Formed from the merger of South Pacific Company Ltd and Jaluit Gesellschaft in 1902; had exclusive rights over phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba.
Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd
Files 164c, 182, 195, 507
Date: 1902-1925
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1644
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Pacific Phosphate Company Limited, Sydney and Melbourne Offices. London Correspondence
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.
Pacific Islands Company Ltd and Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd : Correspondence files
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.
John T Arundel, 1841-1919 : Miscellaneous papers on the Pacific phosphate industry
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
File 164
Date: 1903-1911
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1643
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Pacific Islands Company Ltd and Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd : Ocean Island and Nauru ...
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
Arundel, John T, 1841-1919 : Diaries
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
J T Arundel and Company, and Pacific Islands Company Ltd, Australian Office : Correspon...
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
File 5904 - Pacific Phosphate Co Ltd
Date: 1910-1912
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1647
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Pacific Islands Company Ltd and Pacific Phosphate Company Ltd : Correspondence
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
Arundel, John T, 1841-1919 : Papers
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
Employment agreement
Date: 2 Feb 1904
From: Ellis, Albert Fuller (Sir), 1869-1951: Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-11813-1
Description: Contains original employment agreement between Pacific Phosphate Company Limited and Albert Fuller Ellis regarding his employment as manager of the phosphate interests of the company on Ocean Island. Relationship complexity - See MS-Papers-11813-6 for later employment agreement Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss