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.

Langdon's book, The Lost Caravel, was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd, Sydney. The book puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies. Langdon’s sequel, The Lost Caravel Re-explored, published in Canberra in 1988, gathers his evidence in support of the presence of European castaways in the pre-Cook Pacific, focusing on the fate of the crew of the San Lesmes and including a revised chapter on Easter Island and additional chapters on New Zealand.

Correspondence, 1987-1995, on research and other matters relating to the publication of The Lost Caravel and The Lost Caravel Re-explored. Arranged, A-Z, by correspondent.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>
See also PMB 551 for Robert Langdon’s Lost Caravel correspondence, 1967-1975, and PMB 999 for his correspondence, 1976-1987.
For original documents relating to the Loaisa expedition see PMB 135-140.

Reverend Norman F. Cocks was born in Harrow, Middlesex, UK. He went to Hackney and New College, London, and was ordained at Skinner St. Congregarional Church, Poole, Dorset on 25 November 1934. His Pastorates in England were Poole, 1934-1940, and High Cross Tottenham, 1940-45. Rev Cocks was then appointed to the post of Australian and New Zealand Secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1970. He transferred to the Anglican Church in Tasmania, was ordained Deacon in St. David's Hobart on 19 October 1970, and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest. His portrait is in the "LMS Chronicles" of February 1945 and June 1947.

Volumes 2-5, pp.150-651, of the autobiography of Rev. Norman F. Cocks completed in Hobart in 1987. Ts., photocopy. Chapter headings as follows. Vol.2, pp.150-299: So to London; A change of Wind; Outward Bound; Australian Landfall; Over the Tasman; Papua Invitation; Trial and Reunion; Eleanor Rivett; Traveller’s Days [1947]; More Gleanings from 1947; World Council of Churches – Amsterdam 1948; The Naming of the Ship ‘John Williams VI’; Visit of ‘John Williams VI’; Our New Home and Office; To Fiji and Samoa. Vol.3, pp.299-450: Home Again; 1951 and Britain Again; ‘Passage to India’; ‘Home from the Sea’; India – Australia – Papua; Royal Flush; Island Shadows; The Dickens Fellowship; Another Papuan Journey; A Year of Anticipation; South African Pilgrimage; ‘The Golden Route’ and the Cape; ‘Home’ Again; La Suisse; Transatlantic. Vol.4, pp.450-550: Across the North American Continent; Time Passes; 1961 – An Eventful Year; 1962 – So Many Changes; Port Moresby 21 November 1962; Pleasant Island Again; Churchwise; Another Year; 1965 Constant Movement; Papua ‘The Ecumenical Crisis’; The Wanderers Way. Vol.5, pp.550-651: What is ‘Normality’?; Papua Again; Night Flight to Independence; ‘The Gilbert and Sullivan Colony’; The Penultimate Year – 1969; Farewell Papua New Guinea.

The Fiji Voice was the official publication of the Fiji Independent News Service which was established in 1987 to publicise events related to the coups in Fiji. The Fiji Voice was edited by Dale Keeling, a Sydney journalist.

No.1, Sep 1987: No.2, Oct 1987: No.3, Dec 1987: No.4, Feb 1988: No.5, May 1988: No.6, Aug 1988: No.7, Jan 1989: No.8, Mar 1989: No.9, May 1989: No.10, Sep 1989: No.11, Dec 1989: No.12, Feb/Mar 1990: No.13, Apr/May 1990: No.14, Jun/Jul 1990: No.15, Sep/Oct 1990: No.16, Dec 1990: No.17, Mar 1991: No.18: May/Jun 1991: No.19, Aug/Sep 1991: No.20, Nov/Dec 1991: No.21, Apr/May 1992: No.22, Jul/Aug 1992: No.23, Oct 1992: No.24, Dec 1992.

The Fiji Situation Report was the press service of the Fiji Independent News Service which was established in 1987 to publicise events related to the coups in Fiji. The Fiji Situation Report was edited by Dale Keeling, a Sydney journalist.

Fiji Situation Report, Oct 1987-Nov 1990. See Finding aids for details.

