Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

The documents comprise:

1. Official and political papers and correspondence re presidency of the municipality of Apia, 1899
2. Miscellaneous papers and press clippings, re presidency of the municipality of Apia, 1899
3. -9. Official and political papers and press clippings re governorship of Samoa, 1900-1906 (7 vols). These include an unpublished paper by Dr Erich Schultze on 'The development of the political situation in Samoa'. Dr Schultze was Solf's successor as governor.

H.E. Woodman (1895- ) joined the Public Works Department in the mid-1920s. After a brief period as a gold miner he took part in the Nakanai punitive expedition of 1926-27 and was then invited to join the New Guinea Administration as acting District Officer, Sepik district, stationed at Ambunti. Over the next twelve years he was at Manus, Madang, Kavieng, Namatanai, Gasmata, and Aitape. He returned to take charge of the Madang district after the war and retired to live in New South Wales in 1947.

Reel 1:<BR>1. Patrol diaries, 1927-39<BR>2. Notebooks of evidence given in Jomba Land Inquiry (Madang), 1932<BR>3. Station diaries, 1932, 1946-47<BR>Reel 2:<BR>4. Patrol reports, 1927-47<BR>5. Papers re labour matters in Madang district, 1946

Notebooks of evidence given in Jomba Land Inquiry (Madang), 1932, cont.

Station diary, Madang district 1946-47.

Patrol reports, Sepik district, September 1927 - 5 August 1928.

Dictionary and grammar of the duke of York Island Language, pp.211-316. Compiled by Reverends George Brown, Benjamin Danks, and Isaac Rooney, published 1882.

Papers of Father Joseph-Victor Vincent (originally listed as 2 Reels):

1. Dictionnaire Francais - Tyamuhi (Wagap), manuscript
2. Dictionnaire Francais - Tyamouhi, typescript
3. Manuscript annotations on a dictionary edited by Father Antoine Colomb. It is entitled Dictionnaire Francais-Wagap-Anglais et Wagap-Francais par les missionnaires maristes, Paris 1891
4. Catechisme du Vicariat Apostolique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie: Traduit en langue Bayes-Ponerihouen, Saint Louis, 1910
5. Catechisme de Vicariat Apostolique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie: Traduit en Tyamuhi, Saint Louis
6. La Tribu de Wagap (Nouvelle-Caledonie): Ses Moeurs et sa Langue, d'apres les notes d'un missionnaire mariste, coordonnees par le P.A.C., S.M. (i.e. Father Antoine Colomb), Paris, 1890
7. Catechisme du Vicariat Apostolique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie: Traduit en langue de Hyenghene, Saint Louis, 1912