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An informal record of missionary service in the Island of Tongoa and the Shepherd Islands

  • AU PMB MS 1051
  • Coleção
  • 1941 - 1947

Dr and Mrs Miller were missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand on the Island of Tongoa in the Shepherd Group, (New Hebrides), Vanuatu, from 1941 to 1947 when Miller became principal of the Tangoa Teachers Training Institute, on Tangoa Island (not Tongoa) off the coast of Santo Island. In 1952 the Millers took a parish in Auckland, New Zealand, returning to Tangoa in 1971 to set up the Presbyterian Bible College. The left New Hebrides/Vanuatu in 1973.

This typescript manuscript (370pp) is based on the diaries, articles and cultural and topical jottings by the Rev. J. Graham Miller and his wife Flora during their missionary service in Tongoa, Shepherd Islands(Vanuatu), 1941-47. It includes maps, press clippings and reproduces relevant reports, statistics and comments. See also PMB 1012, 1025 and 1028.

Miller, Revered J. Graham (1913-2008) and Flora Miller (1915-2006)

An outline of Samoan History

  • AU PMB DOC 469
  • Coleção
  • 1958

This early edition of Sylvia Masterman’s, An Outline of Samoan History (67pp., Ts., roneo, maps, appendices), was published by the Western Samoan Education Department in 1958. It consists of 17 chapters, as follows:

  1. The Polynesian People
  2. Polynesian Voyages
  3. Samoa before 1830
  4. European Exploration of the Pacific
  5. The Coming of Missionaries
  6. The Growth of Trade. The Germans in Samoa
  7. The United States and Samoa
  8. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand Interests in Samoa
  9. Strife in Samoa 1835-1880
  10. The Troubled Years 1880-1889
  11. An Attempt at International Control 1890-1900
  12. German Samoa 1900-1914
  13. New Zealand Occupies Western Samoa 1914
  14. Western Samoa becomes a mandated territory
  15. The Years of the ‘Mau’ 1926-1936
  16. Towards Self Government
  17. American Samoa

Appendices: 1. Pili the Father of the Samoan Race; 2. The ‘Callipoe’;

  1. Robert Louis Stevenson; 4. Volcanic Eruption in Savaii – 1905;
  2. Comparative Word List; 6. Chronology; 7. Word List

A later edition was published in Samoan and English in 1980.

Masterman, Sylvia

Annales Hydrographiques France Ministere de la Marine, series 1, Vol. 1 -, 1848

  • AU PMB DOC 220
  • Coleção
  • 1848 - 1850

Aims to bring hydrographic information, including sailing instructions, to the attention of navigators. Similar to the Nautical Magazine and the Dutch Moniteur des Indes orientales et occidentales. Articles concerning the Pacific Islands, particularly French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna, are indexed in R. Langdon (ed) PMB DOC book of Pacific indexes <BR> (Canberra: PMB, 1988). For subsequent issues see PMB Doc .221-257. Series 1, vol. 41, PMB Doc .237 contains an index to series 1, vols 1-41 (1848-1871).<BR>The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau does not hold reproduction rights for this material. Orders should be directed to ACRPP, 4 Rue Louvois, Paris, France

First series, vol. 1(1848-1849): vol. 2(1849): vol. 3(1850).

Annales Hydrographiques

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