Almost half of this record group is concerned with PNG. These papers were gathered when Ward was Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea and adviser to the Land Evaluation and Demarcation Project Study (LEAD). The collection includes correspondence, notes, articles and papers, draft legislation and press cuttings.

A small portion of these papers relate to politics and land matters in Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Africa, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Banaba, French Polynesia and Guadeloupe.

The remainder of the documents are mainly concerned with New Caledonia between 1947 and 1990 and were assembled by Ward at La Trobe University, Melbourne, through the 1980s, particularly during the years of political uncertainty in the French Territory from 1984 to 1990

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.

Research papers, drafts and notes on the Pacific Islands, with particular focus on the Cook Islands and Samoa relating to the publications Samoa 1830-1900, 1970 and The Cook Islands 1820-1950, 1980. Including material on Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Kiribati), Niue and PNG. Papers relating to the German Administration of Western Samoa, translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury, and collected by R.P. Gilson from Archives New Zealand.

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.

This series has not been processed.

The Reddy collection contains material relating to Jai Ram Reddy’s involvement in Fijian politics as leader of the National Federation Party (NFP) and leader of the Opposition.
Includes, correspondence, Fiji Government reports and papers, material relating to a review of the Fiji constitution, National Federation Party (NFP) of Fiji papers, parliamentary speeches, material relating to the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act (ALTA) and papers relating to women’s issues in Fiji.

The collection relates to Fiji politics, covering the following topics:
• National Federation Party
• Indian Political Bodies
• General Elections
• Alliance Party
• Fijian Political Bodies
• Labour Party
• All National Congress (ANC)
• Fiji Elections, 1963 – 1985
• Constitution
• Economy
• Unions and Industrial Conflict
• Education
• Local Government
• Indian Organisations
• 1987 Elections
• Interviews with Indo-Fijian politicians

Contains research papers, academic articles, speeches, diaries, correspondence and government publications on the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Seychelles. Papers re general Pacific Islands matters, including Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and the South Pacific Commission, constitutional development, and press cuttings. The collection was compiled by Allan during his time as an administrator in these Islands and as a researcher.

Printed material and copies of historical publications on the South Pacific, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoan Islands, Philippine Islands; copies of correspondence, photocopies of ship logs, maps, thesis material, administrative papers relating to the management of the Department of Pacific and South East Asian records room, and sound reel tapes of interviews relating to the Rorovana Land Crisis, Bougainville Island, 1969.

Printed maps of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa, New Caledonia (Noumea), Vanuatu and Fiji. The aerial photographs are of Papua New Guinea and Fiji only.

The collection contains published and unpublished papers on Kuru disease.

Reports and papers relating to educational policy, TPNG Department of Education curricula, publications of the Manpower Planning Unit, Apprenticeships Board of PNG and University of PNG.

Contains research papers, census and statistical reports, correspondence, published and unpublished reports relating to population studies in the Pacific Islands. Includes material on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Tokelau, Palau, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa.

Publications and photograph album.

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.

Conference and seminar papers; PhD thesis; course material; field work tapes, notes and interview; correspondence; drafts; collection of articles and chapters on Pacific women, Christianity in Melanesia, Australian Aboriginal history and Aboriginal women, anthropological theory and miscellaneous theory, New Caledonia and Polynesia.

The collection includes significant language and genealogical data. The records include research files, letters, journals and diaries compiled by Davis while working as a social anthropologist in Papua New Guinea :-
Items 1 - 59 - Journals (1965 - 2000)
Items 60 - 111 - Research Files
Items 112 - 115 - Publications

Unprocessed

Petrographic reports prepared as part of Dickinson's collaborative investigations with archaeologists working in the South Pacific.

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.

Copies of and notes about archival material on Fiji. Date(s) given are from research notes. Dispatches from the Colonial Office to the Governor; Secretariat correspondence; Royal Gazettes; Admiral’s in-letters; Minute papers; Dispatches between the Secretary of State and the Governor.

Papers relate to Fiji in the period following Fijian independence on 10 October 1970 and the Fijian trade union movement. Includes Minutes of the N.F.P. (National Federation Committee) Taukei, 1971 ; two photographs and issues of the Pacific Review, 22 December 1970 - 23 September 1971.

