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REEL LIST.

PMB 1257	GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY, 
Ellice Islands District (Tuvalu), Island Council, Courts and Lands Commission records: Funafuti and Nanumea Islands, including general Ellice Islands Lands Commission records, 1896-1973, Western Pacific Archives TUV 4(1), TUV 4(3) & TUV 7/II-IV. 
Reels 1-11. (Available for reference. Not to be reproduced without written permission of the Tuvalu National Library and Archives.)

Reel Nos.	List No.
Series No.	Item or File No.	Description	Date range	
Reel 1			Nanumea Island Council.  Unnumbered Land correspondence files and Land Court Minute Books.		
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 1	Pepa a te Malo No.15 (official Papers No.15) (Contains part of index of Lands Register; estate papers; pages from an Island Land Court Minute Book; rough notes by Land Court Official; Wills; etc.)		
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 2	Fono Manafa – Namumea – Fakatounga. (Instructions to Land Court, Nanumea, by Mr D.G. Kennedy, Lands Commissioner, Ellice Islands, on 15 Dec 1936, to members and assessors of Nanumea Lands Commission.)	1936	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 3	Nanumea – Notes of Mr D.G. Kennedy. (Also contains original instructions from Land Court issued 15 Dec 1936.	1936	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 4	Summonses to Land Court and related correspondence. Nanumea. 	1958-1961	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 5	Summonses to Land Court and related correspondence. Nanumea. 	1959-1962	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 6	Genealogical Notes, D.G. Kennedy. 	1937	
Reel 2	TUV4(3)IV	Item 7	Land Note. Court Scrap Book. (Also contains cricket scores.) 	1947	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 8	Te Fono Manafa o te Fenua i Nanumea. Nanumea Land Court Minute Book.  184pp. 	1949-1957	
	TUV4(3)IV	Item 9	Te Fono Manafa o te Fenua i Nanumea. Nanumea Land Court Minute Book. 181pp. 	1957-1959	
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Registers, 1935-1961.		
	TUV4(3)V	Item 1	Inward and outward correspondence register. (Also contains schedule of wills and complaints files with Native Court and Lands Court.) 	1947-1960	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 2	Register of Land and Owners of Garden Pits. Loose leaf. 	c.1935	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 3	Register of Lands. Loose leaf.	c.1935	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 4	Fakasolonga o Manafa i Nanumaea. Land List – Nanumea. Ts., loose leaf.	c.1946	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 5	Tusi Manafa No.2. Register of Land Owners. 	1950	
Reel 3	TUV4(3)V	Item 6	Register of Mataniu. (Land Owning Units.) 2 books.	1937	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 7	Copra tax lists and related data.	1937-1961	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 8	Copra tax lists and related data.	1938-1942	
	TUV4(3)V	Item 9	Copra tax lists and related data.	1941-1948	
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Wills, Agreements and Contracts, 1899-1968.		
	TUV4(3)VI	Item 1	Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 1. (Wills.)	1899-1933	
	TUV4(3)VI	Item 2	Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 2. (Wills.)	1933-1948	
	TUV4(3)VI	Item 3	Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 3. (Wills.)	1936-1947, Jan-Mar 1968	
	TUV4(3)VI	Item 4	Feagaiga. (Agreements.) 	Jan 1936-Oct 1948	
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Station Diaries, 1949-1952.		
	TUV4(3)VII	Item 1	Station Diary	Dec 1949-Sep 1951	
	TUV4(3)VII	Item 2	Station Diary	Oct 1949-Mar 1952	
					
			Western Pacific Archives. List TUV4(3)/Series I-X: Catalogue of Ellice Islands District, Nanumea Island Council correspondence.		
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Correspondence files, 1947-1967.		
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.1	Untitled correspondence file. On laws and regulations. 	1957-1961	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.1.7(a)	Tusi ki Manafa te Komesina. (Letters from the Commissioner concerning lands.) 	1950-1959	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.2	Tusi ki Manafa mai Nanumanga. (Letters from Nanumanga concerning Lands.) 	1949-1965	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.Napa 2	Tino o te Maalo. (Government Officials.) 	1961-1967	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.2	Faifainga o Fono a te Malo. (Island Court.) 	1965	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.2.7(e)	Tulafono o Manafa – Nanumea. (Land Code for Nanumea.)	1949-1951	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.3	Faifainga a te Fono Pule. 	1965.	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.3.7(i)	Tusi e uinga ki Manafa mai Niutao. (Letters fro Niutao concerning land matters.) 	1950-1965	
	TUV4(3)I	File Napa F.4	Lafonga Popo. (Land Tax – copra.)	1961-1964	
Reel 4	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.4.7(a)	Tusi ki Manafa mo toenga o Febua. (Letters from other Islands concerning land matters.) 	1947-1966	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.5.7(a)	Tusi ki Manafa mai Nanumea ki nisi Fenua. (Letters from Nanumea to other Islands concerning land matters.) 	1959-1967	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.7	Manafa mo Faifainga. (Land tenure and Island customs.) 	1958-1960	
	TUV4(3)I	File Napa F.7	Manafa mo Faifainga. (Land tenure and customs.) 	1961-1964	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.8 Vol.2	Mea Valevale. (Miscellaneous.) 	1953-1954	
	TUV4(3)I	File No.F.8	Mea Valevale. (Miscellaneous.) Typewritten list of lands and landowners.	c.1949	
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Island Council and Native Court Minutes and Registers, 1909-1966.		
	TUV4(3)II	Item No.2	Complaints for hearing by Native and Land Courts.	1938-1949	
	TUV4(3)II	Item No.3	Civil and Criminal Court Minute Book.	1927-1936	
	TUV4(3)II	Item No.17	Papers lying loose in Court Sentences Register. (One paper is the original agreement for the Government Station.)	1909-1916	
					
