Missions - Vanuatu

Date: 1610-1942

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1126

Description: This is a photocopy of Ferguson's original manuscript cards, held in the National Library of Australia (MS3200/Box16). The collection is divided into five parts, with the fifth consisting of further additions to the first four parts. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: B-089-002

Description: A copy by W A McCleverty of R A Oliver's view of Dillon's Bay. Shows H. M. S. Fly or H M S Havannah in the foreground of a bay with a Vanuatuan canoe approaching with two men on board. A smaller European ship, Bishop Selwyn's yacht Undine is in the background. Palm trees fringe the shore at the base of cliffs and hills Signed: W.A. McC. A copy by W. A. McCleverty of R. A. Oliver's watercolour 'H. M. S. Fly at Erromango'. The watercolour is in a private collection, and there is another watercolour copy at the Mitchell Library, Sydney, with title The Undine yacht and H M S Havannah H M S Fly and H M S Havannah were at Erromanga together in 1851, along with Selwyn and his yacht Undine. At least one version of this watercolour identifies the larger vessel as H M S Havannah, not as H M S Fly Other Titles - McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897. Dillon's Bay. H. M. S. Fly at Erromango. Erromanga Vanuatu New Hebrides Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W A M C New Zealand. Bottom right, with sheet trimmed and words missing: Dillons Bay, Erromang ... was killed & eaten by n ... H M S Fly & ... Copy of Capt Oliver's ...; Verso - in ink on backing linen: H M S Fly and schooner Undine. Dillons Bay, Island of Erromango, latitute 18 [degrees] 15 [minutes] S, Longitute 169 [degrees] 17 [minutes] E. Beach on which the Missionary Williams was killed and eaten by the natives. Capt Oliver. [signed] W A McCleverty Copy of picture by Capt. R.A. Oliver. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 308 x 435 mm Provenance: Presented anonymously after an exhibition at New Zealand House, 1956.

Date: 1948-1980

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1333

Description: Includes correspondence, translations, theological writings, dramas, radio broadcasts; papers relating to New Hebrides Advisory Council, South Pacific Anglican Conference, NZ Anglican Board of Missions, Australian Board of Missions, New Hebrides Christian Council, British Education Service, Vureas High School, Bishop Patteson Theological College, Pacific Churches Research Centre, loss of MV Fauabu Twomey, MV Selwyn, Selwyn College, death of Fr Allan Mackay at Noumea Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu For reel list see http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1333.PDF. Provenance: The documents were rescued, identified and re-arranged on site at the abandoned Diocese administration building, Sarakata, 2008-2009 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1881-1921

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1037

Description: Comprises writings of various members of the Fraser family, when they were stationed in the New Hebrides. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, and other material relating the day-today life of a missionary family in the New Hebrides. Also includes an unpublished autobiography of Dr Vernon Davies, who was appointed to the Paton Memorial Hospital at Vila in 1920. Describes his time in New Hebrides, hospital work, local politics, characters and events. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1992

Date: 1896-1905

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1252

Description: Comprise two indexed press copy letter books running from 1896 to 1905. The letters are to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, and to individuals passing on mission news, as well as orders for supplies, and observations on the people and languages of Malekula. Also, lists and details of teachers both European and indigenous, and reports on teachers and students. Source of title - Transcribed Leggatt served as a Presbyterian missionary for some 25 years in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), mainly at Aulua Mission on Malekula. He is noted for his linguistic work and his ethnographic observations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Printed list also available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: 1896

By: Gill, William Wyatt (Rev), 1828-1896

Reference: MS-Papers-0807

Description: Letter written from Sydney, chiefly about Church of England mission work in New Guinea and the New Hebrides. Refers to W G Lowes' work in translating the Bible. Also discusses public school education in Australia. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1884-1895, 1913-1915

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1123

Description: The Rev. Gray's manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings on the labour traffic; copies of some annual reports of the Queensland Kanaka Mission and the Queensland Department of Pacific Island Immigration; pamphlets by J G Paton, A C Smith and J Inglis attacking the labour trade; the Rev. Dr David Crombie's press cuttings on the New Hebrides 1913-1915; William Watt Erskine's recollections of his childhood in Tanna, lantern slides and photographs of missionary life in the New Hebrides ca 1880. Source of title - Supplied Gray, a New Hebridean missionary, conducted a vigorous publicity campaign against the `Kanaka' labour traffic. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: 1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915

Reference: PA1-q-263

Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: [ca 1878-1920s]

