Father Paul Fastre, M.S.C. (born 1880), was a member of the Roman Catholic Mission in Western Papua, whose headquarters are at Yule Island. His notes were completed in 1937.

Notes on the customs of the Fujuges (English Fuyuges) people of the Mt. Scratchley-Chirima River area of the Central and Northern Districts of Papua New Guinea. Principally:

• Ceremonies, dances and songs, including the major ceremony, Le Gabe;
• Warfare;
• Chiefs (Utumi);
• Engagement and marriage;
• Conception and childbirth;
• Naming;
• Nose-piercing;
• Illness;
• Funerals and mourning;
• Treatment of murderers;
• Beliefs and cults;
• Magic;
• Legends;
• Property; and
• Fishing, hunting and agriculture.

Archdeacon Gill (d.1954), a member of a family of Pacific missionaries, joined the Anglican mission to Papua in 1908. He was ordained at Dogura in 1910, and his first parish was nearby Boianai, where he remained until 1922. He then moved to the Mamba district, where he established a temporary station at Manau on the mouth of the Mamba (or Mambare) River. Two years later, at Duvira, he began work on what was to be his head station until 1942, when it was destroyed by the Japanese. In 1943, he began building a new mission station at nearby Dewade. He retired in 1952 and died in England two years later.

Typed transcripts of Archdeacon Gill’s letters, Jan 1942-Dec 1944, photocopied for Professor Hank Nelson from the originals held in the New Guinea Collection at the UPNG Library, together with Professor Nelson’s correspondence with Nancy Lutton, the New Guinea Collection Librarian, and Professor Nelson’s notes on the letters.

See also PMB 40: Letters of Archdeacon Gill, 1897-1928.

R.S. Parker was a member of the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea, 1962-1969. He also advised the Administration on organisational policy, organised and assisted in public service training courses, represented Administration employees on the public service arbitration tribunal and gave evidence at the local officers' arbitration case in the 1960s.

Labelled files with file headings used by Professor Parker. A detailed inventory of file contents is not available. Reel contents are given below in a condensed form - a more complete list of General Contents is available on request.

Reel 1: Introduction; File List: PNG general
Reel 2: 4 files - Constitutional development and Planning Committee Reports 1st & 2nd Interim (terms of reference, appointments)
Reel 3: 1 file - Constitutional Planning Committee recommendations/draft<
Reel 4: 2 files - Constitutional Planning Cmt. Final Report; Constitution - Government proposals
Reel 5: 2 files - Constitution - Texts and national name; and the Courts
Reel 6: 2 files - District Administration - evolution; (miscellaneous)
Reel 7: 2 files - reel 6 cont. - official reports
Reel 8: 3 files - Native Affairs, recruitment, training; ASOPA Sen. Officers' Course; Executives and Under Secretaries (miscellaneous)
Reel 9: 3 files - reel 8 cont. - Execs and Under Secs (transfer of executive power); land law/administration
Reel 10: 3 files - Laws and law drafting; legislative councils; local government councils
Reel 11: 5 files - Politics; anti-corruption policy; Bougainville political disturbances; Cargo cults; Election prospects/1964
Reel 12: 3 files - Politics; Election 1968; law/administration; Gazelle political disturbances
Reel 13: Politics; House of Assembly
Reel 14: 4 files - Politics - House of Assembly; members; parties
Reel 15: 12 files - Politics - House of Assembly; 10 parties; miscellaneous papers (various names); Public Service (miscellaneous)
Reel 16: 2 files - reel 15 cont.; Public Service Association
Reel 17: 3 files - reel 16 cont.; Public Service Association Press Statements; employment security scheme
Reel 18: 3 files - Public Service - recruitment; salaries; local officers' case 1965-67
Reel 19: University College for PNG
Reel 20: 2 files - Urban government; Urban local government.

Background notes for the 'Chapters' reproduced in PMB 1005, for a book tentatively entitled 'Comparative colonial administration', by R.S. Parker and Norman Mellor. See also PMB 1007.

Manuscript and typed notes, published and semi-published material. File headings are those used by Professor Parker, with notes in brackets supplied by PMB. A file heading sheet precedes each file. Within each file, the order of items is that used by Professor Parker. No detailed inventory of file contents is available.