Research papers and essays on the Western Pacific, particularly Tonga and Fiji; correspondence, course, conference and teaching files, project and survey files, reports, Foreign Office confidential prints 1888-1890, British legislation concerning the Pacific Islands 1872-1953, archives administration files, WPHC shelf lists, inventories and calendars, publications and photographs.

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.

Correspondence, 1978-1981
Articles, 1978-1986
Conference & workshop papers, 1980-1982
Press cuttings/reports, 1977-1982
Files on politics in Vanuatu, 1975-1980

The bulk of these records consist of Head Office correspondence between 1855 and 1947. Until 1947, Head Office outward letters were copied in press copy letter books. Most have detailed indexes, including the inward letters received from 1903. Where gaps exist in the Head Office series, or the material is damaged or fragile it is sometimes possible to locate the same content in the Branch or Mill end of the correspondence.

The deposit also consists of annual reports, share records, New Zealand Sugar Company Limited board minutes, legal documents re lands in Fiji (1885-1970), chemical records, technical reports and data re sugar production, circulars, price lists, photographs (1868-1961) and press cuttings. Items 3619-4100 consist of photographs, series of photographs and albums.

These records contain information on CSR refineries in Australia and New Zealand, raw sugar mills in Australia and Fiji, sugar marketing, distilleries, ocean vessels, pineapple canning in Fiji, the beginnings of the divisions of building materials and industrial chemicals, mining, and defence projects 1939-1945. Also includes correspondence and records of the Australasian Sugar Company, and Robey and Company.

The collection was formed during 1969 and 1970 by John R Baker, Economist to the Government of Tonga and resident in the capital of Nukualofa from August 1969 to May 1970. Baker was employed by the British Ministry of Overseas Development and was seconded to the Government of Tonga as an Economist to undertake the preparation and drafting of the Tonga Development Plan 1970 - 1975, which was Tonga's second development plan. He was employed partly on the strength of his having worked in the Solomon Islands in 1964 and 1965 under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Scheme. He was the first economist employed by the Tonga Government to work on development planning.

Press clippings from Hawaiian and other US press on the Pacific Islands, articles and reports. The files are arranged by the following subjects: American Samoa, American Polynesia, Anglo-American Rivalry for Pacific Islands, Arno Atoll (Marshall Islands), the Bounty and genetics, Canton Island and Enderbury Island, Caroline Island, Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Easter Island, Falcon Island, Fanning Island, Fiji, French Polynesia (Tahiti, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Australs), Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Hoorn Islands, Howland Island, Hull Island, Japanese Mandate Islands, Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, Johnston Island, Kapingamarangi Atoll, Kingman Reef, Lord Howe Island, Mangareva, Mariannas Island, Marquesas Islands, Marshall Islands (Kwajalein Island), Michener and the Pacific, Micronesia, Midway Island, Nauru and Ocean Island, New Caledonia, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Palau, Palmyra Island, Papua New Guinea, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Pitcairn Island, Ponape, Rose Island, Saipan and Tinian, Solomon Islands, Swains Island, Tonga, Torres Strait, US Trust Territory, Vostok Island, Wake Island, Washington Island, Western Samoa, World War II. Also loose press cuttings on Micronesia Independence, nuclear testing and strategic policy.

Collection of administrative records 1966 - 1984, including applications for research grants, minutes of meetings, correspondence and the essays submitted, 1970 - 1984.

The collection was compiled by Charles Morris Woodford, naturalist and First Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1896 - 1915. The collection includes diaries, photographs, correspondence, sketches and research notes related to the natural history, geography and ethnography of the Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands from 1884 - 1915, as well as family papers and documents related to the administration of Solomon Islands Protectorate. There are documents about relations between the missionaries and the traders, matters associated with labour and the alienation of land, economic activity and tourism. The collection includes Woodford's 'Journal of a voyage from Suva Fiji to the Gilbert Group' from 4 March 1884 - 22 June 1884 ; Woodford's diaries from 1886 - 1889 ; 140 photographs taken on the voyage to and residence in the Solomon Islands in 1886 ; photographs of Rennell Island and inhabitants signed by Northcote Deck c1909. Of significance are ten large photographs of various scenes of the Solomon Islands, c1901, some published in The discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568, by Lord Amherst of Hackney and Basil Thomson (1901).

