Please see PMB 939

Correspondence of Rev. G.A.R. Cornwell<BR>Outwards, 1946-58<BR>Inwards, 1946-58

Correspondence with the New Guinea Administration dealing mainly with education and health.

Florence Young commenced mission work among indentured labourers from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (New Hebrides) on her brothers’ sugar plantation and mill, Fairymead, near Bundaberg in Queensland, in the early 1880s. Steeped in the beliefs of the Plymouth Bretheren and influenced by the English Keswick Convention, members of the Young, Deck and Grant families established the Queensland Kanaka Mission in 1886 and extended it to various centres along the Queensland coast. Converts of the QKM returned to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu at the turn of the century, among them Peter Ambuofa of North Malaita who appealed to the QKM for help. Two men from Queensland, Charles Pillians and Peter Schwiegert, came in response. Both died of malaria. Subsequently, in 1904, the QKM formed a Solomon Islands Branch and established a principal station at Onepusu on the west coast of Malaita in 1905. The Mission changed its name to the South Sea Evangelical Mission in 1907. Its activities were extended to Guadalcanal, Makira and Rennell Island and, after World War II, it commenced operations in the Sepik region in the Territory of New Guinea. (See John Garrett, Footsteps in the Sea: Christianity in Oceania to World War II, 1992; pp.82-87.)

General correspondence, 1890-1925, and Island Council matters, 1928-1950; together with letters-in from the following missionaries: Frederick Daniels, 1911; Jessie Deck, 1911; A. Hedley Abbott, 1913; Violet Sullivan, 1916-1941; Norman Deck, 1917-1942; Robert & May McBride, 1920-1941; M. Clark, 1924; H. J. Waite, 1924-1941; Miss Drummond, 1927-1931; Alan Niel, 1927-1938; Lilian Drewett, 1927-1937; David Humphries, 1927-1932; Lily Waiti, 1929; Mr MacDonald, 1929; Dorothy Read, 1929-1938; John M. Bee, 1930-1934; Robert Vance, 1930-1937; Ken Griffiths, 1930-1938; Joan Deck, 1930-1940; Andrew Cowie, 1937-1941. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Please see PMB MS 184. These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives.

Correspondence from Marist missionaries in Samoa to Marist headquarters in Lyon, 1879-89

John Green, an Australian, went to Papua in 1892 and worked on a plantation at Kapadi for about fifteen months before joining the Administration staff of Sir William MacGregor, Lt-Gov. of British New Guinea (later Papua). He eventually became MacGregor's acting private secretary and accompanied him on some of his arduous patrols. After a patrol to the Musa River in September 1895, Green was assigned to build a government station at the junction of the Mambare River and Tamata Creek to protect European miners who were prospecting for gold in that area. Green was murdered at the station in January 1897.

The letters, which are all to members of Green's family in Healesville, Victoria, begin in September 1892 when Green was in Cooktown en route to Port Moresby. Some of the letters are more than 100 pages long. They give a vivid idea of life in Papua when it was under British administration. See also Pacific Islands Monthly Dec. 1940, p.41; June 1941, p.30; April 1942, p.10 and the Bureau's newsletter Pambu July-Sept. 1972:28, pp.1-4

The Danish Consul in Hawaii for the period in question was C. Hedemann. Note: Inclusive dates given at beginning of film are incorrectly shown as 1910 - 1912.

The correspondence largely concerns diplomatic formalities, national celebrations, leaves of absence, etc. There is some material concerning Danish residents in Hawaii. The correspondence is itemized at the beginning of the film.

Please see PMB 67.

The correspondence deals almost exclusively with the Methodist Mission in the Solomon Islands. Metcalfe's main correspondents were: the Rev. H. Voyce, J.F. Goldie, S.G. Andrews, Sister Lucy Money, and Stephen Gadepeta. A detailed inventory of the correspondence appears at the beginning of the microfilm.
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Reverend Dr Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocott (1886-1970) served as a Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1911 to 1924. During his career in Tonga and afterwards, he wrote numerous papers on Tongan myths, legends, history, language, customs and astronomy for Mankind, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Folklore, and the special publications of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

The correspondence comprises approximately 100 letters relating to a wide range of Pacific subjects, with emphasis on Tonga. Correspondents include many of the leading Pacific scholars of the day, such as Elsdon Best, W.H. Skinner, H.E. Gregory, anthropologists W.C. McKern and E.W. Gifford, and linguists Sidney H. Ray and S. Churchward. Also included is a copy of a speech made by Queen Salote of Tonga at the laying of the foundation stone of the schoolhouse at Nafuala in 1921 and the annual report of the Chief Justice of Tonga for 1921.

Goldie, then 32, went to Roviana, Solomon Islands in 1902 as a member of the pioneer band of Methodist missionaries sent from Sydney. He became a minister of the New Zealand Conference in 1922 when the Methodist Church of New Zealand took over the Solomon Islands District and was its president in 1929. He was chairman of the Solomon Islands District from 1902 until his retirement in 1951.

Goldie, then 32, went to Roviana, Solomon Islands in 1902 as a member of the pioneer band of Methodist missionaries sent from Sydney. He became a minister of the New Zealand Conference in 1922 when the Methodist Church of New Zealand took over the Solomon Islands District and was its president in 1929. He was chairman of the Solomon Islands District from 1902 until his retirement in 1951. CONTENTS Goldie's correspondence with the general secretary of foreign missions of the New Zealand Methodist Church. Correspondence inwards to Goldie appears first; then outwards correspondence.<BR>See also PMB 82 for Goldie's correspondence with Rev. John Metcalfe.

Please see PMB 936 for full entry.

Correspondence of Rev. C.T.J. Luxton, 1946-48