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, édition quotidiènne (daily edition), Nos.7-583, Feb 1988-Oct 1990 (incomplete);
La Dépêche Kanak, édition internationale française, Nos.1-37, Oct 1989-Jul 1990 (incomplete).
See Finding aids for details.

Fr Kevin Kerley SM was born in 1928 and brought up in Gympie, Queensland, where he attended the Christian Brothers’ College to university matriculation level. As a civilian high school boy he served in 1944 and 1945 in the Volunteer Air Observers’ Corps, unpaid work for the RAAF. For this he was presented with a certificate as a record and in appreciation by the RAAF, signed by Air Marshall G. Jones, Chief of Air Staff. After working as an officer of the Commonwealth Bank in Brisbane from 1946 until 1949 he undertook training at the Marist College in Armidale, NSW, and was professed as a Brother in the Society of Mary in September 1950. He worked as Assistant Bursar at St John’s College near Lismore, NSW, from 1950 until 1953.
In January 1954, Fr Kerley transferred to the Bougainville District of the Oceania Marist Province, Territory of New Guinea Mission, where he was based for most of the next 48 years. As a Marist Brother, he pursued a number of occupations until 1972: at Mabiri helping with the book keeping of the Mission’s sawmill and with first-aid on the mission plantation labour lines; taking charge of the carpentry workshop at St Christopher’s Technical School, Tsiroge; acting as Master of the Mission vessels, Jabiru (renamed St Thomas) and St Joseph; and directing various building projects. He was assistant Diocesan Procurator in 1954 and 1962. In 1963 and 1964 was the first Brother to be appointed the Procurator.
In 1973 and 1974 Fr Kerley transferred to the Marist Training Centre at Tutu on Taveuni in Fiji as Bursar, and in the following years studied theology and philosophy at the Union Theological Institute in Hunters Hill, Sydney, graduating in 1978.
Fr Kerley was ordained as a Deacon in December 1978, and in January 1979 returned to Bougainville to undertake mainly parish work in Tinputz, Tekoknih and Tearouki. In September 1980 he was ordained as a Priest, and in January 1981 underwent heart by-pass surgery in Brisbane.
Back in Bougainville early in 1981, Fr Kerley continued Parish work on the west coast at Sipai and Tsimba, with visits to Kuraio Parish. In early 1984 Fr Kerley was appointed reference Priest at Manetai Parish and joined the Kieta Area Ministry Team that covered the Parishes of Tubiana, including Kieta township, Koromira, Marai, Tunuru, Deomori and Manetai. (Arawa and Panguna towns were separate parishes, independent of the Kieta Area Ministry Team, though geographically within their boundaries.)
In November 1988, when the crisis in Bougainville erupted, Fr Kerley was living in Manetai, working quite a bit in nearby Tubiana and Tunuru Parishes, as well as visiting Arawa, Kieta and villages throughout the Kieta Ministry Team area. Father had for years recorded religious events in his catechist's calendar. After 16 November 1988, when workers at Loholo marched in protest to the Premier, Joseph Kabui, at Arawa. Fr Kerley began inserting daily notes in the calendar recording more of his movments and local events, especially of a more critical nature.
On 22 November 1988 militants raided the munitions magazine of Bougainville Copper Ltd in Panguna and made off with the explosives. The first power pylon was dynamited on the Port Mine Access Road and the ‘pink palace’ (the BCL Office) at Panguna was burnt. Fr Kerley observed that guerrilla warfare had come back to Bougainville for the first time since World War II. During the next three and a half years Fr Kerley continued parish work from Manetai. The war spread north from Panguna. In January 1990, Kuveria Jail in Manetai Parish, which Fr Kerley had visited regularly until December 1988, was burnt down by the BRA, killing some warders and a young daughter of one of them. The Riot Squad retaliated, burning villages of innocent people along the road.
The conflict in the Bougainville area continued to get worse until 1st March 1990 when the PNG Security Forces withdrew under a cease fire agreement. About September 1990 the Security Forces came back to Buka, and bit by bit extended their influence South, reaching Manetai by July 1992.
At that time Fr Kerley was still in Manetai. He was one of only about half a dozen non-citizens who had remained in Bougainville right through this part of the crisis. On 22 July 1992 Fr Kerley was evacuated by helicopter from Manetai to Hahila on Buka, at an hour’s notice, under orders from Security Force Officers.
Fr Kerley was unable to return to the Manetai area, despite obtaining a clearance from the PNG Defence Force in December 1992. In the Buka and North Bougainville area Fr. Kerley was occupied, working as Chaplain with wounded and dying soldiers and civilians at Buka and Sohano Hospitals, and helping displaced people, as well as engaging in other pastoral and parish work. In January 1993, the Oceania Marist Provincial wrote to Fr Kerley thanking him for his “faithfulness and courage to have worked with the suffering people of Bougainville”, and advising him to take a break, including medical attention in Australia and registering for the old age pension. He went South in March 1993.
Fr Kerley returned to Bougainville in November 1993, but was unfairly deported to Rabaul from Buka in late December under orders from a Colonel in the PNG Defence Force. Fr Kerley received support from Michael Ogio, the Minister for Bougainville Matters, and others such as Michael Somare, who recognised that the mainline churches needed to be involved in the search for a peaceful solution in Bougainville. Nevertheless the Colonel’s will prevailed and it was not until October 1994 that Fr Kerley was given approval by the PNG Defence Force to re-enter Bougainville.
Fr Kerley’s angina recurred while he was working under Archbishop Hesse in New Britain. This was probably brought on by the unfair and ungrateful treatment, including the deportation. Medical staff at Vunapope ordered him to return to Brisbane for treatment in April 1994.
In December 1994, when Fr Kerley came back to Bougainville, Operation Bungwantaim gave him travel clearance to stay indefinitely at Manetai mission station. Manetai was under siege by the BRA. The PNG Defence Force soldiers wore flak-jackets when they went out of the mission station as the BRA in the bush were likely to shoot at them any time. At the end of 1995 Fr Kerley again went to Australia for a check-up, as ordered, and to maintain his pension claim.
Returning to Bougainville in early 1996, Fr Kerley could not go back to Manetai as the BRA were raiding right up to Buka. In the meantime, based at Hahila, Fr Kerley worked on aid projects in Buka and North Bougainville and on pastoral work, especially as Hospital Chaplain.
In August 1996, after the BRA attacked them at Manetai, the Security Forces pulled out. Fr. Kerley was allowed by both sides to work in the Manetai area over the Christmas 1996 period.

