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Burns Philp and Company (Sydney Office and Branches) deposit

  • AU NBAC N115
  • Deposit
  • 1879 - 1983; 1844

All types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, share registers, shipping records, staff records, photographs, maps and plans, printed material and newspaper collection (1844 - 1977). Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

The Reporter

  • AU NBAC S1196
  • Serial
  • 21 Jan 1983 - 10 Nov 1995

Contains issues from 21 Jan 1983 - 17 May 1985 (gaps), and 24 March 1995 - 10 Nov 1995 (gaps).

Papua New Guinea University of Technology

Hank Nelson Pacific research papers. Deposit 1

  • AU ANUA 384
  • Series
  • 1986 - 2001

Research papers and correspondence by Professor Nelson on Pacific related topics, particularly the impact of World War Two on the Pacific Islands. Includes drafts of biographies, articles, book reviews and presentations written by Professor Nelson.

Nelson, Hyland Neil

Journal of Pacific History editorial files

  • AU ANUA 700
  • Series
  • 1959 - 2005

Files created by the Executive Editor of the Journal of Pacific History. Contains financial documents, correspondence, materials related to editing/proofing, printing, distribution and publicity for the journal and also some of the JPH monographs. Also includes some copies of minutes of meetings.

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

CSR Limited deposit 1

  • AU NBAC Z109
  • Deposit
  • 1851 - 1994

The deposit consists of patent files, records and photographs re refineries and mills, reports re Royal Commissions and Inquiries into the Sugar Industry, specifications, sketch books and engineering notes, correspondence, sales and deliveries books for refinery products, Fiji export marketing files c.1941-1977, records re Denning Arbitration hearings 1969, Fiji publications and press releases, deed of settlement, memorandum and articles of association, financial and legal records, annual reports, sugar market reports, press copy letter books, files of Chief Chemist CSR, files associated with the acquisition of Australian Estates Co Ltd, ledgers, engineers data books, Pyrmont Refinery records including employees register c.1854-1936 and property matters, staff books and register, miscellaneous documents papers and historical documents of E W Knox's period as general manager. Also includes publications received from CSR Sydney Head Office library after its closure in May 1987, records of sugar marketing division relating to International Sugar Agreement and Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, Fiji Sugar Inquiry Commission 1961, Royal Commission on Sugar Industry (Qld) reports, overseas reports 1921-1969, awards.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited microfilm deposit 1

  • AU NBAC M85
  • Deposit
  • 1653; 1804 - 1974

Section A Reels 1-18 consist of microfilm copies of CSR Sydney Library Archive Section files (originals in NBAC N305) containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry, immigration and labour.

Section B Reels 1-2 are closed.

Section C Reels 1-19 are microfilm copies of Raw Sugar Marketing Division documents relating to the International Sugar Council, international sugar matters and charter parties.

Section D Reel 1 consists of microfilm copies of Drug Master File 1324 containing information lodged with the Food and Drug Administration by CSR plus a microfilm reader index.

Section E Reels 1-737 consist of microfilm copies of Head Office correspondence exchanged between branches, mills and officers. These reels continue the various Head Office correspondence series found within deposit 142 and on occasion into the early 1970s some correspondence begin with the microfilm series.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited microfilm deposit 2

  • AU NBAC M90
  • Deposit
  • 1880 - 1947

Microfilm copies of presscopy letterbooks containing correspondence between CSR Head Office and Fiji. Includes correspondence with Fiji Colonial Secretary, Rarawai Mill, and about immigration of Indian labour.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

CSR Limited Archives deposit 1

  • AU NBAC N305
  • Deposit
  • 1791 - 1986

The deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, reports, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, bibliographies and papers re Knox family, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited, its officers, the Australian and international sugar industry. Also includes records relating to the Fiji sugar industry, pineapple activities in Fiji and Fiji tramways.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Specht pre-doctoral research and related materials

  • AU ANUA 688
  • Series
  • 1965 - 1970

Items related to pre-doctoral research undertaken by Jim Specht at ANU, including correspondence, materials relating to the Department of Prehistory, materials relating to fieldwork including diaries, reports, data sheets, photographs, negatives, and slides.

