Honiara

Date: 1986, 1988

From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6300-11

Description: Diaries for Aug to Sep 1986 kept by Freed while travelling in Stockholm, Berne, Toulouse and Honiara, and during Sep 1988 while traveling in Japan, China and Sydney Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2012

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to islands, tourism, politics and life in the Pacific Ocean]

Reference: Eph-A-PACIFIC-2012

Description: Includes: Flags of Melanesia. [Pamphlet for Wellington-based organisation. 2012] Pacific Voyagers Foundation. Postcard advertising trailer of documentary film "Our blue canoe" National Herbarium and Botanical Garden Honiara [Solomon Islands] 11th Festival of Pacific Arts, Solomon Islands, 1-14 July 2012. Official programme Solomon Islands 34th independence anniversary. Lawson Tama Stadium, 6 July 2012. Official programme National Library of New Zealand. Kermadec "passport", issued as part of "Kermadec expeditions & connections"; "Kermadec; 9 artists explore the South Pacific"; and "Auckland to the Kermadecs 2013". Kermadec; nine artists explore the South Pacific. New Zealand Maritiem Museum [Auckland], 15 February - 1 July 2012. Card / flyer Kermadecs. Rangi Tahua, Wakey Wakey Wakey [postcard. 2012] Quantity: 8 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1981

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-016

Description: Black and white photographic prints, and one colour print, relating to Solomon Islands, including Laulasi, Honiara Harbour, Honiara West, Auki, Gizo, and Malaita. Colour photograph is dated January 1981, others are undated, some with caption information inscribed verso. Images document people and places in the Solomon Islands, including indigenous people in traditional and customary attire. Includes: - portrait of "Helen, Solair agent, Malaita, with Kathleen" - "Post office Honiara" - "7th Adventists Honiara" - "Mr Filor, Commissioner of Malaita" - "Selwyn College Honiara" - "New Community House, Malaita". Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1965, 1966, 1977, 1981, 1983

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-031

Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints relating to various locations, some with caption information inscribed verso. Black and white photographs include: - "Boys carrying gifts of yams to the wedding feast, Abwatuntora, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Islanders loading copra, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Trader collecting copra, Pentecost Island, New Hebrides. 'Bali Hai', (AOBA) in background". - "Trading store, Lamalanga village, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Sarah, my 'woman to cook', Lamalanga, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Agnes Pomare prepares the oven in her grass hut - Lamalanga, Pentecost, N[ew] H[ebrides]". - "Making 'lap-lap', Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Waterfront Honiara (evening) Solomons". - "Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islanders" - "Ellison Kole, young civil servant in co-operative dept. Honiara, Solomon Islands". - "Honiara wharf, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands". - "Captain & crew of a Solomons trader, Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands". - "Carver at Betikawa High School, Honiara, Guadalcanal". - "Remains of wrecked Hudson bomber, Tanavasa village, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands". - "Mango for sale, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands". - "On the way home after bathing in the river, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands". - "Girl with mat - Lau Group (between Fiji & Tonga) Fijian territory & birthplace Mara". - "On the beach at Lamalanga, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "Fish trap - Lamalanga, Pentecost, N[ew] H[ebrides]". - "Collecting copra round the coast of Pentecost Island, New Hebrides". - "Girls carrying water in hollow bamboo poles, Lamalanga, Pentecost, New Hebrides". - "'Bloody Ridge', site of fierce battle in Guadalcanal campaign, Solomon Islands. Thayer Soule - ex-marine - visible on top". - "Gilbertese woman doing her washing at mouth of Lunga River, Guadalcanal, Solomons". - "Shell house, low coast housing development, Suva, Fiji". - "Construction workers, Suva, Fiji". - "Swimming pool & new wing, G.P.H. Suva, Fiji". Informal portraits of delegates at South Pacific Commission conference, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 1977: - Dr Gideon Zoloveke, Solomon Islands - Sir Gawain Bell, Secretary-General - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Chief Minister of Fiji, Fiji's delegate to South Pacific Conference, 1969. Colour photographic prints include: - "Boys at Tanna Show", "Tanna - New Hebrides, Agric[ultural] Show". - "The view from Descombes, Port Vila, Vanuatu". - "Amédée Lighthouse, 1972". - "Solomon Islands - Malaita, 1965" a depiction of traditional mud men. Also includes image of a yacht named 'Narnia'. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints.