			Nanumea Island Council Minutes, 1948-1965		
	TUV4(3)III	Item No.1	Island Council Minute Book.	1948-1955	
Reel 5	TUV4(3)III	Item No.2	Island Council Minute Book.	1955-1965	
					
			Nanumea Island Council. Miscellaneous Items, 1934-1952.		
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 1	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1934	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 2	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1943-1944	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 3	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. Lafonga. (Feasts.) 	1944-1948	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 4	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. Manafafaite pulapula toki. (Replanting.) 	1947-1948	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 5	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1950	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 6	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1950	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 7	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1951	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 8	Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 	1951-1952	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 9	Stores, war damage compensation and Island Council minutes scrapbook.	1939-1947	
Reel 6	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 10	Prison tools, communal workers and tasks.		
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 11	War damage compensation and Island Council minutes scrapbook.	1942-1949	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 12	Nanumea Census Scrapbook.	1949-1951	
	TUV4(3)VIII	Item 13	Instructions for submission of claims for War Damage compensation. 	1948	
					
			Funafuti Island Council. Correspondence files, 1948-1964.		
	TUV4(1)I	File No.F.2	Tino o te Malo o te Fenua. (Island Government Personnel.) Note Encl. No.25 is a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Island Land Court by the LMS Pastor, 6 Dec 1956, about mission land.	1961-1962	
	TUV4(1)I	File No.F.2	Kakasolonga o Tangi – Tausi I konei a pepa ko se toe faka-aonga. (Schedule of complaints about lands. Papers no longer required.) 	1948-1959	
	TUV4(1)I	File No. F.3 (Vol.II)	Ngaluenga Faka-te-Malo. (Miscellaneous Works, etc.) 	1965-1966	
	TUV4(1)I	File
No.F.3/2	Ngaluenga Faka-te-Malo Tusi mo Uaelesi mai te Komisina. (Miscellaneous works, etc.) 	1965-1966	
	TUV4(1)I	File No.F.7	Manafa mo tu Mote Masani ate Fenua. (Land and Customs.) 	1949-1963	
	TUV4(1)I	File No. F.8 (Vol.I)	Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.) ff.1-103.	1948-1954	
	TUV4(1)I	File No.F.8 (Vol.II) 	Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.) ff.101-243.	1953-1957	
Reel 7	TUV4(1)I	File No.F.8 (Vol.III)	Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.). ff.244-582.	1954-1964	
					
			Funafuti Island Council. Un-numbered Files.		
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.1	Administrative Circulars..	1932-1936	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.2	General Correspondence, Vol.1. ff.1-177.	1951-1960	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.3	General Correspondence, Vol.2. ff.1-122.	1951-1962	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.4	General Correspondence, Vol.3. ff.6-158. 	1953-1959	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.5	Pepa Fakamaoninga o Tamapuke. (3 adoptions.) 	1958-1960	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.6	Te Pepa mo Tulafono a te Malo. (Island Regulations.) 	c.1932	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.7	Te Pepa tenei o Kakatonunga e uinga mo Faiautusi. (Instructions for Island Scribes.)	1932-1950	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.8	Te Pepa o Fakatonunga mo te Faifainga ki Tangata talue o te Malo. (Instructions to Government Officials.) 	1933-1938	
	TUV4(1)II	Item No.9	Te Pepa tenei o Fakatonunga e uinga mo Tamalike e Fakamasino i Fono. (Juvenile Court Procedure.) 	1934-1938	
					
			Funafuti Island Council.  Minute books.		
	TUV4(1)IV	Item No.1	Minute Book. 	1948-1956	
	TUV4(1)IV	Item No.2	Minute Book. To 2 Jun 1961.	1956-1965	
Reel 8	TUV4(1)IV	Item No.2	Minute Book. From 2 Jun 1961.	1956-1965	
	TUV4(1)IV	Item No.3	Various papers found loose in Island Council minute book.	1956-1965	
					
			Funafuti Island Council. Court Minute Book.		
	TUV4(1)V	Item No.1	Funafuti Court Minute Book. 	1923-1932	
					
			Funafuti Lands Commission and Land Court Minutes. 1948 – 1957.		
	TUV4(1)VI	Item No.1	Lands Commission Minute Book.	8 Nov 1948-8 Mar 1949	
	TUV4(1)VI	Item No.2	Land Court Minute Book (and Adoptions).	1948-1957	
					
