We remember Sione Latukefu as a scholar, Tongan patriot and Christian gentleman. Sione was born at Kolovai on Tongatapu in 1927, where his family were prominent commoners with important traditional responsibilities. His grandfather was a distinguished Tongan poet and his family were closely involved in the sufferings, educational achievements and faithful witness of the Wesleyan mission and afterwards the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga. After secondary education at Tupou College Sione trained for a teaching career in Tonga and then, with scholarships, at the University of Queensland. He had already been ordained a minister of the Free Wesleyan Church in 1960.
Sione’s autobiographical essay, ‘The making of the first Tongan-born professional historian’, in the book Pacific Islands History, edited by Dr. Brij Lal, glosses over most of his educational advancement. The boy from Kolovai was not meant to aspire to academinc honours. Yet the highest in the land acknowledged his ability. Queen Salote, herself a scholar of traditional matters, recognized Sione’s potential, gave him encouragement and, in her last days, passed on some of her own knowledge to him.
Taking his studies further at the Australian National University, in an era when Phd Degrees were still fairly novel throughout the world, Sione was one of the first Pacific Islanders to obtain one. He was a generous, careful and perceptive historian.
Queen Salote had hoped that Sione would take charge of the Tongan Archives. Her death in 1965 caused him to take a different path. While at ANU he met his beloved life-partner, then Dr Ruth Fink and they were married in Sydney in 1966. Both Ruth and Sione successfully applied for the positions of anthropologist and historian respectively at the new University of Papua New Guinea. At Port Moresby they helped lay the groundwork for future courses and trained a new generation of Papua New Guinean leaders. Sione was also a successful funds raiser and from 1969 to 1988 he was secretary and executive officer of the Te Rangi Hiroa Fund for promoting the study of Pacific history.
After 18 years of dedicated service, by which time Sione was an Associate Professor, they retired for a while to Canberra to live. Sione’s dedication then led him to accept the post of Principal of the Pacific Theological College in Suva which he held from 1989 to 1991 when ill health led to his return to Canberra. At the College he proved a stabilising influence and helped to give the curriculum a greater academic emphasis. In Canberra he contined to work on various research projects surviving a triple by-pass operation and other setbacks with great courage and aplomb. He participated fully in the life of the new Division of Pacific and Asian History and he was still writing articles and working on a book at the time of his death.
From Niel Gunson, Memorial Tribute to Reverend Dr Sione Latukefu, Tonga Research Association website http://tongaresearchassociation.wordpress.com/

Professional correspondence, arranged by correspondent or subject in chronological order, with some related papers, 1962-1994.
Manuscripts, associated corresopondence and related papers, 1967-1994 (SL Ms/1-39), together with,
A study of the modern elite in Tonga: papers and recordings for an incomplete research project, including correspondence, lists of interviewees, transcripts of some interviews, research trip records, press cuttings, and audio interview recordings, 1993-1995(SL Ms/40-46).
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This peak council of trade unions in Fiji was formed on 29 Sep 1951 as the Fiji Industrial Workers' Congress. The present name was adopted in October 1966. The Congress has had a relatively stable administration: the first honorary Secretary was Tomasi Vunisina, 1951-1957, Mohammed Ramzan was honorary Secretary from 1960-1972, and James Raman followed him as National Secretary, with one short break, till the Biennial Conference in May 1994. The Congress was based at Nadi and Lautoka in the western districts of Viti Levu until 1962 when it shifted to Suva.<BR><BR>Following a wage freeze in November 1984, the FTUC withdrew from a Tripatite Forum (of government, employer and union representatives, established in 1977 to consider economic policy issues) and launched the Fiji Labour Party to challenge government policies. The Public Service Association President, Timoci Bavadra, became the Party's President. In late 1986 the Labour Party formed a coalition with the National Federation Party which defeated the Alliance Party in the elections of April 1987 thus precipitating the military coups of May and November 1987 during which the FTUC offices were firebombed and its executive imprisoned.

