02534ntc a22002177i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000035000722450086001072640014001933000028002073360021002353370023002563380032002795000019003115060028003305201574003585330077019325400098020098560209021074085140313k19232000xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aArcher, Fred Palmerd1890-199710aPapers relating to plantations in Wuvulu, Bouganiville and Buka, Papua New Guinea  c1923-2000  a7 reels; 35mm microfilm  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB MS 1184  aAvailable for reference2 aFred Palmer Archer was born in Melbourne in 1890 and died in 1977. He was with the first Australian Imperial Force, came to New Guinea in 1923 and later took over Jame Plantation, Buka Passage, in the Bougainville District of the Territory of New Guinea. Jame Plantation was one of the ex-German plantations sold by the Commonwealth Government in 1926/27 to returned soldiers. He was appointed a civilian coast watcher in the Buka-Bougainville area at the outbreak of the War in the Pacific and evacuated to Guadalcanal and then Australia in 1943. He joined the British Solomon Islands Defence Force in September 1943 and transferred to ANGAU in early 1945. After the War he returned to his plantations in New Guinea where he became one of the Territory’s most successful and influential planters. The papers include: letters from Fred Archer to his family and friends, mainly from Wuvulu Island, Manus District, and from Jame Plantation in Buka, 1923-1928; Report on coast watching activitiy, Bougainville Island, 1941-1943, by W J Read; Archer’s Solomon Islands war-diaries, 1943. There is also a series of subject files, A-Z, arranged by Mrs Mary Roberts from the Archer papers for her biography of Fred Archer. The files cover many aspects of Archer’s post-War career, including some material on the Planters Association of Bougainville and the history of the Planters Association of New Guinea. A series of files of correspondence and other documents relating to Hakau Plantation in Bougainville, 1935-1967, is also microfilmed. See Finding aids for details.  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  aAvailable for referenceuhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au.virtual.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/papers-relating-to-plantations-in-wuvulu-bouganiville-and-buka-papua-new-guineazView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.