Rev. Neville Threlfall Part Two (Part One listed in September 2014 Una Voce)
Photos (listed in order of collection) printed from Fellmann glass negatives: First Bismarck Hotel, Kokopo,(Herbertshohe); radio mast Rabaul; unidentified; unidentified; (?Government House, Rabaul); rotunda in Rabaul Botanic Gardens; unidentified; German couple in trap with native attendant; ?Queen Emma’s mother, mother, Leutu, with family members on steps of [her residence] Gunantambu [at Kokopo]; unidentified; ?Governor’s yacht; mouth of Sulphur Creek, Rabaul; unidentified; Governor’s yacht and launch; houses at Herbertshohe (Kokopo); unidentified; ceremonial square Rabaul with flagstaff; Rabaul foreshore (Government House, Nama-nula, white roof far left).

Blue folder marked 19th century: Marquis de Rays survivors; Samoan teacher and family; Mr & Mrs Fellmann; native missionaries; Fijian missionaries; beach at Raluana with Rev. Crump’s whaleboat; a seine net at Matupi; men fishing for whitebait; Samoan trader with wife and children; Fijian teachers at Ulu; Matupit, South Daughter and Vulcan volcanoes; native chief at Ralum; Pero To Kinkin with coils of tambu (native currency); cable fish trap about 100 fathoms anchor for trap; fastening anchor to trap; two Fijian missionaries off to preach; photocopied photos of Fr Fromm MSC and Fr Navarre MSC; group of natives at Urukuk, Duke of York islands, with Lydia Brown and son Geoffrey; the Browns visiting the graves of Mabel and Wallis; Lydia at grave; Tongan teacher, wife and Geoffrey Brown with natives at Kabakada 1876-1880; Geoffrey Brown and friend at Ulu; Lydia Brown with group of New Ireland women; Samoan teacher and wife, Lydia and Geoffrey with Duke of York women; kitchen at Kinavanua, Duke of Yorks; teachers and catechists at Kabakada 1880; Geoffrey and friend; Duke of York women with two Fijian women; Lydia with New Ireland women; Geoffrey and friends at Port Hunter, Duke of Yorks, with sailing vessels; first Mission house at Kinavanua 1876; Mission house at Vunela, Kabakada, 1876-1880; both Browns and ?Benjamin and Emma Danks 1880; Aminio Bale and wife Lavinia 1876-1880; first church buildings in the islands opened 2 January 1876; Peni Lelei and wife 1870s; survivors of Marquis de Rays expedition to southern New Ireland 1870s; survivors of expedition 1870s; teacher’s house at Nodup (Gazelle Peninsula) 1891; Paul Kaplan and family 1870s, Duke of Yorks 1870s; Leutu, one of Captain Coe’s wives and mother of Queen Emma n.d. =no date); road making in New Britain in lieu of tax; Minat memorial for death; Malira or Tau charm for plantation productivity; dancing platform at Ingiet festival, Rakune, New Britain, 1896; family group at Kabakada 1894; Chinese trader Ah Lok’s house at Utuan, October 1899, trading station at Mioko; Ingiet god of New Britain secret society January 1896; safari at Vunakokor, March 1986 with Dr Albert Hahl, future Imperial Governor; Touraram, chief of Vunakokor with wives, March 1896; first students at George Brown College, Ulu, n.d.; Yaparau, Bainings slave girl, at Kabakada 1897; To Liplip decently dressed In two armlets and a straw hat; To Roydiat, brother of Talili and son To Mara; an armed Tolai about 1883; New Britain native houses at Matupit island 1885; Beehives (Dawapia Rocks) showing fishing village, labourers or boats-crew Mioko island, n.d.; Matupi island men dancing; fish trap factory Kokopo road n.d.; large Raluana fish trap ca.1885.

Additional Australian era photos: possibly the ceremonial removal of fallen Australian remains (in the Bitapaka landing of German occupied New Guinea) from Kokopo to Rabaul Cemetery 1918; ditto Rabaul ca.1918; Australia Naval & Military officers and Government patrol boats Rabaul 1914-1918.

Additional photographs – general: five large joined to make a panorama of Rabaul about 1925 from Matupi island to Raluana; three aerial views of Rabaul and area; Rabaul township Japanese WW2 garden cultivation on eastern fringe; aerial view approaching Rabaul over Talili Bay towards the Mother and Matupi (Tavurvur) volcanoes; Kokopo district headquarters during WW1; Malaguna road looking east – 1938-39 with Catholic cathedral on left, Mother volcano in background, no.4 aeroplane bungalow on right (photo by Charles Jones); aerial view of Rabaul n.d. (note wartime shipping); Rabaul 1939 with North Daughter in right back-ground of Public Works Department, Marquis de Rays corn-grinding millstone in front (post-1945 located near Police Station corner Namanula road and Mango Avenue); unidentified ships in Rabaul harbour 1938-39 seen from upper lookout; 2 small white containers marked “Rab. Times” n.d.

ANCOL sketch book: (includes p.4 of handwritten note which seems to duplicate listing) containing: Yara Street (later Casuarina Avenue) Rabaul after 1937 eruption; vessels on Rabaul harbour covered with pumice from eruption; abandoned car covered with eruption dust May 1937; volunteers in the cleanup with Mrs Kath Bignell, manageress of the Rabaul Hotel in Park Street before the hotel entrance; evacuation from the beach at Nodup, north coast, people ferried to waiting ships “Golden Bear” and “Montoro”; evacuees from Rabaul at Nodup 30 May 1937; Vulcan left erupting Rabaul harbour, and Tavurvur right also erupting; Vulcan erupting ditto; five pp. of montages of eruption photos from Sydney newspapers presenting a wider view of destruction.

Yellow Kodachrome box of dated and identified slides with chronological listing: preparing a coconut plantation; Kabanga (south of Cape Gazelle) and Makaurapao (near Cape Gazelle) plantations n.d.; garden party Rabaul 1914; coconut drying sheds (for copra) at Makaurapao 1914; Rev. Karl Wenzel, wife Gertrud and their son Scharnhorst ca.1917; Sulphur Creek, Rabaul, n.d.; Rabaul-Kokopo road ca.1914; cemetery at Kokopo and graves of first Australians to fall in war; this rock “vat” in Kuanua gives Vatnabara on Ulu island in the Duke of Yorks its name n.d.; Kuradui, the home of Mrs Parkinson near Raluana n.d.; three scenes near Kokopo n.d.; three scene of Port Hunter, Molot, Duke of York islands; three scenes of Rabaul harbour at night; three scenes of moonlight across Rabaul n.d.; view from Ulu plantation; preparing hair dye Rabaul area early 20th century; villagers meeting for a special occasion; Casuarina Avenue, Rabaul, and Chinatown; road near Rabaul; road near Rabaul (?Namanula road) 1914; ditto; four photos of roads near Rabaul ca.1914; Beehives (Dawapia Rocks) Rabaul harbour early 1900s; Ulu from boathouse, Duke of York islands; Rabaul harbour from top of Mother volcano early 20th century; Tolai ceremonial feast for the dead; Paramount Luluai Pero (Tokinkin) of Ialakua village near Raluana early 20th century; Pero’s sons and descendants at his funeral; Tubuan about to burn down Pero’s house after his death according to custom; mothers with their babies – head on one bound to elongate skull; Tubuan carrying out custom on a Tolai grave by uprooting draecena plants early 20th century; fish, taro and grated cooked coconut with coconut cream and crushed green leaves ca.1914; outrigger canoe Rabaul area ca.1914; German warship “Albatross” visiting Rabaul 1913; Sister Ashwin and mothers clinic groups 1920s; group of Luluais and Tultuls Rabaul area early 20th century; village headman (Luluai) at Raluana meeting ca.1918; Vulcan island Rabaul harbour ca.1914; Tolai village women on way to market near Rabaul early 20th century; European hospital Namanula Hill; netting small fish 1914; Burns Philp ship at Rabaul wharf ?WW1; general view of Rabaul harbour 1910-1920; Sister Mary Wool-nough sharing with village women in bride-price ceremony ca.1914; summit of Rabaul volcano ca.1914.