By: Michelsen, Johan Oscar (Rev), -1936

Reference: PA1-o-1870

Description: Reverend J Oscar Michelsen's photograph album relating to his time as a missionary in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), circa 1878 to 1890s. Also some photographs relating to the Sprague family of Dunedin, New Zealand, taken circa 1900s-1920s. Photographer unidentified. Michelsen has written a short caption under each image. - Vanuatu images are mainly taken on the island of Tongoa. Other locations include the islands of Nguna, Efate, Epi, Emae, Erromanga, Aneityum, and Aniwa. Buildings featured include mission houses, churches and some private residences (both European and indigenous). There are also some images of boats, road building, a banyan tree and other flora, scenic landscapes (mainly beaches and harbours), men in traditional dress, traditional drumming, and a scene from a meeting regarding the purchase of land for Tongoan mission station. Single print of collaged images relating to Michelsen's life is entitled "Autobiography in Photography" and includes portraits of Michelsen and a Bible & Tract Depot. Also contains one photograph of a sketch of Futuna Island. - Contains images of clergy and their wives and children: Rev D McDonald (from Victoria), Rev Robert M Fraser and his wife, Rev H A Robertson (from Canada), Lily (Michelsen's baby daughter); Rev Charles Murray and his wife, Mr Milne and his four children; Rev J W MacKenzie (of Canada); Captain McLeod; and Rev J G Paton. Identified indigenous people include Taripoamata and Timataso (Tongoan chiefs); Kaiasi (cook of Rev Fraser); Tarisaliu (a Tongoan chief) and his wife; teachers Taripoa, Tarisogoliu, and Man[ooi?] (the first Tongoan martyr); Manamlaka (Tongoan chief and teacher) and his wife Leriki; teacher Maripan; Matokoali (a Ngunese chief and teacher) and unidentified Ngunese Christians; [Nalemahina?] servant of Mr Milne; Tongoan teachers Manutae, Tanioto, and [Tinafuna?]; and Tongoan chief Mataputi and his family. - Also includes [family?] photographs taken circa 1890s to circa 1920s, many of which are in Dunedin, New Zealand. Identified figures are Mr A Boles, Vera Burgess, Mrs Jock Campbell (nee Maggie Moffett), Mary Smyth, Mrs Lewis, baby Bill Lewis, Albert Smyth, Cecil [Smyth?], Ernie Sprague, Sprague family portrait (man and five children), Newton Sprague, and Francis Walter Sprague. There are many portraits of unidentified men, women, and children. Other photographs show Signal Hill, Dunedin Botanic Gardens (with band rotunda), Dunedin cityscape and street scenes, Smyth's dairy factory, Otago Harbour, coastal scenes, man driving a horse and trap, greenhouse (interior and exterior), rowboats, and a dog and girl on the beach. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Accompanying material - contains printouts on the background of the New Hebridies Mission which were interleaved in the album when it arrived at the Library Inscriptions: Album page - top right - first page inscription reads: "To Mrs Rang[imina?] with affectionate regards from her son-in-law OM" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with reddish brown cover embossed in black and faded gold with a cameo at the centre, 24 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased 2014. Vendor purchased the album at an auction a few months before selling it to the Library.

Date: 1850

From: Religious manuscripts in various Oceanic languages

Reference: MSX-4696

Description: Apparently a catechism in the Anatom language, with a parallel text in German; the first page notes that it is printed "at the Mission Press, Aneiteum". Language - Parallel text in Anatom language Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1857-1938

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0031

Description: A detailed account of Presbyterian missionary activity in the New Hebrides from 1857 to 1938. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1 June 1901-26 April 1908

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0086

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1967-1992

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1344

Description: Comprise principally official correspondence and lecture notes on theological subjects Harry Tevi was the second Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Vanuatu, Church of Melanesia. He was Bishop from 1980 until 1990. (See PMB 1334 Information Sheet for details of the Diocese.) Bishop Tevi trained for the priesthood at St Peter's College, Siota and was the first ni-Vanuatu to be ordained as a Bishop in 1969. He was a Lecturer at the Bishop Patterson Theological College in Honiara. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/ For reel list see http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1344.PDF. Provenance: Documents rescued, identified and re-arranged on site, at the abandoned Diocese of Vanuatu administration building, Sarakata, 2008 & 2009, consisting of correspondence files, 1979-1986. Reel 1 was microfilmed in 2010. Reels 2-4 were microfilmed in April 2011. These papers were found when sorting through additional ACOM boxes at Sarakata, Luganville. Papers that were already in folders were sorted in chronological date order, but kept in folders. Papers that were loose in boxes, were sorted in chronological date order and placed in folders by date. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2010 and 2011

