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House diaries and accounts of the Mission

  • AU PMB MS 1155
  • Collection
  • 1921-1967

The Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was founded at Issoudun in France by Rev. Fr Jules Chevalier in 1882 in association with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC). The foundress of the community was Mother Marie Louise Hartzer. The Congregation established a half-way house to the Missions in Sydney, began their mission on Thursday Island, then extended to Yule Island in Papua, in August 1887, and to Rabaul in 1891. The first group of DOLSH Sisters arrived in the Gilbert Islands in 1895, lead by Sister Isabel, and a second group, including Sister Clémentine, arrived in January 1899. In 1923 Sister Isabel was replaced as the Superior in the Gilbert Islands by Sister Yvonne. She was succeeded by Sister Clémentine in 1933. The DOLSH Sisters stayed on in the Gilberts during World War II.

House diary (in French), 1921-1945; House diary (in French), 1946-1967; Photographs of Sister M. Clémentine Pineau and others; Sister Mary Clémentine Pineau’s Account of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Kiribati, 1898-1961 (in English); Sister Mary Oliva Lynch’s, Account of the MSC Mission in Kiribati, including biographies of priests, brothers, sisters, catechists and others (in Gilbertese).<P><b>See reel list for further details</B>

Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kiribati

Copies of written submissions and verbatim notes

  • AU PMB MS 1149
  • Collection
  • Jul 1995- Jan 1996

The Fiji Constitutional Review Commission was established by His Excellency the President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamasese Mara, on 15 March 1995. The President appointed the Right Reverend Sir Paul Reeves as Chairman of the Commission and Mr Tomasi Rayalu Vakatora and Dr Brij Vilash Lal as its other members. Ms Alison Quentin-Baxter and Mr Jon Apted were later appointed as Counsel assisting the Commission along with Mr Walter Gibson Rigamoto as its Secretary. The Commission was appointed to review the Fiji Constitution and produce a report on 30 June 1996 (later extended to 30 September 1996) 'recommending constitutional arrangements which will meet the present and future needs of the people of Fiji and promote racial harmony, national unity and the economic and social advancement of all communities' (Reeves, Vakatora and Lal, 1996). The Commission was required to scrutinise the Constitution, facilitate the widest possible debate on constitutional matters and inquire into and ascertain public opinion on possible ways to improve the Constitution. These papers represent the written and oral submissions which individuals, groups and organisations made to the Commission. The Commission had two rounds of public hearings throughout Fiji. The first round started on 3 July 1995 and was completed on 9 August 1995. The second round of hearings started on 22 August 1995 and was completed on 10 October 1995. This title documents the hearings.

CONTENTS The papers are divided into eight volumes of written submissions from 3 July 1995 to 14 September 1995, with the eighth volume consisting of additional submissions received by the Commission between July 1995 and January 1996. The remainder of the contents consists of verbatim notes resulting from oral submissions made between 3 July 1995 and 19 September 1995.

Reel 1 Written Submissions, Vol. 1, Nos. 001001-005007, 3-6 Jul 1995
Reel 2 Written Submissions, Vol. 2, Nos. 006001-006060, 14 Jul-22 Aug 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 3, Nos. 006058-006081, 22 Aug-28 Aug 1995
Reel 3 Written Submissions, Vol. 3, Nos. 006082-006089, 28 Aug-10 Oct 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 4, Nos. 006090-006118, n.d.
Written Submissions, Vol. 5, Nos. 007001-007009, 12-13 Jul 1995
Reel 4 Written Submissions, Vol. 5, Nos. 007010-009014, 010001-010020, 12-20 Jul 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 6, Nos. 011001-016026, 25-31 Jul 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 7, Nos. 017001-022001A, 1 Aug-14 Sep 1995
Reel 5 Written Submissions, Vol. 7, Nos. 022002-023007, 14 Sep 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 8, Nos. 024001-024090, Jul 1995-Jan 1996
Verbatim Notes, 3-10 Jul 1995
Reel 6 Verbatim Notes, 11 Jul – 3 Aug 1995
Reel 7 Verbatim Notes, 9 Aug - 12 Sep 1995
Reel 8 Verbatim Notes, 13 - 19 Sep 1995<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

Reeves, Sir Paul

Papers relating to her nutrition surveys in PNG, Fiji, Tonga and Niue, together with other South Pacific Health Service reports, by Susan Holmes, on nutrition surveys in Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands

  • AU PMB MS 1144
  • Collection
  • 1947-1954

Doreen Langley graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc in biochemistry and bacteriology. She began working at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. She then went back to Melbourne to be a dietitian at the 4th General US Army Hospital. After further study of nutrition Langley went to Papua New Guinea in 1947 as one of two women in a team of eight Australian scientists undertaking a survey of nutrition and the production, preparation and storage of food. She went to Gambia in 1950 with the British Medical Research Council Nutrition Unit and to Fiji, Niue and Tonga with the South Pacific Health Service, 1951-1954, collecting data concerning heights, weights and general nutritional status; family meals, local foods recipes and customs regarding food. Ms Langley was Principal of the Women’s College at the University of Sydney from 1957 till 1974.