Specht, James Richard

Papers of Gordon Thomas

  • AU ANUA 584
  • Series
  • 1900 - 2004

This collection of documents and images relating to Gordon Thomas's time in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea includes correspondence with the Department of External Territories regarding persons lost on the Montevideo Maru and proclamations from the Chief of the Japanese Army during the Japanese occuptaion of Rabaul. Photographs from the 1910s and 1930s are of people and places in German New Guinea.

Thomas, Edward Llewellyn Gordon

Edward Freeman Paton Memorial Hospital collection

  • AU ANUA 602
  • Series
  • 1958 - 1976

Dr Edward (Ted) Freeman OAM served with his wife, Dorothy, as a medical missionary under the Presbyterian Board of Missions in the New Hebrides from 1963 - 1970. During this time he worked as a medical superintendent at the Paton Memorial Hospital, under difficult situations. He established a blood bank, updated anaesthetic procedures, taught family planning and supervised the training of many local and expatriate doctors and nurses while working in the New Hebrides. Collection includes correspondence, diaries, printed memorabilia, menus from the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, slides of the New Hebrides taken between 1963 - 1970 and slides of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) taken in 1963.

Freeman, Edward (Ted)

Harold Brookfield papers, field diaries, photographs and aerial photographs

  • AU ANUA 599
  • Series
  • 1958 - 1990

The collection includes fifty field notebooks, as well as research notes, correspondence, offprints, photographs, negatives and aerial photographs related to his research in the Pacific region, including the countries - Papua New Guinea and Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, Fiji and The Philippines. The photographs in this collection have not been listed. They can be found in box 6 (1 Type 5 box) and in boxes 7 - 10 (4 grey albums).

Brookfield, Harold Chillingworth

James Tedder Solomon Islands papers

  • AU ANUA 445
  • Series
  • 1912 - 2005

Solomon Islands files collected and/or collated by subject by James Tedder. The files include the following subjects, bird life, census, national parks, the Moro Movement, land use and issues, the Solomon Islands museum, the Solomon Islands library, local government, education and broadcasting. Also includes two photograph albums on the Solomon Islands.

Tedder, James L O

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA) deposit

  • AU NBAC N346
  • Deposit
  • 1981 - 2010

Reports to the Board, files about the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, AusAID Australian-NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) projects, education and training programs and fundraising, personnel files, files for projects in Africa, the Middle East, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines and the South Pacific, scholarships, support committees files, travel itineraries, and correspondence with trade unions. Includes records of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela's visit to Australia. Items labelled Jill's Files are files kept by Jill Gutteridge, APHEDA Project Officer/Overseas Program Manager. Includes African National Congress (ANC) Support Committee Archives, items 396-471; Australia-Kampuchea Support Committee Archives (AKSCA) also known as Australia-Cambodia Support Committee (ACSC), items 472-506.

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad

Tok Pisin publications on the New Guinean dialect of English

  • AU ANUA 587
  • Series
  • 1955 - 1973

Eighty five publications by various Tok Pisin authors. Includes publications on agriculture, health, education and literacy, government, religious texts, children’s books, grammars and phrase books, etc. Also some publications in local indigenous languages (Tok Ples) such as Fore and Atzera, some English publications concerning Tok Pisin, and one short typescript manuscript in Tok Pisin on an account of a first time visit to Port Moresby.

Balint, Andras

Peter White archaeological research papers on Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 611
  • Series
  • 1964 - 2001

The collection includes papers, photographs, slides, negatives and contact prints relating to archaeological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea: in Lake Kopiago, Western Highlands District, Papua New Guinea (1967 and 1973) ; Kosipe, Central District (1964 and 1967) ; Irian-Jaya (May - June 1983) ; Brooker Island, Louisade Archipelago (1967) ; New Ireland (1969 - 1990) ; Balof 1 (1988) ; Balof 2 (1990) ; New Ireland (1988 - 1994) ; New Britain (2001).

