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PMB 1009 GILSON Richard P., Samoa 1830-1900 drafts and research materials; Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, GEIC, Niue and PNG, 1830-1954. 9 reels
INDEX TO FOURTH DRAWER OF R.P. GILSON MATERIAL

Reel 1	1.	The Politics of a Multicultural Community. Samoa 1830-1900.
Introduction, bibliography of Gilson, abbreviations, bibliography of book, miscellaneous correspondence on book.	
Reel 2	2.	Ditto. Chapters 1-6 (two copies).	
Reel 3	3.	Ditto. Chapters 7-12 (two copies).	
Reel 4	4.	Ditto. Chapters 13-16.	
	5.	Ditto. Early drafts of Chapters 2, 13.	
	6.	Ditto. Revised footnotes.	
	7.	Vaisala Papers (Samoa).	
Reel 5	8.	Samoan educational texts
	a) Cyclostyled syllabus for Grade 2 schools.
	b) Cyclostyled syllabus for Grade 3 schools.
	c) 0 le tusi a tamaiti - Samoan Primer, 1948.
	d) 0 le Ti muamua - Samoan Alphabet, 1953.
	e) Tusitala mo a'oga Samoa - nos 1 and 3, 1949.
	f) Samoa - no. 6, 1953 (dealing with coronation of Elizabeth II).
	g) Te tuatua Apii o to kuki airani no. 1, 1950 (2 copies).
	h) Seven cyclostyled texts on Geography and Mathematics.	
	9.	Papers delivered at Hancock Seminar on British tropical dependencies -problems and policies since late nineteenth century. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1951.	
	10.	Proclamations re election of King of Samoa, 1888-9.	
	11.	Notes on German administration of Samoa.	
	12.	Notes (Gilson's and those made from others) on Samoan social structure.
a) Gilson - notes on Samoan social structure.
b) Notes from Lowell D. Holmes - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan Village.
c) Notes from Margaret Mead - Social organization of Manu'a.
d) Gilson - notes on how to analyse lineage relationships.
e) Gilson - notes on family organization and lineage (including genealogies of some families).
f) Notes from Williamson - Social and political Systems, vol. II.
g) Gilson - notes on functions of intervillage political organizations.
h) Notes from Williamson and Piddington - Polynesian Ethnology.
i) Notes from Williamson - 'Sanctity of Chieftainship', Ch. IV.
j) Gilson - notes on district fonos
k) Gilson - questions and results from interviews made in Samoa, n.d.
1) Gilson - notes on genealogies.	
	13.	Translation of Maretu's journal.	

