Jim Burton: (1) CD of “Pacific Memories” meeting, Toowong Library, 04 July 2014 with speakers Ken Cheung, President of the Cathay Community Association, Brisbane, discussing his family’s escape from Japanese invasion of Rabaul, 1942, and subsequent evacuation by American submarine to Melbourne, and Methodist Minister Rev. Neville Threlfall discussing his historical research of Rabaul and the Gazelle Peninsula. (2) Comprehensive list of Chinese individuals/families/businesses in Vanuatu related to/associated with same in PNG. General advice on Chinese nicknames/school names/milk (infants) names/maiden names and how local dialects or pronunciation affect written surname characters, and in turn the Anglicised writing/spelling of surnames e.g. the family name “Chan” can be spelled in nine different ways from “Chen” to “Zhen”.

Mike Lean: Papua and New Guinea Villager vol.1950-vol.10 1959 (incomplete); articles on  the Orakaiva people of the Northern District (ND), Papua; large folder of ND correspondence, photocopied articles, maps, photographs; smaller folder ND anthropological/ historical items; manila folder “PNG volcanoes” notes, copies of letters, articles; ballet-musical-comedy script Kremlin Kapers or Malice in Blunderland; Black & White magazine v.no.8, July 1967, v.1no.18 August, 1968, final issue July-August 1969; Doregari – magazine of Popondetta High School 1974; [Police] Motu words to song Papua; booklet Papua New Guinea ena Invesmen Koporesin fan; poster “The Eight-Point Improvement Plan” (?Dept. Trade & Industry, Port Moresby) 1973.

Don Matheson: dye-line Maps: Blanche/Rabaul (brief description): Cat. No. 19/310; sub-division Lot 2 portion 56 into lots 10, 11, 12; Resurvey of Portion 763 “Unambukebuk” Cat. No. 19/249; subdivisions 1 & 2 of portion 14 “Melmaluan” Cat. No. 19/236; sub 1, and resub. 1 and 2 of sub.2 of portion 2 Paluat or Faluat Cat. No. 19/162; Tokaiya Plantation Portion 452 Cat. No. 19/151; Survey of Administration Allots. 15-19 inclusive for Native Hospital Site Cat. No. 19/43; Survey of Lots 1-14 inc. Por.10 Cat. No. 19/364; Re-survey of Lots 3, 4 & 5 Section 14 Town of Rabaul Cat. No. 19/276; Survey of S.E. Boundary of Japlik Cat. No. 19/48; Re-Survey of Por. 400 Inabui; 22 Cemetery; 25 Kilungaul Catholic Mission (CM); 24 Wirian Methodist Mission (MM); Kauba MM; Cat. No. 19/285; Allotment 1-4 inc. Section L1 Town of Rabaul Cat. No. 19/61; Lakunai Aerodrome Town of Rabaul Cat. No. 19/56; Rapindik south of Matupi Farm Area Rabaul Cat. No. 19/57 (2 copies); Subdivision of Lots 3 & 4 Sec. 78 Cat.No. 19/270; Allotments 2-6 Section No. 19 Town of Rabaul Cat. No. 19/233. Namatanai dye-line maps: Pors. 506, 186, 217 Town of Namatanai; Cat. No. 21/30; Sections I-VI inclusive & Portions 186 217 Town of Namatanai Cat. No. 21/33. Photos and sketches of: four native men in feathers, armbands and armrings sitting/standing before others in native style slatted house ca.1914; carved clamshell armband (?bride price) approx. 10cm wide (provenance unknown), plus one on arm; detailed sketches va, vb, MYA260, 267, 267II,un-numbered of armband; plain bangle approx. 6 cm. wide acquired Rabaul or Namatanai approx. 1955 (both ?clamshell). Photocopy: “Transfer of Land (subsequently referred to as DA331) to the Crown” Instrument signed by Francis P. Winter (acting Administrator) and D.B. Ballantyne (Registrar-General). Correspondence: several letters between Chief of Division (Surveys)/ Staff Survey-or Bereina/acting Crown Solicitor, Port Moresby, concerning “Transfer of Land ...”; map of Bereina (Epo/Yule) Cat.No.42/189; Progress Journals D.J. Matheson 30th November 1960, 31st October 1960, 30th November 1961; Jim Fingleton and Oswald Tolapa “Land registrat-ion among the Tolai people: waiting fifty years for titles”; letter Mary Boldery to Matheson with attachments regarding an approach to the Potsdam Archives Office to search for records; Don Matheson four travel (inspection) allowance claims  5. 9.1960, 27. 2.1961,  03.8.1961 and 14. 9.1961; undated letter from Peter Morris (for Don Matheson) answering mine of 231114.

