Phosphate industry

Date: 1902-1925

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1644

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1896-1908

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1175

Description: Correspondence, to and from the London office of the companies, is between J T Arundel, G Ellis and A H Gaze. Correspondence from Arundel in Nova Scotia, Honolulu, Ocean Island, Melbourne, San Francisco, New York, Plymouth, Japan, New Zealand, Sydney, Tahiti; mainly to the London Head Office. Includes general correspondence, shipping details, telegrams, machinery details and financial affairs. Source of title - Transcribed Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, primarily by addressee. The Pacific Islands Company (PIC), formed in 1897 from J T Arundel and Co, a Pacific trading and phosphate company, had as chairman Lord Stanmore (Sir Arthur Gordon), with John Arundel as vice-chairman. In 1900, Albert Ellis, a company employee, confirmed that Banaba island contained huge deposits of phosphate. The PIC gained an imperial mining licence after British annexation of Banaba. With exclusive mining rights for an annual payment of £50 to the Banabans, the company was soon making up to £125,000 per annum. Eventually the PPC agreed to provide for a trust fund for environmental damage; that committment was never fulfilled. In 1902 the PIC sold its other interests and formed the Pacific Phosphate Company ltd (PPC) with Jaluit Gesellschaft of Hamburg, giving it mining rights on German Nauru. After World War I, the PPC was replaced by the British Phosphate Commissioners (BPC), with the company's former executives becoming commissioners. The BPC was wound up in 1981 with Banaba mined out and almost completely depopulated while Nauru, independent since 1968, had taken over its own phosphate mining. The origins of many of these developments can be traced to the PIC and PPC. Quantity: 15 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1813-1850

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1878-1886

Description: Papers relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region, taken from his correspondence as Chief Secretary for Ireland 1812-1818, as leader of the Conservative Party 1834-1846, and as Prime Minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846. Includes transportation (especially from Ireland) to the Australian penal colonies; political and social matters in NSW; emigration; problems with the New Zealand Company, Fitzroy, Grey and the Wairau affray; French activities in the Pacific and in Tahiti; the guano industry; the New Zealand wars in Northland (1845); magnetic and scientific research observations; Pacific naval station; settlement of Auckland Islands; proposals for future government of New Zealand; Ross's explorations in the Antarctic; banks, financial matters and customs duties; Dutch in the East Indies. Correspondents include J W Crocker, W Gregory, Lord Aberdeen, H Goulburn, R Wilmot Horton; Sir James Graham, Lord Haddington, Lord Stanley, Charles Buller, G Hope, Bishop Selwyn, E G Wakefield, H Wise and W E Gladstone. Also copy of NZ Spectator for Dec 1844. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1985

Date: ca 1910s-1920s

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: PAColl-0843

Description: Photographs of a block of coral found at a depth of 360m and now in Makatea and a phosphate vessel. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1897-1919

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0498

Description: Newspaper clippings, official printed documents and typescripts on the Pacific phosphate industry. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1903-1911

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1643

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 2 Feb 1904-Feb 1974

By: Ellis, Albert Fuller (Sir), 1869-1951; Milne, Joan Izod, 1903-1991; Gibbs, Christina Frances, 1937-; Orange, Jennifer Joan, 1934-; Milne, Grant Stewart Ellis, 1936-

Reference: MS-Group-2321

Description: Collection consists of papers which provide an overview of Albert Fuller Ellis's life and his involvement in the phosphate industry in the Pacific. Papers cover his youth in the Waikato, his discovery of superphosphate on Nauru, details of his employment on Ocean Island, information about the islands and the phosphate industry, and the impact of World War II on the islands and the phosphate industry. Also contains some personal papers, including some material relating to his involvement with the Presbyterian Church. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: Series for this collection are based on listing provided by donor. Two publications not allocated to a series in the listing were assigned to existing series by processing librarian. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.24 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Jennifer Orange, Christine Gibbs, and Stewart Milne, the children of Joan Milne (daughter of Sir A F Ellis) donated the collection Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Jennifer Orange, Christina Gibbs and Stewart Milne, June 2014 Transfers: Collection taken into Manuscripts and transfers made from here - To Photographic Archive - 'Launch of M.V. "Tri-Ellis" for the British Phosphate Commissioners, at the Govan Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Limited, 15th May 1958" photograph album (PA1-o-1880). Processing information: Staff removed and discarded sticky notes denoting relationship to listing provided by donor. Provided no further information to that now available in the records.

Date: [1978?]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-204-027

Description: The oil rig Penrod 74 is having its 'Petrocorp Exploration' sign changed to 'Ferticorp Exploration' and the workers are told they are 'out of oil and into fertiliser'. A newspaper clipping attached to the cartoon reads 'Engineering problems have forced Petrocorp Exploration to abandon its Takapu 1 well, off the Otago coast, and start again nearby.' Refers in part to the discovery of phosphate deposits on the sea floor off the Chatham Islands. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Nevile Lodge [78?] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon, white corrector and collage on paper, 275 x 335 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in a private collection in the Wellington region.

Date: [ca 1978]

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-204-028

Description: The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) are in the middle of a research voyage investigating phosphate deposits on the seabed off the Chatham Islands, when they appear to have struck oil. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Eric Heath [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and white corrector on paper and mounted on board, 355 x 480 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in a private collection in the Wellington region.

Date: Jun 2000

From: Futter, Frederick Roy, 1906- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6850

Description: Further writings by Futter on aspects of his life, `A Mew [sic] world into the old' describing incidents while at sea from Cardiff to Port Said (with map) and events during World War Two in the Middle East , `Back to the Middle East' describing the `Limerick' and `Phosphate and the Middle East' and `That phosphate from the Red Sea' discussing phosphate and refrigeration Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves).

Date: 1910-1912

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1647

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1897-1909

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1176

Description: Correspondence from files held in the Australian Office of the companies. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 22 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2003

Date: 1840-1914

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1205

Description: Comprise legal papers, agreements, reports, notes on islands, some dating back to 1840, and press cuttings relating to the Company. Also, articles of association, leases on islands, papers re Jaluit Gesellschaft Nauru concession, account of the expedition of the `Rob Roy' to the Solomon Islands, 1900. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

Date: 17 Oct 1918

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-59

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.

Date: 5 April, 1890, 31 Jul 1914

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-58

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.

Date: 1967

From: Royal family : Papers (Te Whanau a Roera Hukiki Te Ahukaramu)

Reference: MS-Papers-4563-1E/01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1899-1927

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount of, 1851-1925

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1642-1649

Description: Papers selected with reference to the Lever Brothers' interests in Australia, the Pacific and New Zealand Quantity: 8 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [1960-2000]

By: Futter, Frederick Roy, 1906-2001

Reference: MS-Group-0890

Description: Comprises notes by Futter on pictures in the Turnbull Library and notes the `Limerick' and the `Aorangi' and other shipping memories; includes reminiscences relating to World War Two and the phosphate industry Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 13 Jan 1919

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-60

Description: Includes reports on Walpole Island phosphates Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.

Date: 11 Nov 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-36246-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate