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Pacific Manuscripts Bureau PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU Room 4201, Coombs Building College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia Telephone: (612) 6125 2521 Fax: (612) 6125 0198 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu Trip Report PMB Fieldwork in Luganville, Santo, Vanuatu and Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 5-19 April 2011 Poster encouraging women in parliament, YWCA offices, Honiara. Summary The main purpose of this trip was to complete the following: - Anglican Church of Melanesia archives in Luganville, Santo (listing and copying) - YWCA archives, Honiara (listing and copying) - Anglican Church of Melanesia archives (periodical collection), held at the Solomon Islands National Archives, Honiara (listing and copying) - Student theses at the Bishop Patteson Theological College, Kohimarama, Guadalcanal (listing and copying) 11 reels of microfilm were exposed producing the following PMB titles: PMB 1333 CHURCH OF MELANESIA, Diocese of Vanuatu, Bishop Derek Rawcliffe Papers, Santo, 1949-1982. Reel 9 (supplementary reel). PMB 1344 CHURCH OF MELANESIA, Diocese of Vanuatu, Bishop Harry Tevi Papers, Santo, 1979-1992. Reels 2-4 (supplementary reels). PMB 1360 YWCA, Solomon Islands, Administrative records, 1975-2009. Reels 3 and 4. PMB 1361 BISHOP PATTESON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, Theses for the Diploma in Theology, Bachelor of Theology, and other staff papers, Kohimarama, Solomon Islands, 1970- 2010. Reels 4-7. PMB work at Sarakata, Luganville, Santo, Vanuatu Bishop Terry and I met in Luganville on Wednesday 6 April. Bp Terry had flown from Honiara to Luganville via Port Vila. I had flown from Canberra to Brisbane, then direct to Luganville. On arrival at the Sarakata parish, we found the boxes of archives piled on a pallet in a room that is no longer used. The room did not have power, however the Melanesian Brothers helped us to move some furniture to create a temporary work space and hook up power from the main hall with a long extension cord across the main courtyard. Bp Terry and I began to sort through the boxes, mostly from the 1980s onwards, and organise the papers under headings, including Synods, Diocesan Council, Mothers’ Union, Parishes, Banks and Torres Diocese etc., before we put them on the shelves. Church of Melanesia, Diocese of Vanuatu Archives on our arrival. The archives, having been moved several times and were quite disorganised and dirty. It was hot and humid work and at lunch time I bought a paintbrush to brush the dirt off the papers as well as some old t-shirts from the op-shop to wear whilst undertaking the dirty work! Bp Terry and I worked solidly on the Diocese of Vanuatu archives over the next six days. I began microfilming on the third day. There were frequent heavy downpours of rain and the sky became extremely dark. After the rain, the full sun came out and it was a different day with bright blue skies. As you can see in the picture above there were no curtains on the louver windows, so I frequently had to adjust the light settings using the dimmer when the weather changed. Bp Terry working on sorting the Church of Melanesia, Diocese of Vanuatu archives. We discovered more Bp. Rawcliffe correspondence from 1952-1982, which will be added as a supplementary reel (reel 9) to PMB 1333 CHURCH OF MELANESIA, Diocese of Vanuatu, Bishop Derek Rawcliffe Papers, Santo, 1949-1980. I filmed additional papers of Bp Tevi, mainly lecture notes from his time at the Pacific Theological College (1967-1973) and correspondence (1979-1992) that will be supplementary reels (reels 2-4) to PMB 1344 CHURCH OF MELANESIA, Diocese of Vanuatu, Bishop Harry Tevi Papers, Santo, 1979-1992. I also filmed additional diocesan papers, including the Synod papers, Diocesan Council papers, the Trust Board, Godden Memorial Hospital, the Mother’s Union, Port Patteson Land/Goodwill Training Centre in the Banks Islands and ‘M.V.Waikoe’ which will be added as supplementary reels (reels 4-6) to PMB 1334 CHURCH OF MELANESIA, Diocese of Vanuatu, Diocesan Papers, Santo, 1909-1995. Reels 1-6. 