Noel Copp: slides of Port Moresby (some pre-1951 or unidentified, others indistinct) including feathered  head-dresses; Shrine of Remembrance Bomana War Cemetery; distant views of Cemetery; natives in dance costumes; canoes on beach, wharf area; costumed greeting party on wharf; sellers at Koki Market (Port Moresby); native men wearing pearl-shell breast plates; natives massed for a sing-sing; view of Paga Point from Ela Beach.

Ron Galloway (courtesy Mrs R.V. Galloway): 2 small b&w photos of Samarai residence 1959; 2 small colour photos of Samarai Residency 26/08/08; 4 large colour photos of Residency showing neglected/run-down condition ca.26/8/08; large colour photo of Madang Residency no date (n.d.); photo of aircraft at Tapini with natives and Europeans n.d; large damaged photo of Papuan Air Transport aircraft at Tapini with constabulary guard of honour, n.d.; photocopy of Syd Smith’s “Recollections of the Goilala 1947/48”, photos of Tapini, Obaoba and Ononge taken by Bill Brown; Ken Brown’s article “Potted Pusicat”; correspondence with National Library of Australia concerning the Galloway papers; copy of Pix vol.27 no.1 Sep-tember 8 1951 with “Papuan Patrol” photographs at pp.7-13 (originals in the Galloway collection); small canvas bag containing Tapini Visitors Book 1940-8/67 (flood damaged but legible); Village Constable’s Register (flood damaged but generally legible);  personal-official file 1959-1962; Dept of the Interior, Canberra, map of Bamu-Purari Patrol 1936 by Ivan Champion and C.T.J. Adamson; DDS&NA circular instruction  34/46-47 26th November 1946 “Wearing clothes by Natives”; bound copy of Lake Murray Area Patrol NR4 of 46/47 by POs David Marsh and Ron Galloway with small photo Marsh/Galloway/unidentified; Galloway’s notebook (diary, with map) of Mountain Koiari and Motoi Lake Murray 1946; District Com-missioners’ Conference  (flood damaged) Port Moresby, 1968; typed paper “Beto. The Hand That Told a Story” no author, 1950; Goilala sub-District Court of Petty Sessions Committal Proceedings Part I 1949/50, Part II 1949/1953,Part III 1954/1957 (all slight flood damage).

