Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
CO
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Colonial Office. Great Britain
- Title
- Records of the Colonial Office (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1714 - 1959
- Collection Number
- CO
- Extent
- 9393 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created by the National Library of Australia with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Colonial Office records constitute by far the largest group of records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). As most of the Colonial Office Series relate to specific colonies they have largely been filmed comprehensively (with some exceptions). In this respect the Colonial Office copying has differed from that of most of the other record groups.
The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed Series and Pieces from the following Colonial Office Series:
Correspondence with the colonies: Entry books and registers of correspondence
Records of the Chief Clerk's and General Departments
Records of Local Bodies and other Colonial Miscellanea
Acts, Ordinances and Proclamations from the Colonies
Sessional Papers from the Colonies
Records of the Emigration Departments
Records of the Accounts Department
Government Gazettes from the Colonies
Records of the Dominions Division
Records of Economic Departments
List of Series relating to a particular colony:
Auckland Islands: CO 330, CO 394, CO 714
Australia (General): CO 11, CO 12, CO 381, CO 418, CO 537, CO 557, CO 714
Australia (Commonwealth): CO 706, CO 707
Bermuda: CO 37, CO 38, CO 40
Fiji: CO 83, CO 537, CO 419, CO 515, CO 400, CO 383, CO 85, CO 459
Gibraltar: CO 91, CO 92
Newfoundland: CO 194, CO 195, CO 199
New Guinea (Papua): CO 422, CO 578, CO 579, CO 383, CO 436
New South Wales: CO 201, CO 714, CO 360, CO 369, CO 202, CO 203, CO 383, CO 204, CO 207, CO 206
New Zealand: CO 208, CO 209, CO 537, CO 714, CO 361, CO 365, CO 406, CO 383, CO 213
Northern Australia: CO 395
Queensland: CO 234, CO 714, CO 424, CO 450, CO 423, CO 383
South Australia: CO 13, CO 714, CO 331, CO 514, CO 396, CO 383, CO 15, CO 17
Tasmania: CO 280, CO 714, CO 370, CO 371, CO 408, CO 281, CO 383, CO 281, CO 383, CO 282, CO 283, CO 284
Victoria: CO 309, CO 714, CO 374, CO 513, CO 411, CO 383, CO 311, CO 313Western Australia: CO 18, CO 714, CO 332, CO 353, CO 397, CO 19, CO 383, CO 20, CO 22
Western Australia: Co 18, CO 19, CO 20, CO 22, CO 332, CO 353, CO 383, Co 397, CO 714
Australia and New Zealand: CO 644, CO 645
Western Pacific: CO 225, CO 537, CO 492, CO 493
Colonies (General): CO 323, CO 324-CO 325, CO 378-CO 381, CO 432, CO 570, CO 652, CO 694, CO 816, CO 854, CO 862
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/)
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the National Archives of the UK (TNA) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Citation of items from this collection should include references to the National Archives of the UK (TNA) and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Further information on citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/).
Archival History
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. AJCP Reels:(1-411, 424-841, 843-894, 934-938, 982-1054, 1114-1142, 1146, 1165-1193, 1201, 1203-1299, 1290, 1304-1504, 1626-1726, 1804-2082, 2086-2698, 2726-2729, 2681-2900, 2914-2959, 2969-2980, 2982-3055, 3059, 3094-3096, 3129-3146, 3432-3499, 3921-3970, 4099-4347, 4427-448, 4505-4878, 5020-2023, 5119-5166, 5870-5880. 5949-5970, 6017, 6031-6089, 6120- 6146, 6148-6303, 6326-6332, 6339-6577, 6885, 6887-6889, 6933-6938, 6944, 6971, 7046-7054, 7058-7072, 7116-7179, 7190-7193, 7209-7218)
Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Collection Reference: CO. For further information, see CO at the National Archives of the UK (TNA). (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C57)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7792203) as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Series within this Collection available online from The National Archives of UK (TNA) include: CO 207. For more information see: TNA Digital Microfilm Records
Related Materials
In addition to records described in this finding aid, further series of Colonial Office material which have been filmed under other arrangements (whether by the The National Archives (TNA) itself or a consortium) are held by libraries throughout Australia.
