Agriculture - Cook Islands

Date: 1903-1939

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1070

Description: Diaries of Charles Banks Sep-Dec 1903, and of Charles Wigmore, owner of the Papua Plantation at Titikaveka 1918, 1920, 1923, 1925 and 1926; Te Akatauira/Guiding Star 1939, a printed news-sheet in Rarotongan and English, edited by A R Henry Other Titles - Te Akatauira Other Titles - Guiding Star Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1969

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1367

Description: Dr. Bryant Allen submitted this thesis as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University in 1969. Dr. Allen carried out research in the Cook Islands in the 1960s and in Papua New Guinea from the 1970s to the present. His main interests are in the sustainability of agricultural systems and rural development Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2011

Date: 1960

From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960

Reference: PA12-0516-09

Description: Young Tepou Marsters, with her small nephew George Iotua Marsters, breaking open coconuts to dry the mature meat to make copra. Photograph taken on Palmerston Island in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide