See PMB 617

Reel 1: 1 January - 5 March<BR>Reel 2: 6 March - 10 May<BR>Reel 3: 11 May - 14 July<BR>Reel 4: 15 July - 4 September<BR>Reel 5: 5 September - 31 October<BR>Reel 6: 1 November - 31 December<BR>NOTE: includes some clippings on Nauru, Norfolk Island and other Australian territories under the control of the Minister for (External) Territories.

See also PMB Doc 317 - PMB Doc 322

Releases 1 - 3696 (1972)

Isobel Whippy was in Fiji from 1963. She wrote several short plays for school children from 1968 onward. 'Pritchard' was her first major drama, which won a $100 prize in a drama contest for the South Pacific Festival of Arts in Suva in May 1972.

The play concerns the first British Consul in Fiji, William Thomas Pritchard, who arrived in Levuka in September 1858 and was dismissed from his post in January 1863. It is based on a theory that the Consul lost his job because of a love affair with a young woman - possibly a part-European - who gave birth to two children by Pritchard, before he married her in the British Consulate in Levuka a few days after his dismissal. The play is in two acts - the first covering the period from September 1858 to June 1859; the second from November 1859 to July 1862. There is an epilogue concerning the year 1864.

For details see PMB Doc .261

Issues for January - February 1972

For details see PMB Doc .261

Issues for May - June 1972

For details see PMB Doc .261

Issues for July - August 1972

For details see PMB Doc 370

Reel 1: 4 January - 17 April 1972<BR>Reel 2: 18 April - 21 July 1972<BR>Lacks February 21: March 23: April 4: May 30, and all issues after 21 July 1972

In January 1972 the Solomon Islands Museum came under direct Government administration as the National Museum. The Journal of the Solomon Islands Museum Association was produced by the Museum Association. The journal includes articles on Solomon Islands material culture, folklore, geology, natural history, research reports from anthropologists and other scientists working in the Solomon
Islands, museum news and acquisition information.

Vol.1 was edited by R.A. Keevil; Vol.2 was edited by Milton Sibisopere.
An editorial committee was responsible for Vol.3. Anna Craven edited Vols.4-6.

The Journal of the Solomon Islands Museum Association, published by the Solomon Islands Museum Association, Honiara,
Vol.1, 1972
Vol.2, 1974
Vol.3, 1975
Vol.4, 1976
Vol.5, 1977.
The Journal of the Cultural Association of the Solomon Islands, published by the Cultural Association of the Solomon Islands, Honiara,
Vol.6, 1978.

Sarea Kiri commenced employment with the PNG Administration in 1970. He completed course work at the Administrative College and the Local Government Staff College, Vunadidir, in 1970 and1971. Mr Sarea commenced duty as a Patrol Officer at the Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Enga District, in 1972. He transferred to the Milne Bay District in 1974.

Records gathered in support of Mr Kiri’s application for the position of Losuia District Administrator, including documentation of the Enga District Localisation Sub-Committeee and some routine police matters at Wapenamanda, 1972-73, part of the Wapenamanda annual report 1972/73, and the following patrol reports by Mr Kiri:
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.5 of 1971-72 to Middle Lai.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.8 of 1971/72 to Middle Lai and Tshak.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.3 of 1972/73 to Tshak.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.6 of 1972/73 to Middle Lai (Pompabos).</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.7 of 1972/73 to Tchak.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.11 of 1972/73 to Tchak.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.15 of 1972/73 to Tchak.</LI>
<LI>Laiagam Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.17 of 1972/73 to Lake Sirunki.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.21 of 1972/73 to Lower Lai.</LI>
<LI>Wapenamanda Sub-District Office, Patrol Report No.5 of 1973/74 to Tambitanis Area.</LI>
<LI>Tagula Station, Bwagaoia Sub-District, Milne Bay District, Patrol Report No.3 of 1974/75 to Rossel Island.</LI>
<LI>Tagula Station, Bwagaoia Sub-District, Milne Bay District, Patrol Report No.5 of 1974/75 to Sudest Island.</LI>
<LI>Alotau Sub-District, Milne Bay District, Patrol Report No.4 of 1976/77 to Tavara.</LI>

This document is a bound set of papers presented at a Mission Orientation Course, convened by the Melanesian Institute and Xavier Institute of Mission, at Alexishafen, in June-July 1972. It is item NT/130 Pt.2, of the notes and research papers on Rabaul and the Gazelle Peninsula collected by Rev. Neville Threlfall.
The Melanesian Institute (MI) was established in 1971. The MI “is an ecumenical research and teaching institute, designed to help member churches speak more clearly to the needs of the people in Melanesia. It does this by studying the Melanesian cultural traditions and taking them more seriously. Disseminating of these research materials through its annual Cultural Orientation Course, Workshops, Seminars and make available these materials through its publications over the last thirty nine years.” http://www.mi.org.pg/ (Dec 2008).

80 papers by T. Ahrens, G. Arbuckle, P. Brennan, H. Janssen, J. Knobel, P. Kuamin, A. Leadley, P. Pora, J. Noss, J. Tschauder, N. Threlfall, and many others, given at a mission orientation course in 1972, collated into 4 sections:
Section I. Situation in PNG; Role of the Church; History of the Anglican, Lutheran, United and Catholic Churches in PNG and the Solomon Islands.
Section II. Melanesian pre-history, culture, tradition, kinship; Millenarian movements and cargo cults.
Section III. Theology, missions, sacrament, rites, morality, marriage, training of catechists and pastors, urbanisation in Melanesia.
Section IV. Theology of development & liberation; Developmental programs, including papers on theology, medicine, education, vocational training, agriculture, land tenure, race relations, anthropological fieldwork.
The papers are not sequentially page numbered.
See Finding aids for details.
See also PMB 1305, THRELFALL, Rev. N.A. (1930- ), Notes and research materials on the history of Rabaul and the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 1786-1975. Reels 1-13. (Available for reference.)