Special Lands Commission. Santa Cruz / San Christoval / Makira: draft report, Ts., 3 drafts, paras 1-130 (2 copies) and paras 1-113. Together with: notes on the Alu language of Mono and genealogy of Porese, Chief of the Mono, Ms., 1p.; further notes on Utoca of Mukumba, on feather and shell money, on Nuer (dance circle), and on Naquave, club house of the secret society of Utupua, Ms., 6pp.; Brown Wewo (alias Bartholomew), President of the Vanikoro Native Court, ‘Vanikoro Native Customs- Ownership of Lands, etc.’, 11 Feb 1957, Ts., 8pp.; Acting DC Santa Cruz, replies to questions on native land customs, Ts., 9pp., 29 Sep 1933; further replies to questionnaire re native land customs, Ts., 2pp., 10 Jan 1957; five maps of Santa Cruz (Ndeni) Island, Matema or Swallow Group, Duff or Wilson Group, Utupua and Vanikoro Island.
Extract from DC’s minutes of Malaita Council meeting, Ts., 1p.
J.F. Bartle, “The Shell Money of Auki Island”, Corona, pp.379-382.
Minutes of a meeting at Government House on 28 Aug 1958 on the subject of the Report of the Select Committee on Liquor Policy, Ts., carbon, 3pp.; District Commissioners’ Conference, 1958, Memorandum on Liquor Policy, 11 Sep 1958, Ts., carbon, 2pp.; Consolidated Comments on the Report of the Select Committee on Liquor Policy 1958, Ts., roneo, 12pp., plus appendices.
B.S.I.P. Lands and Titles ordinance and amendments, together with correspondence from Murray Chapman and paper on population movements in the B.S.I.P.
H.W. Scheffler (Yale University), “Solomon Islands Land Tenure”, Ts., roneo, 34pp.; to appear slightly revised in R.G. Crocombe (Ed.), Land tenure in the South Pacific.
BSIP ephemera
Love Song b’long Solomoni, Ms., 1p., and transcript, Ms