Reports, some flood damaged:Patrol 1928 by PO R.G. Speedie  to Garusia (near Kairuku, Papua) to investigate alleged massacre; patrol 1932 by A(ssistant)R(esident)M(agistrate) R.G. Speedie and P.O. Mahony to Tauri and Tiveri (some pp. fragile); Anthropology Notes (with map) by R.G. Speedie Mt Yule District, Papua, plus letter from Raymond Firth plus copy of Territory of Papua Government Gazette 7th March 1934; patrol 1934 by R.G. Speedie to Mekeo District and Vailalai Village, Mt Yule, for  inspection and movement of some villagers to coast for health treatment; patrol 1935 by R.G. Speedie and A.B. Watkins to Mt Yule area to arrest murderers at Tavevi, Kapatka and Igu’ei; patrol 1935 by R.G. Speedie and C.T.J. Adamson to upper and lower Aiwara Valley, and Sopu; patrol 1935 by R.G. Speedie and C.T.J. Adamson  to Arioma, Amtata, Kataifa and Ororo-Gaivara villages in Aibala Valley; District Commissioners’ Conferences 3rd-11th April, 1967; 14th-15th July 1969 ; 13th-22nd July  1970; 19th-28th July 1971; report of R.T. Galloway Administration Liasion Officer (ALO), United Nations Visiting Mission (UNVM) 1965 tour of PNG Districts; R.T. Galloway ALO, of the UNVM tours of Districts 1968; Opening Statement on the Trust Territory of New Guinea to the UN Trusteeship Council 35th Session by the Special Representative Mr Ronald Gallo-way, 5th June 1968. Report on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers) in Eastern Papua 1959. Various authors/ witnesses; item extracted from military map Buna, New Guinea; CD with film clips of: Kokoda Front Line (Damien Parer) Cinesound, 1941; Moresby under the Blitz, Cinesound 1942; New Guinea Patrol(Assistant)D(istrict) C(ommiss-ioner) Galloway) no attribution; D(istrict) C(ommissioner) Tom Ellis, Aust. Film Unit, n.d.; New Guinea Patrol D(istrict) O(fficer) James Sinclair, Dept of Interior Film Unit, n.d.; Flight into Yesterday (color) incomplete, no attribution, n.d. General photos: group photographs of District Commissioners; Papuan Air Transport aircraft on Tapini strip (Dr V. Zigas far left, Bobby Gibbes, Mrs Ronnie Galloway, Ron Galloway, unknown, locals); aircraft on Tapini strip, police guard of honour, locals (photo damaged).

Fr. Greg Bourke ofm: Bulletin of the Franciscans of Papua New Guinea (Aitape), Volume 28 No.3 July 2014.

Dr Peter Cahill: (1) DVD Some came home – Pacific War veterans tell their story of survival from Rabaul. (2) Kathryn Spurling, The Mystery of AE1: Australia’s Lost Submarine and Crew. Fyshwick, ACT. 2014; (3) photocopy of external/internal layout of sister submarine AE2  provided by KWC Humphreys; letter 211203 John Foster (former Joint Commander of the Australian Defence Advisory Group PNG) to Humphreys outlining his theory of the loss of sub-marine AE1; Humphreys/Foster 010104 with additional/supporting information. (4) Invitation from President Ken Cheung to attend the opening ceremony of the Cathay Community Association Hall, Coopers Plains, Brisbane, on 14th April 2014. CD to follow.

Colleen Neville: Photographs: (most identified, others an imaginative guess): Papua Hotel, Port Moresby; ASOPA Long Course December 1948 – John Hay, Graham Taylor, Len Murphy, Bill Wilson, Noel Johnson, John Dalrimple-Hay, Bill Parker, Ray Bamford, Harry Plant, Jim Landman, Don Groves; unidentified group; accommodation huts; Ron Neville at Telefomin S(outhern )H(ighlands) D(istrict) with PMC Hasluck, Minister for External Territories; ceremony with plaque honouring murdered kiaps Geoffrey Harris and Gerald Szarka, 1952; two native men with black palm bow and tomahawk; six photos of air drops to build Tari patrol post; one of men running to collect cargo; digging out large tree stump on airstrip site; bringing supplies; eleven photos filling large drainage ditches (?on former fighting ground); cut-ting tree for removal; digging out the tree on airstrip site; four women in local dress; woman with painted face and bilum skullcap; man wearing flower-decorated large black “wig” and small cowrie-shell necklace; two men and a small boy; one photo with caption Asaro Valley native, Asaro Patrol Post Schrader Mts; police parade (unidentified place); line of six men with caption Kutubu 30-10-52; very tall tree with rope/plank ladder for protection against attack; nine photographs of native children; District Office with painted art scene on end wall; two gentlemen of Tari in their Sunday best; group of men with hand-held Kundus (drums) wearing Bird of Paradise and white cockatoo feather head-dresses; two warriors in full fighting regalia; larger group sans cockatoo feathers wearing skirts of leaves; men out-side house; four seated women in bark cloaks and assorted finery with warriors in back-ground; view from the Neville’s home in Mendi; four colour photos of Provincial Government celebrations, Mendi, with police band; four men with painted faces, grass skirts and wigs/head-dresses; man in large split-feathered head-dress and boy in skirt and head-band; man with elaborately-painted face and wig; two arse-grasses (kunai grass modesty panels)with PNG flag painted on their backs; group of feathered, oiled and painted men; two white-painted men with black feather head-dresses; singsing line with feathers and kundus; line in feathers and round black hats, no drums, one with large pearl-shell on forehead; group with bows and arrows, Ron Neville greeting unidentified (?PANGIA representative) feathered and armed men in background.

