In June 1853 two ordained Hawaiian ministers, Rev. James K. Kekela and Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, and their wives, and two deacons and their wives, were chosen by the Hawaiian Missionary Board to sail on the English brigantine, Royalist, for the Marquesas Islands located 2,300 miles to the southeast. Accompanied by New England missionary Benjamin Parker of Kaneohe Mission Station, these native couples were the first Hawaiian families to serve as missionaries in the Marquesas, 1853-1909. Supportedentirely by the Hawaiian churches and the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, the deputation of native Hawaiian missionaries was predicted to succeed where non-Polynesian missionaries had failed. Although support was strong at first, it diminished over time, and in 1909, with no hope of fresh reinforcements, the last surviving Hawaiian missionaries yielded their efforts
to French Protestants from Tahiti.<P>
Also included in this collection is one folder of documents pertaining to an
earlier mission to the Washington Islands (Marquesas), 1831-1834. A preliminary visit to explore the islands was made by Messrs. Whitney, Tinker and Alexander of the Sandwich Islands mission in 1832. A favourable report led to the departure in July 1833 of American Protestant missionaries Richard Armstrong, W. P. Alexander and Benjamin W. Parker and their wives to establish a mission in the Marquesas. Their labours proved unsuccessful, however, and the mission was aborted. They returned to the Sandwich Islands the following year to resume their missionary work.

The <I>Marquesas Collection, 1831-1834, 1853-1918</I>, consists of 2.5 linear feet of manuscript material, including personal letters, formal reports of general meetings and mission station reports. Correspondence by native Hawaiian missionaries to the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in Honolulu is in the Hawaiian language. A portion of this correspondence was translated into English in the 1930s by Rev. Henry Pratt Judd, a member of the Hawaiian Board of Missions and the grandson of American Protestant missionary, Gerrit P. Judd. Nancy J. Morris, PhD. of the University of Hawai'i Special Collections, Hamilton Library, and author of Hawaiian Missionaries Abroad, 1852-1909, also provided translations for some of the documents in the 1980s. Microfilm copies of the original Hawaiian documents can be found at PMB 1170. See Finding aids for details.

Law making powers in Yap, one of the four states that comprise the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), is vested in the State Legislature. The legislature has operated in its current form since 1983 following the approval by referendum of the State constitution in 1982 (see <I>PMB 1173</I> for further details). It has 10 members who are elected by universal adult suffrage every four years. However, the Legislature has its origins in the immediate post World War II period when the US Navy assumed administrative responsibility for the island. In 1945-47 the Navy encouraged and helped re-establish a Council of Chiefs. In the 1950s the 10 municipal magistrates (who were also customary chiefs) began holding meetings with the then US civil administration. Technically this Council was separate from that of the chiefs, but usually represented them. Between 1957-58 the municipalities were chartered, part of a process leading to the formation of a representative legislative body. In 1959 the first Yap Island Congress as it was then called, was convened, running parallel to the Council of Magistrates. In the 1960s Congress was expanded to include representatives from Yap's outer islands. In 1967 a new Yap District Legislature was formed, whose powers were enhanced by amendment[s] in 1978. These developments provided the foundations for the formation of the current legislature whose session journals are included here.

The Yap Legislature has law making powers over matters of public health, education, schooling, resource management, land use, the civil service, and some revenue raising abilities. Debates and discussions over these issues are carried in the <I>Yap Legislature Journal</I>.

The Journal is compiled by the Office of the Speaker of the Legislature. Issues from 1984-1997 are available here. Each volume is 500-600 pages, ring bound, double-sided photocopies. Digital copies of the <I>Legislature Journal</I> are held by the Office of the Speaker on diskette, including editions of the <I>Journal</I> since 1993. See reel list for more details.

The <I>Outrigger</I> was published by teachers in Madang with the support of the Department of Education. It reports on professional and community issues with a focus on local schooling. Some issues of the newsletter was found to have indecorus and unprofessional by the Superintenent of Schools, I. J. Robertson. He notified readers of the April 1972 issue that subsequent issues would be censored.

Vol.1 No.4 1970<BR>
Vol.2 No.1 Feb1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.2 Mar 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.3 Apr 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.4 May 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.5 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.6 Jul 1971<BR>
Vol.2 Special edition Aug-Sep 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.9 Oct 1971<BR>
Vol.2 No.10 Dec 1971<BR>
Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1972<BR>
Vol.3 No.2. Apr 1972<BR>
Vol.4 No.1 Jun 1973<BR>

See PMB 1174 and 1175 for administrative history of the Pacific Islands Co Ltd and the Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd.