Finding Aid Note
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming by the AJCP rather than to the date range of the original Series or File.
This online finding aid, published by the National Library of Australia in 2018, is a revised version of the original AJCP handbooks:
Advisory Statement
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Colonial Office; Auckland Islands; Australia; Bermuda; Fiji; Gibraltar; Great Britain: Colonial Office; Newfoundland; New Guinea (Papua); New South Wales; New Zealand; New Zealand Company; Northern Australia; Queensland; South Australia; Tasmania; Victoria; Western Australia; Western Pacific; World War I (1914-1918)
Bibliography
This revised finding-aid was originally published as:
Administrative History
As the department chiefly responsible for the administration of the Australian colonies and for the formulation of imperial policy, the Colonial Office was the largest group of records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).
The Colonial Office was responsible for the administration of the Crown colonies and for communications between Britain and self-governing colonies. Its records contain an enormous amount of information on the six Australian colonies, New Zealand, New Guinea and Fiji.
Until the colonies became self-governing in the 1850s the respective Governors exercised total power. Their despatches dealing with all aspects of colonial life make up the main series of records. Of most importance are the Enclosures accompanying each despatch - statistical returns, reports of officials, letters and petitions from private individuals and newspaper and other printed items, many of which have marginal annotations made by departmental officials.
From 1782 to 1801 colonial affairs were in the hands of the Home Secretary. In 1794 a third secretary of state was appointed, with responsibility for managing the war against France, and in 1801 he became the Secretary of State for War and Colonies. After 1815 military work declined sharply and from then onwards the department was known as the Colonial Office. In 1854 the Secretary of State relinquished his residual military responsibilities.
The organisation and record keeping of the Colonial Office remained remarkably stable until 1925, when a separate Dominions Office was created. The Colonial Office remained responsible for crown colonies and dependent territories. As colonies gained independence, its importance diminished and in 1966 it merged with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form the Commonwealth Office.
Item Descriptions
Fonds CO. Correspondence with the colonies: Entry books and registers of correspondence, 1783 - 1951
6475 itemsCorrespondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence relating to the administration of individual colonies. Also includes a few records of governments of colonial and mandated territories that were sent to London for various reasons.
The earlier original correspondence was at first simply the incoming dispatches of the colonial governor, with which may or may not be found enclosures. In the course of time the original correspondence came to include office minutes and drafts of outgoing despatches as well as correspondence from other sources.
Dates used in the this finding aid refer to those of the records selected for filming by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) rather than to the date range of the original Series or File.
Series CO 13. South Australia: Original Correspondence, 1831 - 1900
160 itemsCorrespondence of the Colonial Office relating to South Australia. Records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) include: correspondence of the Colonial Office consisting of despatches and their enclosures, reports and other papers from Governors, letters from public offices in the United Kingdom and letters from individuals, societies and companies in the United Kingdom and South Australia.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 13. For further information, see CO 13 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4204).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2032459] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Land Board: South Australia; South Australian Association; South Australia: politics and government; South Australia
South Australian Association: Col. Torrens, Major Bacon and others, 1831 - 1832 (File 1. AJCP Reel No: 305)
Offices and Individuals, 1848 (File 61. AJCP Reel No: 615)
Report on Post Offices.See New South Wales is located at CO 201/404.
