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The Papuan Times and Tropical Advertiser (1911-1912)

  • AU PMB DOC 503
  • Collection
  • 1911-1912

PAPUAN TIMES (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea), Vol.1 no.1-Vol.6 no.50 Jan 1911-Dec 1916 (incomplete).

The Papuan Times and Tropical Advertiser, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Malu’u dictionary

  • AU PMB MS 1426
  • Collection
  • 1924

Malu’u dictionary, recording the English translation of Malu’u words, a language spoken on Malaita, Solomon Islands. Malu’u is also known as Toqabaqita or To'abaita language. A note inside the cover of the dictionary states that it was compiled for the South Sea Evangelical Mission by Clara Waterston and others, and is one of six copies produced. Arranged in alphabetical order, typescript 296 pp.

Pages 100 and 204 are missing from the original manuscript and appear to be intentionally torn out. In the process of copying, the following pages were not digitised as they were blank: pp. 26-28, 42-45, 53-56, 84-87, 97-99, 110-113, 141-144, 159-162, 181-184, 192-195, 201-203, 214-217, 227-230, 244-247, 277-280, 289-292, and 297-299.

Waterston, Clara

The Marshall Islands Journal

  • AU PMB DOC 543
  • Collection
  • 1965-

The Marshall Islands Journal is the newspaper of the Marshall Islands. It began in 1966 and was known as:
1967-1969 – The Marshall Islands Journal
1970-1973 – Micronitor (starting in Dec 1973 [Vol 4 no. 46], changes title to Micronesian Independent)
1974- mid-1980 – Micronesian Independent
1980-2016 – The Marshall Islands Journal Some articles in this newspaper relate to other Pacific Islands as well as the Marshall Islands.

The newspaper was established by Joe Murphy and Mike Malone, two Irish-American expatriates who were in the Marshall Islands. [They claim to have started in 1970; the first three volumes from 1966-1969 appear to have been published by others].

The newspaper was published usually once a week, sometimes monthly, although some weeks it was not published and throughout the 1980s it was sometimes produced as regularly as 3 times per week when Dan Smith, a former Peace Corps Volunteer assisted.

The newspaper set up offices in Truk (Chuuk) and Ponape (Pohnpei) and Saipan. It appeared in other Trust Territory districts under the alias of Marianas Weekly or Ponape Sun. The newspaper simply made print runs using a different masthead.

Giff Johnson became the editor in 1984 and assumed day-to-day responsibility for the newspaper. Giff continues to work as the editor today in 2016.

Micronitor News and Printing Company

Photographs of Dr Frank Forster, Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB PHOTO 112
  • Collection
  • Dec 1949-Mar 1950

This collection comprises 39 images black and white photographs taken in the Australian Territory of Papua and New Guinea by Australian Frank Forster in the 4 months December 1949-March 1950.

The photographs record a trip made mainly by boat to the Territory by Frank, a 28 year old honours graduate in obstetrics, surgery and gynaecology of the University of Melbourne, who became as well a medical historian, bibliophile and benefactor. At the time, health care services provided for the local people by the colonial authorities were minimal. In 1947 there were 17 doctors working there, all of whom were expatriates. The first two trained surgeons arrived about 1950, and were based in Rabaul and in Port Moresby. In 1953 the Australian National University, through a government committee, began identifying “gaps in knowledge” in the territory.

Frank’s record of his journey starts in Papua’s Eastern District at Samarai Island and ends as he returns to Brisbane, having visited several other small islands including Kwato in Papua, then to New Guinea where he visited Lae, Goroka in the Eastern Highlands, Madang, and Manus Island.

Frank’s collection is literally a “snapshot” of the times. He shows various types of boats and light aircraft, local people at work, postwar buildings including wharves and railway lines, and equipment. Nine photos relate to the port and town on Samarai Island in the Milne Bay District of Papua, now the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Six of these show boats at the wharf, including MV Malaita of the Burns Philp Shipping Company, the wharf railway line and men working to move cargo. Two photos show members of the Papua and New Guinea Constabulary presenting arms, and one is of a building displaying an Australian flag and two flags of the United States, a clear reminder of the importance of Samarai to the Allies in World War 2.

En route to Lae in the Morobe District of New Guinea, now the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, the boat passed Gesila Island and berthed at Kwato Island. On Kwato, Frank photographed the London Missionary Society (LMS) Church. In the port of Lae, Frank photographed landing craft AB2348 with many men, possibly labourers, on board, and the ship MV Malaita again.
In Madang District, four photographs are of the coastline and buildings, one possibly of the administrative headquarters of the district and business establishments, and a detailed scene of a wharf, including men working to move cargo. On the mainland, three photographs show beautiful trees including one of a long archway of trees, and at the cemetery, the 1914 grave of Willi Wohlgemuth, a machinist probably on the mission ship, for the Divine Word Mission at Sek (Alexishafen). In 1913 the Mission sub-divided for sale land on Doilon Plantation just south of Alexishafen, and Wohlgemuth got Block 3, 160 hectares, but died of appendicitis on 1 March 1914. (Amtsblatt 1914, 45, 91.) One photograph captures a well maintained corrugated iron building with “1913” clearly shown and another an aerial view of MV Malaita at a wharf.

Four photographs were taken in or near Goroka, probably at Humilaveka, in the Eastern Highlands District of New Guinea, and all relate to an airstrip – kunai (grass) buildings, fences, people watching and a biplane, a De Havilland 84 Dragon.
The four photographs taken of Manus Island are of the main port of Lorengau. Various types of water craft, possibly pieces of equipment left after World War 2, buildings and the main wharf, are shown in these photos.
Probably on his way back to Australia, Frank took a photograph in the China Straits showing three different types of boat, and one other.

