Cook Islands - Asia and the Pacific

PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU
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College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
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Trip Report
PMB Fieldwork in Rarotonga,
Cook Islands 6 – 29 August 2010
Detail of a traditional handmade hat women wear to church,
Cook Islands Christian Church, Sunday 15 August 2010
Summary
The main purpose of this trip was to:
- Complete the microfilming of the Don Marshall papers (PMB 1337) at the University of the South
Pacific, Rarotonga;
- Survey the Mangaia papers of Rod Dixon;
- Continue to copy documents from the Cook Islands Administration, Resident Commissioner's Office
Correspondence with Resident Agents in the Outer Islands, 1893-1974 at the Cook Islands National
Archive; and
- Survey, list and copy (if appropriate) the papers of Professor Ron Crocombe.
9 reels of microfilm were exposed producing the following PMB titles:
PMB 1337
MARSHALL, Donald Stanley (1919-2005), Cook Islands Research Papers, 19511989. Reels 7-10. (Available for reference.)
PMB 1354
COOK ISLANDS ADMINISTRATION, Resident Commissioner’s Office,
Correspondence with Niue Resident Agents, 1905-1965. Reels 1-3. (Restricted
Access.)
PMB 1355
COOK ISLANDS ADMINISTRATION, Resident Commissioner’s Office,
Correspondence with Rakahanga Resident Agents, 1922-1970. Reels 1-3.
(Restricted Access.)
It was not possible to survey Rod Dixon’s papers on Mangaia as he said that they were not yet in any
kind of order for me to look at.
During this trip, several other meetings and visits were made (see below) . Many of these meetings
may lead to further work for the PMB in the Cook Islands (see heading Future work for PMB below).
PAA Conference
Mon 9 – Wed 11 August
I attended the Pacific Arts Association conference in Rarotonga. I presented a paper titled “Archives
and Pacific Art”. The paper was well received and I met many professionals who are involved in art
galleries and museums throughout the world with a Pacific focus. I promoted the work of the PMB
and handed out many flyers on PMB work and business cards.
Cook Islands National Archives (CINA)
Thu 12- Fri 13 and Mon 23- Thu 26 August.
George Paniani, Canny Vale and Ake Willie National Archives
I worked at the Cook Island National Archives copying correspondence with the Resident Agents to
and from the Resident Commissioner’s Office for the islands of Niue (1905-1965) and Rakahanga
(1922-1970). The papers were often out of date order and it took time to put them back into date order
before I could begin the microfilming. Initially I found the papers difficult to microfilm as they were
of different sizes and densities. The camera had to be high up on the main arm, 88cm, in order to
capture the entire document with a border, meaning I had to stand on a box to check the positioning of
the camera through the lens. The Niue papers were the first papers I microfilmed on this trip and I
spent much of my time adjusting the direction of the papers and height of the camera. This microfilm
will need editing. For the Rakahanga papers I chose to microfilm in landscape format and left the
camera height at 88cm for the entire microfilm. I am hoping this will have worked better and the
microfilm will not need as much editing.
As Ewan mentioned in his 2004 report, “the correspondence includes routine reports on agricultural
production, shipping, education, health, building and port construction and island Council matters
together with detailed accounts of irregular events such as labour and land disputes, criminal activities,
boats lost at sea, serious illness, cyclones and storms”. The papers on Niue were particularly
interesting with the Resident Agent asking for cuttings of citrus, pistachio, java (coffee) as well as
ladybirds, lace wings, bees, minah birds (!) and owls to destroy rats and mice – but also questioning if
owls will eat the chickens! In one telegram of 2 Sep 1957 the Resident Agent says “Can you spare
five thousand aspirins (to be replaced)?”.
The power was out for a couple of hours one morning, however I spent this time re-organising and
sorting the papers to be microfilmed.
The PMB titles from the Cook Island National Archives are currently “Restricted Access”. Ewan
asked me to check with Mr George Paniani, the National Archivist, if the restriction still applies or
could be eased. Mr Paniani said that he had discussed this with Mr Sonny Williams, the Minister for
Culture, and they want the restriction to apply because of personal names, family and land matters that
appear in the papers. I assured him that the PMB and our member libraries would continue to adhere
to the restriction and users of the PMB Cook Islands National Archives microfilm would contact him
before accessing the PMB titles.
Mr Paniani said that he is still waiting on the outcome of the Ministry of Culture re-structure. Before,
the Ministry consisted of nine Divisional Heads. The new re-structure will see four managers with the
National Records and Information Manager overseeing the National Library and National Archive.
There will then be a supervisor for the Library and a separate supervisor for the Archives. He is
expecting that the re-structure will be announced next week. The Ministry of Culture has a slightly
increased budget for the next financial year and he is hopeful that the Ministry will pay the PARBICA
fees that are outstanding for the Cook Islands National Archives. The Ministry also needs to back-pay
staff for individual salary increases that have not yet been awarded. Mr Paniani said that he is also
waiting to hear on the outcome of a large amount of UNESCO funding which the Archives has applied
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for. This will deliver digital equipment including new computers, scanners and a laser printer for the
archives. The total amount applied for is around US$30-35K. Mr Paniani said that he would like to
receive PMB CINA titles in digital format in future.
University of the South Pacific
Mon 16 – Sat 21 August
I worked at the USP Cook Islands Centre and copied the remainder of documents from the Don
Marshall papers which Ewan had begun copying in 2009 held by Rod Dixon in his office. I also
elaborated on some of the listings. The microfilming was routine and went smoothly, producing
another four reels for this title.
Ron Crocombe’s papers
Tue 24 – Fri 27 August
I created a listing (see Appendix 1) of Ron Crocombe’s papers at the Crocombe home. Crocombe was
a Pacific Historian and lecturer. He was the founding Professor Pacific Studies, University of the
South Pacific and the founding Director of the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South
Pacific. He was awarded a PhD. from the Australian National University in 1961. From 1957 to 2009
he published extensively on a large range of topics relating to the Pacific including land policy, rural
sociology, ethnohistory, regional organization, social, cultural and educational policy, politics and
international relations. Much of his work was devoted to facilitating and coordinating research by
Pacific Islanders. The Crocombe collection is a significant resource for scholars of Pacific studies.
Scope and organisation of the collection:
The Ron Crocombe collection is held in two rooms. The main study room includes:
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10 large archival boxes,
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7 plastic tubs,
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1 cardboard box covered in plastic (inaccessible in back portico storage cupboard),
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3 draw filing cabinet (all 3 draws full),
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2 draw filing cabinet (1 draw full)
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4 draw wood filing cabinet (all 4 draws full),
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1 tall round tub full of rolled up maps
The small enclosed Verandah Room off the side of the
study includes:
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3 x four draw Artmetal filing cabinets
•
1 x four draw europlan filing cabinet (not listed –
personal)
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Large rectangular metal case labelled
R.G.Crocombe, U.S.P. Suva (Land tenure
Fiji/New Caledonia)
Not cited
Photographs (not yet cited, Marjorie is organising them)
The majority of the collection is well organised and
labelled with subject headings on manila folders. Ron
has use of the contents indexing and numbering system
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developed by the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific but has also added to this
listing and developed his own system of subject headings with no numbers.
Document types
The documents in the collection relate to Ron Crocombe’s wide-ranging professional interest in the
Pacific, including land tenure in the Cook Islands and wider Pacific regions as well as more
contemporary documents on Asia and the Pacific.
Subject files cover topics such as individual Pacific Islands, religion, culture, politics, health, USP, etc.
(see Appendix 1 for more detail). Most of the documents are from the mid 20th to the present
(2009).
The older material (1950s – 1990s) includes typed and handwritten correspondence, university related
documents, drafts and publications, conference papers, USP student essays (specifically on land
tenure), PhD drafts and correspondence with students, journal offprints, letters to the editor and other
Pacific scholars, book reviews, transcripts of radio interviews, correspondence with church leaders on
religion throughout the Pacific, draft research notes, correspondence and sheets of data collected as
part of the Inventory of Pacific Regional Organisations, observations and opinion pieces, lectures,
seminars and keynote addresses by Crocombe, rare publications with small print runs, newsletters,
pamphlets, flyers, maps and photographs.
The more recent (late 1990s onwards) collection includes many printouts from the Internet, press
clippings, including some full editions of newspapers, photocopies of journal articles, email
correspondence, hand-written letter correspondence, unpublished theses, journal offprints and journals
relating to the Pacific.