Doreen Langley, PNG Nutrition Survey Expedition, diary notes, letters, press cuttings, original records, reports and publications, 1947; Fajara, Gambia, West Africa, nutrition survey, letters and diary notes, 1950; South Pacific Health Service, Fiji, diary notes, letters, maps and photographs, 1951-1953; Niue Island and Tonga Survey reports, diary notes, letters and photographs, 1952-1953. Susan Holmes’, Nutrition Survey Reports: Western Samoa, 1951; BSIP, 1952; Gilbert Islands, 1953; Cook Islands, 1954; Indian households, 1954.
N.b. 105 official photographs documenting the PNG Nutrition Survey in 1947 are held in the Women’s College Archives at 20/6/60.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Langley, Doreen

Archives

  • AU PMB MS 1141
  • Collection
  • 1957-1985

The PNG Coffee Marketing Board was formed in May 1964 under the Coffee Marketing Board Ordinance, 1963. That Act was amended many times to suit the requirements of the industry and finally superseded by the Coffee Industry Act, 1976, under which the Coffee Industry Board was established in March 1977. The main function of the Board was to control and regulate the production, processing, marketing and export of coffee grown in PNG.
In January 1987 the CIB was split into three autonomous bodies:
<LI>Coffee Industry Board</LI>
<LI>Coffee Research Institute, and</LI>
<LI>Coffee Development Authority</LI>
These three bodies were re-united into a single body by the formation of the Coffee Industry Corporation in October 1990. The Corporation now (1998) consists of four Divisions all under the authority of the CIC’s Board of Management:
<LI>Industry Affairs Division (the old CIB)</LI>
<LI>External Services Division (the old CDA)</LI>
<LI>Coffee Research Institute</LI>
<LI>Corporate Services Division (new)</LI>

Records of New Guinea coffee industry delegations, conferences and agreements, 1957-1964; records of the Coffee Export committee, 1963-64; minutes of the PNG Coffee Marketing Board./Coffee Industry Board, 1964-1982; registration of coffee exporters, 1965-1985; Highland Farmers and Settlers Association files, 1964-85; localisation of the coffee industry files, 1974-1979. <P><B>See Reel List for further details</B>

PNG Coffee Industry Corporation

A Days March Nearer Home, Vols. 5, 6 & 12: Presbyterian Teachers Training Institute (TTI), Tangoa, Vanuatu, 1947-1973.

  • AU PMB MS 1140
  • Collection
  • 1947-1973

Rev Dr Graham Miller and his wife Flora were missionaries in Vanuatu for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. They were based on the island of Tongoa (Shepherd Group) from 1941-1947. Dr Miller was principal of the Tangoa Training Institute (TTI) from 1947-52. In 1971 Dr Miller was invited to return to Vanuatu and help establish a Presbyterian Bible College. Dr Miller was also a member of the New Hebrides Synod and was closely involved with the indigenisation of the Presbyterian Church in Vanuatu. These papers concern Dr Miller's tenure at the TTI from 1947-52 and again on Tangoa from 1971-73.

The papers comprise three sections, or volumes. The first, Vol. 5, Five and a half years as Principal of the Teachers Training Institution, 1947-52, includes a description of the Miller's journey from Tongoa to Tangoa, his first steps as Principal, extracts from Dr Miller's LIVE books, photographs, lectures and the TTI's relationship with the condominium authorities. Section two, Vol. 6, Specimens of class lecture material at the Teachers Training Institute, Tangoa 1947-52, includes Dr Miller's selections of graded classroom notes which he used to assist the students in the main classroom disciplines, e.g. teaching the Bible, English, Christian conduct, practical training, church work & witness, teaching method, preaching class and Christian doctrine. Section three, Vol. 12, Presbyterian Bible College, Tangoa, 1971-73, includes papers on the Miller's return to Tangoa, plans for the Bible College, newsletters, TTI publications, patterns of student life & activities, student fieldwork, refresher courses, conferences, staff appointments and the Silver Jubilee of the PCNH. The volume concludes with descriptions of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Bible College in 1981.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Miller, J. Graham

Travel journals

  • AU PMB MS 1134
  • Collection
  • Sep 1953-Jan 1956

From a family of Russian emigr‚s based in Paris, Nicola‹ Michoutouchkine set out travelling in the Near and Middle East, India and South East Asia in 1953. After a period of conscription and work in New Caledonia, Michoutouchkine wound up settling in Port Vila in 1961 with Aloi Pilioko, a Futuna Islander artist. They collected more than 6,000 indigenous art objects from right across the South Pacific which they have been exhibited, with their own works, in Noumea, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, Russia and Central Europe, Taiwan and Indonesia.

