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REEL LIST

PMB 1390	ANGLICAN CHURCH OF MELANESIA (Anglican Church in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia), Selected archives, 1848-1974. 
Reels 1-6. (Available for reference.)

Reel No.	COM Archives Item No.	Description	Date Range	
				
Reel 1	Item 14	News cuttings album of Bishop Walter Baddeley, consisting of Melanesian Mission pamphlets, reports and ephemera, as well as some press cuttings, arranged chronologically, including:
•	The Melanesian Mission 1848 to 1939 (map only)
•	Plan of hospital site and buildings, Fauabu, Malaita (c.1930)
•	Melanesian Mission Finance Board, Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, 31 March 1928, Feb 1931.
•	Melanesia. The Story of the Melanesian Mission, n.d., 32pp.
•	About Melanesia, No.3, No.6 (1927) & No.7.
•	What is the Melanesian Mission?, n.d., 4pp.
•	Bp Walter Baddeley, circular, 3 March 1944, announcing his return to Melanesia, 1p.
•	Eric Ramsden, ‘Sherwin of New Britain’, PIM, 17 Jun 1936.
•	Melanesian Mission Medical Officer’s Report, Apr-Jun 1936, Jul-Sep 1936, Oct-Dec 1936, Jan-Mar 1937, Apr-Jun 1937, Jul-Sep 1937, Oct-Dec 1937.
•	Eric Ramsden, ‘Fox of Melanesia’, PIM, 24 Jan 1936.
•	Melanesian Mission, Bishop’s Report – 1936.
•	In the Solomons and other Islands of Melanesia: Building a Christian Civilization! 1849-1943, Sydney, 30pp.
•	Melanesian Mission Leper Colony, n.d., 5pp.
et al. 	1926-1953	
	Item 18(1)	Bishop Chisholm. News cuttings: orders of service, photographs, circulars, an itinerary and press cuttings in an album dated 24 Sep 1967 	1967-1972	
	Item 18(2)	Bishop Chisholm. News cuttings.	1968-1970	
				