I have not yet surveyed the photographs or documents of a highly personal nature (held in one four
draw brown europlan filing cabinet) including personal correspondence with family members as
Marjorie said that she would like to go through these first and has not had time.
Many of the documents in the large archival boxes are unsorted. When I arrived, they were in
unsorted piles on top of book cases, shelves and tables in Ron Crocombe’s study. It appears that Ron
had intended to sort and file them at a later date. These documents were placed in large green archival
boxes to make more room in the study, and listed in a summary form (see below).
Additional Meetings and Visits
Cook Islands National Archives
Mon 16 August
I met with Mr Sonny Williams, Secretary of the Ministry for Cultural Development, to talk about the
PMB work at the Cook Island National Archives. He was visiting the Cook Islands National Archives
to inspect the current state of the CINA. He was thankful for the work which the PMB was
undertaking at the CINA.
Office of the Ombudsman
Wed 18 August.
I met with Ms Jeannine Daniel, Assistant Ombudsman, to hear about the Official Information Act
which was passed in February 2008 and how she has implemented the PARBICA Record Keeping
Toolkit and her work with Government Departments in introducing record keeping policies. Jeannine
has completed training six Ministries (Police, Volunteer, Internal Affairs, Public Service, Culture,
Justice, Health) to date. She has also traveled with Mr George Paniani (Cook Islands National
Archives) to the outer islands to train ministries in record keeping. The training is usually run over a
couple of days and includes a briefing, review of the record keeping including talking to key filing
personnel and visiting storage facilities, giving verbal feedback on issues and risks and preparing a
written report which details risks, issues and recommended actions. The next day a workshop is
conducted which assists the ministries in policy development and practical help. Ms Daniel and Mr
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Paniani then spend a week or so coaching and mentoring the staff as they implement the new record
keeping procedures.
Ms Daniel suggested that I meet with Mr Mark Short, Secretary of the Ministry of Justice because
there are some important Birth Death and Marriage records that have not yet been copied. The BDM
records were brought to her attention during training on the outer island of Mangaia, where she saw
original BDM records in a very poor state being searched by the public.
Ministry of Justice
Fri 20 August
I met with Ms Jeannine Daniel, Assistant Ombudsman, Ms Janet Maki, Ombudsman, Mr Mark Short,
Secretary for the Ministry of Justice, Ms Marie Haupini, BDM at Ministry of Justice and Ms Grace
Chynoweth, Land Title at Ministry of Justice for a meeting about possible assistance PMB could offer
the Ministry of Justice with their BDM and Land court records.
that the PMB would be interested in helping them
Birth, Death and Marriage registers atI suggested
the
Ministry of Justice, August 2010
preserve their records, however they would first need to conduct a
survey and listing of what Ministry of Justice archives had been
microfilmed by the Latter Day Saints. We could then work out
which BDM records had not been microfilmed and work towards
copying these records. The Land Records are extensive and
probably too big a project for the PMB. I offered to send through
information on a scanner which they may be able to use to digitize
the documents. I visited the Ministry of Justice record rooms which
are upstairs in the Ministry of Justice building. There are many
land records for the outer islands that are held in another building
that is on ground level. A container on blocks also has Ministry of
Justice records and is under the Ministry of Justice building in the
car park.
Mr Mark Short is supportive of the project because Improving
Ministry of Justice Record Keeping is one of the Ministry’s goals for the next year. He will be in
touch with the PMB when they have conducted a survey of the BDM records that need to be
microfilmed.
National Library and Museum
Tue 17 August
I met with Ms Jean Mason, Director, Cook Islands Library and Museum (CILM), who explained that
she has been working on stabilizing the building and is now moving towards conservation of the
collection. She had just wrapped and taken several rare books including Banks’ diary to a local
industrial freezer as they are “bug” and “bora” infested. I gave Ms Mason a copy of PMB (CILM)
titles in PDF format. Ms Mason said that they have a microfilm reader which was donated by the
Latter Day Saints, but it is also still in its box as they don’t have any microfilm to use. I am not sure
where copies of PMB microfilm are which have been donated to the CILM in the past.
Cook Islands Christian Church
Tue 24 August
Ms Jeannine Daniel from the Office of the Ombudsman introduced me to Mr Tangimetua
Tangatatutai, President of the Cook Islands Christian Church and Mr Nga Mataio, General Secretary,
Cook Islands Christian Church, at Takamoa Theological College, Avarua. The Mission house
renovations are now complete and the house and college is beautiful. Mr Tangatatutai showed me the
CICC archives which include church land deeds, birth, baptism, notice of intention to marriage,
marriage and burial registers and a book containing the names of all students who have attended
Takamoa Theological College from 1823 until the present. Most of the documents relate to the island
of Rarotonga. Mr Tangatatutai has begun visiting the outer island Cook Island Christian Churches and
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is encouraging them to forward their archives to Rarotonga for preservation and conservation. A
detailed listing of the archives I surveyed at the CICC is attached (Appendix 2).
Mr Tangimetua Tangatatutai said that the Cook Islands Christian
Church is interested in finding historical LMS documents which
relate to the Cook Island Missionaries. He said some of the birth
records are held in France, especially those from Mangaia.
The CICC has begun preparations for a major celebration in 2021
of 200 years in the Cook Islands. This will be a major
celebration and a historical committee has been formed to collect
and research the growth of the Cook Islands Christian Church.
Mr Nga Mataio gave me an updated electronic copy of the Cook
Islands Christian Church newsletter (no.1 Sep 2005 – no.32 Aug
2010)for the PMB.
Mr Tangimetua Tangatatutai showing me
Other
the
Cook Islands Christian Church
archives,
August
2010
The Cook
Islands
News wrote an article about the PMB work I
undertaking in Rarotonga on Friday 27 August (see Appendix 3).
Issues and problems
The main problems I had with the PMB work in the Cook Islands was using the microfilm camera.
The camera is very heavy (16 kg) to transport. I had to pay excess baggage charges because Pacific
Blue only allows for 23 kg of luggage. I was often anxious as to whether or not the shots were
working as I was not able to check the exposures. Because many of the documents were foolscap in
size I needed to have the arm of the camera extremely high and the strength needed to tighten and
fasten the bolts is great. However, I have since found out that the microfilms I took worked well.
I would prefer to work with digital capturing equipment that is lighter to carrier and easier to monitor
as the work is being done. A small notebook computer would also be a good investment as they are
much easier and lighter to carry around than a personal laptop.
Future work for PMB in Cook Islands
Ron Crocombe Papers
The Crocombe papers are extensive. I recommend that we are selective in what we digitize.
Crocombe published a great deal of his work, so I would suggest that we compare the list I made with
his published catalogue and rule out any items which were published as well as printouts from the
Internet.
Cook Islands Christian Church
There is about 1-2 days work at the Cook Islands Christian Church (see Appendix 2 for detail).
Cook Islands National Archives
There are still a number of boxes of correspondence with the Resident Agents to and from the
Resident Commissioner’s Office for the islands that need to be microfilmed. See listing below:
Pukapuka (Box 23/1) – 5 boxes
Suvarrow (Box 25/1) – 2 boxes
Palmerston (Box 26/1) - ? boxes
Takutea (Box 27/1) and Mitiaro (Box 28/1) – 1 box (boxed together)
Rod Dixon and USP
Rod Dixon is working towards locating the personal papers of prominent Cook Islanders including:
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Reuben Tylor – indicated he has the personal Papers of his father who was Resident Agent of Mangaia
in the 1960s
Lionel Trenn –was a Resident Agent in the 1940s, Registrar of the Courts and a friend of Nordorf and
Hall and other literary types.
Wynn Ryan – was a highly decorated New Zealand officer who helped the King of Greece escape the
Nazis in Crete. He was a resident agent and then chief engineer on Rarotonga.
Jim Little – former Resident Agent
Sir Tom Davis (former Prime Minister)
Sir Geoffrey Henry (former Prime Minister)
Sir Albert Henry
Thank you
I would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance during my stay.
