The PNG Coffee Marketing Board was formed in May 1964 under the Coffee Marketing Board Ordinance, 1963. That Act was amended many times to suit the requirements of the industry and finally superseded by the Coffee Industry Act, 1976, under which the Coffee Industry Board was established in March 1977. The main function of the Board was to control and regulate the production, processing, marketing and export of coffee grown in PNG.
In January 1987 the CIB was split into three autonomous bodies:
<LI>Coffee Industry Board</LI>
<LI>Coffee Research Institute, and</LI>
<LI>Coffee Development Authority</LI>
These three bodies were re-united into a single body by the formation of the Coffee Industry Corporation in October 1990. The Corporation now (1998) consists of four Divisions all under the authority of the CIC’s Board of Management:
<LI>Industry Affairs Division (the old CIB)</LI>
<LI>External Services Division (the old CDA)</LI>
<LI>Coffee Research Institute</LI>
<LI>Corporate Services Division (new)</LI>

Records of New Guinea coffee industry delegations, conferences and agreements, 1957-1964; records of the Coffee Export committee, 1963-64; minutes of the PNG Coffee Marketing Board./Coffee Industry Board, 1964-1982; registration of coffee exporters, 1965-1985; Highland Farmers and Settlers Association files, 1964-85; localisation of the coffee industry files, 1974-1979. <P><B>See Reel List for further details</B>

A Sub-Station was first establised at Losuia in the South Eastern Division of British New Guinea (later Papua) in 1904. It was rebuilt in 1910 and continued to operate right through World War II till the present. In March 1950 the Papuan Eastern and South Eastern Divisions were merged to create the Milne Bay District. In 1978 the Milne Bay District acquired Provincial status.
The Losuia District Administration covers the northern part of the Milne Bay Province with the mass of the population residing at Kiriwina, Kitava and Murua (Woodlark) Islands. It had two administrative centres, one at Losuia on the island of Kiriwina and a subsidiary centre at Guasopa on the island of Murua.
Local Government Council were established at Kiriwina and Murua. As a consequence of the Kabisawali Movement, the Kiriwina LGC was abandonded in 1990 and replaced by a Kiriwina Community Government constituted under Milne Bay Provincial charter. The Community Government includes a council of traditional chiefs who are regarded as an “Upper House”.

Selected Losuia Distict Administration files, including: economic development, including agriculture, cooperatives, tourism, fisheries and forestry, 1956-92; customs and chiefs, 1927-84; education, 1961-89; Milne Bay Area Authority, 1972-78; Kiriwina Local Government, 1959-93; patrol reports, 1969-94; annual reports, 1969-91 (gaps); social and political development, 1962-89. File lists and indexes. See also PMB 1177.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

See PMB 664 for full entry.

The documents are inventoried on pp.377-80 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. The inventory, with annotations, is reproduced on the film. Records for Nauru are also included as that island comes within the Vicariate. The documents comprise letters, reports, memoranda, statistics, correspondence, and records of the S.C. Propaganda. <BR>NOTE: dates at the beginning of the film are incorrectly given as 1897 - 1950.
See Finding aids for details.

The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress is the national trade union centre of Papua New Guinea. It originates from meetings of PNG workers' associations held in Madang and Lae from 1964. It was not until December 1969 that the Federation of Workers' Associations, the predecessor of the PNG TUC, was formally constituted. Registration as an industrial organisation was granted on 7 March 1970. Paulus Arek was elected the first President, and Michael Kaniniba, of the Lae Miscellaneous Workers' Union, was the first of General Secretary of the Federation. Based in Lae during the 1970s, the Federation adopted the current name, PNG Trade Union Congress, in September 1974. With the support of PANGU activists, membership of the TUC expanded and in 1976 the Port Moresby trade unions, which had organised a rival trade union centre, the Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, affiliated to the PNGTUC.

The records microfilmed consist of a batch of minutes and correspondence for the period 1968-1984, which appear to be the only surviving records from the time when the TUC was located in Lae, together with later minutes, circulars, press releases and other papers.<BR>Minutes of meetings, 1969-1980 (gaps); Biennial Conference papers, 1983-1996; Executive Council meetings: various papers, 1985-1989; Management Board meeting papers, 1986-1990; meetings with Port Moresby based affiliates, 1989-1992; miscellaneous administrative and management papers, 1985-1988; general correspondence, 1968-1984; international correspondence, 1973-1984; circulars and memoranda, 1985, 1987-1992, 1995 (gaps); press statements, 1985-1995; papers and reports (including some agenda papers), 1974-1990; speeches, mainly by Lawrence Titimur, 1987-1990; South Pacific and Oeanic Council of Trade Unions, Conference No.2, Brisbane, meeting papers, Nov 1993. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

The Societe des Missionnaires du Sacre-Coeur was founded at Issoudun, France, on 8 December 1854, by Fr Jules Chevalier. Headquarters of the mission have been in Rome since 1905.

