Please see PMB 960 for full entry.

Correspondence and documentation on the political statutes of Wallis and Futuna.

Ekonia Tekoro was born in the Duke of York Islands, New Britain, in 1916 or 1917. He was serving as a Methodist pastor on Bougainville when the Japanese invaded the island. Not being a native Bougainvillean, he was a marked man. However, he eventually linked up with the Coastwatchers and reached the safety of the beachhead at Torokina.

The autobiography comprises 29 handwritten pages and covers the period 1916 to 1979.

The Nemea Association was formed in 1970 by people of several villages inland from Cloudy Bay, about 200km east of Port Moresby. Its aim was to gain the return of land which the colonial administration had alienated from the late 19th century on. The association's activities also produced a movement seeking local autonomy. The papers were gathered together and, in some cases, indexed by Mr David R. Milbourne Marsh, OBE, one-time district commissioner in Papua New Guinea.

Reel 1:<BR>1. Timber rights purchase; Marshall Lagoon - Banguina, Abau sub-district, 1964<BR>2. The Nemea Land Owners Association, Abau, 1971-72 (with index)<BR>3. Documents re formation and progress of Nemea Association, 1973 (with index)<BR>4. Administration documents re Nemea Association 1971-74. Documents re history of Abau sub-district, 1886-1963 (with index)<BR>Reel 2:<BR>5. Nemea maps<BR>6. Documents re Applications to Land Titles Commission, 1974<BR>7(a): Documents and correspondence re return of Crown Land to Nemea customary land<BR>7(b): The Nemea Land Owners Association, 1972-74 (with index)<BR>8. Patrol reports, 1974Correspondence and documents re reversal of Crown Land to native title<BR>9. Declarations under Land Act, 1974, with maps<BR>10. Two articles by R.J. May, 1976, and related correspondence

Please see PMB 966 for full entry.<BR>These genealogies, listings from G to V, have been filmed as PMB 972 to 974. For additional information see also Patrick O'Reilly, Bibliographie des iles Wallis et Futuna, Paris, 1964, p.40 (item 289).

On this reel, listings from G-L.

The Vigilant was a barque of 405 tons. Mr R.J. Swain is a great-great-grandson of the logkeeper.

The Vigilant left London in October 1831, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and headed for Indonesia. Calls were made at Timor (March-Juen 1832) and Ternate (July-August). The Vigilant then sailed north of New Guinea, whaled in New Ireland waters (September-December) and continued to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand (21 February - 23 March 1833). Subsequent calls were made at Tongatapu, Tonga (29 June - 5 July), Tutuila, Samoa (10-12 July), Bay of Islands (14-30 October; 30 January - 4 February 1834), Norfolk Island (20-21 February), Bay of Islands (31 March - 30 April), 'Eua, Tonga (30-31 May), Vava'u, Tonga (15-22 June), Manu'a, Samoa (25-27 June, 7-11 September), Savai'i, Samoa (2-4 September), Sydney (19 October - 24 November), Bay of Islands (28 February - 18 March 1835). The ship returned to England via Cape Horn on 2 August 1835. Following the log are drafts of letters written in 1841 to Robert Duke and others about money matters and another command for Swain.