Conference papers, 1962-1994<BR>Executive Committee minutes and related papers, 1966, 1971-1991<BR> Management Board minutes and related papers, 1974-1991<BR>Womens Wing Executive Committee minutes, 1983-88, 1992-94<BR>circulars to affiliates, 1959-1978<BR>press releases, 1974-1996<BR>selected FTUC general and affiliate files (the international files of the Congress have not been filmed at this stage)<BR><I>FTUC Official Directory</I>, 1979-1991<BR>Other documents<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

J.M. McEwen’s report in 1968 indicated that land tenure system in Niue was already under strain. He points out that customary Niuean land tenure consists of “family ownership, with an appointed family head, and undistributed rights of occupation which pass by descent. Ownership is fluid, in that rights can be lost by continued absence of owners from the land. Rights of occupation may also be lost in the same way. The system is essentially practical in that it enables the land to be worked by individual owners without interference from co-owners.” Niuean customary tenure was opposed to individualised freehold titles registered under the Niue Act 1966, derived from the New Zealand Maori Land Act.

Niue Land Titling Project. A Mid-term Review, Apr 1994.

Niue Land Titling Project: Stage Two Project: Document, n.d.

Interim Report of the A.C.T. Crown Lease Consultancy, 1995

Niue Land Titling Project. Questions and Answers about the Land Titling Project, Mar 1996

Report. Niue Delegation Tour in New Zealand for Land Titling Project, 20 March-2 April 1996;

Report of Constitutional Review Committee, Jun 1997; 19pp.

Proposal for a Consultancy to Review the Land Titling and Forestry Projects in Nuie, Sep 1997;

Terms of Reference: Review of Land Titling Project, Oct 1997

Review of Land Titling Project, Mar 1998; Ts., draft, 59pp.

Opportunities for Land Investment in Niue: Creation of a Land Economy, 4 Aug 1998.

Review of the Niue Land Titling Project. Final Report, Jun 1999.

Report on Land Tenure in Niue. Presented to the House of Representatives, 1968. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Albert Speer was born in 1922 in Goulburn, Australia, and served in New Guinea with 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance from 1942-1945. He served in the Department of Public Health in the Australian Administration of Papua and New Guinea from 1947 until his retirement in 1971, initially as a European Medical Assistant and eventually as acting Director of the Medical Training Division. During the period 1954 to 1957 he was active in exploratory patrols establishing health services in uncontacted and uncontrolled highland areas of Papua. Mr Speer also fostered Sir Albert Maori Kiki, among other children. Mr Speer died in Sydney on 16th April 2014.

Note book, 1943-1945. <BR> Diaries, 1947-1956 (gaps) and 1967-1974 (gaps). <BR>Correspondence, 1953-1971 (gaps).<BR> Dept of Public Health, Kerema Station, official reports, correspondence, etc., 1948-1953, including monthly reports, monthly returns of diseases and deaths, and patrol reports and diaries.<BR> Patrol Report No.7, Duna country, northwest of Tari, Southern Highlands, Papua, 1955.<BR> Photograph album Duna country, 1955-1956, together with patrol maps by J. P. Sinclair of the Lavani Valley and north-west Tari area, 1955-1956.<BR> Commonwealth film patrol, Duna area, May-Aug 1957, diary of Albert Speer and related papers.<BR> Sir Albert Maori Kiki's funeral: album holding press cuttings, photographs, etc., Mar 1993.<BR> Miscellaneous papers and photographs, 1951-1993.<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

The Council of Pacific Teachers Organisations, formed in 1982, is an affiliate of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession. It is based in Suva, Fiji, and its members consist of teachers' industrial organisations from all the South Pacific islands. Its objects include professional development of teachers, development of teachers' organisations and extension of educational opportunities to all peoples in the South Pacific.

Minutes and related papers of 2nd-11th annual and bi-annual conferences, including the activities report to the 11th Conference, 1984-1994<BR>various papers, reports and speeches, 1986-1994<BR>General Secretary's files re CPTO Women's network, 1989-1993<BR>the Solomon Islands Teachers' Association Women's Wing, 1992 <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Vanua Scope, an independent French language weekly, was edited by Patrick Antoine Delcoite, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

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A Sub-Station was first establised at Losuia in the South Eastern Division of British New Guinea (later Papua) in 1904. It was rebuilt in 1910 and continued to operate right through World War II till the present. In March 1950 the Papuan Eastern and South Eastern Divisions were merged to create the Milne Bay District. In 1978 the Milne Bay District acquired Provincial status.
The Losuia District Administration covers the northern part of the Milne Bay Province with the mass of the population residing at Kiriwina, Kitava and Murua (Woodlark) Islands. It had two administrative centres, one at Losuia on the island of Kiriwina and a subsidiary centre at Guasopa on the island of Murua.
Local Government Council were established at Kiriwina and Murua. As a consequence of the Kabisawali Movement, the Kiriwina LGC was abandonded in 1990 and replaced by a Kiriwina Community Government constituted under Milne Bay Provincial charter. The Community Government includes a council of traditional chiefs who are regarded as an “Upper House”.

