Stephan Lehner (1877-1947) arrived in New Guinea as a lutheran pastor in August 1902. He worked mainly among the Bukawa people of the Huon Gulf.

The papers comprise:

1. Der Bukawac-Stamm
2. Die Naturanschauung de Bukawac
3. Spiritismus, Totemismus und Animismus des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
4. Die Blut-theorie beim Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
5. Psychologie des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
6. Sitten und Rechte des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
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7. Volksgesundheit und Wachstumsaussicht des Melanesierstammes der Bukawac
8. Der Engolg der Mission beim Melanesierstamm der Bukawac
9. Geschichtliche Skizze des Bukawac-Stammes
10. Jabem-Marchen und Sagen (This work is by H. Zahn)
11. 'Maja'
12. Opa
13. Unidentified. Some of these papers, which were apparently being prepared for publication in a book about 1945, were published earlier in anthropological journals. There may be some variation between versions as published and those microfilmed. See An Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea, vol.1, p.150-51 (Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968).

Gribble, a Methodist minister, went to Tonga in 1939 as principal of Tupou College. During World War II, the Tongan Government seconded him as Director of Education. Four years after his return to Australia in 1945, he became general secretary for Overseas Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. He retired in 1970.

The papers include a complete list, with biographical notes, of Methodist missionaries to Tonga to 1931; ABC Guest of Honour Broadcast by Prince Tungi, 4 May 1950; Commemorative address on Walter Lawry (1793-1859), 18 April 1971; A review of Tongan Grammar by C.M. Churchward (published in 1953); Koe Havea, 1941; Copy of The Missionary Review for August 1947 covering the Tongan Royal Weddings; An Historical Overview of Tonga by H. Taylor; Articles on Tonga's economic development; Methodist Missions in the South Seas 1821-1909 by Rev. B. Danks; Report of Commission on the Native Church, 1923; Brown Faces. A Missionary Book for Methodist Boys and Girls by J.W. Burton; Articles on the Methodist Church in Fiji, including the Report of the Board of Missions Deputation of 1900 and the Indian Church of Suva; Articles by Gribble including Tonga - A Century of Achievement and The Rim of the Pacific .

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The papers are:

1. 'Quelques Notes sur Fiji, les Fijiens et la Religion Catholique a Fiji'
2. 'Conference sur les Meke fidjiens', by Father C.M. Flaus, SM
3. 'La Culte des Morts a Fiji a l'Ouest et a l'Interieur', by Father J. de Marzan, SM
4. Notes on the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji, 1925, by Father J. Oreve, SM
5. 'Superstitions Rewiennes', 1891, by E.R. (i.e. Father E. Rougier, SM)
6. Notes on 'Le Deluge ... aux Fijis', by Father J. de Marzan, SM
7. 'Noms des Oiseaux ... de Namosi', by Father J.L. Guinard, SM

Archdeacon Gill (d.1954), a member of a family of Pacific missionaries, joined the Anglican mission to Papua in 1908. He was ordained at Dogura in 1910, and his first parish was nearby Boianai, where he remained until 1922. He then moved to the Mamba district, where he established a temporary station at Manau on the mouth of the Mamba (or Mambare) River. Two years later, at Duvira, he began work on what was to be his head station until 1942, when it was destroyed by the Japanese. In 1943, he began building a new mission station at nearby Dewade. He retired in 1952 and died in England two years later.

Typed transcripts of Archdeacon Gill’s letters, Jan 1942-Dec 1944, photocopied for Professor Hank Nelson from the originals held in the New Guinea Collection at the UPNG Library, together with Professor Nelson’s correspondence with Nancy Lutton, the New Guinea Collection Librarian, and Professor Nelson’s notes on the letters.

See also PMB 40: Letters of Archdeacon Gill, 1897-1928.

William Charles Groves (1898-1967) was a Supervisor of Education in
Mandated Territory of New Guinea from 1922 till 1926. He carried out
anthropological work in the Western Pacific, including New Guinea,
from 1931 till 1936, as a Research Fellow with the Australian National
Research Council. He was Director of Education in Nauru from 1937
till 1938 and Advisor on Education in the Solomon Islands from 1939
till 1940. After World War II he was appointed Director of Education
in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) and remained in that
post till 1958.

The W C Groves Papers were arranged and calendared by John A.
Collier in 1972 in eight parts: 1. Mission education in Melanesia; 2. Papua New Guinea Pre-War; 3. Papua New Guinea Port-War; 4. Nauru; 5. Correspondence and Miscellaneous; 6. South Pacific Commission; 7. Honolulu Conference, 1936; 8. Photographs in the Collection. Parts 2-4 are microfilmed here by the Bureau, together with John Collier’s, Guide to the Groves Papers. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

G.A.V. Stanley (Uda Baroma) (b. Sydney, 1904), geologist, biblographer and historian, went to Papua in 1927 and spent most of his life there until his death in October 1965. He graduated BSc from Sydney University in 1926 with first-class honours, a double major in geology and geography and a dissertation on the Jenolan Caves. He undertook postgraduate work in Ontong Java and the Solomons and participated in a University of Queensland survey of the Great Barrier Reef. He worked with a number of oil companies in Papua and New Guinea and was awarded the DSC for his war service with RANVR and the Far Eastern Liaison Organisation (FELO). He married Palu Hehuni and had two children, Artur and Anne. In 1962 he returned to Australia to work with the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra. In 1965 he developed cancer and returned to Port Moresby where he died in October of that year. The material in this collection was left with a colleague in Canberra in 1965 and did not come to light until that colleague's death in 1989.

The material on these five reels mostly relates to surveys undertaken for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Oil Search Limited (OSL) and the Australian Petroleum Company (APC). The collection consists of folders, notebooks, letterbooks and envelopes. Each has been given an Item number, a total of fifty-one. The material includes letters, reports, maps, equipment and stores lists, indigenous labour arrangements, photographs and other documentation related to geological survey work. A detailed guide has been prepared and is available on request from the Bureau.<BR>Reel 1 Items 1-10 <BR>Reel 2 Items 11-19<BR>Reel 3 Items 20-26<BR>Reel 4 Items 27-42<BR>Reel 5 Items 43-51
See Finding aids for details.

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.

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.