Files on Bougainville compiled by Fr Kerley, including diary entries, notes, press cuttings, leaflets and some photographs, 1988-1996; “Skeds” (transcripts of radio broadcasts), Nov 1990-Aug 1995; photocopy of Fr. Emmet McHardy, Tunuru Baptismal Register, 1929-1931; Leo Scharmach MSC (Vic. Apost. Rabaul), Manuale Missionariorum, Catholic Mission, Vunapope, 1953; G.W. Tromf, “Life & Religion of Traditional Societies in Melanesia”, n.d.

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).

File labelled "Prime Minister", 1978-1996.
File labelled "Governor-General", 1977-1984.
File labelled "Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, House of Reps", Apr 1987-Feb 2009.
J.R. Reddy Speeches (also speeches by other individuals).
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Rev. Neville A. Threlfall, who was a Methodist missionary in New Britain, is a historian and writer. His published works include, One hundred years in the islands: the Methodist/United Church in the New Guinea Islands Region, 1875-1975, Rabaul, 1975; and Volcano town: the 1937-43 eruptions at Rabaul, Bathurst, N.S.W, c1985, with R.W. Johnson.

Contents:
An unpublished history of Rabaul and East New Britain, PNG, Ts., 2 vols., 682pp., arranged as follows:
Prologue. The Town that Shouldn’t Be. p.1
Part I. Before the Town
Chapter 1. A Harbour without Shipping, p.3
Chapter 2. Ships Arrive, 1700-1884, p.27
Chapter 3. A German Colony, 1884-1902, p.48
Part II. A Town and its People
Chapter 4. A Town is Born, 1902-1910, p.76
Chapter 5. A Cosmopolitan Community, 1910-1914, p.104
Chapter 6. No More ‘um Kaiser, 1914-1915, p.138
Chapter 7. The Long Occupation, 1914-1921, p.162
Chapter 8. The New Masters, 1921-1930, p.185
Chapter 9. The Non-Masters, 1921-1930, p.217
Chapter 10. Depression and Development, p.240
Part III. A Town Destroyed
Chapter 11. Eruption and Evacuation, 28 May-6 June 1937, p.259
Chapter 12. Future Uncertain, 1937-1939, p.298
Chapter 13. Shadows of War, Sep 1939-Dec 1940, p.325
Chapter 14. The Shadows Deepen, 1941, p.338
Chapter 15. War with Japan, Dec 1941-Jan 1942, p.359
Chapter 16. The Fall of Rabaul, 20-23 Jan 1942, p.377
Chapter 17. Under New Rulers, 1942, p.398
Chapter 18. Withering on the Vine, 1943-1945, p.417
Chapter 19. Peace in a Wasteland, Aug 1945-Jun 1946, p.439
Chapter 20. Not to be Rebuilt, 1946-51, p.457
Part IV. The Town Lives Again
Chapter 21. Rabaul Rebuilding, 1952-60, p.496
Chapter 22. Prosperity and problems, 1961-70, p.540
Chapter 23. The Mataungans March, 1969-1970, p.566
Chapter 24. A Year of Shocks, 1971, p.592
Chapter 25. Towards Independence, 1972-1975, p.617
Chapter 26. Facing the Future, 1975-1984, p.641
Epilogue. The Town That Is, and Shall Be, p.655
Bibliography and List of Sources, p.664

