This paper is on the results of the Group Assessment survey that was carried out with the coffee plantation managers from the Eastern Highlands Province. The finding shows that with the increasing production costs, Papua New Guinea plantations could hardly cover their operating costs. It includes graphs of their monthly export costs and other operational costs.

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)

Report No 2. Anthropology of the South-Eastern Division and part of the Eastern Division of Papua by W. E. Armstrong, B. A.

1. HOUSES AND CANOES, Delta Division, By R. A. Woodward, Actg. R.M.
2. HOUSES, Maneao District, N.E.D., By C. R. Muscutt, A.R.M.
3. CANOES, Goodenough Bay, N.E.D., By 0. J. Atkinson, A.R.M.
4. CANOES, Trobriand Islands, S.E.D., By E. Whitehouse, A.R.M.
5. HOUSES, Gulf Division, By A. C. Rentoul, A.R.M.
6. CANOES, Gulf Division, By E. M. Bastard, R.M.

This paper is presented for the a workshop organised by National Centre for Development Studies at the Australian National University in Brisbane 5-8 February 1991. It provides some background information on the size marketing margins at the processing and export stage for the last five years and presents a simple analysis o the prices series.

The second Village Register is divided into the following columns:

Males, Females, Estimated or known Year of birth. The entries in these columns have their original native names and often lists husband and wife but also whether the adult member of the village lives on his or her own.

General information on condition of roads, tracks, water supplies, gardens, distances between the villages as well as sanitation and latrines. All are hand written by the visiting Patrol Officers.