This early edition of Sylvia Masterman’s, An Outline of Samoan History (67pp., Ts., roneo, maps, appendices), was published by the Western Samoan Education Department in 1958. It consists of 17 chapters, as follows:

1. The Polynesian People
2. Polynesian Voyages
3. Samoa before 1830
4. European Exploration of the Pacific
5. The Coming of Missionaries
6. The Growth of Trade. The Germans in Samoa
7. The United States and Samoa
8. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand Interests in Samoa
9. Strife in Samoa 1835-1880
10. The Troubled Years 1880-1889
11. An Attempt at International Control 1890-1900
12. German Samoa 1900-1914
13. New Zealand Occupies Western Samoa 1914
14. Western Samoa becomes a mandated territory
15. The Years of the ‘Mau’ 1926-1936
16. Towards Self Government
17. American Samoa

Appendices: 1. Pili the Father of the Samoan Race; 2. The ‘Callipoe’;

3. Robert Louis Stevenson; 4. Volcanic Eruption in Savaii – 1905;
4. Comparative Word List; 6. Chronology; 7. Word List

A later edition was published in Samoan and English in 1980.

For details see PMB Doc 46

Issues for 1865-1869, 1871 (lacks 1870)

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.

This book is rare. The Departmental Standing Instructions were issued to Patrol Officers to assist them to undertake their work in Papua New Guinea. Patrol Officers worked in the field with indigenous people in the administration of Districts. The intention of the publication was to present instructions and advice in a concise and consolidated form.

The first volume encompasses the wide range of duties and tasks carried out by the Department of Native Affairs. As situations changed and stages of development progressed, separate memoranda were issued and Officers were instructed to interleave new instructions into the existing publication. In 1970 there had been so many changes in the conditions and circumstances of the Patrol Officers job that the Department decided to issue a revised, second edition.

Between 1962 and 1970 the Department underwent two reorganisations: from the Department of Native Affairs to the Department of District Administration, to the Division of District Administration within the Department of Administrator.

Departmental Standing Instructions, General Field Administration Vol.1, 1962, with updates, and General Field Administration Vol.1, Revised 2nd edition, 1970.
See Finding aids for details.

This rare book is an account of the development of an independent ni-Vanuatu church, established in West Ambae by Peter Pentecost around 1901 and, after his death, led by Joe Lulu, Bihu and other elders. After the War, missionaries from the Apostolic Church, Allan and Daisy Mann, Inger Christensen, Frank and Molly Thompson, and Paul and Dulcie Grant, and others, connected with the independent church. The Ambae church was re-established as part of the Apostolic mission, under the leadership of Lulu of Wahala, Bihu of Vilakalaka, Samson of Tavala and Aaron of Halalulu. Links were forged with an Apostolic mission in Luganville, Santo, which eventually merged with the Ambae church to form the Apostolic Church New Hebrides in 1976.

Paul and Dulcie Grant, Kweli Times: A Short History of the Apostolic Church Vanuatu 1946-1965, Coopers Plains, Queensland, 2002; 58pp., illus.

Professor Roy R.F. Scragg was a former Director of the Department of Public Health in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and was the first editor of the Papua New Guinea Medical Journal.

• Roy Frederick Rhodes SCRAGG, Lemankoa 1920-1980: A study of the effects of health care interventions on the people of a pre-industrial village in North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Public Health, University of Sydney, Oct 1983; Ts., 55pp., plus tables, illustrations and appendices.
• R.F.R. Scragg, The Eyes of the Crocodile: Inaugural Lecture by Dr Scragg, Fopundation Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Papua New Guinea, 14 Oct 1971; Port Moresby, UPNG, 16pp.
• Roy Scragg, M.D., ‘Historical Epidemiology in Papua New Guinea’, Papua New Guinea Medical Journal, Vol.20, No.3, Sep 1977; pp.102-109.

The Australian School of Pacific Administration was established in 1946 to train officers of the Australian administrations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and in the Northern Territory. In 1973 its name was changed to the International Training Institute (ITI) following an alteration in its administrative arrangements. Its remarkable library was established by Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, and subsequent library staff, but was disbanded when the ITI was closed down in the late 1980s. Part of the Library’s Hallstrom Pacific Collection has been kept intact and is currently held by the University of NSW Library. Most of the remainder has been dispersed, however Professor Hank Nelson rescued the material microfilmed here.

40 record items, as follows:
/1-10, ASOPA course materials and 1965 Handbook; TPNG Department of Eduction curriculum and syllabus materials;
/11-15, TPNG school readers;
/16-30, TPNG school magazines;
/31-34, research papers on education and social change in PNG;
/35-40, other ephemeral publications.
See Finding aids for details.
For ASOPA administrative documents and further ASOPA course papers see PMB 1158: Australian School of Pacific Administration, Reports, correspondence and related papers, 1946-1992. 2 reels. (Available for reference.)

Published by US Trust Territory District Administration, Yap, West Caroline Islands.

The Rai Review,
Vol 1, Nos 1-11, 18 Oct-27 Dec 1963
Vol 2, Nos 1-52, 3 Jan-31 Dec 1964
Vol 3, Nos 1-52, 6 Jan-29 Dec 1965
Vol 4, Nos 1-52, 5 Jan-28 Dec 1966
Vol 5, Nos 1-52, 4 Jan 1967-2 Feb 1968

Reel 1: Vol.1, No.1, 18 Oct 1963- Vol.4, No.28, 13 Jul 1966.
Reel 2: Vol.4, No.29, 20 Jul 1966-Vol.5, No.52, 2 Feb 1966.

Official newsletter of the office of the Governor of Yap State. Editor, Ban Ruan. Published weekly.

Vol.1, Nos.1-26, 7 Apr 1983-8 Jun 1984;
Vol 2, Nos.1-3, 12 Jul-21 Sep 1984;
Vol 3, No.1, 17 May 1985.

Published by Yap State Government, Colonia, FSM. “The Yap State Bulletin is a vehicle for disseminating news and information about how your State government works; what type of projects, plans and decisions are being made and carried out by your government. The Bulletin is a compilation of information from the various departments, offices, agencies and branches of your State government gathered by the Department of Youth and Civic Affairs.” (Yap State Bulletin, No.1, 17 Nov 1989) The Yap State Bulletin ceased publication in July 1999 in anticipation of the production of The Yap Networker.

Reel 1.

Vol.1, Nos.1-26, 17 Nov 1989-16 Nov 1990
Vol.2, Nos.1-20, 30 Nov 1990-1 Nov 1991
Reel 2.
Vol.3, Nos.1-7, 9-22, 29 Nov 1991-1 May 1992, 15 May-13 Nov 1992
Vol.4, Nos.1-26, 27 Nov 1992-12 Nov 1993
Vol.5, Nos.1-22, 26 Nov 1993-30 Sep 1994
Vol.6, Nos.1-26, 9 Dec 1994-8 Dec 1995
Vol.7, Nos.1-26, 22 Dec 1995-6 Dec 1996
Vol.8, Nos.1-13, 20 Dec 1996-19 Dec 1997
Vol.9, Nos.1-8, 2 Jan-31 Dec 1998
Vol.10, Nos.1-3, 7 May-30 Jul 1999