Series CO 18. Western Australia: Original Correspondence, 1828 - 1900
256 itemsCorrespondence of the Colonial Office consisting of despatches and reports, particularly concerning convicts, letters from public offices in the United Kingdom, and letters from offices, settlers and other individuals in the United Kingdom and Western Australia.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 18. For further information, see CO 18 at TNA(http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4209).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2035405] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Prisoners: Western Australia; Swan River Settlement; Western Australia: politics and government; Western Australia; Prisoners
Despatches, 1832 (File 10. AJCP Reel No: 297-298)
Includes: Return of the Civil Establishment, Feb. 1832; Census, July 1832 and Register of Deaths in Western Australia, 1829-1831
Offices: Land and Emigration, Colonisation Assurance Co., Inspector of Prisons, Miscellaneous, 1850 (File 57. AJCP Reel No: 447-448)
Despatches; reports of Comptroller General of Convicts, 1852 - 1853 (File 69. AJCP Reel No: 455-456)
Offices: Admiralty, Agents, Council, Board of Trade, East India Board, Law Officers, Home, Foreign, Treasury, 1855 (File 92. AJCP Reel No: 468)
Offices: War, Colonial Land and Emigration Post, Miscellaneous, 1855 (File 93. AJCP Reel No: 752-753)
Series CO 37. Bermuda: Original Correspondence, 1813 - 1815
4 itemsCorrespondence of the Colonial Office relating to Bermuda, comprises of despatches from government agencies and individuals.
Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume has a contents list, or precis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed only selected items from this Series (pieces 70-73).
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 37. For further information, see CO 37 at TNA(http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4228).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584860] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office, Archives; Bermuda Islands: politics and government; Bermuda Islands
Series CO 38. Bermuda: Entry Books of Correspondence, 1801 - 1820
1 itemLetters from the Secretary and State and despatches relating to Bermuda. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed only a single item from this Series (piece 20).
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 38. For further information, see CO 38 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4229).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584869] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office; Bermuda Islands: politics and government; Bermuda Islands
Series CO 83. Fiji: Original Correspondence, 1860 - 1946
282 itemsCorrespondence of the Colonial Office relating to Fiji arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: despatches and their enclosures from Fijian Governors, letters from British government agencies, organisations and individuals (arranged alphabetically).
Each volume has a contents list, or a precis of each letter, giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. From 1926 correspondence is arranged in numerically controlled subject files.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 83. For further information, see CO 83 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4274).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584877] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Smythe, W. J. (William James); Great Britain: Colonial Office; Fiji: politics and government; Fiji
Colonel Smythe's Mission, Despatches, Offices and Individuals, 1860 (File 1. AJCP Reel No: 2202)
Subjects include: Instructions to Colonel William James Smythe; meetings and treaties with local chiefs; correspondence with Admiralty, Treasury, Foreign and War Office; HMS Pelorus; HMS Herald; conduct of Consul William Pritchard; geography, districts and administration; Cotton Supply Association; missions; Maori Wars; HMS Iris; HMS Pegasus; Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries. Includes index.
Individuals mentioned include: Henry Pelham-Clinton (Duke of Newcastle); John Wodehouse (Baron Wodehouse), Sir William Denison, Frederick Elliot, Dr Berthold Seemann, Herman Merivale, Frederick Beauchamp Seymour, Frederic Rogers, William J. Hooker, George A Hamilton, Sir Frederic Rogers, Chichester Fortescue, Dr James Murray, John Russell (1st Earl Russell).
Locations mentioned include: Friendly Islands (Tonga), Levuka, Ovalau, Suva, Oparo (Rapa Island).
Offices and Individuals, 1872 (File 2. AJCP Reel No: 2202-2203)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; kidnapping; charges against Carl (ship) crew; complaints against Captain Douglas of HMS Cossack; HMS Barossa; schedule of enclosures; cocoa nut; HMS Blanche; geography; diary by Captain Lewis J. Moore; construction of schooners; correspondence with Foreign Office; crimes on the Daphne (ship); Emigration Board.
Individuals mentioned include: Captain Moresby; John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), King Thakombau, Captain Hayes, Lieutenant Hallett, Captain Randolph, Captain Simpson, James Lowther, Commodore Stirling, Roderick McIver, Edward March, Granville Leveson-Gower (Earl Granville), Dr James Murray, John Thurston.
