This document is written in pencil in a minute hand in a book whose pages measure 7 x 4 1/2

The document records trading activities on Norfolk Island from 1881 to 1902 and in the Solomon Islands from 1905 to 1921

The records comprise: 1. Chronology of the Methodist Church, Norfolk Island, 1886-1970, compiled by Pastor M. Cathcart; 2. Marriage registers, 1903-26, 1929-48, 1949-65; 3. Minutes of meetings, 1905-16; 4. Minutes of meetings, 1937-66.

Records from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Norfolk Island comprising of: 1. History of the Church, 1891-1970; 2. 'Church Record' Book, 1895-1936; 3. 'Church Record' Book, 1936-54; 4. 'Church Record' Book, 1934-64.

Robert Edward Buffett was a Norfolk Islander, who died on Norfolk Island in 1953 at the age of 90. The book in which the journal was kept was originally owned by a Portuguese or Brazilian seaman, Manuel Jose. Some pages in Portuguese are in his hand at the beginning of the book, which he presented to Buffett.

The journal gives an account of a whaling voyage in the New Bedford bark CANTON from 1881 to 1885 and in the bark PETREL in 1887. Buffett signed on the CANTON at Norfolk Island. The bark subsequently visited many islands in the Pacific.

John Buffett arrived on Pitcairn Island in the whaler Cyrus in 1823. He married Dorothy Young, daughter of Midshipman Edward Young, a mutineer of HMS Bounty. In 1856 Buffet moved to Norfolk Island with 193 other Pitcairners in the ship Morayshire.

The diary begins on 8 June 1856, the day of arrival at Norfolk Island. It is kept in a year book of Norfolk Island's convict era, which Buffett apparently found in one of the abandoned buildings at Kingston. It continues to 16 (?) September 1860. There is then a gap until 28 March 1868, when Buffett returned to Pitcairn, where he remained until 4 July 1872. There is then another gap until 17 October 1872 when Buffett returned to Norfolk Island, keeping the diary until 2 October 1875. Another break then occurs until 26 May 1879, when the diary appears to have been continued in another hand until 31 August 1879. From 1 January 1888, when it again resumes, various hands appear. After a break between 4 August 1888 and 1 January 1889, it continued uninterrupted until 31 March 1892. The death of John Buffett, Sen., is recorded on 5 March 1891. The diary is the day by day affairs of the island on which Buffett happened to be - shipping arrivals and departures, births, marriages and deaths, the state of the weather, chases after whales and other remarkable events. At the front and back of the diary are a number of miscellaneous items, including the text of hymns, a description of a dream, the laws and regulations of Pitcairn Island, recipes, poems and copies of letters and Commissariat details.

Fisher was chief officer of 'The Woodlark'.

The logbook describes a whaling voyage to the South Pacific apparently under a Captain Hardwicke. The voyage began in Sydney and took in Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Solomon Islands, Torres Strait, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea), Santa Cruz Group, Tikopia and New Zealand. There is a gap in the log from 2 February to 31 March 1857.

Minute books of the Church of England, Norfolk Island, 1908-57.

Captain Charles Robert Pinney M.C. (1883-1945) was Administrator and Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island from July 1, 1932 to December 3, 1937. He died in Sydney on November 18, 1945.

The papers comprise: 1. An address dated July 18, 1932, from the Norfolk Island Executive Council to Captain Pinney welcoming him to their Island on behalf of island residents. 2. A petition dated July 31, 1934, addressed by residents of Norfolk Island to the Governor-General of Australia praying that an Inquiry be instituted into 'the present intolerable conditions prevailing on this island'. 3. Private correspondence between Captain Pinney and Mr J.R. Halligan, Officer in Charge of the Territories Branch of the Prime Minister's Department. The letters cover the period July 6, 1934, to October 21, 1936. 4. Private correspondence between Captain Pinney and Senator Sir George Pearce, Minister in Charge of Territories. The letters cover the period, April 3, 1935, to December 9, 1936. 5. Correspondence between Captain Pinney and Mr Kenneth Binns, Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian, on the Norfolk Island lingo. The letters are dated December 23, 1937, January 3, 1938 and January 7, 1938. 6. A letter dated May 27, 1938 from Mrs Mildred Campbell to Captain Pinney on the opening of a branch of the Carnegie Library on Norfolk Island. 7. A lecture given in 1944 by Captain Eric Stopp on The Descendants of the Mutineers of the Bounty. Captain Stopp was Official Secretary on Norfolk Island from 1927 to 1941.