Date: 1974

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-061

Description: Black and white photographic prints relating to Malu'u on the island of Malaita, Laulasi Island, Gizo, Fiu River, and aerial views of Honiara in the Solomon Islands, dated 1974, some with caption information inscribed verso. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints. Transfers: Negatives originally enclosed with this group of prints at Library reference 1/4-133980-F and 1/4-133981-F, and 35mm-109560 to 35mm-109570.. Processing information: Negatives were separated from prints and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1974

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-190

Description: Black and white photographic prints relating to Guadalcanal and Honiara, Solomon Islands, dated 1974. One image has caption information inscribed verso: "Carver at Betikana High School, Guadalcanal". Includes image of a boat 'Maris Stella' in harbour. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 81 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic prints.

Date: [1960-1969]

From: Bellam, Michael, 1937-2010 :Photographs relating Bellam's South Pacific research

Reference: PAColl-9872

Description: Photographs relating to Michael Bellam's South Pacific research in the Solomon Islands. Most are located on Guardalcanal with many views of Honiara, the docks, ships, and buildings in the city. There is an emphasis on the accomodation of labourers at a number of locations such as Tenaru, Kukum, Mananikau, and Kokambora (sic) Village. Two postcards depict carved and inlaid figures and a very large food bowl from Makira (San Christobal). Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1962-1993

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1371

Description: Includes The Mystery of Guise (a longer draft than that microfilmed at PMB 1288); Two box files, labelled 'British Solomon Islands Protectorate', on Honiara town planning and related matters, 1962-1979; file, 'Bougainville" on the Bougainville Copper Project and urban development on Bougainville, 1969-1974; PNG Constitutional Planning Committee, Record of Proceedings, 4 Dec 1972-16 Feb 1973; Planning Committee, part draft report and recommendations; papers on the PNG Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, 1972; papers on the PNG Department of Public Health, 1972; maps of Port Moresby ca 1965 and Bougainville, ca 1970. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/ For reel contents see http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1371.PDF. Provenance: Papers left outside Nigel Oram's room when he left La Trobe University, Melbourne, rescued by Professor Martha Macintyre, and transferred to the PMB in August 2011

Date: 1946-2010

By: Bellam, Michael Ernest Patrick, 1937-2010

Reference: MS-Group-1949

Description: Collection of research papers comprising research notes, articles, reports, printed matter, correspondence, newspaper clippings. and photocopies from the period 1946-2010, relating to economic development, migration, urbanisation, population and labour force studies, politics and foreign aid in the Pacific, with particular attention given to the Solomon Islands. Also includes papers relating to the Irish connection with New Zealand and the Catholic Church. Source of title - Supplied by Library Michael Bellam was a Lecturer in Geography at Victoria University who undertook research projects on development in the Pacific. Quantity: 149 folder(s). 1.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts, and printed material, including photocopies. Provenance: Collection had been earlier deposited with the Marist Archives by Mr Michael Bellam, Wellington, October 1988.

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0001311

Description: A woman stares incredulously at her husband who sits grinning triumphantly at his computer. He has just picked up a cheap holiday to Honiara on Trademe. Honiara is the capital of the Solomon Islands where there are riots over election results as the country struggles to achieve some sort of democratic rule. Trademe has been in the news recently because it was sold by owner Sam Morgan to Australian media company John Fairfax Holdings for $700 million. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 3 March 2013

From: Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) – Spouses and partners of returning volunteers oral history project

By: Oxenham, Glorious Marie Idmali Karina, 1961-

Reference: OHInt-1246-03

Description: Interview with Glorious (Glo) Oxenham by Jiff Stewart, recorded on 3 March 2013 at her home in Lower Hutt. Topics covered in the interview include: family; languages in Solomon Islands; early life in Buni village, Solomon Islands; education; oral history traditions; Roviana; learning Pidjin and English; religion; moving to Honiara for teacher's training college; relationship with Steve Oxenham; marriage; emigrating to New Zealand; children; teaching in New Zealand; working for Radio New Zealand; living in Carterton; Pataka exhibition; Melanesia Day; work with Defence Forces; visiting Solomon Islands; writing; and Steve's family. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital image(s). 4 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 Interview(s). Search dates: 03/03/2013