Born in Osnabrück, Germany, Fr Miltrup was professed a Marist in 1932 in Glanerbrug, Holland. He studied Theology in Fürstenzell, Passau and was ordained there in 1935. A teacher in Ahmsen and Meppen during 1936-37, he was appointed to the mission in Oceania. He arrived in Kieta, North Solomon Is Region (Bougainville), PNG, on the 11th January, 1938, the year before the 2nd World War began. He was a valiant Marist missionary priest of the old-fashioned type who survived the harsh conditions of the early days of the mission in Bougainville. During the war he suffered greatly when he was a prisoner of the Japanese and barely escaped death on one occasion. After the war, in 1945, he went to Australia to recover health. A year later he was back on the job. In 1948 he was appointed Director of the Major Seminary in Torokina where the first local priests were ordained in 1953. The following year 1954 he returned to parish ministry in the Buin, Kieta, Arawa and Panguna areas. All went well until just before the Bougainville crisis in 1986 when he had retired to Koromira under the care of Hermann Wöste. He suffered a major setback in his health and was obliged to return to Germany for better care and treatment. In all he gave 48 years of his life to missionary work in the Oceania province.
(From: www.maristoceania.org/In%20Memoriam.)

• Paipelaten Yia Belong Mi Long Bougainville, Ts., p/c, 193pp., bound, in Tok Pisin. This document is a bound photocopy of Fr. Miltrup's typescript made from a copy lent to Father Kevin Kerley SM by Father Miltrup's house girl. The annotations are made by Fr. Kerley in pencil. The autobiography covers the period 1935 to 1986.
• Bougainville World War II, Ts., p/c, pp.27pp., loose, n.d., in English.

Pacific Conference No.4 of the ICFTU/APRO held in Port Moresby in 1987 resolved that the ICFTU consider establishing a structure within the ICFTU that would provide a forum for the South Pacific and have an Oceanic identity. The conference also resolved that the ICFTU/APRO education program in the region should be expanded so that there was greater ability to plan and implement activities at the local level. As a result of those decisions the ICFTU/APRO education project was established in June 1988 with the appointment of a full-time educator. The project operated from a Brisbane office, located in the Queensland ACTU building. ICFTU/APRO Regional Conference No.14 held in Bangkok in 1988 endorsed the formation of specific structure for the South Pacific, including the appointment of a full-time executive officer to work alongside the project educator. It was resolved that an inaugural conference would be convened to formalise the establishment of the new body which replaced the Pacific Trade Union Forum and became known as the South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions (SPOCTU).
SPOCTU operated as the peak council of the trade union movement in the Pacific Islands, representing affiliated organisations in Fiji, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Conferences were held every two years and an intensive program of training workshops was undertaken, often in conjunction with the Pacific office of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council.

• Minutes of SPOCTU Conferences and Steering Committees meetings (ACTU copies), 1989-1999.
• ICFTU/APRO, Pacific Trade Union Forum and SPOCTU steering Committees, Conferences and Projects files, 1987-1998.
• Commonwealth Trade Union Council, Pacific Trade Union Education Liaison Committee: meetings, 1992-1996.
• SPOCTU Country files: Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Cook Islands, 1992-1998.
• SPOCTU Circulars to affiliates, 1990-1998.
See Finding aids for details.
See also Pacific Unionist, 1989-1998, at PMB Doc 553.

Light and Life News-line, was published in Melbourne by the Asia-Pacific Christian Mission, Melbourne and Auckland. It succeeds Light and Life (see PMB Doc 525). The microfilm includes some copies of State News and other leaflets on file with Light and Life News-line.
See also PMB Doc 498, Doc 524, Doc 527 and Doc 528.

Light and Life News-line, Vols.1-9.
Vol.1, Nos.1-4, 1989
Vol.2, Nos.1-5, 1990
Vol.3, Nos.1-5, 1991
Vol.4, Nos.1-4, 1992
Vol.5, Nos.1-4, 1993
Vol.6, Nos.1-3, 1994
Vol.7, Nos.1-4, 1995
Vol.8, Nos.1-3, 1996
Vol.9, Nos.1-4, 1997

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

Nos. 1-23, 1989-1998. See Finding aids for details.