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A prospector's diary, New Guinea 1931-1937

  • AU PMB MS 625
  • Collection
  • 1931 - 1937

O'Neill arrived in New Guinea in 1931 and was engaged in prospecting mainly on the Morobe goldfield.

A typescript in diary form based on an original diary and letters concerning his period as a gold prospector.

Ch. 1: To Edie Creek, and After
Ch. 2: The Black Cat, and the Bittoi River
Ch. 3: The Paradise Strip and a Touch of Slavery
Ch. 4: The Ramu and the Purari Amongst the Warriors of the Long Bow<
Ch. 5: The Upper Watut - Kuka Kuka Country, Who Hunts What, with a club
Ch. 6: The Lower Watut. River of Mustard Gold.

O'Neill, John Davies

Papers

  • AU PMB MS 629
  • Collection
  • 1947 - 1972

Fenbury was born in Western Australia in 1916 and became a patrol officer in New Guinea in 1937. After wartime service followed by a period with the Government of Tanganyika, he returned to New Guinea in 1947 to become Assistant District Officer responsible for organising native local government councils. After holding several other senior posts, he went to New York as the Australian Government Nominee in the trusteeship division of the United Nations Secretariat. In 1972 he became Secretary of the Department of the Administrator. His last post before retiring from the Territory in 1962 was Secretary of the Department of Social Development and Home Affairs.

The papers are:

  1. Correspondence, 1947-48
  2. Native Local Government, 1950-59
  3. Taxation, 1951-68
  4. Land conversion and Native Economic Development, 1953-66
  5. Taloi Cocoa Project, 1954-68
  6. Administrative organisation, 1959-72
  7. Dissemination of News and Information to the Indigenous Population, 1959
  8. Notes on Durham Report, 1961
  9. Electoral Matters, 1962
  10. Urban Local Government, 1962-68
  11. Mataungan Association, 1971
  12. Correspondence with Dr J. Guise, 1972

Fenbury, David Maxwell

Diaries and papers

  • AU PMB MS 630
  • Collection
  • 1919 - 1941

Mann, a Methodist missionary, served at Piniqidu (now spelt Pinikidu), New Ireland, from 1919 to 1921. The papers comprise:

  1. Diary 1919-22
  2. Letters, 1920
    3 Letters from missionaries at Piniqidu, 1922-41
  3. Notes on the Malagenes ceremony and the influence of government and missions.
  4. Stores list, Piniqidu, 1919-20
  5. Writings (with translations) by mission staff at Piniqidu describing various local customs including burial practices, the preparation and use of malira (an aphrodisiac), treatment of sickness and insanity, rain making and the presentation of eligible girls.
  6. Description of slides.

Mann Rev. Ira James

Plantation inspection reports

  • AU PMB MS 637
  • Collection
  • 1957 - 1959

The reports are of inspections made by the plantation managers of the following plantations in Papua owned or managed by the company: Baramata, Conflict Group, Doini, Epo, Mamai, Maua and Vaiviri, Rubberlands.

Steamships Trading Company Limited

Company papers and a diary

  • AU PMB MS 660
  • Collection
  • 1936 - 1965

Investors Ltd was formed in 1936 to provide funds to equip expeditions led by Jack Hides to prospect for gold.

The film contains:

  1. Correspondence, 1936-37
  2. 'Report of aerial reconnaissance made from Mt Hagen over the country examined by Hides and O'Malley on the Strickland-Purari Patrol, 1934-36'
  3. Radio log, 22 February - 17 August 1937
  4. Hides' diary, 7 March - 9 July 1937
  5. Report on Central New Guinea Expedition, 1937
  6. Financial statement, 1965

The papers were used by J.P. Sinclair in the writing of his biography of Hides, The Outside Man.

Investors Ltd.

Centenary program, booklets

  • AU PMB MS 706
  • Collection
  • c.1946 - 1968

See PMB 701

The papers are:

  1. a roneoed programme, containing a brief history of the LMS on Niue, issued in 1968 to celebrate the centenary of the mission on the island - in English
  2. the same as above - in Niuean
  3. a booklet entitled 'Ko e Tohi Fakamanatuaga he Senetenari a Peniamina, Niue, 1846-1946' (30pp. + 2)
  4. a booklet entitled 'Fefe kia ke Maeke kia au ke Talia a Keriso?' (LMS Printing Press, Niue), (12pp. + 1).

