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

General letters to Biship J. Vidal, SM. At the end of the reel are private letters from Government House, 1897-1907.

Please see PMB 738 for full entry.

Continued from PMB 760 - Volume 19: correspondence etc. 1920-29.
Log of the Morning Star (Capt. George Garland), 1 November 1882 - 1 March 1884 of missionary voyages to the Caroline, Gilbert and Marshall Islands. The vessel was wrecked at Kusaie and sold at auction.
Newspaper clippings, chiefly from the Missionary Herald, January 1870 - April 1884, concerning the mission to Micronesia (continued on PMB 762).

Please see PMB 738 for full entry.

Continued from PMB 754 - Volume 15: correspondence, 1900-09.
Volume 16: Correspondence, 1900-09 (letters L-P), from missions stations on Kusaie, Guam and Truk. The correspondents are Rev. and Mrs A.A. Jagnow, Rev. and Mrs A.C. Logan, Beulah Logan, Jenny LOlin, Annette Palmer, E.M. Pease and Mrs Pease, Rev. and Mrs F.M. Price. The correspondence from Price is from California and that from Beulah Logan is from Australia. Continued on PMB 756 and 757.

Dr Miller and his wife Flora were missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand on the island of Tongoa, in the Shepherd Group, Vanuatu from 1941 to 1947. Miller was also a member of the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission Synod and was closely associated with the indigenisation of the Church in Vanuatu (see PMB 1012). With a training in law and no knowledge of linguistics or anthropology, Miller and his wife made up their minds to become one with the people and were soon able to use the local language, a dialect of Efatese used in preaching and conversation.

The notes comprise three sections:

• a bound volume, a folder and a collection of miscellaneous papers. Most of the notes are dated and have a name or initials attached. Some of the material is incomplete and some in poor condition. Much is recorded in the Tongoan language. Dr Miller has provided information on his informants, explanations, localities and circumstances. The notes contain reference to: genealogies, proverbs, folkstories, songs, lullabies, ceremonies, migrations, native wars, village names (including some now extinct), customs, totems, weaving patterns, history and language.

See also PMB 1012, 1028 and Miller, J. Graham, 'Live: a history of church planting in Vanuatu'Vols I-VII available from Dr J G Miller, 14 Franklin Street, Wangaratta, VIC 3677

Please see PMB MS 184. These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives.

The documents comprise material in the following files:

1. ON 418 Mgr Brayer, 1896-1918
2. ON 418 Mgr Darnand, 1905-34 (contents 1920)
3. ON 498 T.O.R.M. Epistolae Ad Admin General (1877, 1892-1920)
4. ON 5700-1 Collegiae (1895)
5. ON 600 Activitas Pastoralis (Conferences Theologiques, 1886)
6. ON 6100 Aleipata (1900), Apia (1870-1)
7. ON 61 208 Apia Epistolae (1848-54, 1875-90, 1910, 1855-57)

J.K. McCarthy (1905- ) joined the pre-war New Guinea Administration as a patrol officer in 1927 and served in New Britain, Morobe and Sepik districts. After war service with the Coastwatchers and ANGAU in New Guinea, and also in Borneo and Sarawak, he rejoined the Administration as District Officer, Madang in 1947. He was subsequently District Commissioner Rabaul and director of Native Affairs (later District Administration) 1960-68. His autobiography Patrol into Yesterday was published in 1963.

The papers comprise:

1. Court papers, 1927
2. Malutu and Talasea patrol reports, 1927-29
3. Ambunti and Marienberg patrol reports, 1930-32
4. Land investigations, New Ireland, 1932
5. Kukukuku-Menyamya patrols, 1933
6. Native labour inspections, 1933
7. Rai Coast and Karkar Island patrol reports, 1934-35
8. Sepik River exploration (accompanying Administrator), 1935
9. Wewak patrol reports, 1935
10. Aitape patrol reports, 1936-37
11. Report on tour of Netherlands New Guinea, 1952
12. Central Nakanai patrol report by J.B. Mackay, 1926
13. Chimbu-Wahgi correspondence, 1936 (C.D. Bates) 1937 (A.F. Kyle)

Ian Downs (1915- ) joined the Department of District Services in the Territory of New Guinea in 1936 and, as a patrol officer, served in most districts. After wartime naval service, he returned to the Territory as a district officer and later served as District Commissioner in the New Ireland, Madang and Eastern Highlands districts. He resigned from the Administration in 1956 and became a coffee planter near Goroka. He was president of the Highland Farmers and Settlers' Association from 1957 to 1968 and a member of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea in the same period.

The papers comprise:

1. Patrol reports in Morobe, Madang and New Ireland districts, 1936-49
2. Annual reports, Chimbu sub-district, 1939-40
3. Monthly reports, Chimbu sub-district, 1939-40
4. Census figures, New Ireland district, c.1949. See also PMB 609

Bishop Navarre (1836-1912) was ordained in 1872. He began a mission on New Britain in 1882. In 1884, he arrived at Thursday Island to establish headquarters and prepare for the expansion of the Catholic Mission to the mainland of New Guinea. In the following year Navarre chose Fr Henry Verjus to establish a new station on Yule Island, Papua. Navarre moved to Yule Island himself in 1886, and in the following year returned to Europe to be consecrated Bishop at Issoudun, France. He was raised to the status of Archbishop in August 1888. He remained in Papua New Guinea until just before his death on 16 January 1912.

A typescript copy of autobiographical notes, observations and reflections by Mgr Navarre on his missionary experiences and the teachings of the Catholic Church.<BR>See also Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea (Peter Ryan, ed.), Melbourne University Press, 1972, vol.2, pp.840-42.

A collection of published papers by many different authors on the botany of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). The papers appear on the microfilms in alphabetical order by author, and are preceded by a full index. The authors are:

Reel 1: Balansa, Benjamin to Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore
Reel 2: Brongniart, Adolphe Theodore and Gris, Arthur, to Fournier, E.
Reel 3: Fournier, E., to Jardin, Edelstan
Reel 4: Jardin, Edelstan to Nadeaud, Jean
Reel 5: Nadeaud, Jean to Spring, A.F.
Reel 6: Theriot, J., to Vouaux, L.

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.