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The Samoa Times

  • AU PMB DOC 534
  • Collection
  • 13 Jan 1984 – 24 Dec 1993

The Samoa Times was published from 1964-1993 in both English and Samoan. The Samoa Times was published in Apia, Western Samoa

See Finding aids for details.

The Samoa Times

Locality study of Madang, Allied Geographical Section, South West Pacific Area

  • AU PMB DOC 520
  • Collection
  • 1943

From the series, Terrain Study (Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area, Allied Geographical Section), No.69.

Part I: Geographical Information, pp.1-75.
Part II: Photographs and Maps.
Section I, - Photographs, Nos.1-76.
Section II – Maps.
Appendices, pp.77-83.

Locality Study of Madang, Allied Geographical Section, South West Pacific Area

Area study of Madang / Allied Geographical Section, South West Pacific Area, Vols.1 & 2.

  • AU PMB DOC 519
  • Collection
  • 1943

From the series, Terrain Study (Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area, Allied Geographical Section), No.59.

Vol.1: Text and Maps
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps
Appendices

Vol.2: Photographs
Part 1: Enemy strengths, dispositions, installations, armament
Part 2: Geographical information
Part 3: Photographs and maps

Area Study of Madang / Allied Geographical Section, South West Pacific Area, Vols.1 & 2.

An English and Tongan vocabulary, also a Tongan and English vocabulary, with a list of idiomatic phrases; and Tongan grammar

  • AU PMB DOC 470
  • Collection
  • 1897

This book is not only rare, but also has been printed on very weak paper. The copy held in the Baker Papers (PMB 1203/227) is disintegrating. The copy held by the National Library of Australia, microfilmed here, is in better condition but the paper is very fragile and has cracked in several places. Other surviving copies are also likely to be deteriorating due to the poor quality of the paper. The PMB also has available a digital version of Baker’s Tongan Vocabulary, scanned from this microfilm, converted to text, and searchable.

Baker’s English and Tongan Vocabulary consists of the following parts:
Preface
List of abbreviations
English-Tongan Vocabulary, pp.1-133.
Tongan – English Vocabulary, pp.1-206.
List of Idiomatic Phrases, pp.207-209.
Errata, p.210.
Addenda, p.211.
List of Pronouns Omitted, p.211.
Grammar of the Tongan Language, pp.1-42.

Baker, Shirley Waldemar

Diary kept at the Methodist Mission in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, New Guinea, and related papers

  • AU PMB MS 1297
  • Collection
  • Jul 1912-Mar 1913

Sr Rhoda Ransom, born Maryborough Victoria, 29 Dec 1887, worked as a nursing sister with the Methodist Mission in New Guinea from July 1912 until March 1913 when she returned to Australia suffering from malaria and rheumatic problems in her legs.

• Passport, c.1949
• Diary, Jul 1912-Mar 1913
• Photograph of Sr. Rhoda Ransom
• Map of Duke of York and Ulu Island annotated by Sr Rhoda
• Postcards (36 items), some annotated by Sr. Rhoda: Methodist Mission in New Guinea and Fiji, together with some German New Guinea postcards.
See Finding aids for details. See also PMB Photo 14.

Ransom, Rhoda

Transcript of proceedings

  • AU PMB MS 1268
  • Collection
  • Feb 1987-Jan 1988

Nauru's environment has been devastated by 100 years of phosphate mining. Mining of Nauru’s phosphate deposits began in earnest after the First World War under a joint Australian-New Zealand-British venture, the British Phosphate Commission. This mining was carried out with no regard for future rehabilitation and on terms that deprived the Nauruan people of reasonable returns for the sale of its phosphate in world markets.

In 1987-1988 the government of Nauru held a Commission of Inquiry into the rehabilitation of its worked-out phosphate lands. In 1988 the Commission published a 10 volume report which concluded that the island's former administrators - Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom - were responsible for the rehabilitation of worked out areas of the island mined during the period of the Mandate and Trust.

After several unsuccessful requests to the Australian government for financial assistance, Nauru took the findings of its Commission of Inquiry to the International Court of Justice which admitted a case against Australia. The case aroused much interest and controversy with Nauru receiving vocal support from world-wide environmental groups. A Compact of Settlement was reached in 1993 before the substantive hearing took place in the International Court in which Australia agreed to pay the Republic of Nauru a cash payment of AU$57 million and AU$2.5 million annually for 20 years. This money was to be used on development projects. New Zealand and the United Kingdom each agreed to contribute AU$12 million ex gratia towards the Australian out-of-court settlement

Transcript of proceedings, as follows:
Open Sittings, Days 1-33, 35-36, 39-52, pp.1-4191, 23 Feb 1987-30 Jan 1988.
Closed Sittings, Days 25, 30, 33, 34, 37 & 38, pp.1-591, 23 Nov-11 Dec 1987.
See Finding aids for details.

Commission of Inquiry into the Rehabilitation of the Worked-Out Phosphate Lands in Nauru

Anthropological papers

  • AU PMB MS 641
  • Collection
  • c.1925 - 1945

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
    No item 7 listed
  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).

Lehner, Stephan

Miscellaneous papers relating to Tonga and Fiji

  • AU PMB MS 635
  • Collection
  • 1900 - 1971

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 .

