Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Newsletter Room 4201, Coombs Building (9) Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Ph: (612) 6125 2521; Fax: (612) 6125 0198; Email:
[email protected] http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/ Series 5, No. 15 November 2002 Contents News from Canberra p.1 Western Pacific High Commission Archives Arrive in Auckland p.3 Comment on GEIC Archives by Richard Overy p.4 Reverend J. Graham Miller’s Vanuatu Files p.5 Pacific Islands Archives at the South Australian Museum p.6 Bud Watkins’ Papuan Patrol Reports p.7 AusAid Library and AusAid Project Reports p.7 NLA Digitising Pictorial Material in the Hurley and Spencer Collections p.8 Fr Philip Gibbs SVD, Archives Projects at the Melanesian Institute, Goroka, PNG p.8 Susan Cochrane’s Contemporary Pacific Art Archives p.9 New Guide to Pacific National Archives and Records Laws p.9 The Fiji Oral History Project p.10 Recent PMB Microfilm Titles p.12 News from Canberra The papers of Dorothy Crozier, the first Western Pacific archivist, which were The shipment of the archives of the Western transferred to the Bureau last year have been Pacific High Commission (WPHC) from London arranged and parts of them are now available on to Auckland is a major event in the history of PMB microfilm. The Crozier papers included Pacific archives administration. Heather papers of Shirley Baker, the first Premier of Yasamee, the Manager of the British Foreign Tonga, and his daughter Beatrice. Mrs Sioana and Commonwealth Office Historical Records Faupula was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at Department transferred the archives to Stephen the Bureau to identify the Baker papers many of Innes, the Special Collections Librarian at the which are in Tongan.