Fulvio Favetta was a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea from 1 Oct 1968 to 30 Nov 1980. He was on the first intake of married officers and his wife, Suzanne, and one year old son Mark joined him in PNG on 1 Nov 1968 after he completed a one month induction course at Kwikila. From 1968-1972 Fulvio worked as a patrol officer in the Northern District, in Tufi and Popondetta. From 1972-1980 he worked in the Southern Highlands District, in Tari and Mendi. He was promoted to Assistant District Officer while in Tari and to District Officer when he transferred to Mendi at the end of 1975. In Mendi he was appointed executive officer to the local Area Authority (precursor to Porvincial Government) and finished his career in PNG as Provincial Finance Officer for the Southern Highland Provincial Government. His longest patrol (Tufi Patrol No 3 of 69/70) was 51 days to the Lower Musa area in the Northern District, now Oro Province.

During his patrols he inspected places for the purpose of initiating civil works, land for possible purchase for cattle projects,observed Cape Nelson Council’s 5th Annual elections, patrolling part Sohe part Aiga Census Divisions to conduct land investigation prior to alienation of land to be used for resettlement of Aiga & Aioma people, census revisions in Cape Nelson & Dyke Ackland Bay Census Divisions (1971), investigated widespread food shortage induced by prolonged drought around Tari (1972), encouraging economic development in the Haibuga-Munima/Iumu Census Divisions (1973), political education, making lists of sand and gravel sources in the South Basin and Benaria Census Divisions (1973), census revisions and area studies of Puijero/North Basin Census Divisions (1974), situation reports for Tari, that included Situation Report No. 1 (Introduction; Population – Distribution and Trends; Social Groupings; Leadership; Land Tenure and Use; Literacy; Standard of Living; Missions; Non-indigenes; Communications; Technical; and Clerical Skills; The Stage of Political Development; The Economy of the Area; Possibilities of Expanding the Economy; Attitude towards Local Government; Attitude towards Central Government; Accommodation, services and facilities, plus Appendices (1974), investigating a murder in the Homa in the Benaria Census Division (1974), repair suspension bridge on Tagari River; and to commernce work on community centre at Hangapo, in East Basin Census Division (1974), annual census, village record and general administration in the Haibuga/ Munima Census Division (1975), supervise House of Assembly by-election in Etoro, Waragu and Orogo Census Divisions (1975).

Favetta returned to Australia and later worked as a Custom Officer in the Commonwealth Government from 1982 until his retirement in 2006.

Patrol reports, related documents and correspondence 1969-1975.
Field Journal (1968-1977).

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One carton of papers and audio recordings sent to Professor Hank Nelson by Professor George H. Gadbois of the University of Kentucky in October 2010; transferred to the PMB from Professor Nelson’s room in the Coombs Building in August 2011.

Papers by Professor Gadbois, Elections in Papua New Guinea: a search for a framework of analysis (1977), and The Representative Roles and Accountability of Legislators in Papua New Guinea (1978) draw on his research in PNG (PMB 1372/108 & 110). The data for this research was collected during the second half of 1974. The subjects were 73 backbenchers of the PNG House of Assembly. They were interviewed using a standard set of questions set out in the Interview Schedule for Legislators, in two versions (PMB 1372/102). The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu, and recorded on cassettes (PMB 1372/Cas01-Cas99); the written (typescript) versions of the interviews are all in English (PMB 1372/1-100). Most of the interviews were conducted by students of the University of Papua New Guinea, and these interviewers are frequently identified by name on the written versions of the interviews. A Memorandum from Professor Gadbois to an (unspecified) Research Committee provides a rationale for the form of the study (PMB 1272/103). The recorded material does not include material for all those interviewed. In some cases the interviewee is represented on more than one cassette. A few of the cassettes seem to be unrelated to the interviews: e.g. Chatterton (Radio) and Somare (Newsmakers) but no doubt are relevant to PNG politics. One tape is simply labelled “?” (PMB 1372/Cas 101-104).

Transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the PNG House of Assemby (1974).
Code book interview schedule and research committee paper.
Lists of the Members of the House of Assembly (1964-1976).
Research files and publications.
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E.A. (Ted) Freeman O.A.M. served, with his wife Dorothy, as a medical missionary under the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides from 1963-1970. During this time he worked as a medical superintendent at the Paton Memorial Hospital.

Whilst in the New Hebrides, Ted often worked in difficult situations. He attended to many different kinds of medical emergencies, established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught family planning and supervised the training of many local and expatriate doctors and nurses whilst working in the New Hebrides.

Various correspondence, diaries, some printed memorabilia.

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The Te Rangi Hiroa Fund was established in 1968 during the first Waigani seminar. The Fund was named after Sir Peter Buck, the distinguished Maori ethno-historian, and was administered by Secretary of the Fund Rev. Dr Sione Latukefu, of the University of Papua New Guinea History Department.

The Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition was an annual prize for:

(a) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university in the South Pacific Islands;
(b) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university outside the Pacific Islands.

The Paul Morawetz Award was a small scholarship available to assist Pacific Islanders with outstanding aptitude for historical work to pursue post-graduate studies in Pacific history.

Correspondence relating to the administration of the fund, submission of essays and awarding of prizes; submitted competition essays; applications for the Paul Morawetz Award.