White, J Peter

CSR Limited Head Office photographs

  • AU NBAC 171
  • Deposit
  • circa 1878 - 1960

A collection of photographs previously kept at the Technical Library of CSR Limited in Sydney re company office buildings in Sydney and Brisbane; annual staff sporting events 1948, 1951-52; cane cultivation and experimental work, sugar milling in Australia and Fiji; hurricane and flood damage; beef cattle property at Yaqara, Fiji; refineries in Australia and New Zealand; distillery operations producing industrial alcohol, methylated spirits, molasses, carbon dioxide; views of early stages of the Building Materials Division, the Activated Carbon plant at Pyrmont and pineapple production in Fiji

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Geoffrey Luck New Guinea collection

  • AU ANUA 728
  • Series
  • 1955 - 1977

1 carton containing broadcast correspondence reports, scripts for TV reports, ABC memos, reports from West New Guinea, telegrams, and various documents collected in New Guinea; press clippings on New Guinea from 1962-1966; a black binder with photographic materials, including negatives and slides of New Guinea; 1 type 3 box of slides of the Kashmir region in 1977 by Marjorie Taylor (aunt).

Luck, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Hope collection of papers on population and the environment in Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 552
  • Series
  • 1980 - 1995

Research collection collected by Geoffrey Hope during fieldwork in Papua (Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea (1980 - 1995). Collection consists of reprinted articles, unpublished reports, one field notebook, one closed ANU file (5-17-2) on the Mount Wilhelm Research Station, photographs, newspaper clippings, expedition equipment shipping lists and associated paperwork.

Hope, Geoffrey Scotford

Nancy Lutton papers on John Alexander Kolia

  • AU ANUA 521
  • Series
  • 1978 - 1993

Correspondence, press cuttings, journal articles and reviews, unpublished verse, theatre programmes and poster, 1981; photograph and other documents; Thesis: Lyn Baer, In Between: Cultural Ambivalence in the Novels of John Kolia, 1982; audio recordings on cassette tape, duplicated typescripts, and publications.

Collier, John Alexander

ANU Department of Linguistics records

  • AU ANUA 422
  • Series
  • 1965 - 2007

Language maps, transcripts, 16 mm film reels re Pidgin dialogue, sound reel tapes re Gugadji language, departmental report, minutes, newsletters and material relating to Prof Stephen Wurm and Tom Dutton.

ANU Department of Linguistics

Map of Taveuni, Fiji

  • AU ANUA 294
  • Series
  • c. 1890s - 1930s

Map shows plantations that existed on Taveuni in the 1890s and relates to Brookfield’s research for the publication – ‘Tavenui: land, population and production’, Canberra: Development Studies Centre, ANU for UNESCO, 1978.

Brookfield, Harold Chillingworth

Dorothy Shineberg research papers

  • AU ANUA 484
  • Series
  • 1952 - 1993

The collection consists of research works and papers by Shineberg; files of general research material arranged by subject including Andrew Cheyne's Trading Voyages, cargo cults, decolonisation, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati/Gilbert Islands, pacific labour trade, Marquesas Islands, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides); undergraduate teaching resources and lectures; correspondence (including with Bronwen Douglas), photographs, computer disks, microfilm prints, material related to Shineberg's career, copies of archival material dating from the 18th century, card indexes and miscellaneous reprints.

Shineberg, Dorothy

Suva House records

  • AU ANUA 701
  • Series

Unprocessed

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Ron May papers

  • AU ANUA 414
  • Series
  • 1962 - 2003

Published material and research papers, reports and statistics relating to Papua New Guinea.

May, Ronald James

Files relating to the administration of the Division of Pacific and Asian History

  • AU ANUA 418
  • Series
  • 1951 - 1990

Administration and general staffing of the Division, annual reports, correspondence, minutes, funding and conference papers. Includes records of predecessors the Department of Pacific History, Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, and Department of Far East Asian History.

ANU Division of Pacific and Asian History

Marjorie Bull papers

  • AU ANUA 482
  • Series
  • 1948 - 1995

Reprints of academic papers by Margaret Mead, newsclippings and copies of publications, correspondence, and a copy of biographer Jane Howard's CV and talk 'Flyovers, Quiddities, Pledges'.

Bull, Marjorie

Robert Norton research papers on Fiji politics

  • AU ANUA 448
  • Series
  • 1966 - 2006

The collection consists of reports, correspondence, press clippings, minutes of Fijian parliamentary committees, memoranda, parliamentary legislation documents and submissions, election material, press translations and published material.

Norton, Robert

Solomon Islands languages collection

  • AU ANUA 449
  • Series
  • 1918 - 1996

The collection consists of manuscripts and old prints collected in Malaita by Fr Donatien Coicaud and Fr Christian Kamphuis. Includes Stories (Histoires) as language word lists, exercise books, prayer books, dictionaries, biblical material, and printed material.