ANUA 481 is a consolidated collection of all four parts of the Woodford donation:
ANUA 481/1 is a photograph album containing 140 photographs taken in from April - October 1886 ;
ANUA 481/1 - 282 are items from 'bundles 1 - 30' ;
ANUA 481/ 283 - 317 relate to the second donation (ie PMB 1381) ;
ANUA 481/318 - 322 and 324 - 327 are eight large format photographs c1884 ;
ANUA 481/323 is a presentation plaque given to Woodford in 1905 ;
ANUA 481/329 is a collection of 126 photographs [ie PMB Photo 58]

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.

The series includes administrative files maintained by Davidson as Professor of Pacific History and Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, dealing with staff including appointments, students, the Coombs building, the New Guinea Research Unit and committees of which Davidson was a member. There are two files which include material about his death. There are also research files which include correspondence, research notes, press cuttings from the Fiji Times, South Pacific Commission papers, articles by Davidson and others, and typescript copies of his Peter Dillon biography and Samoa mo Samoa. There are also parliamentary debates from Samoa and Kiribati and photographs related to the four-volume book 'Pacific Islands' published in 1943-1945.

Contains subject files and newsletters on countries kept by the Division of Pacific and Asian History: Cook Islands, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellis Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua/New Guinea, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Zealand, Nauru, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tahiti. Includes research papers and notes, governmental papers, publications, newspaper clippings, school readers and Cook Islands photostats.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

Pacific and Asian History Library materials including governmental reports from Tonga, Western Samoa, Guam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, New Zealand, East Timor and micronesia; parliamentary papers, proceedings, publications, printed material relating to Papua New Guinea.

Contains files relating to publications and films the Division of Pacific and Asian History were involved with, theses and monograph series, correspondence, bibliographies, newspaper clippings, and material relating to the film Angels of War.

The collection contains research files compiled by Basil Shaw to write a biography on the former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Michael Somare. Includes correspondence, interview material, drawings by Captain Yukio Shibata, photographs, press cuttings, maps and photocopies of printed material.

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.

Poster with photo of young man and text "Luke Nayasa, age 38. I am living with HIV and I am on treatment. Im married, my wife and daughter are free from HIV. People living with HIV are just like you and ME".

Poster with photo of young woman and text "Joeli Colati, age 25. I am young and active and I have a job and Im living with HIV. People living with HIV are just like you and ME".

Poster with photo of young woman and text "Koini Raivuli, age 26. I have a dream in life. I have a very supportive family and Im living with HIV. People living with HIV are just like you and ME".

Folder of photocopies of handwritten entries labelled 'Native Regulations,' with dates mentioned up to c.1940

Folder labelled Bavan of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1893 to 1933. Headings include Batiki, Joni Madraiwiwi, Naikai, Verata.

Handwritten manuscript pages, some marked draft b. (pp.1-8), draft c (pp.1-20), 3 handwritten large index cards, a prospectus for the Journal of Pacific Studies

Notebook with inserts containing draft of 'The Rise of the Korolevu: Chiefly Power in a Fijian Province 1830-1944' plus letters from informants in Fiji, part of an article with the header 'Deuba. The Society and its Background,' photocopies of printed material on the population of Fiji, with annotations and notecard, and a stapled bundle of lined sheets labelled 'notes.'

Notebook labelled 'Serua' with Macnaught's name and address, binding lost, leaving 57 foolscap pages (1-53 handnumbered, plus 4 at the beginning) plus cover, filled with handwritten notes.

Folder labelled Draunikau of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1887 to 1937. Includes mention of the Tuka Movement. Headings include Tuka, Draunikau, Luveniwai, Nabobuco, Buobuco.

Folder labelled People Women Child Welfare of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1888 to 1930. Headings include Absenteeism, Admin, Child Mission, Hygenic Mission, People, Women

~59 large index cards with notes, containing internal dates from 1888-1944.

Folder labelled Vakavanua of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1936. Headings include Bulis, Kadava, Land, Solevu, Turagaitaukbi, Verata.

Folder labelled Land of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1938. Cards have heading 'Land'.

Folder labelled Sukuna of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1912 to 1940. Headings include Diaries, Jiale Vuiyasawa, Nasoqo, Sukuna, Vakavanua.

Extract from unknown publication showing table of administrative information. 3 stapled sheets.