Fourteen photos of delegates to/at Twentieth Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Sri Lanka, 1974; invitation to functions from: the United Kingdom Branch Delegation to PNG; District Commissioner & Mrs Clancy, Port Moresby; leader of the Commonwealth of Australia Branch 20th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference , Commonwealth High Commissioners in Sri Lanka 040974; President of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association General Council 090974; wives of delegates attending 20th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference 090974; the Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka 130974; President and Members of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association 140974; and the Speaker of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly 251174.

20th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference Opening Ceremony 060974; Platform Party and Seating Plan; Handbook; Biographies of Members; Order of Proceedings; Menu for the dinner in honour of Delegates. Photographs: Southern Highlands District Commissioner (SHD) Des Clancy at Mendi 10th Anniversary Independence Celebrations; Administrator L.W. Johnson at the opening of the Kangul Bridge SHD; Ron Neville ditto; commemorative plaque; crowd at opening of bridge with vehicles crossing; Ron Neville addressing crowd during Mendi celebrations for 10th anniversary of Independence; Governor-General of Australia Lord De L’Isle at the opening of the PNG House of Assembly 1962 with daughter the Hon. Catherine De L’Isle speaking with Lady Cleland (wife of PNG Administrator Sir Donald Cleland) on her left; GG inspecting RPNGC Guard of Honour; GG after the opening ceremony with Speaker Mr (later Sir) Horace Niall on his left, WPB Smart, Clerk of the House, in front; GG and daughter with dignitaries on dais; GG reading address; meeting Members of the House; Members waiting to meet GG; greeting line for Members and guests; Members listening to translations of House business; Ron Neville with PNG Governor General Andrew Wabiria at Mendi Provincial Government celebrations.
Evelyn Ashworth (courtesy niece Deb Preece): letters to family from Saiho/Popondetta, Kavieng, Rabaul and Sohano (most from Rabaul 1955-1957) describing the towns and work as an Infant & Maternal Welfare Sister. Photographs and negatives: some undated or identified:  Self and Mrs Jordan at Rabaul bung (native market)1958; post-WW2 European houses of Sisalkraft (tarred paper) with push-out shutters; Markham Road bridge; three native men with captured turtle; nine European nurses in uniform; native men paddling canoe at Muss-au (St Matthias Group); native women before house, canoe racing; WW2 wreck of Jap cruiser on New Hanover ; court hearing at Tabolo, Mussau; village child; holding a clinic during patrol; tultuls and luluais wearing officials caps; unloading a car from  a trawler at Emirau; Bruno & Olive Kroening’s German plantation house at Emirau used as an American officers’ club during the war; 20 paddle Mussau Island canoe; NG pig; Ruth (surname not known) sister at Kavieng European Hospital and Evelyn on board Theresa May; driver Kee Why with Yee Fong’s jeep on east coast road; entrance to Tandis village east coast road with carved totem; Ruth in Kavieng sister’s house; dukduk dancing to honour recently deceased man; east coast road; two small trawlers at Kavieng wharf; afternoon tea with European women and children; 45ft canoe in boathouse Mussau, large canoe with paddlers; Leun village Djaul island; golf course Kavieng; in canoe with two dokta-bois in Kavieng harbour; taking blood from baby at New Hanover; trawler crew from Kimbe, New Britain; old bomb (car) with the crew aboard;  Luluai with wife and family New Hanover; Ulu mission boys’ choir preparing for a wedding; European Hospital, Kavieng; village scene Mussau; Catholic Mission congregation at Metamus; (Mrs) Pat Ball by the falls, Boliu Mission; at Kimadan Mission; Rouna Falls dressed for NG Foundation Day beyond the swimming pool; dukduk and villagers; micro-cephalic (small head) child Kavieng; Kasi, dokta boi at Paneras with first living child; natives with captured turtle; boathouse with the Selas canoe at Ubeil, west coast; Emirau Island close to grave of Australian wife of German planter who died in child-birth with twins; golf course fairway Kavieng; road at Fissoa; kapok trees between nurses’ house and hospital; copra shed at Kavieng wharf; Olive Kroening at Emirau; falls and lower pool Boliu, Mussau; road in Kavieng; villagers Taskul New Hanover; meris at Tabolo Mission; Kavieng native hospital office; back veranda European Hospital Kavieng; family at Neitab island New Hanover. Slides: views of east and west coasts of New Ireland up to St Matthias Group; in and around Kavieng (e.g. opening of Methodist Church); Anzac Day 1957; plantations; native hospital; infant welfare clinic; singsing preparations; Lemakot Mission’s native nurse and medical orderly; cutting copra on Djaul island; villages/villagers; native grave buildings; Jap WW2 shipwreck; women at New Hanover; making a canoe; native school; native co-operative meeting. Ten yellow Kodacslide boxes:views of New Ireland; plantations/ports of call to St Matthias Group; east coast New Ireland; Rabaul generally but includes mud holes at Talasea; Matupit, Tavurvur and Vulcan volcanoes; scenes Madang, Mt Hagen to Minj; patrol Eastern Highlands centres; views in/around Port Moresby and Lae; Port Moresby to Goroka; Minj to Port Moresby; Port Moresby/Samarai/ Madang.