Coicaud, Donatien

Peace Research Centre files

  • AU ANUA 453
  • Series
  • c. 1984 - c. 1997

Files and correspondence, Pacific Research newsletters and files relating to volumes of the newsletter.

Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies

Kirsty Hamilton interviews

  • AU ANUA 466
  • Series
  • c. 1980 - 1983

Recordings of Kirsty Hamilton's interviews with Ferdinand Marcos; Aga Shahi, Pakistan Foreign Minister; Sihanouk, King of Cambodia; Qazi Ghan, General Secretary Students Union SMA Law College Karachi; Philippine dissidents; Lahore dancing girls; Gunther Rossinus, Foreign Policy to Commander in Chief - Pacific, Reagan Administration; Mujahideen Commander; Noel Barker; Senator Alan Cranston; Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State, Inter-American Affairs; Thomas Niles, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. Also includes recordings of news reports.

Hamilton, Kirsty

Peter Sack land court decisions in Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 385
  • Series
  • 1930 - 1974

Copies of judgements from the Land Titles Commission, Native Land Commission and New Guinea Central Court relating to Dr Sack’s work on land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes copies of transcripts of evidence before the Land Titles Commission on the matter of DA1 and DA 180 [Items 1-25]; copies of judgements of the Central Court of New Guinea (became the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Guinea in 1934) [Items 26-33]; copies of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea - Papua New Guinea Law Reports (PNGLR); copies of Unreported Judgements - PNG Central Court, PNG Supreme Court and PNG National Courts, and background notes.

Sack, Peter Georg

Jim Specht's collection of Pacific publications

  • AU ANUA 345
  • Series
  • 1949 - 1996

Publications and grey literature relating to Pacific culture and cultural collections in and about the Pacific Islands.

Specht, James Richard

Linguistic recordings

  • AU ANUA 350
  • Series
  • 1960 - 1984

This series has not been processed.
Recordings of language data (narratives, myths, wordlists, conversation) and of music from Papua New Guinea, the North Moluccas (Indonesia) and the Solomon Islands.

Voorhoeve, Clemens Lambertus

Linguistic recordings

  • AU ANUA 351
  • Series
  • 1958 - 1972

This series has not been processed

Laycock, Donald Clarence

Marion Ward papers relating to transport systems in Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 376
  • Series
  • 1955 - 1971

Items 1 - 31: Research papers and research data on transport systems in Papua New Guinea, includes sea, air and road transport systems. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Her research assistant was Barbara Mainsbridge.
Items 32 - 35: Field data from East Sepik District Field Trip, Mar 1969. The field trip was to collect data on transport in the East Sepik District. Accompanied on field trip by Amirah Inglis. Other data collected and field data processed by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant to Marion Ward at the New Guinea Resarch Unit (NGRU).
Items 36 - 45: Field Data from visit to Milne Bay District. The visit was to collect data on transport in the Milne Bay District. Accompanied by Barbara Mainsbridge, Research Assistant, who collected and processed other data and processed the field data.
Items 46 - 52: Transport information bulletins.
Items 53 -58: Reports on fresh food production and transport in the Port Moresby Hinterland. While conducting this research Marion Ward was the Field Director of the New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Items 59 - 65: Economic papers, maps and data relating to Ward's study.

Ward, Marion Wybourn

Images of Banaba (Ocean Island)

  • AU ANUA 296
  • Series
  • 1960 - 1975

Images are of Banaba (Ocean Island) in the Pacific near Kiribati. They show island scenes and views of the phosphate mining that occurred on Banaba.

Hardman, Lillian

Images of Banaba (Ocean Island) series 2

  • AU ANUA 297
  • Series
  • 1960 - 1974

Photographs compiled in an album on Banaba (Ocean Island) and Nauru including Island workers, company buildings and work areas, church and family photographs.

Edwards, Jack

Brian William Brogan papers relating to development programs

  • AU ANUA 310
  • Series
  • 1978 - 2008

Most of the papers are proposals and reports on particular development programs from Brogan’s role as Director of the Asia Program in the National Centre for Development Studies and the National Graduate School of Management. They relate to projects in Vietnam, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, India, East Timor and China, particularly under the China Australia Governance Program. There are also some photographs of course participants and training materials. Also contains research and government papers relating to the Papua New Guinea government and economy.