London Missionary Society - Niue

Miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 920
  • Collection
  • 1840 - 1892

A: Documents selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1848-1852, Tom. 4;

  1. Miscellaneous letters written by Colin, Montrouzier, Marinoni, Salerio, Reina.
  2. Booklet (19pp.) - Nouve lettere dei Missionari di S. Calocero dall'Oceania, published in Milan, 1853. Contains two letters each by Salerio and Reina

B: Selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1853-1857, Tom. 5;

  1. Miscellaneous letters written by Marinoni, Reina, Fremont, Mazzucconi, Salerio.

C: Selected from Collegi d'Italia, CV 43, Book 2, Collegio & Seminario delle Missioni Estere in Milano, dal 1850 al 1892;

  1. List of students in S. Calocero in c.1850/51 and brief character sketch of each
  2. Prospetto del personale del Seminario Lombardo - Veneto delle Estere Missioni in Milano
  3. List of seminarians from S. Calocero and their destinations
  4. Relazione, sulla morte del missionario apostolico D. Giovanni Mazzucconi a lunno del seminario delle Missioni in Milano, Milan (post 1856). Contains extracts of letters written by Mazzucconi in the year prior to his death.
  5. Notizie ed instruzioni per gli aspiranti ad entrare nel seminario delle Estere Missioni in Milano detto di

S. Calocero, Milano, 1864. 8pp.

Catholic Mission, Woodlark and Rook Islands

Journal

  • AU PMB MS 923
  • Collection
  • 1845 - 1848

Mgr Collomb, of the Society of Mary, was Bishop of Antipheles and Vicar Apostolic of Melanesia and Micronesia

The journal is in three exercise books:

Vol.1: November 1845 - March 1847, includes voyage from Europe to Sydney
Vol.2: April 1847 to Collomb's death in July 1848. It includes an account of the abandonment of the Marist mission at San Cristobal, 3 November 1847, and the arrival at Woodlark Island, 15 November 1847; also the division of the missionaries, 9 May 1848, with Montrouzier, Thomassin and Bro. Aristide remaining on Woodlark, and Collomb, Fremont, Villien and Bro. Optat starting a mission on Rook (Umboi) Island.
Vol.3: A collection of copies of letters and an account of events remembered by Collomb beginning April 1847. (Collomb mislaid his journal for a time and believed it lost. He tried to reconstruct it from memory. Then the journal was found and continued.)

Collomb Mgr

Miscellaneous papers and reports

  • AU PMB MS 924
  • Collection
  • 1920 - 1925

Papers re transfer of Solomon Islands district to Methodist Church of New Zealand in 1922

  1. Papers re land matters, 1922 (Solomon Islands)
  2. Synod Report, 1922; financial statements, 1922; first annual board meeting, Methodist Missionary Society of New Zealand, 1922
  3. List of board members, 1924; accounts and estimates, 1924-25

Methodist Church of New Zealand, Solomon Islands District

Miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 980
  • Collection
  • 1826 - 1926

The papers are in 19 folders numbered A800 - A818.

Reel 1:<BR>A800; Model deed for lease of land by Wesleyan Church, 1875<BR>A801; Testimonial to Rev. G. Minns from people of Ha'apai and Vava'u, 1880-81<BR>A802; Lists of missionaries, 1826-56, 1826-1926; examination report on T. Adams; marriage certificate, Olling/Lane; constitution of Free Church; proclamation re foreign affairs; death certificate, S.W. Baker; will of J.C. Moulton; invitation to unveiling of memorial to J.E. Moulton; extract from Tupou College report, 1920<BR>A803; Extract from journal of Rev. G. Minns (Poem by L. Fison)<BR>A804-812; Papers relating to Wesleyan-Free Church conflict 1885-1890<BR>A813-814; Reports of court cases at Ha'apai, 1885-1886<BR>

Reel 2:<P>A815; Police court summonses against Wesleyans 1886<BR>A816; Land agreements, memos of trust meetings, notes on accounts etc. 1883-1924<BR>A817; Permission to attend government schools; proclamation re British protections; Synod minutes 1921; etc.<BR>A818; Papers re constitution and land ownership<BR>

Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga

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