Dr Margaret Spencer, OAM, graduated MSc in Entomology in 1939 and lectured in Biology at the New England University College, 1940 to 1945. She then tutored in Zoology at the University of Sydney. Her association with PNG extended for 25 years from 1953. In 1954 she was appointed as entomologist-instructor at the Malaria Control School at Minj in the Western Highlands of New Guinea. During the next two years she and her husband, Dr Terrence Spencer, documented the epidemiology of Highlands malaria, and published the first record of a Highlands malaria epidemic. From 1956 she carried out a detailed study into anopheline fauna of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands and, as part of a Malaria Control Assessment Team, extended that study over a wide range of PNG islands, working closely with her husband in epidemiological studies. She was awarded a WHO research grant to study enlargement of the ovarioles and development of eggs in PNG anopheline. A further special investigation was her study of the malaria potential for the work force of the Bougainville Copper Project and make recommendations for its control. In addition to published scientific papers and unpublished reports Dr Spencer has written a history of malaria control in the south west Pacific region, a book on the Australian experience of malaria, and three books describing experiences on field patrol and on outstations in PNG. In 1998 she graduated PhD in the Tropical Health Program of the University of Queensland. Her thesis described the development of health services in PNG from 1870 till the outbreak of World War II.

Minj diaries, 1954-55; correspondence, 1953-1968; Dept of Health circulars, 1954-55; correspondence with S H Christian, 1955-1970; Malaria Control Section, Public Health Dept, Mapamoiwa, patrol records, 1957-1960; press cuttings, 1958-1962; Subject files, 1952-1980; photographs, 1954-1961. <P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Langdon's book, The Lost Caravel, was published in June 1975 by Pacific Publications Pty Ltd, Sydney. The book puts forward the theory that the crew of a Spanish ship, the caravel San Lesmes, lost in the eastern South Pacific in 1526, played a prominent role in the prehistory of several Polynesian islands, including the Tuamotu Archipelago, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Easter Island and New Zealand. The San Lesmes was one of the ships of the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa which left Spain in July 1525 to obtain a cargo of spices in the East Indies. Langdon’s sequel, The Lost Caravel Re-explored, published in Canberra in 1988, gathers his evidence in support of the presence of European castaways in the pre-Cook Pacific, focusing on the fate of the crew of the San Lesmes and including a revised chapter on Easter Island and additional chapters on New Zealand.

Correspondence, 1987-1995, on research and other matters relating to the publication of The Lost Caravel and The Lost Caravel Re-explored. Arranged, A-Z, by correspondent.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>
See also PMB 551 for Robert Langdon’s Lost Caravel correspondence, 1967-1975, and PMB 999 for his correspondence, 1976-1987.
For original documents relating to the Loaisa expedition see PMB 135-140.

Nos. 1-23, 1989-1998. See Finding aids for details.

The Union is the oldest and most successful of the blue collar unions in PNG. The union had its origins in the ethnically based welfare societies formed in Port Moresby in the late 1950s. Waterside workers were also active in the PNG Workers’ Association and its successor the Port Moresby Workers’ Association in the 1960s. The Central District Waterside Workers’ Union was established at a public meeting in Port Moresby on 24 July 1968 and registered under the PNG Industrial Organisations Ordinance on 28 January 1969. Between 1977 and 1980 the CDWWU embarked on a series of amalgamations with the Overseas Seamen’s Union, the Rabaul Workers’ Association, the Madang Waterside Workers’ Union and the Lae Stevedoring Union. The amalagamated union, the PNG Waterside Workers’ and Seamen’s Union, the first national private sector union in Papua New Guinea, was registered on 8 January 1980. The name of the organisation was changed to the Papua New Guinea Maritime Workers Industrial Union on 18 October 1993. (See Michael Hess, <I>Unions Under Economic Development: private sector unions in PNG</I>, Oxford University Press, 1992.)