George Paniani, Canny Vale and Ake Wille at the Cook Islands National Archives
Sonny Williams, Secretary of the Ministry of Culture
Marjorie Crocombe
Jeannine Daniel at the Office of the Ombudsman
Rod Dixon, Teina, Joanna and Shona at the University of the South Pacific
Marie Haupini (BDM), Grace Chynoweth (Land Title Records) and Mark Short (Secretary) at the
Ministry of Justice
Mr Tangimetua Tangatatutai and Mr Nga Mataio at Cook Islands Christian Church
Maria and Mata and their children at the Aitutaki Hostel
Contact Details
Jeannine Daniel – Office of the Ombudsman, ph.20605, email: j.daniel@ombudsman.gov.ck
Marjorie Crocombe ph.28100, email: marjiema@oyster.net.ck
Rod Dixon, USP, ph.29415, email: dixon_r@usp.ac.fj
Cook Islands National Archives, ph.24493, email: archives@oyster.net.ck
Mark Short, Ministry of Justice, email: mshort@justice.gov.ck
Marie Haupini, Ministry of Justice, email: mhaupini@justice.gov.ck
Grace Chynoweth, Ministry of Justice, email: gchynoweth@justice.gov.ck
Mr Tangimetua Tangatatutai and Mr Nga Mataio at Cook Islands Christian Church, email:
ciccgs@oyster.net.ck
Kylie Moloney
PMB Archivist
September 2010
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PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU
Room 4201, Coombs Building
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
Telephone: (612) 6125 2521
Fax: (612) 6125 0198 E-mail: pambu@anu.edu.au
RON CROCOMBE (8 Oct 1929 – 2009)
Listing of Documents held in the study and back garage area of the Crocombe’s
home, Rarotonga.
by Kylie Moloney 24-27 August 2010
“His last book (to be started in August) was going to be a book on Rarotonga
(Rarotonga only). It was going to be a historical book as well as contemporary
information.” Marjorie Crocombe 27 Aug 2010.
This listing was made over a total of 2.5 days working at the Crocombe’s home on
Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Scope and organisation of the collection:
Main study room
10 large archival boxes,
7 plastic tubs,
1 cardboard box covered in plastic (inaccessible in back portico storage cupboard),
3 draw filing cabinet (all 3 draws full),
2 draw filing cabinet (1 draw full)
4 draw wood filing cabinet (all 4 draws full),
1 tall round tub full of rolled up maps
Small Enclosed Verandah Room off the side of the study
3 x four draw Artmetal filing cabinets
1 x four draw europlan filing cabinet (not listed – personal)
Large rectangular metal case labelled R.G.Crocombe, U.S.P. Suva (Land tenure
Fiji/New Caledonia)
Not cited
Photographs (not yet cited, Marjorie is organising them)
The majority of the collection is well organised and labelled with subject headings.
Ron has made use of the contents indexing and numbering system originally used by
the Institute of Pacific Studies (I.P.S.) USP Fiji? but has also developed his own
system of subject headings with no numbers.
Document types:
Documents relate to Ron Crocombe’s wide-ranging professional interest in the
Pacific, including land tenure in the Cook Islands as well as more contemporary
documents on Asia and the Pacific.
Many subject files can be found which cover topics such as individual Pacific Islands,
religion, culture, politics etc. (see listing below for more detail).
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The older material (1950s – 1990s) includes typed and handwritten correspondence,
university related documents, drafts and publications, conference papers, USP student
essays (specifically on land tenure), PhD supervision students, journal offprints,
letters to the editor and other Pacific scholars, book reviews, transcripts of radio
interviews, religion throughout the pacific, draft research notes, observations and
opinion pieces, lectures, talks and keynote addresses by Crocombe,
The more recent (late 1990s onwards) collection includes many printouts from the
Internet, press clippings, including some full editions of newspapers, photocopies of
journal articles, email correspondence, hand-written letter correspondence,
unpublished theses, journal offprints and journals relating to the Pacific. Rare
publications with small print runs, newsletters, pamphlets, flyers
I have not yet surveyed the photographs or documents of a highly personal nature
(held in one four draw brown europlan filing cabinet) including personal
correspondence with family members as Marjorie
Many of the documents in the large archival boxes are unsorted. When I arrived, they
were in unsorted piles on top of book cases, shelves and tables in Ron Crocombe’s
study. It appears that Ron had intended to sort and file them at a later date. These
documents were placed in the large green archival boxes to make more room in the
study, and listed in a summary form (see below).
Date range:
Most of the documents are from the mid 20th to the present (2009).
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CONTAINER
White plastic tub 1
Small with blue
handles
White plastic tub 2
Large with blue
handles
White plastic tub 3
White plastic tub 4
FOLDER LABELS
NZ/Pac Is
Photographs (black and white), press clippings,
correspondence, journal articles (p’copied and cut
out of journals)
File – NZ/Pac Is Population
File – NZ/Pac Is Economics
File – NZ/Pac Is Politics
File – NZ/Pac Is Education
File – NZ/Pac Is Sport and Culture
File – NZ/Pac Is Security
File – NZ/Pac Is Churches
File – NZ/Pac Is Voluntary Agencies
File – NZ/Pac Is Shipping/Air/Telecom/Post
File – NZ/Pac Is AID
Pac. Is and U.S.A.
Files (many p’copied articles, some
correspondence) relating to Crocombe’s book
“The Pacific Islands and the U.S.A”
File – Maps and Illustrations
File – U.S. Pac Is correspondence
File – U.S. Comments
File – U.S. Micronesia
File – Intro/General
File – U.S. 2 Territory completed
File – American Samoa, completed
File – U.S. Material Relations, More Services,
completed
File – U.S./P.I. 4. Investments, Declining Money
Flows, completed
File – AID, volags (completed)
File – Official aid, completed
File – U.S./P.I. 6. People on the move, completed
File – Treaties
File – U.S./P.I. 9 Military, completed
File – U.S./P.I. Education
File – U.S./P.I. Information
File – Churches
File – Culture
File – Politics
Parliamentary Debates
Box of monographs on land tenure
OTHER
Red handles
White plastic tub 5
Land Tenure course, S.E. 103
Course notes, lecture notes, student assignments,
p’copied article and news clippings
File – PNG Land tenure course
File – Course Outline
File – Territorality
File – Analysis, Land Tenure Systems
File – Traditional Tenure Systems
File – Land tenures and some changes in Pacific
Land tenures
File – 6. Land transfer, How to get it from those
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White plastic tub 6
Plastic covered box
and that have it to those who need it
File – 7. Local land and foreign money
File – 8. How individual, how corporate?
File – 9. Land courts and commissions
File – 10. Land registration: recording who has
what rights to which land
File – 11. Absentee land owners
File – 12. The land rights of immigrant islanders
File – Urban land
File – Mineral rights
File – Forest rights
File – Valuation
File – Surveys
File – Land taxation
File – Land tenure course 1975
File – 15. Land reform
Not accessible
Not accessible
Inside front room
Europlan
3 Draw Filing
Cabinet 1
Top draw
Europlan
3 Draw Filing
Cabinet 1
Many photocopied articles, some correspondence,
printed email correspondence, lecture notes, some
student assignments, some other academic’s
manuscripts, correspondence,
Felix Wendt
Notes, correspondence, invoices, receipts for “The
South Pacific” by Ron Crocombe
Environment
People
Health
Language
Society
Culture
Ethnicity
Ethnic stereotypes
Belief
Education
Economy
Middle draw
Forest
Manufacturing
Satellites and space
Passport sales, flags of convenience
Gambling
Ship registration
Employment
Tourism
Aid
4
Europlan
3 Draw Filing
Cabinet 1
S.P.6 Ch.10 Economy
Economy Completed
Economy Completed
Trust funds
Havens
Banking – Tax havens, etc.