Brogan, Brian

Papers of Diana Howlett

  • AU ANUA 328
  • Series
  • 1970 - 1980

Pacific research papers on human geography including research materials on population, agriculture and natural resources in the Pacific Islands. Includes census data and government reports for Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue; newspaper articles, government and academic papers relating to Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tuvalu, Western Samoa, Micronesia, Tonga, including topics on nuclear testing, colonialism/postcolonialism and economic development.
Also contains records documenting of aspects of Diana Howlett's education and research.

Howlett, Diana Rosemary

Murray Groves Papers

  • AU ANUA 330
  • Series
  • nd

This series has not been processed.

Groves, Murray Charles

Stephen Wurm papers

  • AU ANUA 233
  • Series
  • 1922 - 2001

Correspondence, 1949–1987
Administrative papers, RSPAS, 1970–1994
Language journals, 1939–1966
Turkic language research notes, 1940s
Language research papers: Papua New Guinea, 1950s–90s, Solomon Islands, 1950s–90s, Pacific languages, Australian languages, 1950s–90s, languages – general, 1950s–90s
Atlases and maps, 1932–1980s
Index cards
Language recordings, 1950s–1990s: Papua New Guinea, 1956–1970,
Australian Aboriginal, 1957–1964, Solomon Islands, 1965–1970
Conferences and seminars, 1965–1970
Published articles by SA Wurm, 1940–2000
Periodicals, 1935–1981
Personal documents, 1922–1988
Awards, 1967–1988
Academic gown and large format material
Maps, 1940–1975

Some correspondence is in German and other languages, and many research materials are in other languages and scripts including short-hand. Most language recordings have not been copied for reference; some are available through Paradisec (www.paradisec.org.au).

Wurm, Stephen Adolphe

Eves collection relating to health in the Pacific Islands

  • AU ANUA 329
  • Series
  • 1974 - 2010

Includes, brochures, stickers, clothing and posters relating to the prevention HIV/AIDS and other health matters in the Pacific Islands, particularly Papua New Guinea. Also includes reports from the Department of Health in Papua New Guinea.

Eves, Richard

Christensen ethnographic films of Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 695
  • Series
  • 1972 - 1974

These films were recorded by Christensen in the area of the Waghi Valley of Papua New Guinea, near the Department of PreHistory's excavations at Kuk, led by Dr Jack Golson. These films depict traditional methods of tool making, cooking, farming, and hunting, as well as funerary rites and other rituals.

Christensen, Ole A.

H E Holland collection

  • AU NBAC P5
  • Deposit
  • 1880 - 1937

Material used by Patrick O'Farrell (1933-2004) in the writing of a biography on H E Holland. Includes correspondence, family papers and photograph; writings and lecture notes; papers re Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu; press cuttings re his speeches in New Zealand; large collection of pamphlets including material on NZ and the Pacific Islands.

Holland, Henry Edmund

Burns Philp and Company holding deposit

  • AU NBAC Z385
  • Deposit
  • 1883 - 1996

All types of company records including minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial records, staff records, investment registers, branch returns, subject files, strategic plans, photographs, plans, videotapes and audiotapes of interviews with company executives. Includes records of head office, branches and subsidiaries and associated companies such as Mauri Brothers and Thomson. This deposit includes many cartons which are not yet processed and listed.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

Brij Lal papers on Fijian politics, society and the Constitution

  • AU ANUA 378
  • Series
  • 1988 - 2012

Papers relating to the Fiji Constitution Inquiry and Advisory Committee held in 1988-1989 and the Fiji Constitution Review Commission (FCRC) held in 1995-1996. Papers include meeting agenda, minutes, submissions, correspondence and consultation reports. Professor Lal was the Commissioner for the FCRC. Papers added in 2013 include papers on politics in Fiji, in particular, political unrest, the Indian Diaspora in Fiji, personal correspondence, Fijian local and family histories. Of significance is a file on the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (1996-2000) belonging to Graeme Dobell, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for ABC Radio until 2008.

Lal, Brij Vilash

Commonwealth Trade Union Council deposit

  • AU NBAC N379
  • Deposit
  • 1986 - 1997

London correspondence and meeting files; conference papers; correspondence with associated organisations; country files for Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu and Western Samoa; course files for regional workshops, Kiribati, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and miscellaneous files including Clyde Cameron College course material.

