The Reverend Richard Heath Rickard (1858-1939) was a pioneer missionary in New Britain. He published the first New Britain dictionary and grammar in 1889.

Some of the documents in this collection relate only indirectly to the Rev. R.H. Rickard. The documents comprise:

1. A copy of a letter dated May 1, 1882, from Rickard to the Wesleyan Church offering his services as a missionary in New Britain.
2. A fragment of a diary kept by Rickard's wife in the Duke of York Islands from May 19, 1883, to September 24, 1883.
3. Four letters from Mrs C. Phebe Parkinson to Mrs Rickard, written between 1898 and 1939 from various places in the New Guinea Islands. One of the letters, of 1935, was written from the little-known Tingwon Islands, off the western tip of New Hanover, and is one of the fullest descriptions known of those islands. (Mrs Parkinson became a friend of the Rickards during their early years in New Britain. For an outline of her career, see the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, November, 1968:4)

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.