Gribble, Cecil Frank

Notes on the anthropology, myths, legends, ornithology and Catholic Missions of Fiji

  • AU PMB MS 439
  • Collection
  • c.1891-1925

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

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 1046
  • Collection
  • 1882 - 1937

William Gray (1854-1937) was born near Gawler, South Australia. He obtained his BA from Adelaide Uni. and graduated in divinity from Union College in 1880, the first Presbyterian student to complete the course. He spent 1881, the year of his ordination, in medical training at Adelaide Hospital and as Minister to the congre-gations of Goodwood and Mount Barker. He married Elizabeth McEwen in 1882 and shortly after they sailed for Weasisi, Tanna, New Hebrides in the Dayspring. Gray was the first Presbyterian Church of South Australia missionary to the New Hebrides. He produced a grammar, primer, hymnal and translation of Luke's Gospel in the Tanna language. At the age of 71 Gray became head of the Smith of Dunesk Presbyterians Mission which later became the nucleus of John Flynn's Australian Inland Mission. See also PMB 1047 and 1048.

The collection is divided into three parts.

Part I - Personal Diaries (seven) (Please see PMB 1047 for diaries 1882-84)1 September 1884 to 31 August 1885<BR>1 September 1885 to 31 March 1887<BR>1 April 1887 to 28 April 1889<BR>1 May 1889 to 12 September 1891<BR>12 September 1891 to 31 July 1893<BR>1 August 1893 to 11 March 1898<BR>Medical diary containing case notes, including his wife's confinements, 1882-94

Part II - Miscellaneous Papers<BR>1 - Diary of Andrew Gray, typescript copy, 1794-1816, 10pp; newspaper clipping ?1935 by J.D. Allan Gray (grandson).<BR>2 - Genealogy of the Gray family prepared by William Gray, 15pp handwritten and a 14-page typescript copy<BR>3 - Photograph of Bishop John Gray with notes on reverse; brief history, 1p; photograph of William Gray's mother, Elizabeth Milne<BR>4 - Marriage certificate of William Gray and Elizabeth McEwen, 1882<BR>5 - Birth certificate of William Watt Erskine Gray, 1888<BR>6 - Birth certificate of Winifred Nellie Turner, 1898<BR>7 - Marriage certificate of William W.E. Gray and Winifred N. Turner, 1917<BR>8 - Short history of William Gray on his death in 1937, handwritten (author unknown); press clipping from The Banner, article entitled 'A Bush Batism'<BR>9 - 5 letters to William W.E. Gray, Winifred Gray and the S.A. Caledonian Society Inc. from William Gray re the disposition of books, manuscripts and papers, 1931, 1932 and 1937<BR>10 - Brief history of Church's partici-pation in mission fields in the New Hebrides, William Gray, 1936, 6pp 11 - Typescript article entitled 'Tanna', by William Gray, 3pp<BR>12 - Typescript article entitled 'The New Hebrides, news from Tanna: A Natives' Conference' by William Gray, 5pp<BR>13 - Account of the wreck of the Ferdinand de Lessops, by William Gray, handwritten, 10pp<BR>14 - Notes by clerk of Synod on New Hebrides Mission Synod, 1882, 2pp<BR>15 - Extracts from letters from British and Foreign Bible Society, 1895<BR>16 - Extracts from Journal of Rev. Oscar Michelson, 1897, 10pp<BR>17 - Notes from Minutes of New Hebrides Synod, 1899<BR>18 - Typescript copy of letter written in English by Nuvau, a man on Tanna, dated June 29th 1932 to Thomas Watt, son of William Watt a missionary on Tanna for forty years, 1p<BR>s19 - 'Some Notes on the Tannese' in Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie, Bd. VII. 1894, pp 227-241, illustrated. Reprint of article by William Gray, 1892<BR>20 - 'William and Elizabeth Gray, Life on Tanna, New Hebrides' draft of a family history begun by William Watt Erskine Gray, incomplete, 1953<BR>21 - Correspondence from Queensland re whereabouts of missing Kanakas

Part III - Correspondence to William Gray<BR>The correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order by the owner. The correspondents are:<BR>Annand, 1894; Australian New Hebrides Company Ltd, 1894; Braithwaite G., 1882-88; British and Foreign Bible Society, 1896; Connell W., 1887; Copeland J., 1887; Cosh J. 1885-94; Cronstedt A., 1894; Forlong H., 1895-96; Fraser R., 1886; Freeman R., 1884; Goodlet and Smith Ltd, 1893-96 (for church at Aniwa); Gunn W., 1883-1902; Ingliss J., 1888; Johnson C.F.; Leggatt Watt F., 1887-94; Landel J., 1894; Lawrie J., 1894; Lyall J. and Lyall H., 1885-88; Macdonald D., 1884-85; MacKenzie J., 1888-1902; Macmillan T., 1894-1911; Martin A., 1894; Michelsen O., 1884-95; Milne P., 1884-95; Morton A., 1887; Murdo R., 1887; Murray C., 1886-87; Paton D., F. and J., 1882-94; Presbyterian Church of South Australia, 1894; Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 1894; Rolland N., 1894; Smaill T., 1894; Steel R., 1882; Watt Agnes, 1893-94; Watt W., 1887-1902There are also 3 letters by the same correspondent whose name is difficult to read, E.J. Suraski?, written from Whitesand January/February 1886. The correspondent and another (Mr Collins?) were shot at by natives and their house broken into and robbed. William Gray offered refuge at his home if the correspondent was unable to get a ship to take him off. See reference to this incident in Elizabeth Gray's journal, PMB 1048.The last item is a letter signed by the Commander of the Raven, Frank Murphy?, 1887

Gray, William

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