BSIP File Q/1. Special Lands Commission quarterly and final reports. Outline of a brief; ‘A Note on Native Custom in respect to the tenure of Trees and Forests’; text of speech; report of investigations in the Western Solomons, 30 Sep 1953; report (Ysabel) to 31 Dec 1953; report (Central District) to 31 Mar 1954; Report on Crown and Native land lease policy, 31 May 1954, Ts., 77pp.
BSIP. File G/1. Correspondence of the Solomons Islands Special Lands Commissioner, C.H. Allan; 38 items, including a Kieta language wordlist and letter written in Roviana language, 30 Jun 1954, Ts. & Ms.
Special Lands Commissioner: Diary. Ts.
Special Lands Commission, Questionnaire, Ts., 5pp.
Special Lands Commission. Choiseul: draft report, Ts., c.50pp.; Ms., genealogies and notes, c20pp.
Special Lands Commission. Guadalcanal: draft report, Jul 1954, Ts., 54pp., and Jul 1956, Ts., 54pp.
Special Lands Commission. Morovo: draft report, Ts.,16pp.
Special Lands Commission. Roviana: draft report, Ts., 47pp. Together with notes on land tenure in Roviana, Rendova and Nduke areas, Ms., 26pp.; Notes on the Religious and Political Situation in the Western Solomons, 22 Jan 1957, Ts., 3pp.; High Court of Solomon Islands, Customary Land Appeal, Case No.2 of 1980, Ian Talasasa and Willie Paia & Operti Bisili, Judgement, Ts., 11pp.; High Court of the Western Pacific, Native Land Appeal No.9 of 1971, Jacob Zinihite and Edwin Biku, Judgement, Ts., p/c, 5pp.; Genealogical table of the Roviana Clans called Zare, Vanoro and Kidu, Ms.; extracts from published articles by Goldie, Woodford, Williamson and Somerville pertinent to the New Georgia area, Ts., c.40pp.
Special Lands Commission. Roviana: draft report, Ts., 47pp. Together with notes on land tenure in Roviana, Rendova and Nduke areas, Ms., 26pp.; Notes on the Religious and Political Situation in the Western Solomons, 22 Jan 1957, Ts., 3pp.; High Court of Solomon Islands, Customary Land Appeal, Case No.2 of 1980, Ian Talasasa and Willie Paia & Operti Bisili, Judgement, Ts., 11pp.; High Court of the Western Pacific, Native Land Appeal No.9 of 1971, Jacob Zinihite and Edwin Biku, Judgement, Ts., p/c, 5pp.; Genealogical table of the Roviana Clans called Zare, Vanoro and Kidu, Ms.; extracts from published articles by Goldie, Woodford, Williamson and Somerville pertinent to the New Georgia area, Ts., c.40pp.