Date: 1908-1918

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1358

Description: Comprise four diaries, kept by Filmer while he was a missionary with the Church of Christ Mission on Pentecost Island, New Hebrides Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1909-1998

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1334

Description: Includes correspondence files, land records, Synod meetings, Diocesan education papers, and papers relating to the Melanesian Brotherhood, the Vanuatu Christian Council, the Pacific Churchers Research Centre, the New Hebrides National Party / Vanua'aku Pati and South Pacific Anglican Council newsletters and papers Source of title - Transcribed from original Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu For reel list see http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1333.PDF. Provenance: Documents rescued, identified and re-arranged on site at the abandoned Diocesan ainidmstration building, Sarakata 2008-2009 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1869-1893

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0197

Description: There are 33 letters. The first four were written in New Zealand, and all but one of the rest from the New Hebrides, mainly Nguna The Rev Peter Milne was born in Scotland and went to the New Hebrides as a Presbyterian Missionary in 1869. After a brief stay on Erromanga, he established himself at Nguna on Efate, where he remained except for short breaks, for the rest of his life Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1896-1945

From: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0011-26

Description: Includes: New Hebrides Mission annual reports, 1896-1901; British & Foreign Bible Society annual reports, 1923, 1925; NZ Bible in Schools League annual reports, 1937, 1941; National War Funds Council of Wellington, annual report, 1923; Auckland Presbyterian Orphanages and Social Services Association annual report, 1945 (includes 31st annual report of Auckland Presbyterian Social Service Assn & 34th annual report of Leslie Presbyterian Orphanages, 1945); Presbyterian Church, Hastings & Clive annual reports, 1901 & 1903; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hastings annual report, 1929; Columba Church, Oamaru annual reports, 1931, 1932; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Gore, annual reports, 1938, 1939; Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church 7th annual report, 1936; Roslyn Presbyterian Church 31st annual report, 1932; Maori Hill Presbyterian Church, 25th annual report, 1929 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1837-1976

By: Oceania Marist Pacific Archives

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-21

Description: The Archive includes the records of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Tonga (1842-1951); Diocese of Samoa and the Tokelau (1845-1962); Marist Fathers, Papers relating to the Marist Mission in the Pacific (1836-1935); Diocese of Wallis and Futuna (1838-1973); Diocese of Port Vila (1837-1939); Archdiocese of Noumea (1842-1976); Catholic Church Oceania Marist Province (1893-1971). Source of title - Supplied title Other - There is a gap in the numbering of the reels, and numbers 075 to 079 do not exist. Arrangement: The records have been divided into seven series The Marist Order (The Order of Mary) was created in April 1836 after the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Gospel had sought means of evangelising in the Western Pacific. The first Marists were sent under Bishop Pompallier in December 1836. In 1842 the Vicariate of Central Oceania was created and New Zealand became the separate Vicariate of Western Oceania. Quantity: 395 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Mss (microfilm) Finding Aids: Each of the series have been catalogued separately. The inventories originally supplied with each group of microfilm have been consolidated into one volume and published as `The Catholic Church in the Western Pacific: a guide to records on microfilm', edited by Robert Langdon (Canberra: ANU, 1985). There is a general introduction to the whole collection together with commentaries preceding each of the individual inventories which give the full contents of each reel.. Provenance: The records were microfilmed under a project carried out by Father Theo B Cook SM while serving as archivist of the Oceania Marist Province Archives in Fiji. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau later took over the project, distributing the film and compiling the inventories from Cook's notes. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Date: 1931

From: Richards, Ceredig :Photographs of Vanuatu

Reference: PAColl-9507-29

Description: Clamshell used as font in Melanesian Mission church, Vanuatu. Photograph taken 1931 by Ceredig Richards. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.5 x 16.1 cm

Date: 1857 - 1858

From: Bent, Thomas, 1833?-1887 :[Fifteen watercolours mainly of Pacific views. 1857-1858].

Reference: A-282-028

Description: Shows a view looking at the settlement from inland, towards the bay. Houses and huts are grouped at the lower left, under palm trees, and there is a ship in the bay. Beyond the headlands, there appears to be a bar or reef over which the waves break. Numerical inscription was made by an Auckland conservator in 1999. Other Titles - Aneityum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - TB; Verso - bottom centre - 22; Mount recto - centre - (On clipped portion of mount): [Title] 22 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 217 x 284 mm.