Travel journals. The journals record the comments, sketches and verse of the artists, political and religious leaders, and other people Michoutouchkine met on his travels. They also hold travel documents, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and ephemera. As well as tracking Michoutouchkine's journey, the journals indicate the artistic influences he experienced and document aspects of his artistic development.

Reel 1, Vol. 1, 2 Sep 1953-Nov 1953, Vol 2, Nov 1953-Aug 1954, Vol 3, Aug 1954-Nov 1954
Reel 2, Vol 3, Nov 1954-Jan 1955, Vol 4, Feb-Jul 1955, Vol 5, Aug 1955-Jan 1956
Reel 3 Vol 5, Aug 1955-Jan 1956, cont.

Michoutouchkine, Nicolaï (Artist and collector, Port Vila, Vanuatu)

Archives

  • AU PMB MS 1117
  • Collection
  • 1969-1995

The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress is the national trade union centre of Papua New Guinea. It originates from meetings of PNG workers' associations held in Madang and Lae from 1964. It was not until December 1969 that the Federation of Workers' Associations, the predecessor of the PNG TUC, was formally constituted. Registration as an industrial organisation was granted on 7 March 1970. Paulus Arek was elected the first President, and Michael Kaniniba, of the Lae Miscellaneous Workers' Union, was the first of General Secretary of the Federation. Based in Lae during the 1970s, the Federation adopted the current name, PNG Trade Union Congress, in September 1974. With the support of PANGU activists, membership of the TUC expanded and in 1976 the Port Moresby trade unions, which had organised a rival trade union centre, the Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, affiliated to the PNGTUC.

The records microfilmed consist of a batch of minutes and correspondence for the period 1968-1984, which appear to be the only surviving records from the time when the TUC was located in Lae, together with later minutes, circulars, press releases and other papers.<BR>Minutes of meetings, 1969-1980 (gaps); Biennial Conference papers, 1983-1996; Executive Council meetings: various papers, 1985-1989; Management Board meeting papers, 1986-1990; meetings with Port Moresby based affiliates, 1989-1992; miscellaneous administrative and management papers, 1985-1988; general correspondence, 1968-1984; international correspondence, 1973-1984; circulars and memoranda, 1985, 1987-1992, 1995 (gaps); press statements, 1985-1995; papers and reports (including some agenda papers), 1974-1990; speeches, mainly by Lawrence Titimur, 1987-1990; South Pacific and Oeanic Council of Trade Unions, Conference No.2, Brisbane, meeting papers, Nov 1993. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress

Documents relating to Tama'aiga titles disputes

  • AU PMB MS 1115
  • Collection
  • 1949, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1990

The Tuimaleali'ifano title is one of the four princely titles in Samoa.

Legal documents and some related material concerning cases in 1949, 1976 and 1977 in the Land and Titles Court of Western Samoa re disputes on succession of the Tuimaleali'ifano title. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

Land and Titles Court, Western Samoa

Correspondence and other papers related to their service with The Methodist Overseas Mission, New Hanover, PNG

  • AU PMB MS 1114
  • Collection
  • 1936-1942

Thomas Nevison Simpson was born in London on 18 March 1909. In May 1924 (aged 15 years) he came to Adelaide with the last batch of boys under the Barwell Scheme of South Australia. In 1928 he took the local preachers' examination and became a member of the Methodist Church. In 1936 he completed studies at Wesley College in Adelaide and at the University of Sydney. In August 1936 he was sent to the Methodist Mission in Rabaul, New Britain, and then to the Mission at Kavieng in New Ireland where he was Assistant Minister. In December 1936 he was sent as the first Methodist Missionary to New Hanover where he was stationed at Ranmelek. Nellie Sudlow and Tom Simpson were married in Rabaul in September 1937. Nellie and their daughter, Margaret, were evacuated from Kavieng in December 1941, but Tom Simpson stayed on at Ranmelek where he was captured by the Japanese. The last communication from Tom Simpson was dated 5 January 1942. Nellie Simpson died in July 1992.

Correspondence from Tom Simpson to Nellie Ludlow and from Tom and Nellie to her family, together with press cuttings and related documents, 1936-1942, arranged and summarised by their daughter, Margaret Henderson. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Simpson, Thomas Nevison

Manuscripts on the history and legends of Mangareva

  • AU PMB MS 1083
  • Collection

E atoga Magareva and E mau takao tupuna no Magareva, Part 1. Te mau atoga tehito, and Part 2. Te mau kapa tehito.

See reel list for further details.

Uebe, Auguste

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