Post WW2 to 1969: Mataungan rally 1969 Queen Elizabeth Park, Rabaul – seated front row Damien Kereku and John Kaputin; Air Vice Marshall & Mrs Wheeler at Volavola cocoa fermentary n.d.; memorial to those put aboard the Montevideo Maru at the foot of Wharf Street, Rabaul, 22 June 1942 taken 1960s; sketch of Matupit volcano and Rabaul harbour n.d.; Rabaul pre-WW2 powerhouse equipment destroyed during war n.d.; Sir Donald Cleland, Administrator of PNG 1962; voters examining candidates photos Rabaul First Common Roll elections for 1964 House of Assembly elections; Fr Bernard Franke, n.d.; memorial to soldiers of Indian Army p.o.ws Rabaul War Cemetery Bitapaka, East New Britain n.d.; Meth-odist Church corner Mango Avenue and Malaguna road, Rabaul, n.d.; wartime wrecks in Rabaul waterfront 1947; looking across Blanche Bay 1946 with wartime wrecks in fore-ground harbour foreshore; wrecked Japanese flying boat on foreshore; Luluais in front of  Sir Donald and Lady Cleland before the inauguration of the First Local Government Council on New Hanover; Luluais replaced by Local Government Councillors 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, husband Karl Albert Wenzel of Germany, revisiting Rabaul 1966; Tolai children with Tavuvur crater in background; Bai 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 Palagigia 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; decorated entrance and arch Pila Pila church 23/2/74; Peter Urami with bullhorn interrupting swearing-in of East New Britain Pro-vincial Government May 1977; Governor-General Tore Lokoloko declines to continue be-cause of the disruption; demonstration at installation of new Provincial Government May 1977; Bee Hives and Rabaul harbour Sept. 1977; Royal visit decorations Feb. 1974; PNG Banking Corporation independence celebrations display September 1975; (Catholic) Arch-bishop 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 Solo-mon Islands, Rabaul, 1980; view of Rabaul from Observation 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 Fermentary January 1970; Matthias Tutanava Toliman died September 1973; Catholic nuns at his funeral service, Paparatava; the Queen and John Kaputin April 1974; 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 during Frangipani Week 1979; Frangipani Festival Parade 1979 (bottom photo is a Carabou – water buffalo); Rabaul Girl Guides and Brownies, Frangipani Festival, Rabaul, 1979; Milne Bay Province girls Frangipani Festival, Rabaul, 1977; Sign “Gough Whitlam go home” at cocoa fermentary 1970; Whitlam at fermentary; meeting with Gazelle Peninsula Local Government Councillors; E(ast) N(ew) B(ritain) Provincial Government members. Governor-General Tore Lololoko, wife and Oscar Tammur at start of ceremony 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 day celebrations display PNG Banking Corporation, Rabaul, 1974; minis- ters of Rabaul (United) Church late 1870s: 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 ditto; George Brown College hymn; correspondence Professor Ted Wolfers/ Rev. Neville Threlfall concerning Rev. Hosea Linge and his writings, and orthography and translation of language Tinata Tuna (Kuanua); Hosea Linge’s role in the Pacific War by Rev. 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 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 roll of Tambu (shell money); CD pictures of Raronga Theological College College, East New Britain and photos (7 black & white, 2 colour) of Rarongo childrens 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 independence; 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 newsletter for  family and friends in Australia 1968; memoir of Waiau Ahnon; copy of address present-ed to Colonel J.J. Scanlan CO Lark Force Rabaul with handwritten comments by Mr Tim Gam-brill Sydney on article “Honouring Pacific War martyrs”; note from Barbara Short enclosing 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 Principals Conference Granville Motel 15-18 March 1999; New Guinea Islands News no.64 June 1980; brief report on Anderson’s Foodland P/L and subsidising companies accounts; article by Neville Threlfall on “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 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 1994 eruption; taking Petrologic Pathways towards understanding Rabaul’s restless caldera by Rabaul Petrology Group; Haus Guria Rabaul Vol-canic Observatory earthquake information booklet April 1992; Wally Johnson “Fire Moun-tains of the Islands: History of Volcanic Disasters in near Oceania”, 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 onward progress extracted from Rabaul subject Zoning Develop-ment Plan, Role of Private Sector Developers, “Special Report from Rabaul” in World Mission Partners vol.6 no.4 December 1994; leaflet (English and Pidgin) on dangerous volcanoes of PNG produced by PNG-Australia Vulcanological Service Support Project; Ron Wayne’s volcanic account 1937 (with notes by Mrs Wayne).