Commonwealth Trade Union Council

James F Weiner collection

  • AU ANUA 432
  • Series
  • 1979 - 1999

Notebooks relating to fieldwork with the Hegeso people of Papua New Guinea, and cassette tapes of recordings of music, Foi stories, stories in pidgin, meetings, arbitration cases, lectures, radio recordings, interviews, and discussions.

Weiner, James F

William McGrath papers

  • AU ANUA 792
  • Series
  • 1880 - 2010

Documents relating to McGrath's work as a land consultant, particularly regarding regions in Micronesia.

McGrath, William Adrian

Richard Eves collection on health in the Pacific

  • AU ANUA 741
  • Series
  • 1995 - 2020

Largely consists of material on HIV/AIDS in the Asia/Pacific region. Also contains materials on other health and governmental issues. See box list for more details.

Eves, Richard

Brian J. Egloff papers

  • AU ANUA ANUA 729
  • Series
  • 1940 - 2023

Contains items related to: Egloff's thesis research, excavation at Wanigela, Collingwood Bay and Trobiand Island research notes, Northern District research notes, Goodenough Island research notes (with Peter Lauer), Ubir language materials, Rainu kinship studies; papers related to the Tam Ting Caves, Laos (conservation project); and a collection of papers relating to Egloff's tenure at the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery.

Egloff, Brian J.

Diaries and tape recordings – Research on oral traditions among the Enga of the New Guinea Highlands

  • AU ANUA 276
  • Series
  • 1972 - 1975

Research material probably relating to Lacey’s 1975 PhD Thesis 'Oral traditions as history: an exploration of oral sources among the Enga of the New Guinea highlands'

118 tape recordings of oral histories, legends and genealogies. Compact cassettes C60, C90 and long play tapes.

19 field diaries and notebooks kept by Lacey, recording his research progress, process and details of interviews.

Lacey, Roderic John

Papers of Ian Scales on the Western State Movement (Solomon Islands)

  • AU ANUA 637
  • Series
  • 1999 - 2001

Papers relating to the Western State Movement, Solomon Islands, 1999 - 2001 (items 1 - 36), papers relating to Solomon Islands Government Provincial Government Review Committee (items 32 - 37), report of the State Government Task Force 2001 (items 38 - 44) and newspaper cuttings related to the Western State Movement 1999 - 2001 (item 45).

Scales, Ian A.

Vic Faulkner's collection of Lae, Papua New Guinea community and local government papers

  • AU ANUA 598
  • Series
  • 1959 - 1974

The collection is the personal collection of Vic Faulkner who was a councillor on the Lae Town Council from the inaugural meeting in 1971 until 1974. The collection includes the Lae Town Council inaugural election political material for 1971 ; Lae Town Council, Standing Orders Committee - references and resources for 1971 ; Inaugural meeting, Lae Town Council, 1971 and Minutes (including some Executive Finance Minutes) from April 1971 - 7 August 1974 ; the 15th and 17th Morobe District Councils Conferences, Lae ; Minutes of the Lae Chamber of Commerce, 26 January - 9 February 1971 ; Establishment of Area Authority - Morobe District Area (Province), 21 December 1972 - 13 December 1972.

Faulkner, Victor

Pacific Research Archives estrays

  • AU ANUA 724
  • Series

This series is a collection of Pacific-related material donated by various students and staff.

Pacific Research Archives

Ric Shand research papers on Papua New Guinea and India

  • AU ANUA 261
  • Series
  • 1947 - 1992

Boxes 1-7 (Items 1 - 84) are Pacific research papers, unpublished papers, and publications on rural development, economics and labour in Papua New Guinea. Includes reports of Board of Inquiry on rural wages and related matters (1970), theses, and maps. A small number of publications on Fiji, Samoa and the Torres Strait.
Boxes 8 - 16 (Items 85 - 101) are objects from Ric Shand's collection.
Boxes 17 - 30 were added to the collection in 2017 and relate to Shand's work on the economic development of India. The archive was created for a publication but he died before it was written up. There are indexes to the contents of these boxes in the shared drive, and also a printed index in Box 17, but no item listing.

