Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Journal of launch Overseas, pp.22-40

AU PMB MS 1091-36b
Pièce
9 Aug 1913 - 18 Aug 1915

Fait partie de Business and family papers re activities in the New Hebrides

Note book, pp.28-51

AU PMB MS 1091-38b
Pièce
1907-1915?

Fait partie de Business and family papers re activities in the New Hebrides

Transcript of the Zeitler diaries and explanatory notes by Katherine Stirling Kerr (Mrs. K.S. Cawsey), pp.23-43

AU PMB MS 1091-45b
Pièce
1996

Fait partie de Business and family papers re activities in the New Hebrides

Transcription of the diary of Mabel Witts, 7 February to 4 November 1909. Describes daily life at Hog Harbour, including the birth of daughter Helen in October 1909.

AU PMB MS 1075-01
Pièce
1909

Fait partie de Papers

Dictionary of the language of Talomako, Big Bay, New Hebrides: French-Talomako (A to 'Pere' only)

AU PMB MS 658
Collection

A Catholic mission at Talomako, Big Bay, was established in 1900 by Father Pierre Bochu, SM. In the following year, Father Casimir Bancarel arrived and remained until 1905. The dictionary is not in the handwriting of either Bochu or Bancarel. For letters by them see PMB 56.

The author of the dictionary is unknown.

Journals of the Melanesian Mission

Tongoan dictionary and notes on other Vanuatu languages (central Islands)

AU PMB MS 1028
Collection
1941 - 1973

Dr and Mrs Miller were missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand on the Island of Tongoa in Vanuatu from 1941 to 1947 when Miller became principal of the Tangoa Teachers Training Institute on Tangoa Island (as opposed to Tongoa Island in the Shepherd Group) just off the coast of Santo Island. In 1952 the Millers took a parish in Auckland, New Zealand, returning to Tangoa in 1971 to set up the Presbyterian Bible College. They left the New Hebrides/Vanuatu in 1973.

The material on this reel is presented in two parts: Part I, The Tongaon Dictionary and Part II, Languages of the Central Islands. The Dictionary, which is incomplete, was compiled during field service (1941-73). Miller describes the dictionary as colloquial rather than ecclesiastical, making use of material produced by the Reverends Oscar Michelsen and Peter Milne, missionaries in the New Hebrides in the late 1800s. Much of the explanatory material in the dictionary is in Tongoan. Part II begins with a grammar and word list for the Makatea language (Polynesian) of Emae and continues with brief grammars of four of the seven dialects of Efatese identified by Miller:<BR>Lelepa (Efate)<BR> Erakor (Efate)<BR>Emau (Efatese) and Epau-Fuari (Eastern Efatese). Miller has provided a detailed introduction to the dictionary and to each of the grammars in Part II.

Miller, J. Graham