<LI>Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, Submission to the Urban Minimum Wages Board. Ts., roneo, 228pp., Aug 1974;</LI>
<LI>PNG Maritime Workers Industrial Union, Circulars to National Executive Council Members and Branch Presidents, Jun 1991-Jul 1997;</LI>
<LI>Press cuttings on industrial matters in Papua New Guinea, 1970-1990;</LI>
<LI>Further press cuttings on industrial matters in PNG, n.d.;</LI>
<LI>Rough list of non-current files held in the PNG Maritime Workers Industrial Union’s Port Moresby office in May 1994 and since destroyed, May 1994</LI><P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

Jim Falk (University of Wollongong), A New Force in the Nuclear Conflict: the Birth of the Pacific Trade Union Forum, Jun 1981. Ts., p/c, 32pp.
Michael Hamel-Green (People for Nuclear Disarmament), The Second Pacific Trade Union Forum Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 26-28 September 1982. A report on the background, proceedings and outcome of the conference, 1982. Ts., p/c, 22pp.
Michael Easson (Assistant Secretary of the Labor Council of NSW), Left and Labor in the Pacific. Contribution to Hoover Institute, Stanford University, Seminar on ‘The Red Orchestra in the Pacific’, n.d. Ts., p/c, 65pp.
R Hogan (Victorian State Secretary, Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union), Report to ACTU Executive on Pacific Trade Union Conference held at Auckland, New Zealand, May 18-May 20, 1986, 3 Mar 1987. Ts., p/c, 35pp plus attachments.
Raghwan (Education Officer, ICFTU/APRO Pacific Office), ICFTU/APRO Education Project, Brisbane, Australia. 1. Report, Proceedings and Recommendations of the ICFTU/APRO Pacific Education Project Review and Planning Workshop, 26-18th April, 1989; 2. Conclusion of Steering Committee Meeting of the South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions (SPOCTU), 28th April”, 1989. Ts., p/c, c.60pp.
Minutes of the ICFTU/APRO Pacific Structure Steering Committee meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 28 Apr 1989. Ts., 6pp.
Michael Kinnane (Executive Officer, South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions), Trade Unions in the Island Countries of the South Pacific Region: an overview, Jan 1990. Ts., p/c, 7pp., plus attachments.
Michael Kinnane (Executive Officer, South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions), Trade Unions in the South Pacific: some observations, 4 Sep 1990. Ts., 12pp.
Pratap Chand, Ken Douglas & Bill Mansfield (South Pacific Union Development Program Steering Committee), Review of the South Pacific Union Program, May 1997. Ts., 30pp.

This document is the briefing paper for the Australian ministerial delegation to the South Pacific Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) held at Cairns in July 1997. It was discovered by the media amidst a pile of other misplaced miscellaneous papers at the meeting. The pessimistic assessment of economic and political trends in the Pacific Island States and the often disparaging portraits of the leaders of these countries caused scandal, embarrassment and controversy in Australia and throughout the Pacific region when these details became public. The report covers economic dilemmas in the Pacific, fiscal responsibility, resource management, public sector reform, health services and governance issues for each particular country and for the region as a whole. The backgrounds, beliefs and personal habits of Pacific leaders and finance ministers are also presented in a series of controversial character assessments. These were considered offensive and insensitive by many political and official commentators, along with some of the leaders themselves.

Section 1, Overview.p.1
Section 2, Program. p.9
Section 3, Draft Annotated Agenda. p.11
Section 4, Agenda items: Ministerial Dinnerp.,p.19
Opening Formalities,p.21
Session 1 Reform Processes,p.23
Session 2 Institutional Reform,p.25
Session 3 Investment Policy,p.29
Session 4 Tariff Policy,p.31
Session 5 Multilateral Trade Policy, p.33
Section 5, Forum Island Countries: Economic & Social Scorecard.p.35
Section 6, Aid to Forum Island Countries.p.38
Section 7, Map of South Pacific Forum Countries.p. 39
Section 8, South Pacific: Political Economy.p.41
Section 9, Individual Country Briefing:
Cook Islands,p.43
Fiji,p.45
Kiribati,p.49
Micronesia (Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau),p.53
Nauru,p.59
New Zealand,p.63
Niue,p.67
Papua New Guinea,p.69
Samoa,p.73
Solomon Islands,p.77
Tonga,p.81
Tuvalu,p.85
Vanuatu.p.87
Section 10, List of Ministers.p. 91
Section 11, Australian Delegation List.p.92
Section 12, Office Facilities.p.93