Political periodical which reflects over 33 years of social, political and economic change in New Caledonia and includes very lively criticisms of, and exchanges between, local personalities. A few issues in New Caledonian Melanesian languages, Tahitian and Wallisian. Organ of Union Caledonienne, reflects also changes in the U.C. itself from its formation in 1952 as an anti-communist reformist party with a large Melanesian base, dominated by Europeans and deeply attached to France, to the principal element in the independence movement's Front de Liberation Nationale Kanak et Socialiste. Originally edited by Maurice Lenormand: its 1987 editor was Nicholas Pidjot. First issue published 11 December 1954, very irregular between 1972 - 1979, still published in 1989.

The collection microfiched was obtained from a variety of sources (Union Caledonienne, M. Lenormand, National Library of Australia, Archives Territoriales New Caledonia, Bess Flores) but no complete set exists with any of these sources. Issues not available may not have been published.

Nos 1 (11 December 1954) - 980 (23 December 1987), 978 documents in all. Missing issues: 147 (1957): 152 (1958): 414 (1963): 557 (1966): 931, 935, 938, 940 (1985). Fiche 1-8 contain an incomplete set of the Union Caledonienne congresses as follows.'
0001 : 11th congress 1980 (22pp): 1st Congress 1956 (=U.C. ce qu'elle est ...) pp 1-40
0002 : 1st Congress 1956 pp 41-64
0003 : Programme d'action, 1957
0004 : Progress report on activities between the 3rd Congress (1958) and 4th congress (1960) presented by M. Lenormand at the 4th Congress
0005 : Tract 'Une vague de calumnie ...' undated: 5th Congress, Poindimie, 1962
0005/0006: 6th Congress 1963
0007 : Territorial elections 1977:12th Congress 1981
0008 : 10th Anniversary Congress, same as 5th Congress, Poindimie, 1962 (on 0004) with cover page added.

The Betela Dance Troupe grew out of the Betela Youth Club formed in 1960 on Rarotonga by Mrs Lily Jonassen. The Jonassen family was prominent in the troupe with Anne Jonassen for many years troupe leader. Its repertoire of Polynesian traditional dances included fire, drum and war dances, and others such as Ru's canoe, created by Jon Jonassen. Between 1968 and 1977 the troupe made many visits to Japan, in 1976 staying 6 months on Namegawa Island and taking part in Japanese television dramas. See also Jon Jonassen: The Betela Dance Troupe through the years in PMB 1001: Pambu 3(2) January-March 1989.

5 brochures of colour photographs and Japanese text, with occasional English captions. Dated between 1972 and 1976, they provide scenes of dances performed on Namegawa and elsewhere in Japan, and include a history and description of the Betela Dance Troupe with photographs and biographical details for Anne Jonassen and all other troupe members dancing at the time of the visits.

Geoff Walls coordinated the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division's Biological Diversity Project for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands funded by the Commonwealth Science Council from 1986 to 1988. The author's summary report Traditional uses of plants in New Zealand and the Pacific ... (Havelock North, DSIR Oct. 1988) was distributed to PMB Member Libraries in July 1989.

4 papers:<BR>Paper No. 1: Commonwealth Science Council Biological Diversity Project perennial plants of New Zealand and South Pacific Islands, project plan for 1986. January 1986 - 4 pages<BR>Paper No. 2: Cook Islands visit, July-August 1986: reports on a visit as part of the Commonwealth Science Council's Biological Diversity of Perennial Plants project. September 1986 - 21 pages. Identifies for future research plants of high traditional human value throughout the Pacific: notes serious effects of mealy bug infestation of pandanus on production and sales of Atiu women's handicrafts: draws attention to Bill Sykes' work towards a comprehensive flora of the Cook Islands: summarizes discussions with Cook Islanders on traditional plant uses<BR>Paper No. 3: Commonwealth Science Council Biological Diversity Project, New Zealand and the Pacific: progress report, March 1987 - 14 pages<BR>Paper No. 4: Commonwealth Science Council Biologial Diversity Project, New Zealand and the Pacific: regional position paper, prepared for Commonwealth Science Council, November 1987 - 13 pages. Describes progress 1986-1987: defines project's aims as cataloguing information regarding existing plant use: conserving the traditional knowledge and the plants: and facilitating current and future plant use: recommends project development for future action.

