of Information and Broadcasting from which he retired in November 1974. While serving in Honiara he was Chair of the Tourism Authority, and at times Chair of the Copra Board. He belonged to the Broadcast Advisory, the University of South Pacific, Museum, and Library Committees.

While Director of Information and Broadcasting he was responsible for helping to establish the Solomon Island Museum, the Library, and facilities to ensure that researchers placed copies of their work, whether print or film, in the archives.

James Tedder wrote a small booklet, Walks in Guadalcanal, for tourists. He co-authored with Geoff Stevens a book, Birds in Honiara, for the Scout Association, and with his wife, Margaret Tedder, wrote, Yam Cultivation in Guadalcanal. Articles on dried breadfruit, Honiara planning, Broadcasting, the Museum were published in the South Pacific Commission Quarterly and other journals. Short pieces on ancient village sites were contributed to the Solomon Islands Museum newsletter. With Tom Russell and advice from Professor Davenport he excavated a cave Fotoruma near Honiara revealing artifacts going back to 970 BC. He wrote a book, How Government Works, which was distributed to all schools. In 2008 he self published, Solomon Island Years: An Administrative Officer in theIslands 1952-74. Mr Tedder’s research on beach erosion, on coral cays, on bird census and drift voyages is yet to be written up.

PMB 1365/1-97 includes files collected and/or collated by James Tedder on Solomon Islands subjects, including: Avu Avu Airstrip, Birds, Census, Guadalcanal, Honiara, Kotina Land, Moro Movement, National Parks, Native money/Loans, Persons, Santa Ysabel, Museum, education, USP Honiara, archaeology, local government, Scout movement, Royal visits, Central, Information and Broadcasting, tourism, Marching Rule, Malaita, Gizo, medicine, Santa Ana, Eastern, labour, weather, War, taro, yams, other foods, Native Courts, Local Government activities, New Guinea, Kotina LR 356, Kusaghe and Poha (Fotoruma), miscellaneous reports relating to the Solomon Islands, copies of papers by Francis Bugotu, Jared Diamond, Raymond Firth, A.V. Hughes, Ian Penna, T.Russell, I. Scarle, et al., and other Solomon Islands publications.
See Finding aids for details.

Tedder, James L.O.

Solomon Islands botanical index cards

  • AU PMB MS 1366
  • Collectie
  • 1971-1974, 1982

Margaret was born in Maryborough Qld in 1925 and educated in local schools except for one year at Sommerville Brisbane. She has worked as a bank clerk, as a private tutor on a cattle property and did a year at Queensland University and a year of nursing. Margaret and James Tedder lived in the Solomon Islands from 1952 until 1974. During the last years of her residence there, after the children went to Australian schools, Margaret did a lot of bush touring carrying out research on plants used by the Islanders for medicines, cures and other purposes. Most of Margaret Tedder’s plant identifications were checked in the now defunct Forest Herbarium where she lodged duplicates of the plants. These may now (2011) held in the University of South Pacific Herbarium, Suva. On retirement to Australia in 1975 Margaret did a bachelors degree in University of Adelaide majoring in anthropology and Pacific history. Cf. Margaret & James Tedder, Gardening: album of photographs of subsistence gardening in Eastern and Central Solomon Islands, 1955-1974. PMB Photo 48. M.M. Tedder and J.L.O. Tedder, Yams, a description of their cultivation on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, SPC Technical Paper No.169, Noumea, South Pacific Commission, 1974; 85 pp., illus. by B. House. Judith Hoye, “Custom medicine in Moli District, Guadalcal”, n.d. (1973?). Ts., roneo, 23pp., at PMB 1365/55.

Index cards on medicinal and other useful plants in the Solomon islands, A-Z, arranged by plant family. The cards record: Name; Family; Habitat; Constituents; Therapeutic activity; Local names; Sources of information; Preparation and use; Regions reporting use; Other locations reporting use. They are coded as follows, Dx = Diagnostic; Rx = Pharmaceutical (‘recipe’). Margaret Tedder undertook some comparative follow-up research in NSW in 1982 which is marked on some of the cards. Additional documents consist of :
• Plant uses, arranged by family A-Z. Excerpts from index cards arranged by plant use.
• Most of the information has been obtained from Central and Makira /Ulawa Province, Most of the plant vernacular provided is not placed into a specific language group or dialect. The main language groups include: Temotu, Malaita-San Cristobal, Gela-Guadalcanal and New Georgia
• List of Informats.
• Codes for Index cards.
See Finding aids for details.