Havens
Havens
Havens
Land
Land and water tenure: S.P. 6
Land completed
Information
Government
Governance
Military/Strategic completed
Bottom draw
Military
Crime completed
Police crime
Regionalism
Regional organisations
Globalism
Foreign Affairs
Future – C.21 Completed
Appendices
Europlan
2 Draw Filing
Cabinet
Regionalism: Inter-Govt
Bottom draw
Service clubs completed
N.G.O completed
N.G.O. Australia based completed
Asia/PAX N.G.O’s
N.G.O’s
4 Draw Wood?
and black filing
cabinet
Top Draw
Clippings, notes, correspondence, Papers by
Crocombe for conferences,
Asia in the Pacific Islands
Pacific Islanders in Asia
Wolfers
Correspondence re Micronesia
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Asia/Pax Illustrations used
Asia/Pax Illustrations not used
Asia/Pax Intro
Correspondence re Asia and the Pacific book
AAAP 2008 Conference notes
Pacific History Conference 2006, Dunedin
Paper and conference notes
Asia and the Pacific Islands
Asia/Pax Pre-history
Asia: Peoples to Pacific
Tourists
Bangladeshi
Burmese
Chinese
Chinese Illegals
Chinese Migrants
Chinese in Micronesia
Chinese in Polynesia
Chinese in Fiji
Chinese before WWII
Filipino
Indian
Indonesians
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
4 Draw Wood?
and black filing
cabinet
2nd Draw down
Asia Pax, people to Asia
Islanders in Asia
Asia Pac Investments
Oil and Gas
Timber
Fish and Marine
Fish
Territory Land
Toursim hotels/ completed
Tourism, completed
Restaurants
Manufacturing, completed
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Banking, completed
War claims compensation, completed
Construction, completed
Airlines
Shipping
Satellites and space
4 Draw Wood?
and black filing
cabinet
3rd Draw down
Crime/Corruption
Lintner
Crime – General, completed
Illegal fishing
Money Laundering and havens, completed
Prostitution, completed
Drugs, completed
Gambling
Passports, completed
Human smuggling, trafficking, completed
Endangered species, smuggling, completed
Labour laws, pollution etc., completed
Scam and fraud, completed
Crime against Asians, completed
AID China, completed
AID Taiwan, completed
AID India, completed
AID Japan, completed
West Papua, completed
West Papua, completed
West Papua, completed
West Papua, completed
West Papua, relations with PNG, completed
West Papua, completed
Indonesia Pacific, completed
Indonesia
East Timor, completed
Asia N.G.O’s
Australia
Bangladesh,
Hawai’I N.G.Os
Hong Kong
India
Malaysia
Phillippines
Singapore
Thailand
Asian Values
Asia/Pax Culture
Education
Education Exchanges
Pacific students to Asia
Distance Education, completed
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Education for Asians in the Pacific
Asia/Pax General
Media
Journals, completed
Newspapers, completed
Pac Island news in Asian Papers, completed
Press Freedom, completed
Books, completed
Radio, completed
TV, completed
Video, Film, completed
Asia/Pax Research, completed
Sport
4 Draw Brown
wood? and black
filing cabinet
4th Draw down
Religion – General, completed
Buddhist and Confucian, completed
Religion, Xtian, completed
Falun Gong, completed
Religion, Hindu
Religion, Islam, completed
Moonies, Unification church, completed
Y.W.A.M
Diplomatic reps
Elite visits to Asia, completed
Diplomatic, completed
Asia Pac Politics
Politics, China completed
Taiwan, Politics, completed
India Politics, completed
Japan Politics, completed
Korea
Malaysia
Pakistan
Philippines
Russia
Thailand
Military
Military – Training and Peacekeeping
Asia/Pac Ch.21
Future, completed
Green Archival
Box 1
National Sovereignty and Personal Freedom in the
Pacific Islands, by Ron Crocombe
Manuscript by Nihi Vini’s manuscript on “Tonga
Reva the pride of my life”
Carribean file
8
Bundle of loose papers and correspondence
Leadership, 2009 for Pac Island Forum
Papers on politics and government in Pacific
Green Archival
Box 2
“Economic self-determination within
dependency” by Ron Crocombe manuscript
Commonwealth Youth Programme
Diploma in Youth and Development
Modules
Envelope of articles on corruption
Black file of mixed subjects of documents on
Pacific including some correspondence (email
printouts)
Unsorted documents on Pacific
Green Archival
Box 3
Draft of The South Pacific an Introduction by Ron
Crocombe
Unsorted documents on Pacific
Political Structures in Pacific Island Nations by
Ron Crocombe, 2007
NGOs Japan Completed
Culture completed
Green Archival
Box 4
Green Archival
Box 5
Also labelled “Pacific Conference Papers”
Unsorted documents on Pacific
Documents on China and the Pacific
Printed bibliography on Asia and the Pacific
Islands, 2006
Communication with Dr. Tony Van Fossen,
Griffith University, 2006
Early ships to Cook Islands, including
correspondence with Rhys Richards
Email correspondence with Tata Crocombe, 1
Aug 2007
“Thoughts on the future” by Ron Crocombe
Geography and National Identity, ed. David
Hooson, 1994.
Correspondence with Godfrey Baldacchino, 2006
“The Cook Islands in Pacific/Polynesian studies
and Cultural Politics” notes for a talk by Ron
Crocombe for the Victoria University courses in
Rarotonga, January 2002.
Correspondence with Jane Ledwell on Islands of
the World VII Conference, Feb 2002
“The South Pacific: Environment, Government
and Development” Keynote address for the
International Conference on Governing for
Sustainability in the Asia Pacific, Putrajaya,
Malaysia, 11-14 Apr 2005, by Ron Crocombe
9
“New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: Trends and
Prospects” Address to the Pacific Studies
Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, 6
Oct 2000, by Ron Crocombe.
Correspondence from Professor Asela Ravuvu, 29
Oct 1999
Correspondence from Malama and Penny
Meleisea, 13 Nov 1984.
Correspondence from Ron Crocombe to Director,
IPS re: Progress Report on UNESCO Associated
Projects, 28 Jun 1985.
File – Ch.15 Dependence, Independence,
Interdependence
Unfiled documents including press clippings,
printouts from Internet on a range of Pacific issues
including China, Fiji immigration, Crime,
Marshall Islands, Solomons, West Papua, Pacific
Islands Report clippings
Asia Pacific statistics
West Papua
FSM
Northern Marianas
Green Archival
Box 6
The Cook Islands, by Allan R Kirk, 1997
Future Times Journal
2002-2007 (incl)
Living and Leaving a Legacy of Hope: Stories by
New Generation Pacific Leaders, ed. Kabini
Sanga and Cherie Chu, 2009.
The New Asian Hemisphere, The irresistible shift
of global power to the East, by Kishore
Mahbubani, 2008
Card/Poster in colour showing Cook Islands
Lagoon and Reef Fishes, Cook Islands Natural
Heritage Project, 1998
File – Cook Islands Students Association
File – Holmes, Ross. Rarotonga Customary Law
(Akonoanga) and Land Tenure (Akonoanga enua)
Correspondence
File – Recent correspondence in no particular
order as well as documents relating to PNG
Universities, including correspondence from
Luker 2009, Waigani conference seminar keynote
address invitation (2005) and copy of Crocombe’s
keynote address “Development, aid and
sustainability”, PNG Colonial Hangover
Correspondence 2006, Üniversity Publications
and related matters, a report to the ViceChancellor” by Ron Crocombe, March 1993,
correspondence with Divine Word University.
State of the world: into a warming world, The
Worldwatch Institute, 2009.
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Contemporary Pacific, A journal of Island Affairs,
Vol.21 no.1, 2009
“Proposal to the Vanuatu Government and the
Reserve Bank by Reserve system of Custom
Currencies and
Custom Bank for release of vatu currency to
Tanbunia Custom bank for exchange with Livatu
custom currency to serve the modern currency
needs of 95% indigenous population who are
sustained by custom economy” prepared by
Viraleo Boborenvanua and Motarilavoa H. Lini,
2008.
Documents pertaining to Cook Islands Research
Association
“Conflicts and regional peacebuilding in the
Pacific Island Countries: In search of Good
Governance” by Yoko Ogashiwa, Hiroshima
University
Clippings and printouts on Fiji, 2009.
Correspondence with David Robie about Fiji,
2009
Draft of Title page and foreward of “The Future
of the Cook Islands, perspectives within”.
“Regionalism as Ideology and Reality” by Ron
Crocombe, 2009
P’copy of “The politics of anthropology at home
1” Anthropological Journal on European Cultures
Vol.8 no.1
“The Pacific Islands, Potentials and option for the
21st Century” by Ron Crocombe, Journal of the
Pacific Society, Septamber 1992, vol.15 no.2
Tourism Master Plan Update, Cook Islands
Tourism 2005-15, A Sustainable Tourism
Strategy, Prepared for the Cook Islands Tourism
Corporation, by Dr Peter Phillips with Dr Tom
Ludvigon and Mr John Panoho.
“The Cook Islands, The Development of an
external Affairs Department in an emerging
Microstate” by Jon Michael Jonassen, MS typed.
“The Transformation of the Rangatira: A case of
the European reinterpretation of Rarotongan
social organization” by James Bernard Baltaxe,
PhD thesis, Urbana Illionis, 1975
“A history of Rarotonga 1800-1883” Vol.1-4, by
Joe D. Gray, PhD thesis, University of Otago,
Dunedin, NZ, Nov 1975.