A copy of this work was offered in 1985 for sale ($USA7500) by E.J. Lefkowiz (Massachusettes) with the following description:<BR>Paris, (Francois Edmond). ESSAIS SUR LA CONSTRUCTION DES PEUPLES EXTRA-EUROPEENS OU COLLECTION DES NAVIRES ET PIROGUES CONSTRUITS PAR LES HABITANTS DE L'ASIE, DE LA MALASIE, DU GRAND OCEAN ET DE L'AMERIQUE. Dessines et mesures par M. Paris, ... pendant les voyages autour du monde de l'Astrolabe, la Favorite, et l'Artemise ... Paris, (1843) Folio, 52.8 cm., 2 vols. bound in one: (s6), 156, (2) pp. (text): (2) pp. + 133 plates (atlas) ... Paris, an expert on shipbuilding, was on three of the most important 19th-century French voyages to the Pacific: with Dumont d'Urville on the Astrolabe (1826-29): with LaPlace on the Favorite (1829-32 and on the Artemise (1837-40)... . The work was originally issued in parts. Includes accounts of visit to Tahiti, Caroline and Mariana Islands and plates showing canoes and small vessels constructed there. Microfilm presented to PMB by Prof. G.A. Horride of ANU. For description of the edition to be prepared by Prof. Horridge see Pambu 3(2) 1989.

These reports were published by the German Colonial Office for the years 1903/04 to 1911/12 and cover the German Colonies in Africa and Oceania. They were compiled by Government medical officers in charge of health services in the Colonies.<BR>Earlier medical reports were published as part of the annual reports from the Colonies. The report for 1912/13 was being prepared for publication when war broke out and publication did not proceed. A shortened version (60 pages) was published in the Archiv fur Schiffs- und Tropenhygiene vol.28 (1924), Beiheft 1. This journal is available in the Library of the University of Queensland.

The contents comprise statistics on morbidity and mortality of European and local population (if treated by European doctors) with commentaries and case studies: reports on public health: details on the setting up of hospitals etc.: maps of the distribution of 'tropical' diseases (Africa only): lists of articles published by German medical researchers: veterinary reports from the African colonies.<BR>Reel 1 - vols 1-3: 1904/05 - 1906/07<BR>Reel 2 - vols 4-6: 1907/08 - 1909/10<BR>Reel 3 - vols 7,8: 1910/11 - 1911/12<BR>Each volume appears to contain records from 1 April of one year to 31 March of the following year. All are indexed into five major geographical areas. The contents of the first four volumes are listed in these five geographical areas but from vol.5, 1908/09 onwards the indexes are more detailed.

The multigraph printing press was purchased by Charles Parham Jr. in Sydney in 1923 and manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio. The press was taken to the Parham family plantation on Vanua Levu, Fiji, where it was used over the next twenty years by Charles' sisters, Beatrice and Helena, to print a series of booklets. The majority of these works, containing poetry and notes on botany and folk medicine, were written by their mother, H.B. Richenda Parham. A few works were written by other members of the Parham family. Some booklets were sold, some given to friends and some written for fund-raising activities. The most widely distributed and successful works were Plantation Printer's Pie: a pot-pourri of facts and foods in Fiji and Some Medicinal Plants of Vanua Levu. The latter was expanded for more conventional publication by the Polynesian Society.

44 booklets. A list of titles appears at the beginning of the microfilm as well as a detailed description of each booklet and its contents. Some of the verses appear in more than one booklet. Most of the booklets are quite legible but a few, particularly those printed on blue paper, are very difficult to read in their original form but are included on the microfilm. Some of the works have been illustrated by Beatrice or Helena. A few of the works were produced by commercial printers in Hokitika, New Zealand and Suva, Fiji.

Dr Georges Renaud, a French medical officer, travelled or worked in Tahiti, Australia, Fiji and the Wallis Islands. As Medical Officer on Wallis Island between 1932-1933, he collected, for the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, stone axes and arrows, pearl shell fish lures and scale models of traditional houses and double canoes. His book Les iles Wallis was written in 1983, and based on his own observations and on discussions with Wallis Islanders, on the health, social organization and material culture of Wallis Island during the early 1930s.

The copy microfilmed by the Bureau was a photocopy lent to the Bureau by the Association These-Pac of Noumea. Some pages are illegible. The author's contents page (p.144) is reproduced both at the beginning and the end of the text, which begins with page 3 and ends on page 144. The text includes sketches not listed in the author's preface. These are listed in the microfilm in the preliminary pages supplied by the Bureau.

For details see PMB Doc 2

Eighth session, vol.2, 1954: for vol.1 see PMB Doc 3

For details see PMB Doc 2

Ninth session, 1955

For details see PMB Doc 34

Nos. 232-272, October 1951 - Spring 1963. Lacks nos. 259-62, 266-69, 273+.