The documents are inventoried on pp.361-2 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. The inventory, with annotations, is reproduced at the beginning of the first reel. The documents include some relating to the Marquis du Ray's and the Nouvelle France projects; journal extracts, notes, letters, decrees of the S.C. Propaganda.<BR>Reel 1: 1879 - 1882 (a. - d.)<BR>Reel 2: 1884 - 1889 (e. - v/c Navarre 1884)<BR>Reel 3: 1884 - 1889 (v/c Navarre (contd) - Verjus)
See Finding aids for details.

See PMB 664 for full entry

The documents are inventoried on pp.363-72 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. They comprise letters from missionaries, memoranda, reports, circulars and records of the S.C. Propaganda (1889-95 only).<BR>Reel 1: pages 363-67 of the inventory<BR>Reel 2: pages 369 (from v/c Navarre) - 372 (to 1922).
See Finding aids for details.

See PMB 664 for full entry.

The documents are inventoried on pp.374-5 of the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, vol.25, December 1969. The inventory is reproduced on the film. The documents comprise mission statistics, financial and general reports, memoranda, notes, correspondence, and records of the S.C. Propaganda.
See Finding aids for details.

Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd was incorporated in England on the 20 May 1902 to acquire coconut properties in the Pacific region with the objective of ensuring a supply of copra to the oil mill of Lever Bros Ltd at Balmain in Sydney. The practice of shipping copra direct to Balmain continued until 1971 when crushing at Balmain ceased, after which the company sold its total production through the Solomon Islands Copra Board. Levers Pacific Plantations Pty Ltd was incorporated under the NSW Companies Act on 8 November 1928 when it acquired the assets of the original company. Levers Plantations Limited was incorporated under the Solomon Islands Companies Act on 30 December 1975 as a private company limited by shares. The name was changed to Lever Solomons Limited on 29 January 1980 when it was incorporated as a joint venture Company between the Solomon Islands Government and Unilever.

Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd/Lever Solomons Ltd: legal papers re land, 1902-1986 <BR> Managing Director's report on Solomon Islands Estates, 1941 <BR> Kolombangara Cocoa Project, 1954-1955 <BR> annual reports, 1961-1971, including coconut acerage in production, 1972-1976 <BR> Managing Director's month-end reports, 1961-1967 <BR> briefing papers, handover reports & notes for visitors, 1974-1989 <BR> development plans, 1978-1994 <BR> annual estimates, 1982-1992 <BR> negotiations and agreements with the Solomon Islands National Union of Workers, 1982-1986 <BR> land surveys, Pavuvu, 1964-1977 <BR> and Directors' minutes, 1980-1985. Levers Pacific Timbers Ltd: files on the Kolombangara Forest area, 1962-1979 and industrial negotiations, 1982. Banika Club, constitution and visitors' book, 1952-1992.<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

The world-wide merchant marine is a crucial source of employment for i-Kiribati and remittances from this work are fundamental to the Republic’s economic well-being. The inaugural meeting of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Overseas Seamen’s Union was held on 22 Dec 1971. In January 1976 the organisation changed its name to the Gilbert Islands and Tuvalu Overseas Seamen’s Union and then, in 1979, to the Kiribati Islands and Tuvalu Overseas Seamen’s Union following the declaration of the independent republic of Kiribati. The name was changed to the Kiribati Islands Overseas Seamen’s Union in 1994. There were major changes in leadership in 1994 and again in 1996 when the current leadership was elected.

The Union’s archives are kept in a cupboard near the back door of the KIOSU office, a single story office building in the port of Betio. The main series of archives consist of:
<LI>Executive Committee minutes, 1988-95;</LI>
<LI>copies of minutes, 1981, 1985-96;</LI>
<LI>the KIOSU newsletter, 1984, 1987-1995;</LI>
<LI>correspondence register, 1974-1977;</LI>
<LI>membership register, 1974 +;</LI>
<LI>records of international and local seminars and conferences.</LI>
<b><P>See reel list for further details</b>