Large number of miscellaneous unsorted
computer printouts, press clippings, including
Pacific Island Reports and some email
correspondence printouts
File – Cuba, Venezuela, Latin America
2007-2009
Printouts, press cuttings on Cook Islanders living
abroad
11
P’copied sections from “Land rights of Pacific
Women”, Institute of Pacific Studies of the
University of the South Pacific, 1986
“A discussion paper relating to the current Land
Policy Review in the Cook Islands”, 20 Jan 1976
by Ron Crocombe. Includes letter to the Premier,
Hon.Sir Albert Henry K.B.E. titled “Land Tenure
Policy Review”.
“Parliament Paper no.54, Parliament of the Cook
Islands” Report of the Special Select Committee
established by the Parliament to review the Unit
Titles Bill in terms of its application” 2005.
“A report by the Koutu Nui on Lands and
Traditional Titles of the Indigenous people of
Cook Islands”
Draft of “Rethinking land policy once most
landowners live abroad: the Cook Islands and
Niue prepare for the 21st century” by Ron
Crocombe, 5 Feb 1996.
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land
Presented to His Excellency the Queen’s
Representative the Honourable Apenera Short
O.B.E., 25 Mar 1996, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Correspondence between the Land Commission of
the Government of the Cook Islands and Ron
Crocombe
“The Land begons to everyone”: The unstable
dynamic of unrestricted cognatic descent in Rapa,
French Polynesia, by F.Allan Hanson and
Christian Ghasarian, in Journal of the Polynesian
Society, vol. 116 no.1 Mar 2007
P’copy of “Land Management and Conflict
minimisation project” Pacific Islands Forum
Secretariat, Dec 2006
“Report of the Parliamentary special select
committee established by Parliament to look into
the report of the Commission of Inquiry into
Land” Mar 1997.
“Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land”
Parliamentary Paper no.19, Parliament of the
Cook Islands, Mar 1996
Draft “A report by the Koutu Nui on Lands and
Traditional Titles of the Indigenous people of
Cook Islands”
Copy of correspondence between W.R. Tschan
and the Secretary of the Justice Department re:
Land Court Hearing 18/2/1999 in Aitutaki, 9 Mar
1999
A choice of four worlds: New Zealand and
Australia, DVD funded by UNESCO, Produced
by Mana Productions, 2006
A choice of four worlds, Rarotonga, Aitutaki and
Other Islands, DVD funded by UNESCO,
Produced by Mana Productions, 2006
20 Jan 1976
2005
1991?
5 Feb 1996.
25 Mar 1996
Aug 1996
Mar 2007
Dec 2006
Mar 1997
Mar 1996
2006
2006
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Small bundle of miscellaneous press clippings and
articles on the Pacific
Archival box labelled Cook Islands Land
Clippings, Report of the Parliamentary special
select committee established by Parliament to
look into the report of the Commission of Inquiry
into Land, etc.
Archival box labelled Cook Islands Land,
includes “Absentee land ownership in the Cook
Islands: Economic and social implications” by
Ron Crocombe in Pacific Land Program Case
Study 5.4, AusAID, Jul 2007
Documents relating to Higher Education
Institutions in the Pacific including Annual
Reports, Proposals for the Future Development of
the Cook Islands Centre 2006-2010, Institute of
Pacific Studies – publication lists and annual
reports
Islands cultures conference, 2006
c.2008
Box file of clippings and printouts related to the
Cook Islands election, 2006
Unfiled miscellaneous collection of documents,
clippings, correspondence relating to the Pacific
in wire baskets on desk
File – Land Tenure, supplementary readings
2006
Correspondence from Ron Munro, 24 Mar 2006
24 Mar 2006
c.1996
2006-2009
1985-2010
2006
File – Tokelau, including “An outline of the social
organisation of Fakaofo, Tokelau Islands” by
Antony Hooper, University of Auckland.
Unpublished MS not for publishing.
“Tokelau Islands” 1st and 2nd Feb, 1960 by Ron
Crocombe
File – West Samoa
Includes MS, unpublished papers, printouts, press
clippings
Outpost A Fiji Forum, Vol.1 no.3, Apr 1973
Review of A Thousand Graduates: Conflict in
University Development in Papua New Guinea,
1961-1976 by Ian Howie-Willis, 1980, by
Crocombe.
“Dating and mating by young elites” by Ron
Crocombe
“Agrarian revolution: Whose responsibility” by
Ron Crocombe, Mar 1972
Nilaidat vo.2 no.5, Aug 1969, A journal of news
and opinion from the University of Papua New
Guinea
“Local Government in New Guinea: An example
of conflict between policy and practice” by R.G.
Crocombe
Journal extracts on South Pacific and Oceania
Mar 1972
1969
13
including:
“The Decoolonization of Oceania – A survey
1945-70” by J.W.Davidson and
“South Pacific” by H.E. Maude, Jul 1971.
“Four Orokaiva cash croppers” offprint from New
Guinea Research Bulletin no.16, Apr 1967 by
R.G. Crocombe
“The Crowded Island”, by Ron Crocombe
“Gilbertese Culture: a note on the recording,
conservation, transmission and continuing
development of aspects of Gilbertese culture: a
report to the Secretary Ministry of Education,
Training and Culture, Tarawa”, by
R.G.Crocombe, 1975
“Observations on Land Tenure in Tarawa Gilbert
Islands”, by R.G. Crocombe, Jun 1968, offprint
South Pacific Islands Business News, May 1980
“Nepotism in the Cook Islands” by Ron
Crocombe, June 1978, offprint from A.N.Z.J.S.,
vol. 14 no.2 Jun 1978
“Shorter note: A Modern Polynesian Cargo Cult”
by R.G.Crocombe, offprint from Man 1961, 28
“Pacific protocol: the royal presence in church in
Tonga” by Ron Crocombe
Drafts of the Lands Commission
Unsorted papers from desk on the Pacific
including contact details for Pacific Scholars
File – Wallis/Futuna
File - Tonga
Small plastic tube
with pearl
coloured flip lid
Miscellaneous unsorted papers on the Pacific as
well as a few journals Pacific Economics Bulletin
(1986-1991), Pacific World no.57, Jul 2000, The
Outrigger, Autumn 1998, Development Bulletin
No.61 May 2003.
1 tall round tub
Rolled up maps
Small Enclosed Verandah Room off the side of the study
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Files that are in the I.P.S. index under Publication
include drafts, clippings and correspondence.
There are usually between 4 and 10 documents,
average 6, in each file
File - China and Taiwan
Nov 2004
File –Cook Island slush funds
2001
File – Letter and documents relating to “Foreign
Investment” in Cook Island News, Jul 2002
Jul 2002
14
File – Australian and NZ Public Lending Rights
1988-1995
File 10.1.3 – Orokaiva Cash croppers
1967
File 10.1.4 – New Guinea Land Tenure (Realities
Article)
Offprint of “A Modern Orokaiva Feast” by Ron
Crocombe in New Guinea Research Bulletin,
no.13 Nov 1966
File 10.1.7 - Race relations in New Guinea
1963-2006
File 10.1.10 - Volunteers
1967-1968
File 10.1.11 – Social science research in New
Guinea
File 10.1.12 – Reply to Gutman
1967
File 10.1.13 – Papua New Guineans in Business
and Industry
File 10.1.14 – Local Government in New Guinea,
Journal of Pacific History
File 10.1.15 – Bougainville
1967
File 10.1.16 – Nilaidat After Independence
1969
File 10.1.17 – Australian Planning in New Guinea
Economy
File 10.1.18 – Maorikiki Introduction
1972
File 10.1.20 – Politics of Melanesia
1970
File 10.1.21 – Dating and Mating
1971
File 10.1.23 – New Guinea Land Reform, reply to
Alan Ward
File 10.1.24 – PNG Army
1972
File 10.1.25 – Expatriates, Sociology Journal
1967
File 10.1.26 – UPNG Book Review
1980-1981
File 10.1.27 – U.P.N.G. Report
1993
File 10.2.1 – West Irian
1967
File 10.3.1 – Solomon Islands
1988
File 10.4.1 – New Hebrides
1971-1985
File 10.5.1 – The Star Massacre
1962
File 10.7.1 – France in the Pacific in New Guinea
Dec 1975
File 10.8.1 – Watters : Koro : Review
1970-1971
File 10.9.1 – Tongan protocol
1972
File 10.9.2 – Land tenure in Tonga
1972
File 10.10.2 – Niue Land Tenure
1969
1966
1963-1966
1967-1968
1968
1968
1969
1967-1969
File 10.11.2 – Naming in Atiu (empty)
File 10.11.3 – A Modern Polynesian Cargo Cult
1961
File 10.11.4 – Land Tenure, Attol Research
1961
15
Bulletin
File 10.11.5 – Early Polynesian Authors, Taunga
1961
File 10.11.6 – Development and Regression
1962
File 10.11.7 – Reviews, Land tenure in Cook
Islands
File 10.11.8 – Cook Islands at Makatea
1966-2006
File 10.11.10 – Takamoa Dispute
1954-2009
File 10.11.11 – Palmerston – work with Lydia
Marsters
File 10.11.12 – Atiu land tenure
1988-2004
File 10.11.13 – Reconstruction of Rarotongan
land tenure
File 10.11.14 – Aid for Atiu
1960
File 10.11.15 – Cooks land policy review
1972-1981
File 10.11.16 – Nepotism in the Cook Islands
1978
File – Cook Islands Politics
1978-1984
File 10.11.18 – Human Relations Area Files Cook
Islands
File 10.11.19- Britannica
1988-1989
File 10.11.20 – ContemporaryPacific / Cook
Islands (very large file, lots of press clippings)
1988-?
