Correspondence and reports. This file contains correspondence and reports concerning Anglo-French rivalry in the New Hebrides condominium. Major topics include:- Slave Trading in the New Hebrides (1902); appointment of New Hebrides Land Commission (1904); Commander WH D'oyly's address on the 'Mixed Naval Commission' and the sale of arms, ammunition and liquor by Europeans to natives (1907); dispute between the resident commissioner Capt. Rason and Capt. Bentinck of 'HMS Prometheus' with Rev P Milne (snr) on Nguna (1907); reports of land claims and cruelty prepared by Rev JG Paton (1901); 'The New Hebrides Missionaries and the Deputy - French Commissioners Call for a Holy War' by Rev TE Riddle; 'The New Hebrides Problem' (The unsatisfactory nature dual British and French control) (c.1907); recruitment of natives; liquor trade; affect of First World War on British claims (1915); proceedings Anglo-French Conference in London (1914); The 'Joint Commission/Court and Survey of Mission Lands' (1909); convention banning sale of drink to natives (1910); correspondence with Rev C. Murray re visit of Bishop C. Wilson of Melanesian Mission to New Zealand (1910); PCNZ deputation to Sir Joseph Ward (1911); correspondence re trial of natives (1913); correspondence from British Resident Commissioner (1914); Representation to NZ government re New Hebrides Condominium prior to World Peace Conference (1918); Native attitude to Condominium (1919); French claims for allotment of New Hebrides to France (1920); the protocols of the New Hebrides Condominium agreed as at 6th August 1914 (1923); Victorian (Australia) petition re New Hebrides (c.1923); discussion re possible mandate to supersede condominium (1924); PCNZ of Victoria Foreign Missions Committee Statement on Condominium (1924); British and French recruitment for plantation work and Labour laws (1925); drink traffic (1926); Anglo- French protocol to amend New Hebrides Convention of 1906 (1926); list of grievances and natives injustices (1926); 'Indentured Labour in New Hebrides' (c.1927); regulations for importing and trading in liquor (1929); relationship of the New Hebrides Mission with the French administration (1929). PCANZ Archive Item number: GA-1-4.27.1 (File 2/3)

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