Maps: NE Gazelle Peninsula German era showing roads/bridle tracks; nautical map of Bismarck Archipelago ca.1883; 1879 map of sparse plantation development/villages Gazelle Peninsula ca.1886; map showing plantations/villages Gazelle Peninsula/Watom Island/part Duke of Yorks late 1930s; photocopy of map showing major tectonic plate boundaries which relative and absolute plate motions in the Melanesian region n.d.; public warning issued after tsunamis 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 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.

Andrea Williams: material supplied at PNGAA Symposium Sydney, 17-18 September, 2014: program booklet; PNGAA 2014 Anzac Centenary Commemorative Dinner program;  a Vanguard of Sacrifice – centenary tribute to those who gave their lives in World War 1 by Major General John Pearn, AO RFD; Service to commemorate the ANMEF occupation of German New Guinea and the first casualties of WW1 held at Bitapaka War Cemetery, New Britain; NGVR & PNGVR Military Museum, Brisbane, Service 6th September 2014 commemorating the Battle of Bita Paka and the loss of submarine HMAS AE1; Rabaul program 14th September to commemorate the loss of HMAS AE1; flyers: KIAP: Stories behind the medal, War trophies or Curios? By Barry Craig, Ron Vanderwal, Christine Winter – book published in September 2014 by Melbourne Victoria Publishing, and Exhibition Guide Plumes and Pearl-shells: art of the New Guinea Highlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales. 30 May–10 August 2014; Kokoda: Time for a Rethink. Charlie Lynn, MLC psc; flyer: Oil Search Foundation

Ruth Carter (courtesy Lyndal Moor Fitzgerald): 30 boxes Kodachrome slides of views, buildings, town/village scenes, dancers and costumes in Aiyura, Kerema, Goroka, Goilala/ Kukukuku, Lae, Madang, Mt Hagen, Port Moresby, Rabaul, Samarai, Telefomin, Wau; also 1956 Royal visit and one box unidentified; includes large loose photos of meri with bilum, man in feathered head-dress, nasal bone and pearl-shell neck ornaments, young native boy, men and boys with large fishing net, native man in feathers and flowers; photograph album of scenes, villagers, European house interior, in Samarai, Kwato, Rabaul, Kairuku, Kuni, Ela Beach, Madang, Sepik/Wewak, Popondetta, European dances, fashion shows,  eruption of Mt Lamington, Higaturu, Orakaiva. All in period approx. 1951-1961.

DVD of speakers at Pacific Memories Meeting, Toowong Public Library (Brisbane), 4 July 2014: Mr Ken Cheung, President of the Cathay Community Association, Brisbane; and Reverend Neville Threlfall, former Methodist Minister, Rabaul, and PNG historian.

Peter Cahill: Schindler Entertainment DVD Some came home – interviews with Australian and American Pacific War prisoners and escapees from Japanese prisons: Padre John May MBE, Fred Kollmorgen, Sister Berenice Twohill, Rudy Buckley, Lorna Whyte Johnson, John Holland, Lex Fraser and John Kepchia.

Noel Copp: 57x35mm slides of Papua New Guinea scenes, places and people pre-1950.                                                                                       

 
Dr Peter Cahill
7 October 2014