R.S. Parker was one of 2 Australian mainland members of the Interim Council of the Administrative College of PNG from the Council's inception in May 1962 until its reconstitution in April 1969. The aim of the College was to train indigenous public servants. Professor Parker's papers have been microfilmed as PMB 1004 - 1008.

Labelled files of correspondence, notes, published, 'semi-published' and manuscript material various in form and in production method. 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. There is no detailed inventory of file contents.

Reel 1: Introduction by Professor Parker; File list A: Drafts of statute/ordinance-future development; Interim Council personal papers (includes correspondence)
Reel 2: Interim Council Meetings 1964-65; Interim Council Meetings 1966
Reel 3: Interim Council Meetings 1967; Interim Council Meetings 1968
Reel 4: Interim Council Meetings 1969; Sketch plan of buildings; Association with the University (of Papua New Guinea); Recent Reports 1966-1982
Reel 5: File list B: Correspondence general, File 1 of 2 1961-64, File 2 of 2 1965-73
Reel 6: Staff and staffing (includes correspondence, 1964-72); Allen Brown Committee on Higher Education (includes correspondence, 1971).

For details see PMB Doc 370

Each reel covers the issues for 1 quarter. Lacks: June 29: August 13: October e, 8, 22: November 1, 12, 15: December 6<BR>* Later filmed on PMB Doc 385

We remember Sione Latukefu as a scholar, Tongan patriot and Christian gentleman. Sione was born at Kolovai on Tongatapu in 1927, where his family were prominent commoners with important traditional responsibilities. His grandfather was a distinguished Tongan poet and his family were closely involved in the sufferings, educational achievements and faithful witness of the Wesleyan mission and afterwards the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga. After secondary education at Tupou College Sione trained for a teaching career in Tonga and then, with scholarships, at the University of Queensland. He had already been ordained a minister of the Free Wesleyan Church in 1960.
Sione’s autobiographical essay, ‘The making of the first Tongan-born professional historian’, in the book Pacific Islands History, edited by Dr. Brij Lal, glosses over most of his educational advancement. The boy from Kolovai was not meant to aspire to academinc honours. Yet the highest in the land acknowledged his ability. Queen Salote, herself a scholar of traditional matters, recognized Sione’s potential, gave him encouragement and, in her last days, passed on some of her own knowledge to him.
Taking his studies further at the Australian National University, in an era when Phd Degrees were still fairly novel throughout the world, Sione was one of the first Pacific Islanders to obtain one. He was a generous, careful and perceptive historian.
Queen Salote had hoped that Sione would take charge of the Tongan Archives. Her death in 1965 caused him to take a different path. While at ANU he met his beloved life-partner, then Dr Ruth Fink and they were married in Sydney in 1966. Both Ruth and Sione successfully applied for the positions of anthropologist and historian respectively at the new University of Papua New Guinea. At Port Moresby they helped lay the groundwork for future courses and trained a new generation of Papua New Guinean leaders. Sione was also a successful funds raiser and from 1969 to 1988 he was secretary and executive officer of the Te Rangi Hiroa Fund for promoting the study of Pacific history.
After 18 years of dedicated service, by which time Sione was an Associate Professor, they retired for a while to Canberra to live. Sione’s dedication then led him to accept the post of Principal of the Pacific Theological College in Suva which he held from 1989 to 1991 when ill health led to his return to Canberra. At the College he proved a stabilising influence and helped to give the curriculum a greater academic emphasis. In Canberra he contined to work on various research projects surviving a triple by-pass operation and other setbacks with great courage and aplomb. He participated fully in the life of the new Division of Pacific and Asian History and he was still writing articles and working on a book at the time of his death.
From Niel Gunson, Memorial Tribute to Reverend Dr Sione Latukefu, Tonga Research Association website http://tongaresearchassociation.wordpress.com/

Professional correspondence, arranged by correspondent or subject in chronological order, with some related papers, 1962-1994.
Manuscripts, associated corresopondence and related papers, 1967-1994 (SL Ms/1-39), together with,
A study of the modern elite in Tonga: papers and recordings for an incomplete research project, including correspondence, lists of interviewees, transcripts of some interviews, research trip records, press cuttings, and audio interview recordings, 1993-1995(SL Ms/40-46).
See Finding aids for details.