Tedder, Margaret

Vanua Scope

  • AU PMB DOC 427
  • Collectie
  • Mar 1993-Jan 1994

Vanua Scope, an independent French language weekly, was edited by Patrick Antoine Delcoite, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Vanua Scope

Chinnery E.W.P. Anthropological reports

  • AU PMB DOC 304
  • Collectie
  • 1925-1930

Chinnery joined the Papuan service in 1909 and served as a magistrate from 1911 until 1921 with a break for war service with the Australian Flying Corps. He later worked as adviser on labour to New Guinea Copper Mines and joined the mandated territory public service as Government Anthropologist in 1924. He was also Director of District Services and Native Affairs from 1932 until 1938 when he became Director of Native Affairs in the Northern Territory. He retired in 1946.

5 printed reports of uncertain date i.e.:

  1. Notes on the Natives of Certain Villages of the Mandated Territory of New Guines (c.1925).
  2. Notes on the Natives of E. Mera and St Mathias (c.1925).
  3. Certain Natives in south New Britain and Dampier Straits (c.1926).
  4. Natives of the Waria, Williams and Bialolo Watersheds (c.1928).
  5. Notes on the Natives of South Bougainville and Mortlocks (Taku) (c.1930).

Chinnery, E.W.P.

Norfolk Island Times

  • AU PMB DOC 61
  • Collectie
  • May 1933 - September 1935

Weekly roneoed newsletter

No. 17 31 May 1933 No. 108 6 March 1935<BR>No. 21 28 June 1933 No. 110 20 March 1935(torn)<BR>No. 23 12 July 1933 No. 112 3 April 1935<BR>No. 24 19 July 1933 No. 113 10 April 1935<BR>No. 25 26 July 1933 No. 114 17 April 1935<BR>No. 26 2 August 1933 No. 115 24 April 1935<BR>No. 27 9 August 1933 No. 116 1 May 1935<BR>No. 35 4 October 1933 No. 117 8 May 1935<BR>No. 36 11 October 1933 No. 118 15 May 1935<BR>No. 37 18 October 1933 No. 120 29 May 1935<BR>No. 38 25 October 1933 No. 122 12 June 1935<BR>No. 39 1 November 1933 No. 123 19 June 1935<BR>No. 40 8 November 1933 No. 124 26 June 1935<BR>No. 51 31 January 1934 No. 125 3 July 1935<BR>No. 52 7 February 1934 No. 126 10 July 1935<BR>No. 53 14 February 1934 No. 127 17 July 1935<BR>No. 54 21 February 1934 No. 128 24 July 1935<BR>No. 55 28 February 1934 No. 129 31 July 1935<BR>No. 99 4 January 1935 No. 137 25 September 1935

Norfolk Island Times

Norfolk Island Weekly News

  • AU PMB DOC 60
  • Collectie
  • May 1932 - October 1932

Weekly roneoed newsletter

No. 2 - 27 May 1932 (incomplete)
No. 3 - 2 June 1932
No. 4 - 10 June 1932
No. 5 - 17 June 1932
No. 8 - 8 July 1932
No. 9 - 15 July 1932 (incomplete)
No. 12 - 5 August 1932
No. 13 - 12 August 1932
No. 14 - 19 August 1932
No. 15 - 26 August 1932
No. 17 - 9 September 1932 (incomplete)
No. 22 - 14 October 1932

Norfolk Island Weekly News

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Advisory Council minutes of meetings. Tarawa: the Council. 1-9, 30 September 1963 - 20 July 1967

  • AU PMB DOC 25
  • Collectie
  • 1963-1967

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

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Advisory Council

Administrative papers and essay competition.

  • AU PMB MS 1396
  • Collectie
  • 1966-1985

The Te Rangi Hiroa Fund was established in 1968 during the first Waigani seminar. The Fund was named after Sir Peter Buck, the distinguished Maori ethno-historian, and was administered by Secretary of the Fund Rev. Dr Sione Latukefu, of the University of Papua New Guinea History Department.

The Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition was an annual prize for:

(a) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university in the South Pacific Islands;
(b) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university outside the Pacific Islands.

The Paul Morawetz Award was a small scholarship available to assist Pacific Islanders with outstanding aptitude for historical work to pursue post-graduate studies in Pacific history.

Correspondence relating to the administration of the fund, submission of essays and awarding of prizes; submitted competition essays; applications for the Paul Morawetz Award.

See Finding aids for details.

Te Rangi Hiroa Fund for the Study of Pacific History.

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