2 There are approximately 28 boxes of archives of the Diocese of Vanuatu, COM, that still need to be sorted and microfilmed. These boxes are now held at the COM Provincial Headquarters in Luganville, Santo. Most of the papers from both the Bishops and the DOV Admin papers from the 1980s have now been sorted and microfilmed. Some of the remaining boxes have been sorted into subject headings relating to the Bishop (Tavoa) and other DOV subjects. Kylie microfilming Church of Melanesia, Diocese of Vanuatu archives at Sarakata parish. I estimate that there is approximately 2 weeks of sorting and microfilming work for the PMB on the Church Of Melanesia, Diocese of Vanuatu archives. Bishop Terry may return to Santo in August this year for a Higher Education meeting and may get time to sort through some of the boxes. The tasks that need to be completed in relation to these archives include: Open and sort the unopened boxes into appropriate DOV subject headings. Sort by chronological date, all of the papers within each subject heading and remove staples in preparation for microfilming. Microfilm the papers. Bp Ligo, the current Bishop of the Diocese of Vanuatu kindly invited us to dinner with his family one evening and thanked Bp Terry and the PMB for our work on the Diocese of Vanuatu archives. Bp Terry said that he will most likely return to Canada at the end of 2012, when his current extension of contract as the “Church Of Melanesia archivist” expires. In addition to the 2 more weeks of work in Santo, Vanuatu, there are more Church of Melanesia archives to be microfilmed by the PMB in Honiara. The completion of the Diocese of Vanuatu archives should be a priority for the PMB before Bp Terry retires at the end of 2012. The COM archives in Honiara are less urgent as Bp Terry is sorting and preparing these papers for microfilming in a clear and coherent manner. Bp. Ligo (centre) with his wife and daughter and Fr. Allan Daniel Borugu, former Head Brother of the Melanesian Brotherhood, with Kylie and Bp Terry at Bp Ligo’s house after dinner (Luganville, Santo). 3 Bp Terry and I stayed at the Bamboo Garden Motel which was simple, but adequate. It was conveniently located, directly opposite the Luganville market where we bought delicious fresh fruit and vegetables such as bananas ($1.10 per bunch!), avocados, passionfruit and pomplemousse, and within 10 minutes walking distance to the archives at Sarakata parish. Bp Terry and I travelled from Santo to Port Vila on the afternoon of 11 April on a small twin otter aeroplane. It was a clear day and the view of the northern islands of Vanuatu from the small plane were spectacular. On arrival in Port Vila the airport attendants noticed that the back luggage door had been open the entire trip! Luckily, no luggage had fallen out and, most importantly, all of our equipment was in tact. The following morning Bp Terry and I caught a plane from Port Vila to Honiara. Bunches of fresh peanuts for sale at the Luganville market. PMB work at the Solomon Islands National Archives (SINA), Honiara, Solomon Islands Church of Melanesia work at SINA YWCA On Wednesday 13 April, I was met by the friendly faces of staff I had met in January, at the Solomon Islands National Archives, who kindly agreed to allow me to use one of their upstairs rooms for microfilming. I visited the YWCA offices and picked up the remaining folders (1987-2009) of YWCA archives that needed to be microfilmed. I filmed these YWCA archives as the following: PMB 1360 YWCA, Solomon Islands, Administrative records, 1975-2009. Reels 3 and 4. (Available for reference.) The YWCA is planning to write a history of their operations and have asked the Bureau to supply them with a digital copy of the microfilms of their YWCA archives. I am in the process of editing the master negatives of the microfilm and will arrange the supply of a digital copy of PMB 1360 to the YWCA. Alice Iwebu, General Secretary of YWCA and Kylie Moloney in the garden of the YWCA hostel, Honiara. Bishop Patteson Theological College Student Theses I had planned to visit the Bishop Patteson Theological College at Kohimarama, West Guadalcanal, to continue the copying of the student theses, however on Thursday 14 April, I got news that their generator was broken and there was no power as they were waiting on a spare part from Australia to fix the generator. Lucy Tarasa, the Librarian at Bishop Patteson Theological College kindly ferried in boxes of the theses in the BPTC truck each day so that I could continue with this work. I employed Lucy on one of the days to assist with listing the theses. 4 I microfilmed: PMB 1361 BISHOP PATTESON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, Theses for the Diploma in Theology, Bachelor of Theology, and other staff papers, Kohimarama, Solomon Islands, 1970- 2010. Reels 4-7. Some of the theses included illustrations such as those ones below by Joses Helonge “Ulawa traditional sacrifice” (1980). Illustrations from the theses on “Ulawa traditional sacrifice” by Joses Helongo (1980). I have filmed up to theses item 106 (1994) and now have approximately another 200 theses to film to complete this job, which I estimate will take approximately 16 days of work. As this is such a large job, I expect we will release films 1-7 in the 2011 Member Release and complete the remainder of the work over the next few years, gradually releasing the microfilms to members as they are completed.
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