Joan Herlihy was an adviser to the Solomon Islands Special Committee on Provincial Government which met in November 1978, shortly after independence. The Committee produced a report in January 1979, Decentralisation and Provincial Government: Solomon Islands, which was the basis for provincial and local government arrangements in the Solomon Islands for the next 20 years. Frustration with centralisation of political power in Honiara was a concern of the Committee and remains a concern in the Solomon Islands, as indicated by the civil conflict in 2000-2001. Dr Herlihy’s PhD thesis, Always we are last: a study of planning, development and disadvantage in Melanesia, was submitted at the ANU in 1981.

Documents collected by Dr. Herlihy as Adviser to the Special Committee on Provincial Government (SCPG) in 1978-1979, as follows: West Council Papers, 1975-1979; Background Papers, Nos. 1-132 (gaps), 1978; Unnumbered background and issues papers, summary of submissions, agenda papers, daily summary, circulars, notes, minutes, recommendations, draft and final report, draft provincial government legislation.
Further papers on most aspects of Solomon Islanders’ social, economic and political life collected by Dr Herlihy arranged by subject, as follows: Plans and Planning – National Plans, 1945-1980;
Departmental Plans – Solomon Islands, 1974-1976; Planning – Solomons, 1973-1978; Cooperatives, 1965-1971; Economy of the Solomon Islands, (1) & (2), 1967-1980; Solomons – Rural Economy and Development, 1975-1982; Kamaosi Rural Training Centre, 1970-1973; Agricultural and Industrial Loans Board and Other Credit and Loans, 1969-1980; Tourism, 1968-1980; Transport and Communications in Solomon Islands, 1966-1978; Constitution, 1968-1978; Decentralisation and Local Government, 1967-1978; Local Government Conferences, 1974-1977; Area Committees, 1970-1977; Councils, 1966-1977; Isabel Council (1) & (2), 1964-1976; Council Planning – Isabel, 1972-1978; Makira Council, 1968-1977; Council Planning – Makira, 1973-1976; Employment and Wages, 1914-1932, 1962-1976; Trade Unions, 1973-1975; Land in Solomon Islands (1) & (2), 1964-1978; Solomons Culture and Traditional Systems, 1940-1977; Press Cuttings, 1977-1979. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920. Journal containing shipping and cargo details of the auxiliary cutter Koroibo.

For details see PMB Doc 2

Fourth session, 1962

For details see PMB Doc 331

Vols 33-34 (August 1962 - December 1963)

Minutes of the Aoba Local Council, in English, from its inception to January 9, 1969. Content from Ambae island, Vanuatu.

The first local government councils in the Territory of New Guinea were set up in 1950. The system of local government spread rapidly in the 1960s: in 1963 there were 50 councils in the Territory and by 1965 there were 72. Local government began in the Western Highlands in 1961 with the formation of the Hagen, Minj (South Wahgi) and Nangamp (North Wahgi) Local Government Councils. Minj and Nangamp were merged in 1965 to form the Wahgi Council . By the mid 1990s there were 12 councils in the Western Highlands Province. Leading up to the formation of provincial government in the Western Highlands in the mid 1970s, the Wahgi Local Government Council was associated with a movement for the Jimi, Wahgi and Kambia areas to form a separate Jiwaka Province. (See John Burton and Chris Keher, “Western Highlands Province, 1978-1990”, in R.J. May & A.J. Regan (Eds.), Political Decentralisation in a New State, 1997).

Nangamp [Nangamb] Native Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jan 1962-Feb 1965, in Pidgin;
Minj and Nangamp Local Government Councils, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Apr-Aug 1965, in Pidgin;
Documents re amalgamation of Minj and Nangamp LGCs to form Wahgi LGC, 1965;
Wahgi Local Government Council, Kerowil, minutes of meetings, Jul 1966, Jul 1973-May 1976, in English;
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Local Government Council Conference - Highlands Region, Mt. Hagen Council Chambers, 28-30 Mar 1967.
Wahgi Tuale Association, Aims and Policies; and other documents.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>