See PMB 1174 and 1175 for administrative history of the Pacific Islands Co Ltd and the Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd.

PIC, Sydney, correspondence with London, 1897-1898; deeds, leases, accounts & other documents, 1877-1902; PIC articles of association, 1897 & 1902; notes on islands, 1840-1915; PIC prospectus, 1893-1896; Solomon Islands concession, 1903-04; Ocean Island Crown Lease, 1901; PIC agreement with Jaluit Gesellschaft, 1901; PIC Reports to Directors, 1899-1904; Copra Co Ltd estimates, 1893; PIC notice of purchase of Henderson & Macfarlane, 1989; Jaluit Gesellschaft Nauru concession, 1888; PIC press cuttings, 1886-99; PIC contracts, 1898-1902; Capt. Langdale, Account of Rob Roy expedition to the Solomon Islands, 1900. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>
See also PMB 1174-1176, 1206-1207, J.T. Arundel & Co, Pacific Islands Co Ltd & Pacific Phosphate Co, and PMB 480-495, 497-498, for diaries, corresp. & further papers of J.T. Arundel & A.F. Ellis.

William Charles Groves, B.A. (Melb), Dip.Ed., F.R.A.I. (1898-1967) was a Supervisor of Education in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from 1922 till 1926. He carried out anthropological work in the Western Pacific, including New Guinea, from 1931 till 1936, as a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology under the Australian National Research Council. He was Director of Education in Nauru from 1937 till 1938 and Advisor on Education in the Solomon Islands from 1939 till 1940. After World War II he was appointed Director of Education in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (TPNG) and remained in that post till 1958.

This copy of Groves’ Report on Education in the British Solomon Islands, March 1940, Ts., roneoed, c.200pp., is an uncatalogued item in the Hallstrom Pacific Collection. Its contents consist of:
Part I., Section 1. Introduction, Acknowledgements, etc.
Section 2. The Solomon Islands Background in Relation to Education.
Section 3. The Missions in the Solomon Islands
Section 4. Educational Aims and Objectives for the Solomon Islands
Section 5. The Missions and the Government in Education: (a) The present educational situation; (b) The Mission-Government Cooperation Principle.
Section 6. General Conclusions.
Part II., Section 1. Introductory
Section 2. Outline of a Suggested Educational Organisation.
Section 3. Educational Organisation (continued).
Section 4. Problems of Educational Content and School Curricula.
Section 5. Problems of Educational Content (continued).
Section 6. Educational finance.
Section 7. The Introduction of the Proposed System: Staff Requirements, legislation, Method of Organisation, etc.
Bibliography: (a) Solomon Islands (b) Native Education.
Appendix. Suggested Courses of Study for Solomon Islands Schools.

J.M. McEwen’s report in 1968 indicated that land tenure system in Niue was already under strain. He points out that customary Niuean land tenure consists of “family ownership, with an appointed family head, and undistributed rights of occupation which pass by descent. Ownership is fluid, in that rights can be lost by continued absence of owners from the land. Rights of occupation may also be lost in the same way. The system is essentially practical in that it enables the land to be worked by individual owners without interference from co-owners.” Niuean customary tenure was opposed to individualised freehold titles registered under the Niue Act 1966, derived from the New Zealand Maori Land Act.

Niue Land Titling Project. A Mid-term Review, Apr 1994.

Niue Land Titling Project: Stage Two Project: Document, n.d.

Interim Report of the A.C.T. Crown Lease Consultancy, 1995

Niue Land Titling Project. Questions and Answers about the Land Titling Project, Mar 1996

Report. Niue Delegation Tour in New Zealand for Land Titling Project, 20 March-2 April 1996;

Report of Constitutional Review Committee, Jun 1997; 19pp.

Proposal for a Consultancy to Review the Land Titling and Forestry Projects in Nuie, Sep 1997;

Terms of Reference: Review of Land Titling Project, Oct 1997

Review of Land Titling Project, Mar 1998; Ts., draft, 59pp.

Opportunities for Land Investment in Niue: Creation of a Land Economy, 4 Aug 1998.

Review of the Niue Land Titling Project. Final Report, Jun 1999.

Report on Land Tenure in Niue. Presented to the House of Representatives, 1968. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>