Shand, Richard Tregurtha

John Ballard's Pacific research papers

  • AU ANUA 268
  • Series
  • 1947 - 1991

The papers cover John Ballard’s political research in the Pacific Islands of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia and Fiji. The majority of the collection is focused on Papua New Guinea where John Ballard was involved with the development of the political system leading up to and following independence in 1975. The papers also concern the Public Service administration courses John Ballard taught at the University of Papua New Guinea. There are a number of government related papers for the Pacific Islands.

Ballard, John Addison

Photographs of Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 334
  • Series
  • 1895 - 1905

Black and white photographs of New Guineans, plantation workers, missionaries and buildings in Daru, Port Moresby, and Goaribari Island in Papua New Guinea

Unknown

Papers relating to population in the Pacific Islands

  • AU ANUA 309
  • Series
  • 1924 - 1967

Papers relate to McArthur’s work on population in the Pacific Islands, includes research notes and census data. Also includes copies of McArthur’s work 'Population of Pacific Islands' parts 1, 3, 6-9.

McArthur, Norma Ruth

Tom Dutton's Pacific linguistics research papers

  • AU ANUA 314
  • Series
  • 1952 - 2007

The material relates to linguistics research in Papua New Guinea and includes notebooks, articles, transcripts, and texts on Koiari, Koita, Mountain Koiari, Barai, Mangalasi, Aomie (Omie), Rigo, Police Motu (Hiri Motu) and Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English).

Dutton, Thomas Edward

Frank Gosson's collection of photographs from the Astrolabe mineral field (the Laloki and Dubuna Copper Mines) Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 450
  • Series
  • 1918 - 1924

1 album of 40 black and white photographs taken by a miner associated with the Astrolable mineral field and the Laloki and Dubuna Mines near Port Moresby. The photographs were taken between 1918 and 1924 and include images of mining operations, storage facilities and a tramway, staff housing for the New Guinea Copper Mine, as well as the general images of the landscape and everyday events, including Rouna Falls, Bootless Bay, farming, harvesting and ploughing, a coconut plantation at Bautama (Bootless Inlet) and a funeral procession.

Gosson, Francis John

John Duffield's Papua New Guinea manuscript collection

  • AU ANUA 564
  • Series
  • 1962 - 1976

The collection covers the period 1962 to 1976, when John Duffield was a Patrol Officer, Political Education Officer and District Government Liaison Officer with the Australian Public Service in Papua New Guinea. Included are Field Officer Journals from 1972 to 1976; several Patrol Reports and a very large collection of letters, circulars, reports, telegrams, ephemera, patrol instructions and comments on patrol reports; declarations of Local Government Council elections; as well as many personal records including his appointment as a Local Government advisor; an acceptance letter to ASOPA (the Australian School of Pacific Studies); his appointment letter as a Cadet Patrol Officer and appointment as a Magistrate for Native Matters. There are copies of the 'Black and White Magazine' and posters and ephemera relating to self-government and Independence. Rare publications include: the Western Highlands District Agricultural Society Mount Hagen Show Handbook for the Fourth District Show, dated 1967; Recipe book - 'Entertaining in Papua and New Guinea', published by the Boroko Branch of the Country Women's Association, 2nd Edition, 1968; and the Third South Pacific Games Souvenir Cookery Book, c.1969.

Of particular significance are booklets produced for the Independence celebrations in Port Moresby in 1975, including booklets on the 'State Welcome & Flag Lowering', 'Sport & Culture', 'Royal Tour', 'Guriguri Hebou', 'Bikpela Lotu, 'Flag Raising', 'Installation & Constitutional Ceremonies', 'State opening of the First National Parliament', 16 September 1975, 'Official Programme'.

The collection includes one album of photographs covering the period.

Duffield, John

George Gadbois papers relating to a Papua New Guinea House of Assembly research project.

  • AU ANUA 460
  • Series
  • 1974 - 1978

This series contains interview recordings, transcripts and research papers. They include transcripts of interviews with backbenchers in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly, 1974; a code book interview schedule and research committee paper; lists of the members of the House of Assembly, 1964-1976; research files and publications.

The interviews were conducted in English, Tok Pisin and Motu; written (typescript) versions are all in English. Most of the interviews were conducted by University of Papua New Guinea students with the interviewers frequently identified in the written version. A memorandum from Gadbois to an (unspecified) research committee provides a rationale for the form of the study.

