The registers are in several volumes as follows:<BR>Reel 1:<BR>F218 - 1838-46<BR>F219 - 1840-83<BR>F220 - 1872-89<BR>F221 - 1880-84<BR>Reel 2:<BR>F222 - 1874-78<BR>F223 - 1879-83<BR>F224 - 1883-1905 (loose sheets in rough chronological order)<BR>F225 - 1903-22<BR>F226 - 1911-25<BR>F227 - 1892-1924<BR>F228 - 1906-32<BR>Reel 3:<BR>F228 - continued 1933-55<BR>F229 - 1954-60<BR>F230 - 1960-67<BR>F231 - 1966-76<BR>F232 - 1972-80

Membership roll of church workers on Ha'apai, 1875-1927

Ernest Beaglehole (1906-1965) was a noted New Zealand ethnopsychologist - see the 'Journal of the Polynesian Society', vol. 75 (1966): 109-119. See also Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole, 'Pangai: Village in Tonga, Polynesian Society Memoir No. 18' (1941), Wellington.

The journal begins when Beaglehole and his wife Pearl were northbound to Tonga from Auckland in MV Matua. Most of the time in Tonga was spent at Pangai, Ha'apai Group. The journal consists of 156 foolscap pages, partly typed and partly handwritten. Four additional pages contain a short synopsis of daily events. There are also notes inquiring about transport in the Matua, a brief critique of Henry James' 'bitch goddess', a rough draft of a critique of Mariner's Tonga, and a 12 pp. typescript entitled 'Tonga, the world's smallest kingdom' which was evidently written in the late 1950s. NOTE: The microfilm of the Tongan journal was made from a photocopy of the original. The last few lines on some pages are very faint and one or two have been cut. The second paragraph of the first page has been obscured on the microfilm to avoid problems of access.

Peter Parfitt was born in England, the son of Captain William Parfitt, a commander of the P & O Company. In January 1865, at the age of seventeen, he joined the Bank of New Zealand in London. In 1867, he was posted to the Auckland office of his bank as chief clerk, and five years later he was promoted to pro-accountant of the bank in Melbourne. In November 1882, he married Hattie Lord, whose mother was a member of the Colgate toothpaste family. On 4 September 1883, Parfitt, accompanied by his wife, sailed from Melbourne to Sydney to take up an appointment as manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Levuka, Fiji.

The diary covers Parfitt's three years in the Pacific as manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Levuka, Fiji.

Verguet went to the Solomon Islands as a Marist missionary in December 1845 and remained there until early 1847. He was the author of two works on the Solomons, Histoire de la premiere mission catholique au vicariat de Melanesie (1st edn, Brussels 1854; 2nd edn, Paris 1861) and Grand archipel des Iles Salomon: son etendue, sa fertilite (Marseilles, 1883). At the time of writing the dissertation, he was canon of the Cathedral of Carcassonne, France

The dissertation is preceded by a letter dated 24 April 1893 to the Very Rev. Father Monfat. It gives Verguet's views on a proposal to resume mission work in the Solomons, including the type of ship required, mission houses and plantations. There are numerous sketches of harbours and anchorages.

Wells, based in Adelaide, was chairman of Guinea Gold NL and Guinea Airways Ltd., which played major roles in the development of gold mining in New Guinea before World War II. See R.W. Robson, 'The Romance of Bulolo', <I>Pacific Islands Monthly</I>, December 1938, pp.34-37.

The papers are in seven series as indicated in a descriptive list copied at the start of each reel. Series 6 (photographs) was not copied. The contents are:<P>Reels 1 and 2: Newspaper clippings, 1926-41, especially Guinea Airways Ltd.<BR>Reel 3: Continuation of above - newspaper clippings, 1937-41, on Australian Air Service<BR>Reel 4: C.J. Levien's diary, 1929; documents re Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., 1929-42; correspondence with C.J. Levien and others, 1928-45; a history of Guinea Airways Ltd.<BR>Reel 5: Reports, statements of account, and correspondence of Guinea Airways Ltd., 1928-47; correspondence with R.W. Robson; diaries of four trips to New Guinea, 1932-36, and trips to Darwin, 1937-39.<BR>See also PMB 7.

The Pacific Islands Monthly, a publication of Pacific Publications Pty Ltd, Sydney, first appeared in August 1930. Stuart Inder was co-editor from November 1957 to November 1964 and sole editor from then until October 1975, and again from October 1979 to April 1980. He was also the magazine's publisher from February 1972 until August 1980.

Inwards and outwards correspondence, mainly to and from the editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Stuart Inder. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically and appears on the microfilm as follows:<BR>Reel 1: A to Bentley<BR>Reel 2: Beresford to Carter<BR>Reel 3: Carter to Craib<BR>Reel 4: Craib to E<BR>Reel 5: F<BR>Reel 6: G<BR>Reel 7: H to Hoare<BR>Reel 7A: Hoare to Jones<BR>Reel 8: Jones to Lipton<BR>Reel 9: Lipton to McSwain<BR>Reel 10: Macassen to New Guinea Women's Club<BR>Reel 11: New Guinea Women's Club to Pont<BR>Reel 12: Pont to Rhoades<BR>Reel 13: Ri to Sexton<BR>Reel 14: Schackleton to Sy<BR>Reel 15: T to Vellacott Jones<BR>Reel 16: Vellacot Jones to Whonsbon-Aston<BR>Reel 17: Wight to Z

The Lost Caravel was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd., Sydney. The book puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies.

The correspondence includes comments on the book following its publication and Langdon's subsequent research into related matters discussed in the book. The correspondence is in three parts:<P>1. General correspondence, 1975-80<BR>2. Correspondence, 1978-87, re the conservation of two iron cannon retrieved from Amanu Atoll, French Polynesia, in 1969<BR>3. General correspondence, 1981-1987<BR><P>A calendar for each section of correspondence precedes the correspondence itself on the microfilm. Sections 1 and 3 are filmed in alphabetical order by correspondent and then in chronological order; section 2 is microfilmed in chronological order.<P>Reel 1: Section 1, A - Kish<BR>Reel 2: Section 1, Ko. - Z; Section 2 to 1986<BR>Reel 3: Section 2, 1987; Section 3.<P>For Langdon's pre-publication correspondence on The Lost Caravel, see PMB 551.