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Henry Goronwy Alun Hughes (1921-2013)
Papers

MSS 0047

Series 10. Official source materials collected by Hughes

Gilbert & Ellice Islands

Press release re appointment of W.J. Peel as Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 22 December 1948

Gilbert & Ellice Islands Legislation. Acts and ordinances 1915, 1917, 1941, indexes to legislation

[Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony Education Reports] Typescript ‘Policy’ by Hughes?]; Annual Report on Education 1934, 1935, 1938-39, Notes on Reports 1939-45, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950. Print copies

1949 Report on Gilbert and Ellice Islands £14,000 excess revenue. Print copy

Office of the Resident Commissioner, Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony, Tarawa Island, 6/12/1946. District circular no. 45. Exploitation of colony marine products. Roneo copy

Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Suva. Memorandum 1/9/1942. European Government and coastwatching personnel at present in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Typescripts

[Report by Arthur Maaffy on a visit to the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, 1909] HMSO publication Cd. 4992. Typescript

U.K. Ministry of Overseas Development. A Socio-economic survey of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, May 1986. Photocopy

[Reports on Co-Operative Societies] Native Co-operative Societies Ordinance 1940; Annual report of the Co-operatives Societies Officer 1947, 1948, 1949; Annual Report of the Dept of Cooperation 1950 / W.G. Alexander; The Co-operative Societies Ordinance 1951 & Regulations 1952; Report of the Registrar of the Co-operative Societies for the year 1972 [Co-operative Federation of Merchandise Division of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Development Authority] Photocopied typescript. Print and typescript copies

 

Gilbert Islands

Cowell, Reid. ‘Democratic thought in Gilbertese society’ [Paper, 1950]. With letter from W.G. Alexander, Office of the Co-operative Societies Officer, Gilbert Islands, Tarawa, 25/9/1950.

Young, D.M. Report on cervical adenitis in the Gilbert Islands. Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, with Medical and Sanitary Report for 1930. Photocopies

Folder: Records, Internal, History – Native customs. Ms and typescript notes

  • Life in the Gilberts / by P.R.O., GEIC (Overseas publication)
  • Te Bino / Nei Tekaboi and other Gilbertese stories
  • Te Maneaba / Katean
  • New Words
  • [Notes on social organisation and culture transcribed by Morning Star from Kabunare: Kabunare MBE, Retired Native Magistrate of Tarawa. Story of life before the flag; Gilbertese custom regarding marriage; Gilbertese custom re death; Gilbertese custom re birth; Native etiquette; Some avoidances to be observed in relations with natives
  • The Footprints of Tarawa / I.G. Turbott, Colonial Administrative Service (typescript and sketches)

Folder: Internal records: Gilbertese war weapons, 1947-1951. Includes correspondence and memoranda re Gilbertese battle dress and the making of a suit of armour by Teikaburara Baueri of Beru to be sent; list of fishing articles sent from Beru; typescript ‘The War Weapons of our Ancestors – (Gilbertese) by Tione, 3 p., originally published in Taro in Gilbertese; typescript ‘Translation of Gilbertese Ensign’ [on canoe ensigns of clans] 3 p.

Notes on the Proposed Study of a dry island in the Gilbert Group [ie Onotoa]. South Pacific Commission. S.d. Enquiry no. 75 [probable author: H.E. Maude. Amendments by HGA Hughes]. Typescript shifted from 6.2

 

Ellice Islands

Copies of official documents 1944-48 from the files of the District Office, Ellice Islands, March 1952 relating to claim by the islanders of Vaitupu, Nukufetau and Nukulaelae to Niulakita (used by Hughes in publication The ownership of Niulakita)

[Ellice Islands language materials] Original files of the Gilbert and Ellice islands Colony: MP no.2 of 1943 on Death of Apelila of Funafuti (1942-43); F3/3/1 on Publishing Ellice Islands Magazine [Tala o Tuvalu] (1948-51); letters of F. Penitala and others 1939 and 1945-46, copies of official correspondence on lands matters and ordinances 1920, 1936-37, 1947-51, and samples of forms in Ellice islands language. 3 folders

[Ellice Islands Reports]: Ellice Islands Annual Report 1912; Ellice Islands District Council report 1935; D.G. Kennedy’s report Ellice Islands district 1936; Memorandum C.N. Henshaw’s Report on tour of Ellice Islands 1947; Nauru and Ocean Island Asian and Native Provident Fund Rules 1950, and spreadsheet of workers and wages, vessels and mails received and despatched 1950; Ocean Island Annual Report 1950. Typescripts and Roneoed copies

