Arundel, John Thomas, 1841-1919

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: 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: 1870-1919

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0480-0492

Description: Diaries kept by an early South Seas trader and important figure in the phosphate industry. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 13 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Invnetory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, ca 1980

Date: 1892-1904

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1174

Description: Presscopy letter books of outward letters from George C Ellis, A F Ellis, H E Denson and J T Arundel of the Australian Office of J T Arundel and Company and the Pacific Islands Company Ltd to business associates, mainly in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The correspondence documents the early corporate history that led to the environmental devastation of both islands, the diaspora of Banabans to Rabi in Fiji and eslewhere, and the near-bankruptcy of Nauru. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-1175 and 1176 for further papers of the Pacific Islands Company, and Micro-MS-Coll-08-0480-0495, 0497-0498 for diarie, correspondence and further papers of J T Arundel and A F Ellis. Arrangement: Some books indexed by subject and addressee. All arranged chronologically. John T Arundel, son of a LMS official, worked for a London firm with interests in guano, which took him into the Pacific. In 1892 Arundel formed his own company, J T Arundel and Company, which acquired concessions enabling it to make and market copra and phosphate. The Pacific Islands Company was formed in 1897 and in 1898 took over the assets of Henderson & McFarlane Ltd in the Mid-Pacific. Lord Stanmore (Sir Arthur Gordon, formerly Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific) was chairman of the PIC, with Arundel as its vice-chairman. In 1902 the PIC divested itself of non-phosphate interests and merged with the Jaluit Gesellschaft of Hamburg to form the Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd, with exclusive rights to the exploitation of phosphate in Banaba and Nauru. Quantity: 8 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory avilable. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2002

Date: 1803-1960

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Arundel, John Thomas, 1841-1919; Arundel, Eliza Eleanor, active 1871-1884; Moouga, H I N, active 1889-1891

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1227

Description: Further microfilms relating to Pacific history; they include the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Ocean Island and Nauru, Papua New Guinea, personal records, official papers, Greenpeace, Niue, the Cook Islands and Fiji Reverend John Arundel was Home Secretary of the London Missionary Society from 1820-1846. His grandson, JT Arundel and wife Lillie lived on Sydney Island, also know as Manra, in the Phoenix Group and his daughter was the first white child born on the island. The family left Sydney Island on the yacht Explorer and returned to England with their Niuean friend, Chief Monga. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php.

Date: 1865-1909

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0493-0495

Description: Correpondence, cashbooks and other papers, kept by a leading figure in the Pacific phosphate industry. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-0498 Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, ca 1990

Date: 1902-1904

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1207-02

Description: Letters from JT Arundel to AH Gaze, includes letter No. 60 - General No 541 (gaps) arranged chronologically Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php.

Date: 1909-1912

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1206-17

Description: Papers continued from Reel 16. Also general accounts and letters re Nauru to and from the Melbourne and London offices, J T Arundel and A F Ellis. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically. Australian Archive numbers are MP1174/1/148 to 151. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1913-1921

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1206-16

Description: Papers continued from Reel 15. Also general accounts and letters re Nauru and Ocean Island to and from the Melbourne and London offices and A F Ellis. Arranged alphabetically and chronologically. References to post-war Nauru mandate. Australian Archive numbers are MP1174/1/146 to 148. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1902-1906

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1207-01

Description: Correspondence to Arundel (mainly from AH Gaze) arranged chronologically and unnumbered subjects concern management of island business Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php.

Date: 1904-1906

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1207-03

Description: Correspondence from Arundel to AH Gaze arranged chronologically, includes General Nos. 542-553 and Nos. 7-71 subjects concern management of island business Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php.

Date: 1908-1911

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1206-15

Description: Papers continued from Reel 14. Also general accounts and letters re Nauru to and from PPC Melbourne office and J T Arundel. Filed alphabetically and chronologically. Australian Archive numbers are MP1174/1/144 to 146. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1906]

From: Arundel, Lilian Mary Izod, b 1883 : Photographs of Banaba, Kiribati (formerly known as Ocean Island, Gilbert Islands), Nauru, and Makatea

Reference: PAColl-6044-17

Description: Government House at Banaba, Kiribati. Photograph taken ca 1906 by Lilian Arundel. Note on the back of file print reads "Government House. J T Arundel" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 8.7 x 13.7 cm

Date: 1865-1889

By: Australian Joint Copying Project

Reference: Micro-MS-0962

Description: Six microfilm reels relating to the guano industry, questions of sovereignty etc, in the Pacific. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - No inventory available. Quantity: 6 microfilm reel(s). 0.12 Linear Metres.