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John Cranston McInerney was born in 1916, grew up on the land near Koorawatha and Cowra, NSW, and went to school at St Patrick’s College, Goulburn. He graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1941, enlisted in the Australian army in September that year, serving as a Medical Officer ranked as Lieutenant in the 2nd 14th Light Field Ambulance in New Guinea and then as Captain in the 2nd 2nd Commando Squadron. He went back to New Guinea after the war, learnt to fly and became District Medical Officer at Wewak. He died after his Auster aircraft crashed into the sea at Vanimo, March 1953.

This journal was mostly written in New Guinea, September 1943 till July 1944, much of it in the Chimbu, Eastern Highlands, Wahgi Valley and Ramu River areas. As well as accounts of Dr McInerney’s military experiences, the journal includes Kuman vocabularies, notes on legends, customs and practices of the Dengla-Maguagu people and an account of stone axe making by Dom people in the Wahgi Valley.
The original is a black-covered A5 notebook with a small area of water damage at the top of each page. This damage must have happened before 1953, as John McInerney has in places re-written over the washed-out area. His handwriting, in both ink and pencil, is very small and difficult to decipher. The microfilm of the original Ms. is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. The Mitchell Library and National Library of Australia also have a copy of this typescript which is transcribed from much enlarged photocopies of the original Ms. The black notebook is presently in the care of Gavan McInerney and Sally McInerney.

This news sheet was issued by the New Zealand administration in Niue in both Niuean, as Tohi Tala Niue, and English, as Niue Newsletter, until January 1966 when a bi-lingual edition was published under the title, Tohi Tala Niue.

Tohi Tala Niue (Niuean), Vols.1-11, 13, Oct 1953-Dec 1965 (gaps);
Niue Newsletter (English), Vols.1-13, Oct 1953-Dec 1965 (gaps);
Tohi Tala Niue (bi-lingual), Vols.1-17, 1966-1982 (gaps).
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The Advisory Council acted as adviser to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Administration. It held nine meetings. It was then superseded by a House of Representatives, consisting of 23 elected members, two ex-officio members and five appointed members. The inaugural meeting of the House of Representatives was held in Tarawa in December, 1967.

First meeting - 30 September - 5 October, 1963
Second meeting - 3 March - 6 March, 1964
Third meeting - 2 November - 6 November, 1964
Fourth meeting - 12 November - 19 November, 1965
Sixth meeting - 3 February - 4 February, 1966
Seventh meeting - 5 August - 11 August, 1966
Eighth meeting - 21 October - 27 October, 1966
Ninth meeting - 14 July - 20 July, 1967

Correspondence from Bishop Julian Vidal of the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji. Most of the letters were printed on the Mission press.

Oscar Rondahl’s mother, Grace Coe, was a half sister of Queen Emma. His father was Capt. J.M. Rondahl. He was born at Kabakaul, New Britain, in 1905, and took over family plantations in New Britain, including:
• Rainau Plantation, purchased from Mrs Schmidt in 1937;
• Kap Kap (Birara “B” & Kab Kab “C”), part also purchased from Mrs Schmidt in 1937; part purchased from Graham Mirfield; part purchased from Oscar Rondahl’s sisters, Ricka and Tilly; part inherited;
• Kabakaul Plantation, property formed into a private company, known as Rondahl Limited, after the death of Oscar Rondahl’s brother; all shares in the company purchased by Oscar Rondahl in 1937;
• Makurapau Plantation, transferred to Oscar Rondahl under a deed of gift from his father in 1927;
• Induna Plantation, purchased by Oscar Rondahl as virgin land from J.J. Gilmore in 1931.

Virginia Adam is a great niece of Oscar Rondahl.

Vital records of Oscar Rondahl and family, 1918-1991
Plantation titles, etc., 1935-1969
Papers on the Estate of A.J. Eilertz, 1949
Paper on August Y. Chang of Metlik Plantation, New Ireland, 1949
Trip files of Oscar Rondahl, 1969, 1974 & 1978
Correspondence, 1942-1988
Press cuttings, maps and photographs.
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G.A.V. Stanley (Uda Baroma) (b. Sydney, 1904), geologist, biblographer and historian, went to Papua in 1927 and spent most of his life there until his death in October 1965. He graduated BSc from Sydney University in 1926 with first-class honours, a double major in geology and geography and a dissertation on the Jenolan Caves. He undertook postgraduate work in Ontong Java and the Solomons and participated in a University of Queensland survey of the Great Barrier Reef. He worked with a number of oil companies in Papua and New Guinea and was awarded the DSC for his war service with RANVR and the Far Eastern Liaison Organisation (FELO). He married Palu Hehuni and had two children, Artur and Anne. In 1962 he returned to Australia to work with the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra. In 1965 he developed cancer and returned to Port Moresby where he died in October of that year. The material in this collection was left with a colleague in Canberra in 1965 and did not come to light until that colleague's death in 1989.

The material on these five reels mostly relates to surveys undertaken for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Oil Search Limited (OSL) and the Australian Petroleum Company (APC). The collection consists of folders, notebooks, letterbooks and envelopes. Each has been given an Item number, a total of fifty-one. The material includes letters, reports, maps, equipment and stores lists, indigenous labour arrangements, photographs and other documentation related to geological survey work. A detailed guide has been prepared and is available on request from the Bureau.<BR>Reel 1 Items 1-10 <BR>Reel 2 Items 11-19<BR>Reel 3 Items 20-26<BR>Reel 4 Items 27-42<BR>Reel 5 Items 43-51
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