Ellice Islands reports [various] 1913-1950 [annual reports for 1913-16, 1931-32, 1934-36, 1950; report on visit by the Resident Commissioner (H.R. McClure) 1922; Social Welfare report, Ellice Islands 1949]. Microfiche

Ellice Islands District. Travelling diary: Funafuti to Nukufetau and Vaitupu and return by M.V. Maureen, October 1947. 1 p [incomplete?] Typescript

Folder; U.S. Occupation of Nanumea Island. Includes official and other correspondence 1944 re relocation of persons from Nanumea; Diary of the occupation of Nanumea by Lieutenant Collins; ms reports and memos by Collins 1943 etc; also typescript ‘Ellice Islands Women’s Island Committees Report 1935

Folder: Occupation of Funafuti by U.S. troops 1942-44. MS and typescript lists of boats and canoes, people on Funafala, buildings to be occupied or demolished, people on Papaelise

 

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Interim regulations, Land and claims regulations, educational memorandum, judicial code and law enforcement 1948-1951. In English and Marshallese? Roneoed typescripts

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Marshalls District [collection of printed regulations, ordinances, directives and other official circular documents (in English and Marshallese), and copies of Majuro Times v.1 no.1, December 1951 and of Head and Hands v. II no.9, March 1951. Also report on boat transport in the Marshall Islands by B.R. Kesler, and typescript on Land tenure / Leonard E. Mason (typescripts)]

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Ponape District [collection of printed documents, including district orders, regulations (most in Ponapean) and reports on Contemporary Ponapean Land Tenure, June 1951 (with valuable appendix on land vocabulary) and History of Education, Ponape District, 1946-51] 1949-51 with copies of some 1913 documents

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: Truk District [collection of printed regulations, district orders, court procedure, forms and schedules (in English and Trukkese), report on Native Land Tenure 1950, minutes of Truk Education Meetings August 1951, Language memorandum 10 September 1951, Petitions of Natives of Truk District [1949?], issues of Truk Tide and Simpungen Chuuk September 1951]

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. District Court for the Marshall Islands District. L. Levy and others (plaintifes) against Kumtak and others (defendants) Pre-trial order Typescripts

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Ponape District. Third quarterly report 1951 July-September. Roneoed typescript

Fischer, J.L. Contemporary Popapean land tenure. Anthropologist’s report, CAU Ponape, 5 June 1951. Roneoed typescript

['Education in the South Sea Islands under Japanese Mandate' 1932; Presidential address by George P. Murdock, Society for Applied Anthropology 1948; press release re study of transfer of Pacific Trust Territories by Dr. John Nichols 1950; issue of News Letter of the Institute of Ethnic Affairs 1950 re first South Pacific Conference; agenda paper of United Nations Trusteeship Council re Conditions in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands July 1955.]

 

Micronesia

Papers on education, language, religion, land laws, agriculture, culture and colonial administration of Micronesia from courses at Hoover Institute, School of Naval Administration, Stanford University and US Naval Postgraduate School Course in Naval Administration. 1946 and c 1948-49. ['J.E. Tobin: anthropologist Marshall Islands in 1950s' and 'ex files of Majuro District Administration, Marshall Islands' written on covers of some parts of this collection by Hughes]

Note that a typescript 'Notes on Marshall Islands for the use of U.S. Forces' has been separately catalogued for the Pacific collection

 

Tokelau

New Zealand. Tokelau Islands. Memorandum. Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly … 1948. Print copy

 

Fiji

Fiji. Legislative Council. Fijian Orthography. 1937, Print copy

Colonial Office Information Dept. Fiji’s Romantic Mace: model to be on show at Colonial Exhibition. 13/5/1949: no. 10. Roneoed typescript

 

Samoa

O le Talatusia (lipoti) a le Savali a Malo ‘Aufaatasi I le Fono mo le Tausiga a Atunuu Vaivai” (Lomia: LMS, 1947. 24 p.

[Trusteeship Agreement for Western Samoa 1947] Samoan translation provided by Te Secretary to the Government. Roneoed typescript

 

Other

Confidential circular from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, with copy of ‘Civilian Living Standards in the United Kingdom’ 27th September 1944. Roneoed typescript

Maps of the Pacific and individual islands, principally British Solomons c1910-50

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