Selected Losuia Distict Administration files, including: economic development, including agriculture, cooperatives, tourism, fisheries and forestry, 1956-92; customs and chiefs, 1927-84; education, 1961-89; Milne Bay Area Authority, 1972-78; Kiriwina Local Government, 1959-93; patrol reports, 1969-94; annual reports, 1969-91 (gaps); social and political development, 1962-89. File lists and indexes. See also PMB 1177.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Nancy White was educated at Melbourne and Geelong CEGG Schools. She trained as a primary school teacher in Melbourne and taught at Camberwell CEGGS, in Melbourne, from 1938 until June 1948. She then worked as a teacher with the Anglican Mission in the lower Mamba, and in the Sangara-Isivita area of Oro Province, PNG, for nearly twenty years, from 1948 to 1967. In July 1948 Sister White was first stationed at St James School at Sangara, taking care of out-station schools in the Orokaiva district. Situated between Gona and Kokoda, the area had been devastated during the War. A number of missionaries had been killed. After the War, Fr. Dennis Taylor had guided the re-building of the mission station and school and and Mrs Lesley Taylor re-establshed the teaching. When Sr. White arrived, Margaret de Bibra was re-organising the schools, and Rev. David Hand, later Bishop Hand, was the acting priest in charge of Sangara. In January 1951 Mt Lamington erupted while Sr. White was on furlough. Ninety per cent of the people in the Sangara area were killed in the eruption, including all the mission staff at Sangara and the government staff at Higaturu. Sr White returned immediately to Waseta to help re-organise the mission outstations and schools in the Isivita district, from Agenehambo to Saga. Sr White then taught in the Mamba district from 1955 until 1963 when she moved back to the Orokaiva district. Sr White remained in that district until she left PNG in 1967.

NW/1-9 Drafts of Sr White’s autobiography, Sharing the Climb, with correspondence relating to its editing and launch, 1988-1991;
NW/10 Poems and notes, including verse by James Benson;
NW/11 Sr White’s prayer books, 1947 & 1952;
NW/12-17 Sr White’s correspondence, 1948-1978;
NW/18-19 Tapa wallet holding various personal documents;
NW/20-27 Teaching papers and books, 1950-1960;
NW/28 Bishop Hand – consecrations, 1950-1963;
NW/29-32 Various documents, including Out-Station reports, syllabi, teaching materials, Orokaiva word list, poems and drawings, 1951-1973;
NW33 Press cuttings, 1951-1953;
NW/34 Photographs, 1948-1994.
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F.J.C. (Frank) and Rita Paton were Presbyterian missionaries in Tangoa (Vanuatu) from 1931-1933. They married in Ballarat in April 1931 and in May 1931 left for Vanuatu.
“Rev. Dr. John G. Paton’s eldest son, Rev. Robert Robson Paton could not serve in the New Hebrides because doctor declared him medically unfit for work in the tropics. But he was pleased that two of his sons were able to go. Frank was te first of the third generation. He worked as assistant to Rev. Fred Bowie, the Principal of Tangoa Teachers’ Training Institute (TTI) and District Missionary of South Santo. Frank was a teacer supported financially by the John G. Paton Fund.
At Tangoa, Frank built a workshop for the TTI students where they could do repair and maintenance jobs. After returning to Australia, three children, Barbara, David and Ruth, were born. Frank undertook pastoral work and preaching in NSW, then taught at Caulfield Grammar School and Scotch College Melbourne. Rita died in 1982. Frank subsequently remarried.
Frank writes the following, “After my early days at school I began work in the city of Melbourne but decided that I really wanted to become a school teacher. So for some years I did a lot of study and teaching. We married in Ballarat, Victoria, and set off in 1931 for the Tangoa Training Institute (TTI).
The Rev. Bowie was the principal and we were the only assistants. There were 60 students, of which about a dozen were married.
We set our clocks every fortnight at sunrise, for 6am, because at that time we met in the Hall for prayers and study. 8-8:30 was breakfast time, 8:30-10 school work; 10:15-12:30 practical work in the plantation and weeding and gathering coconuts for copra, while my work was on the buildings etc., to see that they were in good order. For this work I could call on as many helpers as were necessary for any building and carpentry jobs.
The afternoon was for the students to work in their gardens over on Santo, except that we always needed to keep at least four of them in case anything unexpected suddenly had to be done. Rita took the married women for school work in the afternoons. All sorts of things might suddenly become urgent problems – for instance, the baker’s oven developed some cracks and, as the two students who looked after the bread making usually baked every Tuesday and Thursday, they had to do it on Monday and Friday that week and I had to attend to and supervise the dismantling of all the bricks and make sure that the “new” bricks were quite sound before rebuilding the oven ready for the Friday baking. (The oven was about six feet long, four feet wide and four feet high.) At one time, we found that the workshop was in a bad way. White ants or similar unwelcome guests had made it unsafe. It had to be pulled down, the timber burnt and a new one built.
Often in the evening, the students would practice singing new hymns in the Hall and as our house (“Number Three”) was only about 50 yards away, it was a joy to listen to. The hymn books had tonic solfa notation and the students were wonderful sight readers.