Roy & Daera Andrews: CD of Milne Bay schools choral contest 1964 acknowledged. Their considerable collection of documents will be listed in the June 2015 Una Voce.  Dr Peter Cahill   070115  

Part 3 of Neville Threlfall donations to Fryer Library
Post WW2 to 1969: Mataungan rally 1969 Queen Elizabeth Park Rabaul – seated Damien Kereku & John Kaputin front row; Air Vice Marshall and Mrs Wheeler at Volavolo cocoa fermentery n.d.; memorial to those put aboard the Montevideo Maru  Rabaul at the foot of Wharf Street, 22 June 1942 taken 1960s; sketch of Matupit volcano and Rabaul harbour n.d.; Rabaul pre-WW2 powerhouse equipment destroy-ed during war n.d.; Sir Donald Cleland Administrator of PNG 1962; voters examining candidates photos Rabaul First Common Roll elections for House of Assembly 1964; Fr Bernhard Franke Rabaul n.d.; memorial to soldiers of Indian Army p.o.ws Rabaul War Cemetery Bita Paka East New Britain n.d; photo of Methodist Church corner Mango Avenue and Malaguna Road Rabaul n.d.; wartime wrecks in Rabaul water-front 1947; Malakuna 1946 and 1947, 1946 looking across Blanche Bay with wartime wrecks in foreground harbour foreshore; wrecked Japanese flying boat on foreshore; Luluais before Sir Donald and Lady Cleland before the inauguration of the First Local Government Council on New Hanover; Luluais replaced by Local Government Coun-cil throwing their caps on the ground; Luluais burning their caps, Mango Avenue Rabaul 1961; sign in front of Gazelle Peninsula Local Government Council; mouth of Japanese tunnel at the “Blue Lagoon” Rabaul-Kokopo road 1964; Marquis de Rays millstone March 1963; Chinese tombstone old Kokopo cemetery 1964; coconut trees Rabaul waterfront Feb 1977; Frau Gertrud Wenzel, former (Methodist) missionary (Kavieng) 1914-1920 and husband Karl Albert Wenzel of Germany, revisiting Rabaul 1966; Tolai children with Tavurvur crater in background; Bai mi vot long Husat? (Whom shall I vote for?); polling day Rabaul 11/2/64.
1970s onwards: view from ridge road, Rabaul September 1977; Mother and Pala-gigia at rear, Namanula ridge; Rabaul Secretarial College and surrounds 28/2/77;
Independence celebrations Rabaul Memorial Church Sept. 1975; Namanula Hill decorations for Royal visit 23/2/74; decorated archway Royal visit Feb.1974; decor-ated entrance and arch Pila Pila church 23/2/74; Peter Urami with bullhorn interrupt-ing swearing in of East New Britain Provincial Government May 1977; the Governor-General, Sir Tore Lokoloko, declines to continue because of the disruption; demon-strateion at installation of new Provincial Government May 1977; Bee Hives and Rabaul Harbour Sept. 1977; Royal visit decorations Feb. 1974; PNG Banking Corp-oration independence celebrations display September 1975; (Catholic) Archbishop John Hoehne, Fr Franke, Fr Willie Vogt at Fr Franke’s Jubilee celebrations 1977; Lioro Lapila, first indigenous treasurer of the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Rabaul 1980; Rabaul 1980; view of Rabaul from Observat-ion ridge 1978; East New Britain Provincial Government business