Phosphate industry - Nauru

Date: 1902-1923

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

By: Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1207

Description: Correspondence in and out from London to the Sydney and Melbourne offices Quantity: 18 microfilm reel(s). 1 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Complete listing at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php.

Date: [Circa 1914-1919]

From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India

Reference: PA1-o-115

Description: Album includes a large section of British naval ships, some travelling in convoy, some camouflaged, with closeup views of armaments and naval personnel, taken by unidentified photographers during World War I. It appears that the creator of the album was serving on the SS Parattah. A section in the album covers a port-of-call by the Parattah to Nauru and the Loyalty Islands, showing scenes and aspects of life on the islands, including several related to the phosphate industry on Nauru. There are a number of images of a group on camels near the Spinx and pyramids in Egypt, dated 1919, followed by a section on the Yosemite area, California, with scenic views of mountains and valleys, and several showing the "largest tree in the world". The last section in the album covers the royal tour of HRH The Prince of Wales in 1920, in Sydney. Views of decorations in the city, crowd scenes, and night scenes of decorative lighting and fireworks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon album, 23 x 34 cm

Date: 1900-1921

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1206

Description: Comprise correspondence from the Sydney and Melbourne offices to and from Ocean and Nauru Islands. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 26 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004

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: 1983

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

Reference: PAColl-10670-013

Description: Black and white photographic prints documenting mainly phosphate mining industry in Naura, dated 1983. No captions. Title transcribed from original enclosure. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white photographic and contact prints. Transfers: Negatives originally enclosed with this group of prints at Library reference 35mm-108354 to 35mm-108361.. Processing information: Negatives were separated from prints and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

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: 1887-1916

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0016

Description: The records begin with a report from a German official in Jaluit to the Duke of Bismarck, dated May 6 1887, stating that local German dirms had suggested that the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands should be extended to cover Nauru. A report written in Jaluit on October 31 1888 , by Herr Sonnenschein, the German Imperial commissioner in the Marshall Islands, describes the raising of the German flag on Nauru on October 2 1888. There are several extensive reports on conditions on Nauru. The remainder of the documents deal with the German administration of Nauru. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

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: 25 Aug-27 Sep 1919, Oct 1927

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-61

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

Date: Feb 1987-Jan 1988

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1268

Description: Transcript of proceedings, including closed sitting days. Source of title - Transcribed In 1987-1988 the government of Nauru held a Commission of Inquiry into the the rehabilitation of its worked-out phosphate lands, and in 1988 published a 10 volume report which concluded that island's former administrators - Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand - were responsible for the rehabilitation of the land mined during the Mandate and Trust periods. A Compact of Settlement was finally reached in 1993. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

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