This rare book is an account of the development of an independent ni-Vanuatu church, established in West Ambae by Peter Pentecost around 1901 and, after his death, led by Joe Lulu, Bihu and other elders. After the War, missionaries from the Apostolic Church, Allan and Daisy Mann, Inger Christensen, Frank and Molly Thompson, and Paul and Dulcie Grant, and others, connected with the independent church. The Ambae church was re-established as part of the Apostolic mission, under the leadership of Lulu of Wahala, Bihu of Vilakalaka, Samson of Tavala and Aaron of Halalulu. Links were forged with an Apostolic mission in Luganville, Santo, which eventually merged with the Ambae church to form the Apostolic Church New Hebrides in 1976.

Paul and Dulcie Grant, Kweli Times: A Short History of the Apostolic Church Vanuatu 1946-1965, Coopers Plains, Queensland, 2002; 58pp., illus.

Thesis submitted to the Department of Political Studies, University of Papua New Guinea.

I. Introduction
II. A Historical Perspective, 1967-1969
III. The First Transfers of Power, 1970-1971
IV. 1972, A Year of Transition
V. 1973, Transfer of Power to Self-Government: a year of negotiation
VI. The Legislative Framework and Mechanics of Transferring Power
VII. Disengagement: from Self-Government to Independence
VIII. Conclusion.
Appendices:
I. Lists of Ministerial Offices, 1968-1975
II. Approved arrangements issued by the Minister for External Territories/Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Papua New Guinea Matters under Section 25 of the Papua New Guinea Act, 1968 to 1975
III. Governor-General's Instructions to the Administrator/High Commissioner under Section 15 of the Papua New Guinea Act, 1970 to 1975
IV. Transfer of defence and Foreign Relations Functions - exchange of letters.

The logbooks cover voyages in the ships 'Laughing Water' (1868), 'Corypheus' (1870-71), 'Day Spring' (1872), 'Alsager' (1872-73) and 'Ceara' (1874). The voyages in the 'Laughing Water' were between Newcastle, Lyttleton (NZ) and Melbourne. Those in the 'Corypheus' between Melbourne and China. On her last voyage the 'Corypheus' ran aground on a reef in the Marshall Islands and the crew sailed 3,000 miles in the ship's boats to Rockhampton. The voyage of the 'Day Spring' was from Melbourne to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and return. The 'Alsager' sailed from Melbourne to Malden Island for a cargo of guano. She foundered off Tongatapu, apparently as a result of sabotage. The 'Ceara's' voyages were from Adelaide to Mauritius and then to various Australian ports.

The Rev. T. Watt Leggatt served as a Presbyterian missionary on Malekula, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), for about 25 years from 1887. See Patrick O'Reilly's 'Bibliographie des Nouvelles Hebrides' (Paris, 1958) for details of his published writings.

The diary gives a day-by-day account of Leggatt's work as a missionary in the New Hebrides. See also PMB MS 87.

The narrative is an account of one of the first crossing by Europeans of the rugged 12,000 ft Star Mountains Range, in what was then the Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea. The Star Mountains are a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea and the eastern end of Highland Papua, Indonesia. The crossing of the mountains was accomplished by a party of six men, including Thomas Hayllar, who set out from Telefomin on February 25, 1965. The men climbed two of the highest peaks in the ranges, Mt Capella and Mt Scorpion, and visited a sheet of water called Lake Vivien.

Diaries spanning Reverend John R. Metcalfe's entire career as a Methodist missionary and are of particular historical interest for his 37 years in Solomon Islands from 1920-1957. Metcalfe was appointed to Solomon Islands in 1920. After a brief period at Roviana, he was appointed to Choiseul (Lauru island) as assistant to the Rev. V. LeC. Binet. Apart from four years at Teop, he remained on Choiseul (with a break during the war) until 1951. He was then appointed chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons.

See also PMB MS 74 through to MS 80.