Gadbois, George Harold Jr

Joe Barr's collection of Pacific disaster management publications and research material

  • AU ANUA 503
  • Series
  • 1970 - 2013

The collection consists of disaster and research reports, disaster preparedness workshop training manuals, seminar papers, consultancy management files, newspaper clippings, small publications and ephemera, a large number of SOPAC (Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission) and United Nations reports, and documents created when Joe Barr was engaged as a consultant in relation to disaster management in the Pacific Islands. Of particular significance are the photographs and slides taken immediately following disasters in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Cambodia, Turkey, Afghanistan, India and Indonesia.

Barr, Joseph

University of Papua New Guinea household baseline surveys of rising expectations 1986

  • AU ANUA 622
  • Series
  • 1986

1 large box of field data sheets, with codes and reports from a UPNG survey conducted by four teams of students on Normandy and Fergusson Islands in 1986. The survey was undertaken to identify the monetary needs of householders to 'live well' and to establish baseline data for future comparison.

University of Papua New Guinea

Reverend Harry T. Williams, Megalithic art structures found on Normandy Island, Papua.

  • AU ANUA 606
  • Series
  • c1940

Reverend Henry Williams was a Methodist Missionary on Normandy Island 1930 - 1945. In December 1940, during a pastoral and medical patrol to Sewa Bay, the inhabitants spoke of strange stones with unusual markings, which prompted Reverend Williams to record the site and conduct further research. The paper is in three parts, with varying contents including: Introduction ; The site of the stones ; General observations on the site ; The story of the stones ; A curious cave terminal ; The engravers and their tools ; Features in the designs ; The builders from whence? ; Primitive engravers. Includes text, maps, plates and hand-drawn illustrations.

Williams, Harry T

CSR Limited Archives deposit 2

  • AU NBAC N306
  • Deposit
  • 1880s - 1980s

The deposit consists of CSR Sydney Archives Section files containing correspondence, memoranda, extracts of minutes, legal documents, newspaper cuttings, press statements, reports, staff records, histories of the sugar industry, immigration and labour, publications, photographs, illustrations, and miscellaneous documents relating to CSR Limited and its officers. This includes records related to the Australian sugar industry and CSR’s operations in Australia in addition to the international sugar industry and CSR’s operations in Fiji and dealings with Japan and China. This deposit also includes records relating to Australian Estates Co Ltd.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

Pacific Review / Press on regardless. Vakalelewa Ni Pasifika, Suva (Fiji).

Subtitle changes with Vol. XXIII No. 74 to - "The newspaper that keeps you ahead of the times".
Includes:
Vol. XXII No. 148 (22 December 1970) - 149 (24 December 1970).
Vol. XIII No. 2 (7 January 1971), mis-numbered as Vol. XIII.
Vol. XXIII Numbers 6, 9, 14 - 15, 68 - 72, 74 - 78, 80 - 84, 86 - 93, 96, 99 - 111.

Dickson research on Papua New Guinea missionary history

  • AU ANUA 735
  • Series
  • 1950 - 1975

Box of index cards includes notes on missionary history and notes on oral history interviews conducted by Dickson with missionaries and church personnel (recordings have not survived). Two oral history interviews, one with GT Roscoe (31 Jan 1969) and Archbishop Strong (1 Feb 1969) on PNG missionary activity.

Dickson, Don

Peter Sack collection on land and related matters in Papua New Guinea

  • AU ANUA 485
  • Series
  • 1960 - 1979

These reports were gathered by Dr Peter Sack as part of his research on land ownership systems and cultural patterns of inheritance and ownership which effect land tenure in Papua New Guinea. Includes Magistrates Land Law Survey 1968; reports on land matters on the Gazelle Peninsula and on administration of justice, law and order issues; photocopies of maps and plans.

Sack, Peter Georg

David Moorhouse papers

  • AU ANUA 486
  • Series
  • 1955 - 1996

Papers documenting David Bruce Moorhouse's career in Papua New Guinea as a patrol officer, administrator, and land consultant. Includes patrol reports, field officer's journal, mining consultancy papers, correspondence, papers relating to border crossings and territory intelligence, newspaper articles re royal visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, publications and maps.

Moorhouse, David Bruce

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