The books are numbered from C101-C118 and C121-C134.<P>Reel 1: Friendly Islands District (F.I.D.), Minutes of Local Preachers' Meetings 1861-1867 C101; Annual District Meetings 1850-1865 & School Reports C102; Annual District Meetings 1865-1881 & School Reports C103<BR>Reel 2: C103 cont. from Reel 1; Quarterly Mtgs, Niuafo'ou 1871-82 with class lists and baptismal register C104; Special District Mtg 23 Aug. 1870 C105; Annual District Mtg 1882 (English) C106; Annual District Mtg 1888 (English) C107; Wesleyan Church (WC) Synod 1921-24 C108; WC Ministers' Mtgs 1901-11 C109<BR>Reel 3: C109 cont. from reel 2; WC Synod 1908-19 (English) C110; Free Church(FC) Quarterly Mtgs & Local Preachers' Mtgs 1885-1901 C112; FC Annual Confs 1885-1905 C113<BR>Reel 4: C113 cont. from reel 3; Quarterly Mtgs, Tongatapu 1901-19 C114<BR>Reel 5: C114 cont. from reel 4; Quarterly & Local Preachers' Mtgs, Vava'u 1901-20 C115; Free Wesleyan Church(FWC) Quarterly & District Mtgs 1909-24/District Mtgs 1925-49, includes Tongatapu, Ha'apai and Vava'u C116<BR>Reel 6: FC, Niuafo'ou, Minutes, Quarterly Mtgs 1901-19; FWC Minutes, Quarterly Mtgs 1924-38 C117; FC Statistics, Registers 1906-24; FWC Minutes, Quarterly & District Mtgs 1941-44; 1929-46 C118; F.I.D. Wesleyan Church(WC) Minutes, Preachers' Mtgs 1868-1908 & Quarterly Mtgs 1888-1908 C122<BR>Reel 7: C122 cont. from reel 6; Minutes, F.I.D. & WC Quarterly Mtgs Tongatapu 1875-87 C123; F.I.D. Financial District Mtgs 1876-96 C124; WC: Zion Church Trustees, Nuku'alofa 1881-96 C125; FC Quarterly Mtgs 1881 C126; WC: Ministers' Mtgs 1913-24 C127<BR>Reel 8: F.I.D. & WC: Minutes, Ministers' Mtgs & Synod 1896-21; Journal of F.I.D. 1850-85 C121; FC: Minutes, Annual Conf. 1901-36 C128; FC: Minutes, Annual Conf. 1937-52 C129Reel 9: C129 cont. from reel 8; C130-131<BR>Reel 10: FC: Minutes, Annual Conf. 1974-82 C132-134<BR>Reel 11: WC: Minutes of Synod 16 Oct. 1896-9 July 1920 C108.<BR>NOTE: Last frame of reel 11 is given in error see PMB 986.

The register is numbered F209. For earlier registers see PMB 987.

The registers are numbered F211 - F212.

The Pacific Islands Monthly, a publication of Pacific Publications Pty Ltd, Sydney, first appeared in August 1930. Stuart Inder was co-editor from November 1957 to November 1964 and sole editor from then until October 1975, and again from October 1979 to April 1980. He was also the magazine's publisher from February 1972 until August 1980.

Inwards and outwards correspondence, mainly to and from the editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Stuart Inder. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and appears on the microfilm as follows:<BR>Reel 1: A to Bentley<BR>Reel 2: Beresford to Carter<BR>Reel 3: Carter to Craib<BR>Reel 4: Craib to E<BR>Reel 5: F<BR>Reel 6: G<BR>Reel 7: H to Hoare<BR>Reel 7A: Hoare to Jones<BR>Reel 8: Jones to Lipton<BR>Reel 9: Lipton to McSwain<BR>Reel 10: Macassen to New Guinea Women's Club<BR>Reel 11: New Guinea Women's Club to Pont<BR>Reel 12: Pont to Rhoades<BR>Reel 13: Ri to Sexton<BR>Reel 14: Schackleton to Sy<BR>Reel 15: T to Vellacott Jones<BR>Reel 16: Vellacot Jones to Whonsbon-Aston<BR>Reel 17: Wight to Z

Max Jenkins and three friends (Ken Furley, Raymond Brierly and Neville Sunderland) left New Zealand on Ken Furley's yacht Bounty for what was intended to be a nine month cruise in the South Pacific. The voyage began in May 1953 and ended two years later, via Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Australia, where they had left the Bounty a mere floating and scarred hull (manuscript p.211). To support themselves they engaged Trochus and green snail divers off Aneityum and worked on the Noumea wharf, in a Queensland timber town and on Lord Howe Island. Mr Jenkin's manuscript was written up in New Zealand just after his return in 1955. It is based partly on his memories of the voyage, and partly on his letters home and refers often to newspaper accounts of the voyage including the Australian Women's Weekly interviews with Jean, a woman passenger, following their 11 April 1955 entry into Coffs Harbour, Queensland (Manuscript p.211). See also Pacific Islands Monthly entries listed under Bounty (yacht) in the Cumulative Index to Pacific Islands Monthly ... August 1945-July 1955 compiled by Margaret Woodhouse and edited by Robert Langdon (Canberra: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 1984).

The typescript, on foolscap pages, consists of 21 chapters (211 pages) with the following headings:<P>1. The ship and preparation; 2. A hard squall; 3. Tonga; 4. On the reef; 5. Vatoa; 6. Totoya; 7. Suva; 8. New mast; 9. Earthquake; 10. Another new mast; 11. Aneityum; 12. Tana; 13. Hurricane; 14. Shell diving; 15. Mare Island; 16. New Caledonia; 17. Brisbane; 18. Sailing for Sydney; 19. Sydney and Lord Howe Island; 20. Lord Howe Island; 21. Adrift on the Tasman.