In the Fiji Independent News Service (FINS) was established in Australia in June 1987 under the wing of the Movement for Democracy in Fiji following the first coup in Fiji. It ran an effective media campaign aimed at persuading key Australian and New Zealand trade unions to maintain trade bans on Fiji. FINS press releases and its newsletter, Fiji Situation Report (PMB Doc 419), gave details of arrests, human rights violations and political news, providing an alternative perspective to the established international press. The FINS Chairperson was Don Dunstan; the Directors were Krishna Datt, Dr Tupeni Baba, Senator Bruce Childs and Professor Ted Wheelwright

Reel 1 Instructions and correspondence, May 1987-Sep 1988
Reel 2 Correspondence, Aug 1988-Jul 1990
Reel 3 Correspondence, Jun 1990-Jul 1992

Nauru's environment has been devastated by 100 years of phosphate mining. Mining of Nauru’s phosphate deposits began in earnest after the First World War under a joint Australian-New Zealand-British venture, the British Phosphate Commission. This mining was carried out with no regard for future rehabilitation and on terms that deprived the Nauruan people of reasonable returns for the sale of its phosphate in world markets.

In 1987-1988 the government of Nauru held a Commission of Inquiry into the rehabilitation of its worked-out phosphate lands. In 1988 the Commission published a 10 volume report which concluded that the island's former administrators - Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom - were responsible for the rehabilitation of worked out areas of the island mined during the period of the Mandate and Trust.

After several unsuccessful requests to the Australian government for financial assistance, Nauru took the findings of its Commission of Inquiry to the International Court of Justice which admitted a case against Australia. The case aroused much interest and controversy with Nauru receiving vocal support from world-wide environmental groups. A Compact of Settlement was reached in 1993 before the substantive hearing took place in the International Court in which Australia agreed to pay the Republic of Nauru a cash payment of AU$57 million and AU$2.5 million annually for 20 years. This money was to be used on development projects. New Zealand and the United Kingdom each agreed to contribute AU$12 million ex gratia towards the Australian out-of-court settlement

Transcript of proceedings, as follows:
Open Sittings, Days 1-33, 35-36, 39-52, pp.1-4191, 23 Feb 1987-30 Jan 1988.
Closed Sittings, Days 25, 30, 33, 34, 37 & 38, pp.1-591, 23 Nov-11 Dec 1987.
See Finding aids for details.

Edited by J-P Deterix, for EDIPOP; published by Agence Kanak de Presse, Noumea, for the political party FLNKS (Front de Libération National Kanak et Socialiste) which is an umbrella organization grouping several independentist parties in New Caledonia, for instance the PALIKA (Parti de Libération Kanak), the Union Calédonienne, the Rassemblement Démocratique Océanien and the Union Progressiste Mélanésienne. The composition of FLNKS is not stable since the independence movement is extremely divided. The FLNKS was founded in August 1984 by the independentist leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, who was murdered with Yeiwéné Yeiwéné by a Kanak extremist in Ouvéa on 4 May 1989.

La Dépêche Kanak / The Kanak Dispatch, bilingual (French and English) edition, Nos.68-440 (Jun 1988-Feb 1990) (incomplete)
The Kanaka Dispatch, English Edition, Nos.55-320 (May 1988-Aug 1989) (incomplete)
See Finding aids for details.

Jai Ram Reddy (born on 12 May 1937 in Lautoka, Fiji) is an Indo-Fijian statesman who has had a distinguished career in both legislative and judicial branches of the Fijian government. He was admitted to the Bar in New Zealand in 1960 and in Fiji in 1961. Between 1966 and 1970 he was Crown Counsel and Principal Legal Officer in the Attorney-General’s Office. Between 1970 and 1997 he was a senior partner of a law firm.

Reddy entered politics when he was appointed to the Senate in 1972, by the then leader of the opposition Sidiqu Koya. In 1977 he became leader of the National Federation Party (NFP). In this role he was Leader of the Opposition in the Fijian Parliament between 1977 and 1984; and again between 1992 and 1999.

Judge Reddy briefly served as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice in the Bavadra Government until its overthrow in a military coup in 1987. Judge Reddy was a Member of the Constitutional Review Commission which reviewed the 1990 Constitution of Fiji and removed all discriminatory provisions against Indo-Fijians. In 1998 Judge Reddy was made a Companion of the Order of Fiji in recognition of his service to Fiji. In 2000 he was appointed President of the Fiji Court of Appeal but resigned his commission in August that year, following the overthrow of the lawfully elected government. He was re-appointed President of the Fiji Court of Appeal in January 2002, and retains his commission as Justice of Appeal (on leave).

Correspondence, 1989-1999 (reels 1-3)
Subject files (reels 4-6)
Constitution of Fiji (reels 6-9)
Filing systems (gaps) (reels 9-10)
National Federation Party and Elections (reels 10-12)
Speeches (reel 12)
Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act (ALTA) (reels 12-15)
Files on Women's Issues (reels 15-17)
Other files (reels 17)
Printed material (reel 17-18)
Serials (reel 18)
See Finding aids for details.