File 10.11.21 – Cook Islands paper for J.P.H.,
Journal Pacific History Project
File 10.11.22 – Cook Islands N.G.Os
1989
File 10.11.23 – The Cook Islands Te Manu Rere –
V.S.A.
File 10.11.24 – Ayson, Hugh Fraser
`1991
1964
1959-2006
1975-1976
1990
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File 10.11.25 – L.M.S. and Rarotonga culture
File 2.11.52 – Religion, Cook Islands
File 10.14.1 – Gilberts L.T. article
1965-1967
File 10.14.2 – Gilbertese culture
File 10.15.1 – Nauru politics
File 10.16.1 – U.S.T.T. (United States Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands) Land
Management Address, conference, Saipan, 2 Dec
1967
File 10.16.2 – U.S.T.T. Micronesia: Hooked on
the dollar habit. Conquest by creating
dependency
1967
16
File 10.20.2 – Improving land tenure
File 10.20.3 – Pacific Science Congress, Land
Tenure and productivity in 6 Pacific Islands
File 10.20.4 – Land tenure chapter for Angus Ross
book
File 10.20.5 – Land tenure in the Pacific
File 10.20.6 – Gerard Ward’s Land tenure chapter
1972
File 10.20.7 – Cooperative land holding
File 10.20.8 – Local land and foreign money
File 10.20.9 – Trends in Pacific land tenure
File 10.20.10 – Santa Cruz Land tenure chapter
File 10.20.11 – Customary tenure and incentives
to produce
File 10.20.12 – S.P.C. land tenure series
File 10.20.13 – Land courts and commissions
File 10.20.14 – Colonial land policies
File 10.20.17 – Land tenure and land reform in the
1980s
File 10.20.18 – Tenure and training
File 10.20.19 – Land tenure and productivity
File 10.20.20 – “Soft sciences and hard realities in
land management in P.N.G.
File 10.20.21 – The tenure and management of
land in the Pacific Islands
File 10.20.22 – Customary tenure and
conservation S.P.R.E.P. (South Pacific Regional
Environment Programme)
File 10.20.23 – Constraints and opportunities for
small farmers in the Pacific Islands
File 10.20.24 – Land reforms in the third world
1988
1987-1989
1988-1989
File 10.20.25 – Trends and issues in Pacific land
tenures
File 10.20.29 – Vanuatu Land Summit
1991
File 10.21.1 – Pacific Way (SPSSA)
1994
2006
File 10.21.3 – Rural development (CFTC)
File 10.21.4 – Marriage in Leningrad
File 10.21.5 – Culture and development
File 10.21.6 – Education, enjoyment and integrity
in tourism
File 10.24.13 – Some Pacific priorities
File 10.24.14 – Power, politics and rural
development (Solomons R.D. Book)
File 10.24.15 – Bases for Pacific cooperation, the
islands and the rim
1984
1979
1979
17
File 10.24.16 – University extension teaching
File 10.24.17 – Super Powers in the Pacific
(United States and the Pacific Islands)
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File 10.21.7 – Options in University Education
(Pacific Research)
File 10.21.8 – Studying the Pacific
File 10.21.9 – Intellectual Life, U.S.P.
File 10.21.10 – Distance education and scientific
cooperation
File 10.21.11 – Pacific universities
File 10.21.12 – Academic Buccaneering
File 10.21.13 – SEAP and ATENISI 1991
“Education and training for adults without much
of either” by Ron Crocombe
“Adult learning for the 21st century” by Ron
Crocombe, Atenisi University, Tonga 1991.
File 10.21.14 – Pacific science in C.21
1991
File 10.21.15 – Environment education
File 10.21.17 – Bases for belonging in Polynesia
File 10.21.18 – Perceptions of mission for
Bernard Thorogood
File 10.22.1 – Cult and culture
File 10.22.2 – Future of religion, Outpost
File 10.22.3 – Holy torture
File 10.22.4 – Missionaries – sacred and secular
File 10.22.6 – Theological education
File 10.22.7 – The future of Islam in the Pacific
File 10.22.8 – Religious regionalism
File 10.22.9 – Ethics for C.21
File 10.22.10 – Cooperation between theological
colleges
File 10.22.11 – AsiaPax Elite Communication
File 10.23.1 – Ta’unga
File 10.23.3 – Pacific history: Perceptions from
within (P.H.A.)
File 10.23.4 – Beachcombing in style
File 10.23.5 – History of the future
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The Australian National University News, Nov
1969 Vol.4 no.3
File 10.24.2 – What kind of social science
Pacific Societies Today and Tomorrow, booklet 4,
by R.G.Crocombe, 1972
File – The South Pacific, completed notes for
1989 revision
File 10.24.3 – New South Pacific
1972
1989
File 10.24.4 – Labour migration
1975
File 10.24.5 – Who gets what from Pacific
conferences
File 10.24.7 – More effective aid
1976
File 10.24.9 – Anthropology, anthropologists and
islanders
File 10.24.10 – Localisation and foreignization
(USP)
File 10.24.11 – Aid and Integrity
File 10.24.12 – Pay, conditions and contexts for
aid advisors
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File 10.24.18 – Patterns of dependence
File 10.24.19 – Dependence by extension
File 10.24.21 – The five Melanesias (The Wantok
region)
File 10.24.23 – The Pan Pacific Person
File 10.24.24 – Productive potentials in the
Pacific Islands
File 10.24.25 – China and South Pacific
File 10.24.26 – Political trends relavent to nursing
in the Pacific
File 10.24.27 – Latin America
File 10.24.28 – Regionalism in South Pacific
File 10.24.30 – International Relations in the
South Pacific Ch.21
File 10.24.31 – N.G.Os, volunteers, etc.
File 10.24.33 – Naming
File 10.24.34 – Identity
File 10.24.36 – German Mission Yearbook
1994
File 10.24.38 – Asia Pacific Geopolitical change
File – Political Structures – Pacific Islands,
Speakers Conference 2007
2007
19
File 10.24.39 – Global networking communities
File – Reviews by R.G.C. (large file)
File – Merian
File – Changing conceptions in Oceania
File – The AID trade
File – Reviews : R.G.C. pubs in New Guinea
Research Unit
File – Review: Ward, Land use and population in
Fiji
File – Review: Big Men and Brothers
1966-1969
File – Review: Pacific in Transition
File – Review: The Pacific Islanders
1973
File – Review: Micronesia by Heine
Review of The Western Pacific : Challenge of
sustainable growth, by Edward Elgar
File – Review: Ancient Tahitian society, by Oliver
File – Review: Waigani seminar
1975
File – Review: Tahitians, by Levy
File – Review: Beyond the village: local politics
in Madang Papua New Guinea, by Louise
Morauta
File – Review: The Lost caravel by Robert
Langdon
File – Review: Maori Land Tenure: Studies of a
Changing Institution, by I.H.Kawharu, 1977
File – Review: Compensating for development:
the Bougainville case, by Richard Bedord and
Alexander Mamak
File – Review: Oceania and Beyond, ed. Frank P.