PIC/PPC, Sydney, letter books (letters-out), Gen. 1-12, Sep 1898-Jul 1906;
J T Arundel (Sydney) letter books, Pvt. 1-4, Feb 1899-Mar 1905;
Letter books, Islands 1-3, Sep 1898-Jun 1902;
Letter books, JM & Co, Aug 1896-Mar 1903;
Letter books, PI Co General 2 & 3, Oct 1900-Aug 1905;
Letter books, PI Co Agency 1, Jun 1903-May 1905.
Letter book, PP Co Insurance, Jul 1904-Jun 1906;
PPC Sydney, Reports by J T Arundel, Nos.1-174, Mar 1903-Nov 1909;
Letter book re purchase of Ralum property from E E Forsyth, 1900-1905; Letter book, Ocean Is. 1, Oct 1904-Jun 1906;
Letter book/journal, Arthur C Bell, Supercargo, Emu, Jul-Sep 1900;
Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd (inclu. Henderson & Macfarlane, Flint Island, etc.) reference file, 1897-1903;
Copy Suwarrow Island diary, May-Jul 1902. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>
See also PMB 1174 & 1175, 1205-1207, J.T. Arundel & Co, Pacific Islands Co Ltd & Pacific Phosphate Co, and PMB 480-495, 497-498, for diaries, corresp. & further papers of J.T. Arundel & A.F. Ellis.

Transcripts of daily radio news bulletins broadcast by Radio New Hebrides (Radio Vanuatu, after independence), 28 Sep 1978–26 Nov 1980 (gaps),
Ts., roneo, c.800pp.
Reel 1

28 Sep 1978–29 May 1979
30 May 1979–1 Oct 1979
2 Oct 1979–24 Dec 1979
26 Dec 1979–31 Mar 1980
1 Apr 1980–1 Jul 1980
Reel 2
2 Jul 1980–26 Aug 1980
27 Aug 1980–26 Nov 1980

The journal publishes reports in German, sketches and photographs of Sacred Heart missions in Imperial German colonies, including New Guinea.

Vols.3, 5-10, 12-13, 1886, 1888-1893, 1895-1896.
See Finding aids for details.

Gavin Frederic Carter joined the Department of Native Affairs, TPNG, as a Cadet Patrol Officer in 1958. After completing courses in ASOPA and Port Moresby he was posted to Goroka, EHD, where in October 1958 he went on his first patrol (solo) lasting 75 days on road location in the Unggai Census Division. Carter was transferred to Kainantu, EHD, in 1959, where he was posted to Okapa and Gumine, and was promoted to Patrol Officer Gr.1 in 1960. He was transferred to Kundiawa in 1962 and then in 1963, having been promoted to Patrol Officer Gr.2, to Simbai Patrol Post in the Madang District. In 1965 he acted as Public Relations officer for the Madang District headquarters. He was posted to Saidor later in 1965, as Acting Assistant District Commissioner, and transferred to ASOPA in 1966 where he obtained the Certificate of Pacific Administration. When Carter returned to Madang in 1967 he was appointed advisor to the local Government Council at Ambenob, Madang District, and in 1969 was appointed Madang District Officer (Lands). He resigned from the TPNG Administration in April 1971.

Photographs taken at the Simbai Patrol Post, 1963-1964; Yambunglin Village Register, 1960-1969; Eastern Highlands District, Chimbu Sub-District, Patrol Reports, Watabung, Bomai, Wikauma, Salt and Nomane Census Divisions, 1959-1961; File of documents, 1958-1968, including career summary, list of equipment required for patrolling and Patrol Report 6/59-60, Tairora Census Division, Kainantu Sub-District, EHD; Field Officer’s Journal, Simbai, 1962-1969. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

During the 1950s and 1960s the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was investigating resources in Papua New Guinea on a broad scale using both air photography and checking “ground truth”. As a Botanist with the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey, carrying out scientific and terrain exploration in many areas PNG, Mr Pullen wrote regular letters to his wife which are detailed, observant and witty. Mr Pullen’s letters clearly conveys his impressions of the country and the people as well as giving a clear account of his botanical survey practices.

Mr Pullen’s letters document the following expeditions:
1956 Eastern Highlands – Western Highlands
1957 Western Highlands
1958 Ramu – Atitau
1959 Wewak – Lower Sepik
1961 Southern Highlands (Wabag–Tari)
1962 Port Moresby – Kairuku
1963 Kubor Range
1964 Managalase; Finisterre Range (with British Museum)
1966 Gulf District
1967 Port Moresby
1967 Fly River, Western Province
1969 Popondetta - Mt Lamington
1970 Port Moresby, ANZAAS Conference and excursions only
1972 Mt Suckling
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200.
This reel contains journals and correspondence as indicated: OCEAN PEARL; Journal, Captain Winthrop Sears, 1854-56 Tufts, Henry; Letterbook - correspondence from father re ships and shipping, 1845-46 Tufts, Alfred; Letters to mother, 1854-55 Tufts, George; Letters to mother, 1855 RODMAN; Journal, Captain Wm. Whitton, 1859-63 PLANT; Journal, 1829-31 Of special interest on this reel (OCEAN PEARL; 1854-56) Excellent account of shipboard life, of relations between passengers; good descriptions of ports visited and life in Hawaii; smoking volcano in Mariana Islands

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984.