8 leaves of small notepapers, paperclipped, with cryptic notes by Macnaughten.

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, kept during Macnaught's time in Suva. Appears to be Macnaught's register of research notes (cards?).

Folder labelled Chiefs of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1896 to 1973. Headings include Hierarchy, IQ, Lala, Roko, Tui Cakau.

Folder labelled Admin of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1895 to 1971. Headings include DC Conference, Fiji Admin, Native Dept, People, Roko, SNA.

Folder labelled Biographies of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1890 to 1933. Headings include Cakobau, Joni Maititini, Ratu Bola, Ratu Vuladaunibau.

Draft of Charles J. Weeks Jr.'s 1995 article submitted to Macnaught for review, differing in various respects from the final version published in Pacific Studies Journal 18, 3.

Stapled handwritten manuscript by Jean Dwyer.

Card bound research notebook, with some inset papers, used by Macnaught in Canberra in c.1973

Tape bound booklet, 4 pages, of notes from Macnaught's dissertation withheld from public view.

30 black and white photograph with typed labels on verso, in ring-binder style plastic sleeves bound together with metal tabs. Photos seemly collected from various historical sources.

Folder labelled Population of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1891 to 1953.

Folder labelled N.L.C. of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1892 to 1937. Headings include Education, Maloto, Sukuna.

Folder, marked Bau, of photocopies of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, mostly undated but exceptions are c.1913-1917. Headings include Minutes, Joni Madraiwiwi, Tikina Moturiki, Land grants, Native Lands Commission.

Photocopy of a letter to the governer of Fiji, 1913, from A. Kemaitai of the Matanivanua concerning customs of Bau, plus a long document in Fijian headed 1745/14 and dated 1913

Folder, marked John Natcon, of 8 photocopies of handwritten notes (3 p.) and Teaching in Rural Fiji, ed. A.G. Hopkins, 1972 (5 p.).

Folder (inaacurately) marked Carbon Paper containing handwritten lists.

Staple bound text on customs of Fiji (84 p), and a staple bound text consisting mostly of tables of place names, possibly school districts.

Folder marked N Regs containing copies of microfiche printout of sections of the Fijian Ordinance of 1912, plus other microfiche printout of a few pages from the diary of D. C. (?) Lau, 1955.

Folder of research material, including photocopied maps, notepad marked Carew Papers, printout of The Story of a Little War, with attached note and annotations, paperclipped pages labelled Cakobau Records, hand-drawn map of part of Fiji (2 sheets), loose notepaper, photocopy of article on Fiji in The Daily Southern Cross, no date.

Masters thesis by Dayna Dias, University of Hawaii

Typed transcript of 15 page speech bound with a pearl-headed pin on the topic 'what do Fijians think of Europeans.'

5 page text. Latest date 1955. Printed in negative and not very legible.

Folder labelled 'Apostoli draft + Some Materials' containing extensive handwritten notes and index cards, clippings, photocopy of a (Fijian colonial?) government memorandam dated 1917, presumably towards a publication on Apolosi Nawai.

Around 200 index cards

Contains research and personal notes of Macnaughten

Box (type 5) of ~1000 large index cards, plus 3 small notebooks, in original order with subdivisions marked by elastic bands. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Macnaught's Honours Thesis, Macquarie Universtiy, ~87p., plus handwritten note.

Subtitle: 10th October 1974 Souvenir Programme. 60 p. staple bound book, colour cover and black and white contents.

Bundle of ~250 large index cards in original order. Macnaught's research notes, covering Fijian history from late 19th century to 1960s. Contains some correspondence.

Folder labelled Draunikau of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1887 to 1937. Includes mention of the Tuka Movement. Headings include Tuka, Draunikau, Luveniwai, Nabobuco, Buobuco.

Folder labelled Vakavanua of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1899 to 1936. Headings include Bulis, Kadava, Land, Solevu, Turagaitaukbi, Verata.

Folder labelled People Women Child Welfare of photocopies of large format index cards (3 cards a sheet) with handwritten notes. Internal dates ranging from 1888 to 1930. Headings include Absenteeism, Admin, Child Mission, Hygenic Mission, People, Women

Handwritten manuscript pages, some marked draft b. (pp.1-8), draft c (pp.1-20), 3 handwritten large index cards, a prospectus for the Journal of Pacific Studies