The Fiji Constitutional Review Commission was established by His Excellency the President of Fiji, Ratu Sir Kamasese Mara, on 15 March 1995. The President appointed the Right Reverend Sir Paul Reeves as Chairman of the Commission and Mr Tomasi Rayalu Vakatora and Dr Brij Vilash Lal as its other members. Ms Alison Quentin-Baxter and Mr Jon Apted were later appointed as Counsel assisting the Commission along with Mr Walter Gibson Rigamoto as its Secretary. The Commission was appointed to review the Fiji Constitution and produce a report on 30 June 1996 (later extended to 30 September 1996) 'recommending constitutional arrangements which will meet the present and future needs of the people of Fiji and promote racial harmony, national unity and the economic and social advancement of all communities' (Reeves, Vakatora and Lal, 1996). The Commission was required to scrutinise the Constitution, facilitate the widest possible debate on constitutional matters and inquire into and ascertain public opinion on possible ways to improve the Constitution. These papers represent the written and oral submissions which individuals, groups and organisations made to the Commission. The Commission had two rounds of public hearings throughout Fiji. The first round started on 3 July 1995 and was completed on 9 August 1995. The second round of hearings started on 22 August 1995 and was completed on 10 October 1995. This title documents the hearings.

CONTENTS The papers are divided into eight volumes of written submissions from 3 July 1995 to 14 September 1995, with the eighth volume consisting of additional submissions received by the Commission between July 1995 and January 1996. The remainder of the contents consists of verbatim notes resulting from oral submissions made between 3 July 1995 and 19 September 1995.

Reel 1 Written Submissions, Vol. 1, Nos. 001001-005007, 3-6 Jul 1995
Reel 2 Written Submissions, Vol. 2, Nos. 006001-006060, 14 Jul-22 Aug 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 3, Nos. 006058-006081, 22 Aug-28 Aug 1995
Reel 3 Written Submissions, Vol. 3, Nos. 006082-006089, 28 Aug-10 Oct 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 4, Nos. 006090-006118, n.d.
Written Submissions, Vol. 5, Nos. 007001-007009, 12-13 Jul 1995
Reel 4 Written Submissions, Vol. 5, Nos. 007010-009014, 010001-010020, 12-20 Jul 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 6, Nos. 011001-016026, 25-31 Jul 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 7, Nos. 017001-022001A, 1 Aug-14 Sep 1995
Reel 5 Written Submissions, Vol. 7, Nos. 022002-023007, 14 Sep 1995
Written Submissions, Vol. 8, Nos. 024001-024090, Jul 1995-Jan 1996
Verbatim Notes, 3-10 Jul 1995
Reel 6 Verbatim Notes, 11 Jul – 3 Aug 1995
Reel 7 Verbatim Notes, 9 Aug - 12 Sep 1995
Reel 8 Verbatim Notes, 13 - 19 Sep 1995<P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

The Unevangelized Fields Mission churches officially constituted a national church, the Evangelical Church of Papua, in July 1966. Tari became the HQ of the Church and the Mission. In 1969 UFM, Australia and New Zealand Branch, independently changed its name to the Asia Pacific Christian Mission in order to facilitate extension of its activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
See also PMB Doc 498, Doc 524, Doc 525, Doc 526, and Doc 528.

Prayer and Praise Points reports on APCM / ECP news such as, staff movements, projects and events; the reports arranged by District and by town or village; published fortnightly, 1976-Aug 1985, then monthly.
See Finding aids for details.

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>

<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress is the national trade union centre of Papua New Guinea. It originates from meetings of PNG workers' associations held in Madang and Lae from 1964. It was not until December 1969 that the Federation of Workers' Associations, the predecessor of the PNG TUC, was formally constituted. Registration as an industrial organisation was granted on 7 March 1970. Paulus Arek was elected the first President, and Michael Kaniniba, of the Lae Miscellaneous Workers' Union, was the first of General Secretary of the Federation. Based in Lae during the 1970s, the Federation adopted the current name, PNG Trade Union Congress, in September 1974. With the support of PANGU activists, membership of the TUC expanded and in 1976 the Port Moresby trade unions, which had organised a rival trade union centre, the Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, affiliated to the PNGTUC.

