This paper is a preliminary report on Arabica coffee soils of Papua New Guinea. It discusses literature review on soils, describes fieldwork observations and study, and discusses the results of the fieldwork study. This report contains significant information on different soil profiles.

This untitled report to the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock on the activities of the Coffee Development Agency over the 18 months since its inception on 16 August 1988. This paper reports on the Brief on Options for CDAs Future and on the operation of CDA. It covers information PNG coffee production by provinces between years 1980 to 1987, fund allocation, staffing, housing and vehicles, training, and financial statement and reports. It also contains balance sheets, expenditure data and figures to support data and maps of the different provinces.

This paper is a copy of Volume I, Five Year Strategy Development plan for the Coffee Industry of PNG, the Final Report June 1989, prepared by McGowan INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD and submitted to the Department of Agriculture and Livestock. It covers headings on a global imbalance between demand and supply, essential elements of domestic strategy, quota allocation, stabilisation fund, industry institutional reform, export tax and import duty on farm equipment and approach to international negotiations. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables. Furthermore, it covers headings on factors influencing quality production, development plan components, the implementation, description, phasing and costs of industry proposals, the financial and economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation. It also contains figures, tables, and appendices of tables.

This document is a Draft report and Volume 2 of the Five Year Strategy Development Plan for the Coffee Industry, January 1989, prepared by McGOWAN INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD and submitted to the Department of Agriculture and Livestock. It discusses the coffee background and production scenarios, processes of Arabica and Robusta coffee, costs of production, finance and credit and coffee research. It covers discussion on the coffee leaf rust problem, covering research, control and development, coffee extension and technical recommendations. This report contains maps, definitions, data sources, tables and other figures.

This paper incorporates general reports, evaluation reports, and advisory circulars on the PNG coffee Industry.

Alfred William Martin (1844-1928) was born in Clarence Plains, Tasmania, first son of William Martin (1805/6-1878), a convict transported to Tasmania, and Hannah Braim (1825/6-1860). Alfred William Martin was educated at Kettering Grammar School in Northamptonshire while his parents were revisiting England. Returning to Tasmania, Martin became a seaman, despite his good education, firstly on the ship Gem sailing out of Hobart and then, while still in his teens, on a whaler, Southern Cross, Capt. Mansfield, sailing out of Hobart to whaling grounds off New Zealand, NSW, and the New Hebrides. He then sailed on the Thomas Brown, Capt T.H. Brown, a freighter working between Melbourne and Adelaide. Subsequently Martin sailed a schooner, Jeannie Darling, 80 tons, owner Darling formerly a boat builder in Hobart, carrying timber and other goods between Melbourne and Schnapper Point (Mornington).

In Melbourne Martin joined the crew of a Brigantine, El Zéfiro (300 tons, Callao), Capt Manuel Diaz Garcias of Peru, smuggling opium to the China trade via Gilolo Island, Surigao and Manila; smoking bêche-de-mer at Ponape; trading in the Marshalls, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji; trading for sandalwood in the New Hebrides; sailing onwards through the Banks Islands, Santa Cruz, San Christobal, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and back to Manila via the Moluccas and Celebes. El Zéfiro then sailed for Bougainville, reinforced with Bougainville warriors carried out a blackbirding raid in Aoba (Ambae) in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), then sailed on to South America, touching at the Marquesas and Galapagos Islands, selling the New Hebridean slaves at Mollendo in Peru.

Alfred William Martin gave the manuscript to his granddaughter, Clara Ella Simm (b.1897), who he had brought up as a child after her father, William Simm (1855-1901), died in a flu epidemic in Launceston. When Dr Macnicol received the manuscript from his mother, via his sister, it was in a bundle tied with string. Dr Macnicol passed the manuscript to a conservator who repaired torn and fragmented pages. Dr Macnicol top-numbered the pages consecutively in pencil and transcribed the manuscript. He passed the transcript to Rafael Pintos-Lopez of Michelago, near Canberra, who submitted the transcript to Professor Brij Lal for assessment.

Untitled incomplete manuscript written by Alfred William Martin of Tasmania, written possibly in the 1890s relating his Pacific voyages and adventures in the 1860s, Ms. (gaps), re-paginated, pp.1-202; together with transcript of the manuscript made by Dr Peter Macnicol, Ts., pp.1-251.
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