(From They served in Vanuatu by Jungwirth, Fred, 1988, 2nd ed., p.39)

Diaries 1931-1932.
Various correspondence 1931-1939.
Drafts of various writings (memoir, etc.) 1950-1971(?).
Documents relating to Tangoa Training Institute and Presbyterian Church of New Hebrides 1970.
Printed material relating to New Hebrides 1951-1993.
Documents relating to The Pacific Theological College, Fiji, 1970(?).
Newspaper clippings 1931,1994.

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The Bishop Patteson Theological College (BPTC) at Kohimarama is about 25km west of Honiara.
The College Legend:
The desire to train Melanesians to lead their own people towards the Christian faith saw the establishment of a theological school now known as Bishop Patteson Theological College (BPTC). It was through his visionary and mission strategy for Melanesia that Bishop Augustus Selwyn, first bishop of New Zealand, established the school.
The College is named after Bishop John Coleridge Patteson who became the first missionary bishop to Melanesia where he laid down his life as a martyr of Melanesia on the tiny Island of Nukapu in Temotu Province in 1871. The college was first established in a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand called Kohimarama.
The School proved to be unsuitale for the Melanesians as it was too cold for them and a far away place from home. This led Bishop Patteson to acquire land at Mission Bay to relocate the School. That move was also found to be unfavourable for the Melanesians. And so in 1867 the School was moved to Norfolk Island. For the Melanesians this was the famous St.Barnabas School as it was called. Many Melanesians attended this School and returned to the Islands either as ordained priests or catechists. They joined those who were trained earlier to evangelise and to minister to their own folk.
In 1916, Bishop Cecil Wood, another missionary bishop to Melanesia, decided to move the School to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. It was then re-sited at Maravovo on Guadalcanal. The journey continued and in 1920 it was relocated to Siota on the Island of Ngela in the Central Islands Province. In 1935 it was further relocated at Maka in South Malaita. From there it was further moved to Taroniara, another site on Ngeloa. Here it was called St. Andrew’s Catechist and St. Peter’s College. The final journey to its present site came in 1970 when Bishop John Wallace Chisolm, later to be first Archbishop of the Province of the Church of Melanesia, decided to move it to its present site on the main Island of Guadalcanal.
Situated on a hill approximate 25km west of Honiara and 1km inland, the present site is again called Kohimarama. With a journey of many decades, Bishop patteson Theological College now stands to the glory of God, serving the Church of Melanesia and the United Church of Solomon Islands; BPTC continues to e a place where men and women are trained for ministry.
From “The College Legend”, Bishop Patteson Theological College, Kohimarama, handbook, 2008; Ts., p.5-6.
In 2011, there were ? residential students at BPTC plus their families.
The college offers programmes leading to the following awards: Bachelor of Tehology (BTh), Licentiate in Theology (LTh), Diploma in Theology (Dip Th), Certificate in Theology (Cert Th), Certificate of Women’s Studies (Cert WS).

Please note, the copyright of unpublished documents is held by the author of the document. Researchers may access this material for research purposes only. Permission to quote or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the copyright holder.

To obtain the contact details of the copyright holder please write to:
Fr. Anthony Kame (Principal)
Bishop Patteson Theological College
Kohimarama
Anglican Church of Melanesia
PO Box 19
Honiara
Solomon Islands

Theses submitted for the Diploma in Theology, 1970-2010, the Bachelor of Theology, 2008-2010, Master of Theology (Suva 2008), PhD in theology (Aukland 2010) and some additional staff papers. Theses cover a wide range of topics beyond theology, including history, culture, economics, politics etc.; mostly concerning Solomon Islands but also elsewhere in the Pacific.

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