Reel 1: Introduction, R.S. Parker; Ch. 1 - Introduction files; Ch. 2(a) - Motives for enquiry
Reel 2: Ch. 2(b) - Indigenous political structures; Ch. 2(c) - Population
Reel 3: Ch. 2(d) - Economic resources; Ch. 2(e) - German and British policies
Reel 4: Ch. 3(a) - Military to 1950 (file empty); Ch. 3(b) - Government to 1950; Ch. 3(c) - Economic to 1950; Ch. 3(d)i - Education to 1950; Ch. 3(d)ii - Health to 1950; Ch. 3(d)iii - Welfare to 1950; Ch. 4(a) - Military to 1960; Ch. 4(b) - Governance to 1960
Reel 5: Ch. 4(c) - Economic to 1960; Ch. 4(d)i - Education to 1960; Ch. 4(d)ii - Health to 1960; Ch. 5(a) - Military to 1960s; Ch. 5(b) Governance to 1960; Ch.5 - Governance 1960s A-C; Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 1-7
Reel 6: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s D 8
Reel 7: Ch. 5 - Governance 1960s E and F; Ch. 5(4)(c) - Economics in 1960s
Reel 8: Ch. 5(d)i - Education in 1960s; Ch. 5(d)ii - Health in 1960s
Reel 9: Ch. 6(a) - Military in 1970s; Defence; Ch. 6D - Governance in 1970s
Reel 10: Ch. 6D iii - Geographically uniform; Ch. 6D v - Administrative Executive Council; Ch.6D vi - Legislative; parties; Ch.6D vii - Legal institutions; Ch. 6D viii - Administration; Ch. 6 - Governance 1970s: E local government
Reel 12: Ch. 6(c) - Economics 1970s
Reel 13: Ch. 6(d)i - Education in 1970s; Ch. 6(d)ii - Health in 1970s

Mr Ian Grabowsky, born in Finland in 1899, was actively associated with New Guinea aviation from 1931 to 1937 as a pilot and manager for Guinea Airways Ltd. Between 1962 and 1967, he compiled a history of civil aviation in New Guinea to the year 1935 for the Commonwealth Department of Civil Aviation (Australia). For further details of Grabowsky's career and his compilation, see Pacific Islands Monthly for February, 1968, p.14.

A detailed account of the development of civil aviation and the exploits of the early fliers in Papua New Guinea to 1935, drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished material.
Reel 1: Introduction; Vol.1 - Chapter 1 The Discovery of Gold 1529-1925. Chapter 2 The Early Transport System (including a section on oil, administration patrols and recruitment of human transport). Chapters 3 and 4 Transport and the Goldfields 1926 (Chapter 4 includes A Wild Road Winds to Wau by Mrs Alice Allen Innes, 'mine hostess' at Salamau from 1927, recounting an incident recorded in her diary). Chapters 5 to 7 deal with Air Transport and the Goldfields from 1927 to 1929 respectively. Vol.2 - Chapters 7 to 9 cover air transport and the goldfields from 1930 to 1932 respectively. Vol.3 - Chapter 10 Great Discoveries of New Lands, New People, New Wealth, New Ventures and New Ambitions.
Reel 2: Vol.3 (cont.) Chapter 11 - 1934. Vol.4 - 1935.

Archdeacon Stephen Romney Maurice Gill (1886-1954), from a family of Pacific missionaries, joined the Anglican mission to Papua in 1908. He was ordained at Dogura, in 1910, and his first parish was nearby Boianai, where he remained until 1922. He then moved to the Mamba district, where he established a temporary station at Manau on the mouth of the Mamba (or Mambare) River. Two years later, at Duvira, he began work on what was to be his head station until 1942, when it was destroyed by the Japanese. In 1943, he began building a new mission station at nearby Dewade. He retired in 1952 and died in England two years later.

The letters, written from Papua New Guinea to members of Gill's family in England, are mainly of the period 1922-28. The original letters are owned by members of the Gill family in England. Those on the microfilm are typewritten copies of the originals made available by Mr David Wetherell, of Popondetta, Papua (1969).