			Funafuti Island Council. Registers and Copies of Wills.		
	TUV4(1)VII	Item No.1	Will of Seluia. 	1949	
	TUV4(1)VII	Item No.2	Tusi Fakamau Tomgia (Mavaenga) a te Fono Funafuti. (Register of Wills.) 	1967-1973	
					
			Funafuti Island Council. Registers.		
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.1	Genealogical Record. Copied for Funafuti. Collected on Vaitupu. Believed to have been brought to Funafuti by D. G. Kennedy, 1932. [See also EAP digital images of this document.]		
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.2	Coconut Tree Planting Campaign.	1949	
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.3	Register of Funafuti Pulaka and Banana Pits.	c. 1949	
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.4	Lists of Landowners and Lands, and Registration of Coconut Trees.	c.1952-1958	
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.5	Copra Tax Lists.	1952 and 1966	
Reel 9	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.6	Fakasolaga o Manafa i Funafuti. (Funafuti Land List).	n.d.	
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.7	Land Tax Receipt Register, ff.1-173.	1960-1961	
	TUV4(1)VIII	Item No.8	Land Tax Receipt Register.	1962-1967	
					
			Lands Commission, Ellice Islands, Funafuti.		
	TUV4(1)IX	Item Nos.1-37	Records of Lands of Individual Land Owners, including gardens. Also includes transcripts and some genealogies. To item No.37.	c.1955	
Reel 10	TUV4(1)IX	Item Nos.38-55	Records of Lands of Individual Land Owners, including gardens, continued from Reel 9.	c.1955	
					
			Lands Commission. Ellice Islands. Funafuti.		
	TUV4(1)X	Item No.1	Administrative Circulars on Lands Court Procedures.	1932–1935	
	TUV4(1)X	Item No.2	Draft Lands Code for Funafuti Island.	1948	
	TUV4(1)X	Item No.3	Various Notes:
(a)	Fakatonunga e fakasino ki te faitanga o tusi Manafa
(b)	Tulafono mo te Fono Manafa
(c)	Te Tulafono Faka-te-Fenua…		
	TUV4(1)X	Item No.4	Fono Manafa – Tausi i konei Pepa Kami. Land Court Summonses. 	1958	
					
			Lands Commission, Funafuti, Ellice Islands. 		
	TUV4(1)XI	Item No.1	Lands Commission Findings. Kennedy’s 1935 Settlement. Record of findings of the final court. Funafuti. Form F. Original Ms., and transcript, Ts.	1935	
	TUV4(1)XI	Item No.2	Lands Commission Findings. Kennedy’s Settlement. Record of findings of the Final Court. Funafuti. Form F. Transcript, typescript only. Original badly fragmented and water damaged.	1935-1936	
	TUV4(1)XI	Item No.3	(a) Tusi Togi a Tino i Funafuti (Wills.). Original and transcript, Ts.	1896-1936	
			(b) Tusi Tagi a Tino i Funafuti (Wills.). Original and transcript, Ts.	1937-1988	
					
			Ellice Islands (Tuvalu) Lands Commission. Notes and Correspondence, c. 1936 – 1948.		
	TUV7/II	Item No.1	MP No.71 Lands (Native Disputes.) 	1933-1940	
	TUV7/II	Item No.2	F.15. Taxation. 	1948	
	TUV7/II	Item No.3	Miscellaneous Notes.		
	TUV7/II	Item Nos. 4 & 5	Miscellaneous Notes. Not microfilmed.		
	TUV7/II	Item No.6	Rough notebook of D.G. Kennedy.		
	TUV7/II	Item No.7	Tour diary of D.G. Kennedy.	1936	
					
			Ellice Islands Land Commission. Regulations and Instructions.		
Reel 11	TUV7/III	Item No.1	Land Code for Ellice Islands (in Tuvaluan).		
	TUV7/III	Item No.2	Fakatonung ki Malo o Fenua i te atu Tuvalu. Funafuti. 	1952	
	TUV7/III	Item No.3	Tulafono mo Fenua i te atu Elise. (Laws of the Ellice Islands.)	1941	
					
			Ellice Islands Land Commission. Land Lists and Registers.		
	TUV7/IV	Item Nos.1 & 2	List of Land Claims: Funafuti, Nukufetau, Nanumea, Vaitupu, Nuitao. [Badly damaged.]		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.3	Register of Land Claims. All Islands. Form B.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.4	Register of Land Claims. All Islands. Form B.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.5	Revision of Land Registers. Nanumea. Form A		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.6	Pepa e Fakaonga mo Manafa: Nanumea. Form A.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.7	Registration of Coconuts, etc. Nanumea. Form F.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.8	Revision of Lands Registers. Funafuti. Form A.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.9	Revision of Babai Pits. Funafuti. Forms B and E.		
	TUV7/IV	Item No.10	Registration of Coconuts, etc. Funafuti. Form F.		

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