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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

E.T.W. Fulton (1904- ) first went to New Guinea in 1925 and from 1930 to 1939 was engaged in gold mining in the Sepik area. After service in the Army in the Middle East he joined ANGAU in 1942 and served in Central Highlands and Sepik districts. After the war he purchased Makurapau plantation near Kokopo. He returned to Australia to live in 1960.

The papers comprise:

1. Correspondence re 'Starlight' claim (Sepik goldfield), 1936-1940
2. Return of gold produced, 1936-1941
3. Assay reports, 1936-1941
4. Account of gold produced by various employees, 1938
5. Inward letters, 1936-1939
6. Outward letters, 1937-1939
7. Diary of recruiting trip, Yapunda area, 1938
8. Plan of principal gold bearing areas - Sepik district, 1937
9. Papers re New Guinea Association, 1939
10. Patrol reports, diary and correspondence, 1942-1944
11. Messages sent from Ialibu Post, 1944
12. Radio messages sent, 1944

See also Pacific Islands Year Book and Who's Who 1968

Four reports by government officials:

1. Cargo Beliefs and Cargo Cults among the West Nakanai of New Britain, by C.A. Valentine III, 15 January 1955, 74 + 3 pp.
2. A Review of Native Policy for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, February 1955 (Known as the Jones-Marsh Review), 177 pp.
3. Report on Mass Communications to His Honour the Administrator and the Public Service Commissioner from Committee of Enquiry, headed by L.F. Butler, 87 pp.
4. An Enquiry into the Social Conditions of the Mixed-blood Population of Papua and New Guinea, by R. Thomson, July 1951-July 1952, 117 pp.