Richard Branscombe Chave, was born in 1849, probably in England. He was manager of the guano diggings on Starbuck Island (part of the central Line islands of Kiribati) in 1871, when the island was under lease from the British Government to Holder Bros. of London. Subsequently, Chave appears to have returned to his profession as a sailor.

In 1871, Chave, then 22, was in charge of a guano team of three Europeans and 50 Rarotongans working on Starbuck Island. When provisions began to run low, and there was no sign of a brig which was to bring replenishments, Chave and three Rarotongans set off in a large boat to try to reach Malden Island, 120 miles away, which was being worked for guano by a Melbourne company. After becoming lost and surviving a capsize, the party reached Penrhyn Island, several hundred miles in the opposite direction. Later, Chave and a Penrhyn Islander tried to sail back to Starbuck Island, but again Chave became lost and he and his companion finally drifted to an uninhabited island, which proved to be Suwarrow Atoll, where they lived for two years before being rescued. Chave's narrative gives a vivid account of his adventures up to a point where he and his companion had been on Suwarrow for about nine months. For further details, see the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, Nov. 1968:4, pp.5-9 and Jan. 1969:6, pp.6-9.

Samuel Greatheed (d.1823) was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. This work, written under the pen-name Nausistratus, was published as a series of articles in the Sailor's Magazine and Naval Miscellany, London, 1820-21, Vol.1, p. 402-6 and 449-56, and Vol.2, p. 1-8. It deals with the Bounty mutiny and its aftermath.

The work is based on printed sources, the then-unpublished journal of James Morrison of the Bounty, and verbal communications from an officer of HMS Pandora, which was sent to the Pacific to find and arrest the Bounty mutineers. It includes a number of details not published elsewhere. For a brief account of Greatheed's interest in Bounty matters, see Rolf Du Rietz's Note sur l'Histoire des Manuscrits de James Morrison in Journal de James Morrison, Paris, 1966.

Lacks reports for the years 1964 and 1968. A document entitled '25 Years of A.S.O.P.A.' appears at the end of the film

This document is the briefing paper for the Australian ministerial delegation to the South Pacific Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) held at Cairns in July 1997. It was discovered by the media amidst a pile of other misplaced miscellaneous papers at the meeting. The pessimistic assessment of economic and political trends in the Pacific Island States and the often disparaging portraits of the leaders of these countries caused scandal, embarrassment and controversy in Australia and throughout the Pacific region when these details became public. The report covers economic dilemmas in the Pacific, fiscal responsibility, resource management, public sector reform, health services and governance issues for each particular country and for the region as a whole. The backgrounds, beliefs and personal habits of Pacific leaders and finance ministers are also presented in a series of controversial character assessments. These were considered offensive and insensitive by many political and official commentators, along with some of the leaders themselves.

Section 1, Overview.p.1
Section 2, Program. p.9
Section 3, Draft Annotated Agenda. p.11
Section 4, Agenda items: Ministerial Dinnerp.,p.19
Opening Formalities,p.21
Session 1 Reform Processes,p.23
Session 2 Institutional Reform,p.25
Session 3 Investment Policy,p.29
Session 4 Tariff Policy,p.31
Session 5 Multilateral Trade Policy, p.33
Section 5, Forum Island Countries: Economic & Social Scorecard.p.35
Section 6, Aid to Forum Island Countries.p.38
Section 7, Map of South Pacific Forum Countries.p. 39
Section 8, South Pacific: Political Economy.p.41
Section 9, Individual Country Briefing:
Cook Islands,p.43
Fiji,p.45
Kiribati,p.49
Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau),p.53
Nauru,p.59
New Zealand,p.63
Niue,p.67
Papua New Guinea,p.69
Samoa,p.73
Solomon Islands,p.77
Tonga,p.81
Tuvalu,p.85
Vanuatu.p.87
Section 10, List of Ministers.p. 91
Section 11, Australian Delegation List.p.92
Section 12, Office Facilities.p.93

ABC PNG Branch, Territory radio news bulletins cover the years 1957, 1958, 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1967 of broadcasting from Port Moresby on radio 9PA. Established in 1944, the original radio station was officially opened by General Douglas MacArthur and was a medium-wave broadcasting service for the armed forces. At that time the station was staffed by Australian and American army personnel and controlled by the Australian Broadcasting Commision and the Post Master General's Department. The ABC took over the radio station from the miltary in 1946, beginning broadcasting on 1 July 1946 from Port Moresby.
Initially the broadcasts were primarily targeted at an expatriate audience. By the early 1960s access to low cost transitor radios by locals and an increase in programs broadcast in Police Motu, Pidgin and Kuanua (a language local to Rabaul) meant that the ABC radio service reached a wider audience. The ABC continued to broadcast across the Territory, opening 9RB Rabaul in 1962, until self government commenced on 1 December 1973. In 1974 Radio Australia established a service for Papaua New Guinea listeners run from Melbourne by Papuans that delivered programs in both English and Pidgin.
Geoffrey Luck (born in Warwick, Qld, 7 Oct 1931) began his time in the Territory as an ABC radio journalist and went on to become the news editor from 1962 to 1966. As part of the general support for PNG independence by Australian radio journalists in the Territory, Luck was responsible for training five local journalists, Boe Arua and Christian Rangatin in the first year, Ovia Toua and Charlie Ketsimur in the next year, and finally Mark Auhova. Ovia Toua subsequently became head of the PNG Broadcasting Corporation. Mr Luck also introduced an English news service for local school leavers.

74 files of transcripts of radio news bulletins. The bulletins report on all aspects of the Australian administration as well as reflecting the beginnings of the shift towards independence. This collection provides a rich reflection of daily life across a decade of Territory history. See Finding aids for details and appended selected subject index.

This is a duplicated news sheet circulated among L.M.S. supporters from Auckland. Although these sheets give details of the work of the L.M.S. throughout the world they concentrate on the Australia-Pacific region.

A set commencing with No. 43 (January-February 1952) and ending with No.218 (July 1970).

Printed statements regarding the administration, politics and government of Papua New Guinea

1965 - July 1972

Fortnightly offset newsletter: changed title to Papua New Guinea Newsletter on 29 July 1971. Contains news of local events, personalities, politics, administration etc.

Reel 1: Vol. 1, no. 1 (20 April 1967) - vol. 6, no. 9 (4 May 1972)<BR>Reel 2: Vol. 6, no. 10 (18 May 1972) - vol. 7, no. 13 (28 June 1973)

Press statements etc. relating to Papua New Guinea

Reel 1: 1949-57<BR>Reel 2: 1958-Aug. '62<BR>Reel 3: Aug. '62 - July '67<BR>Reel 4: Aug. '67 - Oct. '69<BR>Reel 5: Oct. '69 - 1973