The photographs were given to Helen and Ray Spark in 1976. They met him on a trip with their two daughters to Melbourne from Wewak in Papua New Guinea where they were living, Ray then working at the Wewak hospital. They got talking and Frank told them he had some old photos of New Guinea. He said he took the photos when he was a student doing an internship there in December 1949- March 1950. Under Frank’s care, a son was born to the Sparks in April 1976. Frank gave the photos to the Sparks in the brown manilla envelope. On it in pencil is the note “These pictures were taken Dec 1949 March 1950”: presumably the handwriting is Frank’s.

The brief descriptions on most photos are Frank Forster’s own. Additional information has been added to these descriptions, much of it based on the work Bill Gammage did in 2018 when asked to look at the images by the Bureau.

Forster, Frank

Proceedings, eighth session, Vol.2

  • AU PMB DOC 3A
  • Collection
  • 1954

For details see PMB Doc 2

Eighth session, vol.2, 1954: for vol.1 see PMB Doc 3

Cook Islands Legislative Council

Archives of the Tongan judiciary

  • AU PMB MS 1088
  • Collection
  • 1905-1995

The judicial power of the Kingdom of Tonga is vested in the Supreme Court, the Magistrate's Court and the Land Court. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice and such other judges as the King may appoint. The Chief Justice was a member of Privy Council until 1942. There is a right of appeal to the Privy Council from decisions of the Supreme Court in its civil jurisdication. Under the 1903 Statutes the Minister of Lands, subject to appeal to the Privy Council, was given power to hear all disputes affecting land. In 1917 a Land Commission was set up to deal with disputes and calims affecting land. This Commission was vested with the power and status of the Supreme Court. In 1921 this Commission was abolished and the Land Court was formally constituted with power to hear and determine all disputes and claims and questions of title affecting land or any interest in land. The Land Court consists of the Land Court Judge, at present the Chief Justice, who sits with an assessor. The duty of the Assesssor is to advise the Judge on Tongan custom. He has no voice in the decisions of the court.

Supreme Court of Tonga: civil and divorce registers, 1905-1992; adoption registers, 1987-1992; criminal registers, Tongatapu, 1969-1992; Civil action registers, 1985-1992; miscellaneous judgements, 1975-1992; miscellaneous appeal judgements, 1986-1995; photographs of Mr Justice George Scott CJ, Mr Justice Henry Stead, Roberts CJ and Mr Justice D. B. Hunter. Land Court of Tonga: minute books, 1923-1940; registers, 1923-1991; land case files (selected documents from available files), 1947-1992. Court of Appeal: miscellaneous judgements, 1990-1995; Privy Council Court of Appeal judgements, 1924, 1954-1988.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Ministry of Justice, Tonga

Patrol and native local government survey reports, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB MS 1090
  • Collection
  • 1960-1961

Mr Craig Symons was born in 1924. He was in Papua New Guinea from 1946 till 1974, where he was a Patrol Officer and District Commissioner, and also Assistant Commissioner for Local Government for an extended period. The Minj patrol reports document the early stages of economic development in this area of the Western Highlands: the patrols found only one person who had been to secondary school and no one who had a drivers license. The patrols also counted coffee trees which were begining to be grown in the Wahgi Valley.

Minj Patrol (South Wall Wahgi - Minj Sub-District, Western Highlands District); Patrol Report No. 2, 5 Sep-18 Oct 1960, and No. 3, 28 Nov 1960 - 30 Jan 1961.<BR>Territory of Papua New Guinea, Department of Native Affairs, Circular instruction No.301, re establishment of native local government councils, 18 Sep 1959; and correspondence from I. A. Holmes, Assistant District Officer Western Highlands, Minj Sub-District Office, to Assistant District Officer, Madang, re training course at the Madang Local Government Centre, 13 Jan 1962.<BR>Proclamation of the Native Local Government Councils Ordinance, 1949-1960, Establishment of Native Local Government Council Territory of Papua New Guinea, Government Gazette, No.52, 2 Nov 1961; and proclamation of the Native Local Government Councils Ordinance, 1949-1960: amendment of the constitution of Milne Bay Native Local Government Council Territory of Papua New Guinea. Government Gazette, No.61, 21 Dec 1961.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Symons, Craig

Circuit reports, 1835-1898, and the Swanston collection on the Ra and Ba military campaigns, 1873

  • AU PMB MS 1093
  • Collection
  • 1835-1898

Methodist affairs in Fiji were administered by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London until the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church in 1855 when Fiji became a District of the New South Wales Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church. The Fiji District was administered by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia situated in Sydney and by the District Chairman whose office was in Bau till 1903 and in Suva after that date. In 1964 the Methodist Church of Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia

Swanston Collection on the Ra and Ba military campaigns, 1873<BR> Circuit reports submitted to Fiji District Synod, 1878-1898<BR>annual reports, school reports and accounts of the Somosomo [Cakaudrove] Circuit, 1839-1847<BR>the Bua Circuit (formerly part of the Rewa and Bau Circuit), 1848-1859<BR>the Nadi Circuit, 1848-1856<BR>the Lau Circuit, Lakemba Branch, 1835-1845<BR> the Viwa Circuit, 1840-1858.<P><B>See reel list for further details</B>

Methodist Mission, Fiji

Foreign mission executive minute books

  • AU PMB MS 1097
  • Collection
  • 8 Jan 1925-15 Dec 1931

The Methodist Church in New Zealand sent its first missionaries to the Solomon Islands in 1902, and since then has also sponsored missionaries in Papua New Guinea. See also Overseas Mission Department minute books, 1903-1955, at PMB 520-525.

Executive minute books, 1925-1931.

Methodist Church of New Zealand, Methodist Overseas Mission

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