centre Rabaul, 1981; War Memorial erected by Japanese “To all who died in Rabaul and Region during the War” erected on Namanula Hill n.d.; Memorial Service Bita Paka War cemetery late 1970s; Fr Franke with Pat Roberts and wife Vickie; Gough Whitlam at Volavolo Fermentery January 1970; Matthias Tutunava Toliman died September 1973; Catholic nuns at his funeral service, Paparatava; the Queen and John Kaputin Rabaul April1974; the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr & Mrs Kaputin and son, the Queen  Rabaul, April 1974; the Queen meeting East New Britain District Commissioner, Philip Bouraga and Mrs Bouraga, April 1974; Mark Phillips, Princess Anne, the Queen at Rabaul Rugby League Ground April 1974; a very multi-racial Class 6, Sacred Heart International Primary School, Rabaul 1977; girls from Manus Island, Frangipani Week 1979; Frangipani Festival Parade 1979 (bottom photo is a caribou – water buffalo);
Rabaul Girl Guides and Brownies, Frangipani Festival 1979; Manus District boys and girls Frangipani Festival 1979; Milne Bay Province girls Frangipani Festival Rabaul, 1979; girls from Secretarial School at Frangipani Festival 1979; girls from Manus Province, Frangipani Festival, 1979; sign urging “Gough Whitlam go home” at cocoa fermentery 1970; Whitlam at fermentery; meeting with Gazelle Pen-insula Social Government Councillors; E(ast) N(ew) B(ritain) Provincial Government members, Governor-General Tore Lokoloko, wife and Oscar Tammur at start of cere-mony to install new government, 1977; Independence Day march September 1975; the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh meet a Bainings fire dancer Rabaul April 1974; Australian gun on Praed Point 1980; Dukduk and Tubuan costumes 1980; Tubuan dancing Matupit island 1980; independence celebrations display PNG Banking Cor-poration, Rabaul 1974; Ministers of Rabaul (United) church late 1970s: Rev. Ian Taylor, Ronnie Tom and Elison Laino at the Praed Point battery; Bita Paka War Cemetery, East New Britain, n.d; letter 10th June 1937 from L.H.M. to “my dear Margaret” describing the 1937 eruption; letter 3rd June 1937 by A.S. Jones describing the 1937 eruption; George Brown College hymn; correspondence Professor Ted Wolfers/Rev. Neville Threlfall concerning Rev. Hosea Linge and his writings, and orthography and translations of language Tinata Tuna (Kuanua); Hosea Linge’s role in the Pacific War by Neville Threlfall; Ligeremaloga life and story of a pioneering Papua New Guinea writer; Guinea Gold vol.4 no.230 last issue Sunday June 30 1946; Royal visit to Rabaul 1974 reported in A Nilai Ra Dovot April 1974; order of morning worship at Pila Pila-Ratavul Church 24th February 1974 (includes notes); photographs of Queen, Prince Philip and Princess Anne meeting Bishop Saimon Gaius and members of the congregation and receiving a ceremonial coil of Tambu (shell money); CD of pictures of Raronga Theological College, East New Britain and  photos (7 b&w, 2 colour) of Rarongo children’s sports day; centenary celebrations at Molot, Duke of York islands, 15th August 1975.

