Mgr Collomb, of the Society of Mary, was Bishop of Antipheles and Vicar Apostolic of Melanesia and Micronesia
The journal is in three exercise books:
Vol.1: November 1845 - March 1847, includes voyage from Europe to Sydney Vol.2: April 1847 to Collomb's death in July 1848. It includes an account of the abandonment of the Marist mission at San Cristobal, 3 November 1847, and the arrival at Woodlark Island, 15 November 1847; also the division of the missionaries, 9 May 1848, with Montrouzier, Thomassin and Bro. Aristide remaining on Woodlark, and Collomb, Fremont, Villien and Bro. Optat starting a mission on Rook (Umboi) Island. Vol.3: A collection of copies of letters and an account of events remembered by Collomb beginning April 1847. (Collomb mislaid his journal for a time and believed it lost. He tried to reconstruct it from memory. Then the journal was found and continued.)
A: Documents selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1848-1852, Tom. 4;
Miscellaneous letters written by Colin, Montrouzier, Marinoni, Salerio, Reina.
Booklet (19pp.) - Nouve lettere dei Missionari di S. Calocero dall'Oceania, published in Milan, 1853. Contains two letters each by Salerio and Reina
B: Selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1853-1857, Tom. 5;
Miscellaneous letters written by Marinoni, Reina, Fremont, Mazzucconi, Salerio.
C: Selected from Collegi d'Italia, CV 43, Book 2, Collegio & Seminario delle Missioni Estere in Milano, dal 1850 al 1892;
List of students in S. Calocero in c.1850/51 and brief character sketch of each
Prospetto del personale del Seminario Lombardo - Veneto delle Estere Missioni in Milano
List of seminarians from S. Calocero and their destinations
Relazione, sulla morte del missionario apostolico D. Giovanni Mazzucconi a lunno del seminario delle Missioni in Milano, Milan (post 1856). Contains extracts of letters written by Mazzucconi in the year prior to his death.
Notizie ed instruzioni per gli aspiranti ad entrare nel seminario delle Estere Missioni in Milano detto di
a roneoed programme, containing a brief history of the LMS on Niue, issued in 1968 to celebrate the centenary of the mission on the island - in English
the same as above - in Niuean
a booklet entitled 'Ko e Tohi Fakamanatuaga he Senetenari a Peniamina, Niue, 1846-1946' (30pp. + 2)
a booklet entitled 'Fefe kia ke Maeke kia au ke Talia a Keriso?' (LMS Printing Press, Niue), (12pp. + 1).
The reports are of inspections made by the plantation managers of the following plantations in Papua owned or managed by the company: Baramata, Conflict Group, Doini, Epo, Mamai, Maua and Vaiviri, Rubberlands.
Mann, a Methodist missionary, served at Piniqidu (now spelt Pinikidu), New Ireland, from 1919 to 1921. The papers comprise:
Diary 1919-22
Letters, 1920 3 Letters from missionaries at Piniqidu, 1922-41
Notes on the Malagenes ceremony and the influence of government and missions.
Stores list, Piniqidu, 1919-20
Writings (with translations) by mission staff at Piniqidu describing various local customs including burial practices, the preparation and use of malira (an aphrodisiac), treatment of sickness and insanity, rain making and the presentation of eligible girls.
Fenbury was born in Western Australia in 1916 and became a patrol officer in New Guinea in 1937. After wartime service followed by a period with the Government of Tanganyika, he returned to New Guinea in 1947 to become Assistant District Officer responsible for organising native local government councils. After holding several other senior posts, he went to New York as the Australian Government Nominee in the trusteeship division of the United Nations Secretariat. In 1972 he became Secretary of the Department of the Administrator. His last post before retiring from the Territory in 1962 was Secretary of the Department of Social Development and Home Affairs.
The papers are:
Correspondence, 1947-48
Native Local Government, 1950-59
Taxation, 1951-68
Land conversion and Native Economic Development, 1953-66
Taloi Cocoa Project, 1954-68
Administrative organisation, 1959-72
Dissemination of News and Information to the Indigenous Population, 1959
O'Neill arrived in New Guinea in 1931 and was engaged in prospecting mainly on the Morobe goldfield.
A typescript in diary form based on an original diary and letters concerning his period as a gold prospector.
Ch. 1: To Edie Creek, and After Ch. 2: The Black Cat, and the Bittoi River Ch. 3: The Paradise Strip and a Touch of Slavery Ch. 4: The Ramu and the Purari Amongst the Warriors of the Long Bow< Ch. 5: The Upper Watut - Kuka Kuka Country, Who Hunts What, with a club Ch. 6: The Lower Watut. River of Mustard Gold.
J.K. McCarthy (1905- ) joined the pre-war New Guinea Administration as a patrol officer in 1927 and served in New Britain, Morobe and Sepik districts. After war service with the Coastwatchers and ANGAU in New Guinea, and also in Borneo and Sarawak, he rejoined the Administration as District Officer, Madang in 1947. He was subsequently District Commissioner Rabaul and director of Native Affairs (later District Administration) 1960-68. His autobiography Patrol into Yesterday was published in 1963.
The papers comprise:
Court papers, 1927
Malutu and Talasea patrol reports, 1927-29
Ambunti and Marienberg patrol reports, 1930-32
Land investigations, New Ireland, 1932
Kukukuku-Menyamya patrols, 1933
Native labour inspections, 1933
Rai Coast and Karkar Island patrol reports, 1934-35
Sepik River exploration (accompanying Administrator), 1935
Wewak patrol reports, 1935
Aitape patrol reports, 1936-37
Report on tour of Netherlands New Guinea, 1952
Central Nakanai patrol report by J.B. Mackay, 1926