Fisher was chief officer of 'The Woodlark'.

The logbook describes a whaling voyage to the South Pacific apparently under a Captain Hardwicke. The voyage began in Sydney and took in Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Solomon Islands, Torres Strait, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea), Santa Cruz Group, Tikopia and New Zealand. There is a gap in the log from 2 February to 31 March 1857.

This document is written in pencil in a minute hand in a book whose pages measure 7 x 4 1/2

The document records trading activities on Norfolk Island from 1881 to 1902 and in the Solomon Islands from 1905 to 1921

The records comprise miscellaneous documents collected by the Norfolk Island Historical from various sources.

The records include:

• Codex Pitcairnensis, 1850;
• land grants, 1867;
• diary of Isaac Robinson, 1882-3;
• Norfolk Island Almanac, 1888;
• land applications, 1901-14;
• register of tenancy in Crown buildings on Norfolk Island, 1907-64;
• agreement re land of Melanesian Mission, 1915;
• medical survey by A.H. Baldwin, 1931; and
• index to Administration correspondence, 1942-3

Records from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Norfolk Island comprising of: 1. History of the Church, 1891-1970; 2. 'Church Record' Book, 1895-1936; 3. 'Church Record' Book, 1936-54; 4. 'Church Record' Book, 1934-64.

Mr Gleeson was officer in charge of the Economic Branch of the Commonwealth (Australian) Department of Territories when this report was produced.

Mimeographed copy of 'The Economy of Norfolk Island and the Financing of the Administration'.