The records microfilmed consist of a batch of minutes and correspondence for the period 1968-1984, which appear to be the only surviving records from the time when the TUC was located in Lae, together with later minutes, circulars, press releases and other papers.<BR>Minutes of meetings, 1969-1980 (gaps); Biennial Conference papers, 1983-1996; Executive Council meetings: various papers, 1985-1989; Management Board meeting papers, 1986-1990; meetings with Port Moresby based affiliates, 1989-1992; miscellaneous administrative and management papers, 1985-1988; general correspondence, 1968-1984; international correspondence, 1973-1984; circulars and memoranda, 1985, 1987-1992, 1995 (gaps); press statements, 1985-1995; papers and reports (including some agenda papers), 1974-1990; speeches, mainly by Lawrence Titimur, 1987-1990; South Pacific and Oeanic Council of Trade Unions, Conference No.2, Brisbane, meeting papers, Nov 1993. <P><b>See reel list for further details</b>

We remember Sione Latukefu as a scholar, Tongan patriot and Christian gentleman. Sione was born at Kolovai on Tongatapu in 1927, where his family were prominent commoners with important traditional responsibilities. His grandfather was a distinguished Tongan poet and his family were closely involved in the sufferings, educational achievements and faithful witness of the Wesleyan mission and afterwards the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga. After secondary education at Tupou College Sione trained for a teaching career in Tonga and then, with scholarships, at the University of Queensland. He had already been ordained a minister of the Free Wesleyan Church in 1960.
Sione’s autobiographical essay, ‘The making of the first Tongan-born professional historian’, in the book Pacific Islands History, edited by Dr. Brij Lal, glosses over most of his educational advancement. The boy from Kolovai was not meant to aspire to academinc honours. Yet the highest in the land acknowledged his ability. Queen Salote, herself a scholar of traditional matters, recognized Sione’s potential, gave him encouragement and, in her last days, passed on some of her own knowledge to him.
Taking his studies further at the Australian National University, in an era when Phd Degrees were still fairly novel throughout the world, Sione was one of the first Pacific Islanders to obtain one. He was a generous, careful and perceptive historian.
Queen Salote had hoped that Sione would take charge of the Tongan Archives. Her death in 1965 caused him to take a different path. While at ANU he met his beloved life-partner, then Dr Ruth Fink and they were married in Sydney in 1966. Both Ruth and Sione successfully applied for the positions of anthropologist and historian respectively at the new University of Papua New Guinea. At Port Moresby they helped lay the groundwork for future courses and trained a new generation of Papua New Guinean leaders. Sione was also a successful funds raiser and from 1969 to 1988 he was secretary and executive officer of the Te Rangi Hiroa Fund for promoting the study of Pacific history.
After 18 years of dedicated service, by which time Sione was an Associate Professor, they retired for a while to Canberra to live. Sione’s dedication then led him to accept the post of Principal of the Pacific Theological College in Suva which he held from 1989 to 1991 when ill health led to his return to Canberra. At the College he proved a stabilising influence and helped to give the curriculum a greater academic emphasis. In Canberra he contined to work on various research projects surviving a triple by-pass operation and other setbacks with great courage and aplomb. He participated fully in the life of the new Division of Pacific and Asian History and he was still writing articles and working on a book at the time of his death.
From Niel Gunson, Memorial Tribute to Reverend Dr Sione Latukefu, Tonga Research Association website http://tongaresearchassociation.wordpress.com/

Professional correspondence, arranged by correspondent or subject in chronological order, with some related papers, 1962-1994.
Manuscripts, associated corresopondence and related papers, 1967-1994 (SL Ms/1-39), together with,
A study of the modern elite in Tonga: papers and recordings for an incomplete research project, including correspondence, lists of interviewees, transcripts of some interviews, research trip records, press cuttings, and audio interview recordings, 1993-1995(SL Ms/40-46).
See Finding aids for details.