Reel 2	Item 31(2)	Southern Cross, Navigation Plot Book. (Transferred from Item 23.)	8 Mar-28 Sep 1848	
	Item 33	Charles Fox, Lord of the Southern Isles, Ts., carbon with editorial annotations, in 22 folders.		
Reel 3	Item 33, cont.	Charles Fox, Lord of the Southern Isles, Ts., carbon, continued from Reel 2.		
	Item 35	Melanesian Mission, Sydney, correspondence with Miss H.R. Blake re her donation to build the Mission clinic at Fauabu, Fateleka, Malaita. This is a small addition to documents microfilmed at PMB 1359, Item 35.		
	Item 36	“An account of the move of the Melanesian Mission office to Sydney” (from Auckland),	1934	
	Item 37	Melanesian Mission, miscellaneous letters, including:
•	Verbatim report of address by Bishop of Melanesia at St Sepulchre’s Church, Auckland, 31 May 1937, Ts., pp.1-13.
•	G.I. Hopkins to Mrs Selwyn, 8 Jul 1924, Ms., 3pp.
•	Interim Report No.7, Educational Survey: Mr Groves’ report, 14 Dec 1939, Ts., 5pp.
•	Ross Bongard Waters to Dr Fox, 5 Nov 1952, Ms., 3pp.
•	Biographical notes on Robert Paley Wilson by Ellen Wilson, 1948, Ts., 1p.
•	Press cuttings from the Northern Star re launch of Selwyn, 23 Aug 1964, and Fauabu-Twomey, ‘Fifth mission ship launched at Ballina’, 26 Oct 1964.
•	Rev. Hugo Gorovaka to Bp Selwyn, 20 May 1909, Ms., 1 leaf.
•	‘A Melanesian Ballet’. A description of a dance from Qatnapel District of Raga [Pentecost] in the New Hebrides, with musical score and lyrics, 1p.
•	Quotations in support of the work of Christian missions.
•	Outline structure of Lord of the Isles, Pts I-VII and appendices, Ts., 2pp.
•	Draft introduction by W.J. Durrad to Dr Fox’s book, A Missionary in Melanesia, Ts., 2pp.
•	‘Melanesian Games’, n.d., Ts., 4pp.
•	‘Folklore Stories’, as told by Harry Sageire of Aoba, New Hebrides in 1920, Ts., 17pp.
•	‘Building the indigenous Church: the Melanesian Mission’, n.d., Ts., 6pp.
•	‘Missionary Work in the Pacific’, n.d.: (a) The MM spheres of operation – travelling – transfer of native church members; (b) The Mission’s attitude to native customs – Mission trading and relationships with governments, Ts., 15pp.
•	G.A. Medland, illustrated letter to his father from H.M. ship Dido, from Tongatapu, Epiphany 1848, Ms., facs., 4pp.
•	Hector McQuarrie, ‘Melanesia. Happy People of the Western Pacific’, with photographs by J.W. Beattie, Hobart, Christmas Brett’s Annual, Dec 1923.
•	Catalogues of J.W. Beattie’s photographs of the Melanesian Mission, n.d., Ts., 3pp. (NB: this is item 41 in the Archives)	1860-1940	
	Item 39	Maps of Melanesia, compiled by Melenesian Mission General Secretary and Treasurer, 1 vol.	Mar 1947	
	Item 46	Melanesian Mission General Secretary’s correspondence, marked, ‘English Correspondence’:
•	46-1, 1921-25, ff.1-145
•	46-2, 1925-26, indexed, ff.1-177
•	46-3, 1927-28, indexed, ff.1-82, et al., out of order
•	46-4, 1928-29, indexed, ff.1-93
•	46-5, 1929-30, indexed, ff.1-92
•	46-6, 1930-31, indexed, ff.1-143.		
	Item 49	Melanesian Mission Trust Board (N.Z.) correspondence, in folders arranged by year:
-	1928
-	1929 	1928-1963	
Reel 4		Melanesian Mission Trust Board (N.Z.) correspondence, cont.
-	1930-1932
-	1934
-	1935
-	1936
-	1937
-	1939
-	1940
-	1949
-	1950
-	1951
-	1952
-	1953
-	1955
-	1956-1957
-	1958 (includes specifications for construction of Bishop of Melanesia’s house, Rove, Honiara, Ts., 8pp.)
-	1959
-	1960, 1961
-	1962, 1963		
	Item 51 (a)-(e)	Honiara Cathedral correspondence:
-	51(a), 1961
-	51(b), 1965
-	51(c) 1968, 1969, 1970
-	51(d), 1967
-	51(e), 1966	1961-1970	
	Item 52 (a)-(g)	Australian Board of Mission correspondence
-	52(a), 1973
-	52(b), 1974
-	52(c), 1944
-	52(d), 1943
-	52(e), 1935-1936
-	52(f), 1934
-	52(g), 1931-1933	1931-1944, 1973-1974	
	Item 2 (addition)	Norfolk Island. Lands and properties. Transfer to Sydney Diocese. Addition transferred from Item 18. See main series of Norfolk Island papers microfilmed at PMB 1359, Item 2.	1938-1973	
	Item 53	New Zealand Anglican Board of Mission correspondence,
-	NZ ABM-Bailey Trust Donation, 1926-1928;
NZ ABM correspondence, 
-	1950, 1951
-	1952, 1953
-	1954
-	1955
-	1956
-	1957
-	1958
-	1959
-	1960
-	1961
-	1962
-	1963
-	1964
-	1965	1926-1928, 1950-1965	
	Item 54	New Hebrides correspondence, accounts only, particularly Lolowai construction expenses and Government subsidies.	1955-1970	
Reel 5	Item 54, cont.	New Hebrides correspondence, cont.		
	Item 55	Registers of the Church of St Barnabas, Alanguala, Ugi
-	(e) Register of Baptisms, Jul 1948-Nov 1950, Jun-Aug 1957
-	(f) Register of Baptisms, May 1948-Oct 1954
-	(g) Marriages Registered at Kira Kira, Aug 1948-Jun 1950
-	(h) Register of Marriages, Aug 1948-Apr 1952
-	(i) Roll of Baptisms and Confirmations, 1948-1949
-	(j) Roll of Communicants, Jun 1948-Jan 1954	1948-1954	
	Item 56	Church of Melanesia, Synod Minutes	Jul 1953-May 1965	
	Item 65(a)	O Raverare Gagang, Melanesian Mission Church calendar in the Mota language:
-	1913-1929
-	1931-1933
-	1935-1939	1913-1939	
	Item 65(b)	O Raverave Gaganag, Church calendar in the Mota language:
-	1940
-	1942-1955
-	1957
Issues from 1943 include a newsletter, Ovavae Ususur.	1940-1957	
	Item 64	O Sala Ususur, No.37, Sep 1914, Melanesian Mission newsletter in Mota language missing from series microfilmed at PMB Doc 215.	Sep 1914	
Reel 6	Item 96A	Legal papers	1880s-1960s	
	Item 96B	Legal papers	1880s-1960s	
	Item 64	O Sala Ususur, No.23, Sep 1907, Melanesian Mission (Norfolk Island), newsletter in Mota language missing from series microfilmed at PMB Doc 215.	Sep 1907	
	F-46-G-2	Film (NZ). Ten Thousand Miles with the Southern Cross, by George Hammond Tarr.	1921-1936	

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