King
File – Review: Literacy and social change: a case
study of Fiji by J.R.Clammer
File – Review: Race, class and rebellion in the
South Pacificed. Alex Mamak and Ahmed Ali
File – Review: The changing development
paradigm and Australian Aid Strategy
File – Review: International business in the
Pacific basin, ed. R. Hal Mason
File – Review: The Spanish lance and
Monopolists and Freebooters by O.H.K.Spate
File – Review: Karo, by Amirah Inglis
File – Review: Peoples and cultures of Hawai’I,
ed. John F.McDermott, Wen-Shing Tseng and
Thomas W.Maretzki
File – Review: Economic development in seven
Pacific Island countries, by Christopher Browne
with Douglas A. Scott
1974
1975
1980
1977
1979
1978
1979-1981
1979
1979
1983
1983
1983
1990
20
File – Review: The ambiguity of rapprochement:
reflections of anthropologists on their
controversial relationship with missionaries by
Roland Bonsen, Hans Marks and Jelle Miedema
File – Review: The South Pacific: Problems,
Issues and Prospects, ed. Ramesh Thakur
File – Review: South Pacific Handbook, by David
Stanley (empty)
File – Review: Akatokamanavava: Myth, History
and Society in the Southern Cook Islands, by
Jukka Siikala
File – Review: Broken waves: a history of the Fiji
Islands in the Twentiety century, by Brij V.Lal
File – Review: Making small practical: the
organisation and management of ministries of
education in small states and Ministries of
education in small states: case studies of
organisation and management ed. Mark Bray
File – Review: Le Pacifique: L’Ocean, ses rivages
et ses Iles/ The Pacific: the Ocean, its shores and
islands, ed. Francois Doumenge and Jean-Pierre
Doumenge
File – Images of Addis
1991
File 10.40.1 – The changing South Pacific
1955
File 10.40.2 – “Pacific Cultures” Broadcast on
New Zealand Broadcasting Commission’s YC
station, 8 Mar 1971
File 10.40.3 – Radio talks NZ BC
1971
1992
1993
1994
1992
1993
Green file
“Achievements in New Zealand’s Pacific
Dependencies: A comparison with a selfgoverning territory” by Ron Crocombe, 1960
“The function of the supernatural in society” by
Ron Crocombe, notes for a talk to course on
“understanding other cultures” given at Y.W.C.A.,
Three Mile Hill 7 Nov 1966
Correspondence to Sir John Crawford re: thoughts
on issues relating to New Guinea negotiations
with the Australian Government, 5 Apr 1966
Transcript from “Contact” ABC programme
broadcast 7:15pm 20 May 1966, R.G.Crocombe
and Albert Maori Kiki
“Submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the House of Representatives visiting New
Guinea, Jun 1966, on the role of volunteers in
New Guinea” by Ron Crocombe et al. 9 Jun 1966
“The Higatura Council Land Registration scheme
and the problem of land registration in Papua and
New Guinea” by R.G. Crocombe, N.G.R.U.
seminar 1-4 Apr 1963
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File – Accountability study: Tonga and Cook
Islands
File – Cook Islands Education
2008
File 2.11.39 Pukapuka Island
File – Cook Islands Media Association
File divider – Atiu
File 2.11.7 – Cook Islands Dictionary
File 2.11.34 - Vaine Rere Tangapoto’s
autobiography
File divider – Takutea
File – Mangaia
File – Umu ti
File – Tau umi ti
File – Mangaia
File – Atiu canoe project
(Built during 1992 Pacific Arts festival here in
Rarotonga and bought by Auckland)
File 2.11.41 – Tom Davis Book
1987-1992
File 2.11.42 – Loomis Fresh off the boat
File 2.11.43 – Tata’s book
1990
File 2.11.44 – Kau Taunga, Kauraka
File 2.11.46 – Pam Tikiora Ingram “Islanders in
Business”
File 2.11.46 – Jeff Sissons
File 2.11.47 – Bill Renwick’s Maneaia Project
File 2.11.49 – Cook Islands Agriculture book
(Nga Mataiao)
File – Books Manuae
1993
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File – Casual Lectures
File – R.G.C/IPS (Institute of Pacific Studies)
Personal
File – I.P.S Publishing
File – R.G.C. Leave
File – R.G.C./IPS Reports
22
File – IPS Accounts
File – USP Personal
File – IPS Meetings
File – Morgan Tuimalealiífano Fund
File – IPS Equipment and Office etc.
File IPS 8.3.21 Linda Crowe M.A./PhD
Institute of Pacific Studies Annual Report 1993
Rest half draw full of papers and documents
relating to Land Tenure
Cook Islands Calendar 1984
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File – Marine tenure
File – Land tenure in the Pacific
File – Land
File – Nomads, Land tenure
File – Social organization and land tenure
File – Motivation
File – Land registration
File – Survey boundary marks
File – Niue land tenure
File – Land tenure Tahiti, Oliver/Finney
File – The nature of land tenure
File – Land tenure on a schooner
File – Land tenure among social scientists
File – Territorality (2)
**Note that the following USP student essays fill
up about half of the draw**
File – Land tenure Kiribati (USP student essays)
File 2.20.2 – Tonga Land Tenure (USP student
essays)
USP student essays on land
c.1980s
File – PNG Land tenure (USP student essays)
File – Solomons Land tenure (USP student
essays)
File – History seminar (USP student essays)
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File – Vanuatu Land tenure (USP student essays)
Grey Four Draw
Art Metal Filing
Cabinet (Back
Room)
no.2
bottom draw
Unsorted files (which I put into yellow
rectangular archival boxes)
Yellow Box 1
Correspondence
1973-2006
Jaarsma Interview
9 Feb 1996
Plastic envelope of papers relating to Pacific
Universities, opinion pieces etc.
File 3.7 – Creative Expression Funds
Yellow Box 2
Transferred from archive box labelled
“Personal” that was stuck to the bottom of the
draw and covered with gecko mess.
Laminated Victoria University of Wellington,
Transcript of Academic Record
BA degree conferred 10 May 1957, UNZ
Documents relating to Resident Agent posting to
Atiu in 1958
Personal records, certificates and transcriptions
10 May 1957
Personal handwritten correspondence
*This is personal correspondence with family
members and others… probably will not
copy**
c.1970s-1990s
Press clippings and articles that mention Ron
Crocombe
Envelope labelled “Diary note” with typed
extracts of Ron’s diary
- 1959, 12pp.
- 20 Mar 1960, 5pp.
Yellow Box 3
Correspondence with family and other close
friends
File – R.G.C. Travel notes
Includes correspondence, essays “Breaking which
barriers” Pacific Week 1983 and “Kinship”
File – Island Territories
c.1980s-1990s
1950-1953
Journals, New Zealand Success (1993, 1994), The 1991-1994
New Zealand School Leavers Guide (1991, 1993),
Becoming a flight attendant in the 1990s, Card
Crazy (1994)
Folder containing correspondence, ms research
1958-1959
notes and published papers relating to Crocombe’s
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research on Australian Aboriginal stations,
including Roseby Park Jan 1959, Bombaderry
Childrens Home (near Nowra) Jan 1959,
Unemployment Benefit Agency – Nowra,
Interviews with News Reporter, Hotel Proprietor,
Baptist Minister, Headmaster, Police,
Storekeeper;
“Report of the Aborigines Welfare Board, New
South Wales for the year ended 30 Jun 1958”.
“Native Affairs: Information contained in Report
of Director of Native Affairs for the Twelve
months ended 30th June 1958”.
Grey Four Draw
Art Metal Filing
Cabinet (Back
Room)
no.3
top draw
Miscellaneous unsorted papers and documents on
the Pacific
File – USP
File – Letters (this file includes no letters, it
includes documents related to Pacific
Partnerships)
File – 2. The Methodist churches, Rev. Jione Lagi
File – 3. London Missionary Society and its
successor churches, Rev. Elia Taáse
File – 7. The Roman Catholic organizations, Fr
John Foliaki Oct 1979
File – 6. The Presbyterian linkage (empty)
File – (label in pencil, can not read). Documents
relate to church/religious organisations in the
Pacific.
File – 8.1 The South Pacific Anglican Council,
Mr. William Sawegar
File – 9. Prospect
File – Pacific Regional Cooperation : Completed
papers general
File – 3/ Forces, Communication and common
Interest
File 19.1 – Pacific Theological College (PTC) Dr
Amanaki Havea
File 18.2 – The Melanesian Council of Churches
Rev. Dick Avi
File 13 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saint (Mormons) President Baden Pere
File 18.2 – The Melanesian Brotherhood Fr.Brian
MacDonald Milne
“An assessment of regional cooperation for the
American flag Pacific Islands” prepaared by
Marcelino K. Actouka, Research Fellow for
c.1980s
c.1980s
1977-1980
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Pacific Basin Development Council, Sep 1981.
