Dr. Ian Heath submitted this thesis as a requirement for the Master of Arts qualifying course in the Department of History, School of General Studies, at the Australian National University, October 1974. He later completed a PhD at La Trobe University in 1979 titled Land policy in the Solomon Islands.

Acknowledgements, p.1

Introduction, p.1

Chapter One: Early Life, 1852-1884, p.7

Chapter Two: Explorer and Scientist, 1885-1894, p.17

Chapter Three: Samoan Interlude, 1895, p.36

Chapter Four: The Appointment, 1896-1897, p.49

Chapter Five: Pacification of the Solomons, p.58

Chapter Six: Land and Labour Administration, p.71

Chapter Seven: Woodford and the High Commission, p.94

Avu Avu: general correspondence, cont. 21 June 1967 - 1981
King George VI School, Auki, Malaita: correspondence 1951 - 1954

Rokera Station: correspondence, cont. 6 November 1966-1967
Rokera Station: sundry papers, including a report on Maramasike Island Development Project 1968-1977
Ruavatu Station: correspondence 1944-20 August 1953

Ruavatu Station: correspondence 20 August 1953-1965

Wanoni Bay Station: correspondence-in 1950-23 April 1953

Wanoni Bay Station: correspondence 11 September 1952-1970

In June 1973, as Professor of Human Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the ANU, Gerry Ward wrote W. F. Straatmans, a field researcher in Papua New Guinea, instructing him to carry out interviews with Danny Leahy and Jack Fox who were amongst the first Europeans in the Highlands of New Guinea. Pim Straatmans had had long personal relationships with both interviewees.
The interviewees recall pre-War and War-time conditions and tell stories regarding transport, airstrip construction, native labour, gold digging methods, sing sings in the Highlands, Edie Creek, Maprik, Bena Bena, Wewak and Sepik regions, including Danny Leahy's account of rescuing nuns and priests from Catholic mission stations on the Sepik during the War. They remark on some of Danny Leahy's photographs, recalling the deaths of Fr Mauschhauser and Br Eugene in the Chimbu, contact with Fr Van Baar, Fr Ross and Fr Schaefer, and the rivalry between the Catholic and Lutheran missions. They comment on the kiaps Robert Melrose and Jim Taylor and on the hanging of Ludy Schmidt in Rabaul.
In the transcript of a further interview with Chris Ashton of the ABC, Jack Fox, who had been in New Guinea with the Australian occupation forces in 1914, recalls the expedition and German resistance.

Transcripts of Pim Straatmans' interview with Jack Fox and Danny Leahy, November 1973, and Chris Ahton's interview with Jack Fox, also in 1973, together with related papers and a photograph of Jack Fox. See Finding aids for details.

Pu Apii Sabati Titikaveka, a handwritten manuscript in Rarotongan. Records the activities of the London Missionary Society Sunday School at Titikaveka, 1939-1947. Included in the mss are some financial accounts listing the names of particular individuals. Author unknown.