 
Papers and Historical Notes
Interview with Jack Thurston 17/12/1981; story of Rev. Don Alley, New Zealand Methodist missionary on Bougainville captured by the Japanese and placed on the “Montevideo Maru” (lost with all personnel after leaving Rabaul June 1942); official independence celebrations in Rabaul East New Britain 14-17 September 1975; the United Church New Guinea Islands Region booklet of devotions to be used in the home at the time of Independence September 1975; booklet explaining Independ-ence; Rabaul Saga 1942-2002, a brief historical outline by Rev. Neville Threlfall; synopsis of Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul by Rev.
Neville Threlfall; Threlfall family personal newsletter for family and friends in Aus-tralia 1968; memoir of Mr Waiau Ahnon; copy of address presented to Colonel J.J.
Scanlan CO Lark Force Rabaul with handwritten comments by Mr Tim Gambrill Sydney on article “Honouring Pacific War martyrs”; note from Barbara Short enclos-ing article by Jacob Simet “Safeguarding Abelam (East Sepik) culture  recognised as one of the most intricate, elaborate and spectacular in PNG” details of a selection of students at Keravat during the 1950s; Provincial High Schools and Secondary Schools Principals Conference Granville Motel 15th-18th March 1999; New Guinea islands News no.64 June 1980; brief report on Andersons Foodland P/L and sub-sidising companies accounts; article by Neville Threlfall “Toliman Matthias Tutunava (1925-1973) in Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition; the Rabaul 1942-1945 Memorial unveiled by the Hon. Sinai Brown OBE MPA erected by the 2/22nd Battalion ‘Lark’ Force Association and relatives of those who died; letter to Rev. Threlfall from Fr Theo Aerts on deaths in Mandated Territory of New Guinea during WW2; article Kiriwina celebrates.

Volcanic activity material
Volcanic Emergency Plan – advice to Rabaul householders; description of post-eruption Rabaul in May 1995 by David and Julie Hamilton; eyewitness account of the volcanic eruption September 1994 by Eric Dyer; report of post-eruption visit October 1994 by Laurine Gray; an eruption and its effects as recorded in diary by Lorraine Pinne; Rob Weatherburn writing on the 1997 eruption; taking Petrologic Pathways towards understanding Rabaul’s restless caldera by Rabaul Petrology Group; Haus Guria, Rabaul Volcanic Observatory earthquake information booklet April 1992; Wally Johnson “Fire Mountains of the Islands: History of Volcanic Disasters in near Ocean-ia”, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU, Canberra, n.d.; a short account of “Pago” mountain (west New Britain) by William To Rangmule, translated by Neville Threlfall; accounts of 1937 volcanic activity, Rabaul, by radio operator Hugh Taylor 8.12.86; account of 1937 eruption, September 1994, extracted from Sue Lauer’s “Pumice and Ash” 1995; discussion on future of Rabaul following the eruption of 1994 and its on-wards progress extracted from Rabaul subject Zoning Development Plan, Role of Private Sector Developers, “Special Report from Rabaul” in World Mission Partners vol.6 no.4 December 1994; leaflet on dangerous volcanoes of PNG (English and Pidgin) produced by PNG – Australia Vulcanological Service Support Project; Ron Wayne’s volcanic account 1937 (with notes by Mrs Wayne).

Maps NE Gazelle Peninsula, Garman era, showing roads/bridle tracks; 1879 map of sparse initial German development; nautical cap of Bismarck Archipelago ca.1883; German plantations in Gazelle Peninsula ca.1886; plantations and villages Gazelle Peninsula Watom Island and part of Duke of York islands late 1930s; photocopy of map showing major tectonic provinces and plate boundaries which indicate relative and absolute plate motions in the Melanesian region n.d.; public warning issued after tsumanis July 1971; evacuation plan for Rabaul in case of volcanic eruptions 1980s; United Church stations in the NG Islands region 1975; northeast Gazelle Peninsula and the Duke of York islands 1975; map showing Rabaul as surveyed and NDL (North Deutsche Lloyd shipping company) water source, n.d.; Simpsonhafen 1908; Rabaul and Herbertshohe (Kokopo) 1908.