“Summary of Pacific 2000 a study by Dr. D.
Howlett, 9pp. n.d.
Ïnstitutional sources of stress in Pacific
Regionalism”by Dr. Richard A. Herr, Working
Paper Series, Pacific Island Studies, Hawai’I,
1980
“Papua New Guinea and the south-west Pacific:
The experience, place and prospects of regional
co-operation”by Edward P. Wolfers. To be
published in International Security in the
Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Region,
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 1983.
Unsorted documents on the Pacific
1980
1983
File – Melanesian Alliance
File - Trade
File – Transport
File – Communications
File – Media, Religious Publications and Radio
File – Media, Business Journals
File – P.R.C. 4 Media
File – Media
File – Tourism
File – Regionalism: mobility and staffing
File – Trade Unions
File – Skill Recruitment
File – Professional Associations
File – AID
File – Finance centres
File – Foreign Investment
File – Education and Training
File – Law
File – Culture
File – Scientific and technical (including
meteorological)
File – Youth
File – Sport
File – Women
File – Boys Brigade (Mr Jerry Tikaram)
Girls Brigade (Ms Nawcy Thompson)
File – Ideology
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File – Religion
File – Military (large file)
Grey Four Draw
Art Metal Filing
Cabinet (Back
Room)
2nd draw down
File – Pacific Islands to 1980
File – Regional Organisations
File – UN Agencies in the Pacific
File – Foreign Representation
“South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation
Committee Meeting, Agreed Record” Rarotonga
Cook Islands 30 Jul – 1 Aug 1985.
File – Forum Fisheries Agency
File – PFL (Pacific Forum Line Limited)
“Memorandum of Association and articles of
association” Jun 1977.
File – P.E.S.C.O. (empty)
Jun 1977
File – S.P.C.
File – S.P.E.C.
File – Regional Bi-lateral relations
File – Australia
File – Commonwealth
File – E.E.C
File – France
File – U.K.
File – Cook Islands
File – Easter Island
File – Federated States of Micronesia
File – P.H.A. 2008
File – Fiji
File – French Polynesia
File – Guam
File – Kiribati
File – Marshall Islands
File – Nauru
File – New Caledonia
File – Niue
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File – Northern Marianas
File – Palau
File – PNG
File – Solomon Islands
File – Tonga
File – Torres Straits
File – Tuvalu
File 2.21.27 – Selwyn Arutangai
Correspondence between Selwyn and Ron
File – Vanuatu
1990 – 1993
File – Western Samoa
Pacific Regional Organisations study
Several sheets of paper from the University of the
South Pacific, Institute of Pacific Studies,
Inventory of Pacific Regional Organizations, one
sheet per organisation outlining name of
organisation, address, etc.
File – P.R.C. 4 Research
File – P.R.C. 4.15 Military security, surveillance,
police and customs
File – P.R.C. 4 Transport and Tourism
File – P.R.C. 4.14 Trade, commerce, industry
File - entries for the Inventory of Pacific Regional
Organizations study
1977
Grey Four Draw
Art Metal Filing
Cabinet (Back
Room)
4th draw down
File – Consultancy
File – I.P.S. 1.3.1 Directions, Institute of
Education
File – 2.17 Solomon Islands
File – 2.23 Tahiti
File – I.P.S. 3.7 Creative expression fund
File – Commonwealth Writer’s Prize
File – I.P.S. 3.12 Commonwealth Foundation
File – I.P.S. 4.20.1 A.N.U. (correspondence with
Pambu, Gillian Scott, Neil Gunson, Bess, Bob
Langdon, Ewan)
Envelope – Larmour MS
1989-1995 (PMB)
-2008 (AAAPS)
File – 4.20.6 – University of New South Wales,
University of Sydney (Centre for Pacific Studies)
File – I.P.S. 4.20.7 – University of Wollongong
1989-2000
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File – I.P.S. 4.20.7 – James Cook University
File – University of Queensland and Q.U.T.
File – Griffith
File – I.P.S. 4.21 – Pacific History Association
File – I.P.S. 4.30.1 – Auckland
File – I.P.S. 4.30.2 – University of Waikato
File – I.P.S. 4.30.3 – Wellington
File – I.P.S. 4.30.5 – University of Canterbury
File – University of Otago
File – Pacific Islands Institute – Elder Hostel
File – I.P.S. 4.37.1 – University of Hawaii
File – P.I.P.S.A. (Pacific Islands Political Studies
Association)
File – I.P.S. 4.37.4 – Pacific Science Congress
File – California, UCLA, UCSD, USIUs
File – I.P.S. 4.40.8 – Smithsonian (Wilson Center)
File – I.P.S. 4.40.9 – University of Oregon
File – I.P.S. 3.10 – Wenner Green
File – I.P.S. 4.40.5 – Other U.S. Universities
File – Albinski
File – I.P.S. 4.41 – Canada
File – I.P.S. 4.42 – University of the West Indies
(empty)s
File – I.P.S. 4.50 – UK Universities
1995
File – I.P.S. 4.52 – German Universities
1990
File – Transparency International
File – I.P.S. 4.51 – France
File – Austraia, University of Vienna
File – I.P.S. 4.54 – Netherlands
File – I.P.S. 4.56 – Sweden
File – I.P.S. 4.57 – Poland
File – Russia (empty)
File – I.P.S. 4.62 – Singapore
File – I.P.S. 4.64 – Taiwan
File – Mongolia
1997
File – Kagoshima
File – I.P.S. 4.70.14 – Japan, Ohira Foundation
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File – I.P.S. 4.70.7 – Other Japan
File – I.P.S. 4.70.8 – Pacific Society
File – I.P.S. 4.71 – Korea
File – I.P.S. 4.63 – China
File – India
Papers in the second half of this draw include
personal C.V.s, applications and correspondence
with Ron about positions.
Grey Four Draw
Art Metal Filing
Cabinet (Back
Room)
Bottom draw
Small box file of personal documents including
Expired Cook Islands drivers’ licences,
Certificate of registration as an Australian citizen,
1963, NZ Passport, Birth Certificate, p’copies of
Crocombe family birth certificates, Atiu
genealogy,
Box of expired Australian and New Zealand
passports for Ron and other family members
Large
rectangular
metal case
labelled
R.G.Crocombe,
U.S.P. Suva
(Back room)
Land tenure Fiji/New Caledonia
Several documents (about 100) in this metal
case
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PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU
Room 4201, Coombs Building
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
Telephone: (612) 6125 2521
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Cook Islands Christian Church Archives Listing
Takamoa Theological College, Avarua, Rarotonga
Mr Tangimetua Tangatatutai, President of the Cook Islands Christian Church
Listing made by Kylie Moloney 24 August 2010
Mr Tangatatutai said that the land records would be restricted access, however all
other documents are fine to release. He said that he prefers digital copies, not
microfilm.
Land deeds for all Cook Islands Christian Church
lands on all islands.
(These would be Restricted Access)
1864-
Church marriage notices
Church marriage notices
Church marriage notices for Arorangi
Church marriage notices for Nikao
Church notice of intention to marriage notices for
Avarua
Church notice of intention to marriage notices for
Avarua
Church notice of intention to marriage notices for
Avarua
Baptism register for Arorangi
Church marriage and burial registers for
Titikaveka
Church marriage and burial registers for Matavera
Church marriage register, Avarua, Rarotonga
Register of births, Arorangi
Church baptism and burial register, Arorangi
Church baptism register
Church burial register
Church baptism register, Avarua
Church baptism register, Titikaveka
Church baptism, Matavea
Church burial register, Matavea
Church marriage registers, Rarotonga
Church marriage registers, Rarotonga
Listing of all students who have attended
Takamoa Theological College
Church birth record, Avarau, p/c. Already
microfilmed by LDS
Genealogy of Manihiki, p/c.
1917-1951
1951-1972
1917-1967
1925-1975
1919-1974
1923-1950
1950-1975
19491952-1954
1951-1992
1918-1975
1964-1977
1993-2001
1977-1994
1976-2003
1977-1987
1973-2009
1978-2009
1978-2009
1951-1974
1957-1975
1823-present
1849-
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