Vocabulary, correspondence and prayers in languages from Vanuatu and Solomon Islands:

1. Vocabulary of the Gela language, British Solomon Islands. Compiled by Father S.G. Caulton, 1935-37.
2. Mota-Aoba [Ambae] Vocabulary. From the papers of Archdeacon A.E. Teall, Archdeacon of Southern Melanesia, d.1966.
3. Letters to Archdeacon D.A. Rawcliffe in the language of Vatuanga Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
4. Letters to Archdeacon D.A. Rawcliffe in the language of Ulawa, Solomon Islands.
5. Letters to Archdeacon D.A. Rawcliffe in the language of Ugi, Solomon Islands.
6. Vocabulary of the Vaturanga language of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Compiled by Archdeacon D.A. Rawcliffe.
7. Prayers in the languages of the Northern New Hebrides - Mera Lava, Mota, Gaua, Nduindui, Qatnapni.

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

Correspondence and legal documents concerning the ownership by Europeans of an area of land at Nduindui, Ambae, Vanuatu. The first owner was Eugene Wilbur, a Canadian, who settled on Ambae in 1870. Later owners were Frederick John Purdy & Co., F.B. Spooner Brothers (F.B. and George Spooner).

Sister Margaret, daughter of the headmaster of Clifton College, an Anglican college in Bristol, was born in 1887. She was educated at St Andrews in Scotland; at a school run by Mrs Leonard Huxley at Priors Field, Godalming; and at Cambridge University. After a period of uncertainty, Sister Margaret became an Anglican nun. She taught at a school in South Africa for seven years and was later a novice mistress in India. In 1929 she went to the Solomon Islands as a teaching sister for the Melanesian Mission. In 1942 she transferred to the Melanesian Mission school at Torgil, Aoba Island, New Hebrides (Amber, Vanuatu). After furlough in England in 1948, Sister Margaret became a member of the Roman Catholic Church and served a further term in the Solomon Islands. In 1966 she went to live in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

The hospital at Nduindui on Ambae, Vanuatu, is run by the Churches of Christ Mission.

The record gives the name, sex, date of birth and parents' names of each child, with clinical details of the mother's labour.

Letters associated with the Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides (Vanuatu):

1. Letters of Father Z. Strock, S.M. from Mele (Efate), Lohpangalo, Sesivi and Olal (Ambrym) and Port Sandwich (Malekula), 1905-1913.
2. Letters of Father Emile Roux, S.M., from Port Sandwich and Wala (Malekula), Port Olry, Talomako and Segond Channel (Espiritu Santo) and Paray (Efate), 1905-1926.
3. Letters of Father J.P. Romeuf, S.M., from Atchin, Wala and Port Sandwich (Malekula), 1896-1922.
4. Letters of Father Henri Perthuy, S.M. from Port Olry, Craig Cove and Sesivi (Ambrym) and Port Sandwich (Malekula), 1894-1908.
5. Letters of Father Jean-Baptiste Suas, S.M., from Olal (Ambrym), Wanour, Melsisi and Namaram (Pentecost) and Lolopuepue (Ambae) 1894-1932 (Continued on PMB MS 58)
   Note: Most of the letters on this microfilm are addressed to Monsignor Victor Doucere, S.M., Apostolic Vicar of the New Hebrides.

Correspondence of the Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu):

1. Letters (1924-32) of Father J.B. Suas, S.M. (continued from PMB MS 57).
2. Letters of Father Antoine Tayac, S.M., from Vao (Malekula) and Melsisi (Pentecost), 1898-1902.
3. Letters of Father Jean-Baptiste Prin, S.M., from Vao (Malekula), Nagire (Aoba/Ambae), Namaram and Melsisi (Pentecost), Lolopuepue (Aoba) and Santo, 1901-1919.
4. Letters of Father Pierre Chauvel, S.M., from Olal and Fali (Ambrym), Lopagalo and Port Sandwich (Malekula), Sesivi (Ambrym) and Port Olry (Espiritu Santo), 1901-1922.
5. Letters of Father Francois Degoulange, S.M., from Vila, 1903-1914.
   Note: Most of the letters on this microfilm are addressed to Monsignor Victor Doucere, S.M., Apostolic Vicar of the New Hebrides.

The Duindui language is spoken in the south-west of Aoba (Ambae) Island, Vanuatu. Alternative spellings include Nduindui and Ndui Ndui.

1. Vocabulary of Duindui (Nduindui) with English translation, compiled by Dorothy Dewar, Apostolic Mission, and Keith Ludgater, Churches of Christ Mission, Aoba, New Hebrides.
2. Duindui (Nduindui) Primer, compiled by Churches of Christ Mission, Aoba, Hew Hebrides. (This is the first work of its kind in the language of Duindui).
3. Duindui (Nduindui) Hymn Book, being translations by Manasseh Haumbani of items in Ira D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos (London, 1965).