	14.	Secretary of State, despatch on Cooperative movements in the Pacific, 1946.	
Reel 6	15.	Material on Papua/New Guinea
a) Statement by P.C. Spender on Australian policy with regard to external territories, June, 1950.
b) Notes from South Pacific on New Guinea and other territories, 1946.
c) Cutting from Auckland Star on New Guinea, 27 May 1950.
d) Gilson - notes on Papua/New Guinea.	
	16.	Letter from R.G. Roberts to Gilson on land tenure in G.E.I.C., 13 February 1951.	
	*17.	Miscellaneous material on G.E.I.C.
a) Gilson - general notes.
b) Amendment to tax regulations, no.11, 1915.
c) King's regulation on recruiting and employment of native labourers, no.1, 1915.
d) Annual report of cooperative societies officer, 1947.
e) Ditto, 1948.
f) Ditto, 1949.	
	18.	Notes on French administration in Oceania, 1842-1903.	
	19.	D.S. Marshall - A working bibliography of the Society Islands, particularly Tahiti, December 1951. Cyclostyled.	
	20.	Material on Fiji
a) Cutting from Auckland Star, 18 May, 1950.
b) Mrs Cumpston and Mrs Boyd - Paper (cyclostyled) on Fijian land policy, 1890-1914.
c) Fiji Department of Education, Annual Report 1948.
d) Coulter - notes on Fiji.
e) Wright - notes on Colony of Fiji, 1874-1931.
f) Meek - notes on Fijian land matters.
g) Notes on Secretary of Fijian Affairs Annual Report, 1948.
h) Brookes - notes.	
	21.	Notes on American policy in the tropics.	
	22.	Notes on South Seas Commission Conference papers, Canberra, 29 January, 1947.	
	23.	Captain Tupper - report on visit to Nassau, Danger, Humphrey, Reirson, Penrhyn, Suwarrow Islands, H.M.S. Pylades, 1899.	
Reel 7	*24.	Cook Islands - notes from appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives (N.Z.).
Mostly Series A3, 1891-1931.
a) Rules of the C.I.P.C.S.L.
b) Rules of the C.I.I.U.W.
c) Order in Council (N.Z.) 1947/48 - The Cook Islands Industrial Unions Regulations 1947.
d) Ditto 1948/23 - The Cook Islands Trade Dispute Intimidation Regulations 1948.
e) Notes on industrial relations and the formation of a trade union, 1946-8.
f) T.R.A. Davis - The Cooperative Movement in the Cook Islands - paper for South Pacific Conference, 1950.	
	25.	Papers by Gilson on Cook Islands
a) Notes on Rarotongan Administration (for N.Z. Govt., 1950 - unpublished).
b) Local government in the Cook Is. (2 copies).
c) Pacific History seminar - Cook Islands Government 1823-1888.
d) Land tenure in Rarotonga: 1890-1914.
e) Draft report on land tenure in Niue.
f) Questions and answers on Cooks - field notes.	
	*26.	Notes on L.M.S. material regarding Cooks
a) Notes from SSJ.
b) Notes from Annual Reports.
c) Notes from The Friend, 1 March 1849 on Rarotonga.
d) Notes from book held at L.M.S.
e) Notes from Te Karere: with Fugitive Papers.
f) Notes from SSL.
g) Miscellaneous notes.	
	*27.	Documents relating to Cook Islands Progressive Association, Cook Islands Industrial Union of Workers, Cook Islands Producers Cooperative Society Ltd.	
	28.	Pacific and Cook Is. bibliography.	
Reel 8	29.	N.Z. Parliamentary Debates on Cook Is., 1900-1937.	
	*30.	Notes from Papers by T.R.A. Davis (then M.O. in Cook Is.)
a) Mosquito Control.
b) The healthy village.
c) Food and export crops.
d) Village schools and vocational training.	
	31.	Notes on Cook Is. from N.Z. Herald, 1876-1900.	
	32.	Notes from C.O./209, N.Z. series. Correspondence on Cooks, 1866-1902.	
	33.	Notes from C.O./225, W.P.H.C. Correspondence on Cooks, 1883-1899.Odd note on C.O./418.	
	*34.	Notes from F.O./58, Pacific Islands. Correspondence on Cooks, 1874-1890.	
	35.	New Zealand Parliamentary Papers A/3 Series.
a) F.J. Moss - Maori polity on Rarotonga, 1894.
b) Report on Cook Is. for 1906.
c) Gudgeon - economic administration of land, 1908.
d) Gudgeon - Cook Is. March 1908.
e) Report (Lands and Surveys) on Cook and Northern Is., 1908.
Miscellaneous notes on Cook Is. compiled from various books, articles, etc. Would probably constitute an excellent bibliography of the early Cook Is. history.	
	37.	Documents re elections 1947-50.
a) Public notice, 1 April 947 by defeated candidate for council elections.
b) Rules on conduct of elections.
c) Akatanira - C.I.P.A. paper, November 25, 1950.
d) G. Kinghan - policy statement of candidate, March 1947.
e) Result of Rarotonga Council election, 31 March, 1947.
f) Free grants from N.Z.
g) Notes on first L.C. - opening 5 November, 1947.
h) Ditto third session - opening 14 November, 1949.	
	38.	Trade and industry in Cooks
a) Trade statistics, 1920-31.
b) Report. on Cook Is. fruit industry, 1936, presented to N.Z.
Parliament.	
	*39.	Correspondence with Lionel Trenn re Cooks, 1951-2.	
	*40.	Report of University of Otago (N.Z.) expedition to investigate health matters in Cooks, 1949-50.	
	*41.	Report by the Minister of Island Territories, Hon. T. Clifton Webb, on his visit to the Cook Islands, August 1954.	
Reel 9	*42.	Documents relating to Cook Is. land matters.	

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Notes by PMB on individual files or items	
Files 1-12  	SAMOA	
		
File 7	Vaisala Papers (Samoa). Included with other documents in File 8
"Vaisala material" listed by R.P. Gilson in "File numbers, Samoan material" (PMB 1003)	
File 8
	Samoan educational material. Includes two items not published in or relating to Samoa, i.e.
8(g) - Te tuatua Apii o to kuki airani no.1, 1950
8(illegible) - Tohi tala ima e tau a ogi Niue no.1, 1950	
File 10	Proclamations re election of King of Samoa 1888-1889
Included with other Proclamations in File 72 "Proclamations" listed by R.P. Gilson in "File numbers, Samoan material" (PMB 1003)	
Files 13-42	Cook Islands: 13, 23-42; Cooperatives: 14; Papua New Guinea: 15; GEIC: 16, 17; French Polynesia: 18, 19; Fiji: 20; American policy: 21; South Seas Conference: 22.	
File 17	GEIC also includes notes on Maxwell W.H. Report on the Gilbert Ellise (sic) and other islands Syd.: Govt. Printer, 1881.:	
File 24	Cook Island Notes item listed under 24a - f missing March 1989.	
File 25(f)	"Questions and answers on lands" missing March 1989.	
File 26	Notes on LMS material.   For microfilmed LMS material relating to the Cook Islands see: PMB Short titles and index to microfilms 1-1000; Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook Part 8: Miscellaneous (Canberra: National Library of Australia etc. 1984 reprint); London Missionary Society archives catalogue of the Interdocumentation Company, Zug, Switzerland.	
File 27	Documents relating to Cook Islands Progressive Association (etc.) are numbered but not itemised in the "Index". Items 27a, e, f, g and h, titles unknown, missing March 1989.	
File 30	Notes from papers by T.R.A. Davis.  Another paper by T.R.A. Davis, "Cooperative movements ...", is listed in 24f but missing March 1989.	
Files 32-33	Notes from C0209, C0227, C0418 Microfilmed Colonial Office records are listed in the Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook Part 2: Colonial Office (Canberra: National Library of Australia etc. 1984 reprint).	
File 34	Notes from F058 Microfilms of FO 58: General Correspondence: Pacific Islands are listed in the Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook Part 5: Foreign Office (Canberra: National Library of Australia etc. 1984 reprint).	
File 37h	"3rd Session 1949" is numbered 37L.	
File 39	Correspondence with Lionel Trenn:  File 42 Documents relating to Cook Islands land matters also contains documents sent by Trenn to Gilson.	

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