Locations mentioned include: Micronesia, Kiribati, Levuka, Solomon Islands, Pellew Islands, Samoa, Bonham Group (Marshall Islands), Mulgrave Island (Badu), Knox Island (Tarawa), Gilbert Islands, Pitto Island, Halls Islands (Maina), Woodle Island, Hope Island (Arorae), Tahiti, Clark's Island, Pleasant Island (Nauru), Ovalau, Caroline Islands, Matelotas Island, Ocean Island (Banaba), Taputeonea, Tamkau, Hong Kong, Strong's Island (Kosrae), Polynesia, Victoria, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Norfolk Island, Kepple Island, Rotumah, Duff Islands, Torres Islands.
Offices: House of Commons and Admiralty, 1873 (File 3. AJCP Reel No: 2203-2204)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; Correspondence with Houses of Parliament, Foreign Office, Admiralty; recognition of Fijian Government; kidnapping of Fijians; repatriation of captives on Carl (ship); trial relating to Nukulau (ship); instructions on suppressing the kidnapping trade; HMS Cossack; proceedings of HMS Rosario; HMS Blanche; murder of Bishop John Patteson; enquiry into labour trade; reports on affairs in Fiji; HMS Dido; conflict between white settlers and Fijians; HMS Clio.
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), Joseph Armstrong, Charles Dowden, Dr James Patrick Murray, Commodore Frederick Stirling, Captain R.Gordon Douglas, Edward March, Roderick McIver, Lieutenant A.H. Markram, Robert Hall, William Scott, Vernon Lushington, Captain William Cox Chapman.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Friendly Islands (Tonga), Solomon Islands, Polynesia, Levuka, Sydney, Ovalau, Samoa, Swallow Group, Nukapu, Nguna, Taveuni, Viti Levu, Rubiana Island, South Sea Island, Ba District, Namian Islands, Torres Straits, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), New Guinea.
Offices: Foreign, January 1873 - March 1873 (File 3. AJCP Reel No: 2203-2204)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; kidnapping of Polynesians; slave trade; repatriation of captives and case regarding the Carl (ship); depositions of kidnapping on board the Nukulau (ship); HMS Cossack; the Peri (ship) tragedy; postal matters; requests for British protection from Fijian chiefs; cotton plantations; annexation of Fiji islands; HMS Rosario; crimes on the Daphne (ship).
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), Granville Leveson-Gower (Lord Granville), Edward Thornton, Edward March, J. C. Smith, Isaac O'Donnell, King Cakobau, Commander Frederick Stirling, Major-General William James Smythe, Captain R. Gordon Douglas, Dr James Patrick Murray, Captain Daggett, Commander George Palmer.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Nukumanu Island, Levuka, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Strong's Island (Kosrae), Taviuni (Taveuni), Ovalau, Rotumah (Rotuma).
Offices: Foreign, April 1873 - December 1873 (File 4. AJCP Reel No: 2204)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; suppression of kidnapping; Queensland Polynesian Laborers Act; state of affairs in Fiji; aftermath of the Carl (ship) incident; assault of Polynesians on Kate Grant (ship); HMS Ethel (ship); Nukulan (ship); HMS Cossack; Claim by US for money from King Thakombau, annexation of Fiji, slave trade, 'Coolie' trade.
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), Granville Leveson-Gower (Earl of Granville), Vernon Lushington, George Lorimer, Robert McDougal, Edward March, Lieutenant F. Sanders, Captain R. Gordon Douglas, George Byng (Lord Enfield), Robert Hall, Commodore Frederick Stirling, Major-General William James Smythe.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Friendly Islands (Tonga), Samoa, Polynesia, Levuka, Viti Levu, Line Islands, Ovalau, Nandronga (Nadroga), Ellice Islands (Vanuatu), Cakoban (Cakobau), Funafuti, Taviuni (Taveuni), Drummond's Island (Tabiteuea), Santo Island (Espiritu Santo), Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia), Strong's Island (Kosrae), Savusavu, Rambi (Rabi) Islands.
Offices: Land Board and Miscellaneous, 1873 (File 4. AJCP Reel No: 2204)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; carriage of Native Labourers; suppression of kidnapping in South Seas; Queensland plantations; labour traffic; articles from Brisbane Courier; anti-slavery society; annexation of Fiji.
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), Granville Leveson-Gower (Earl of Granville), Joseph Nullens.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Polynesia, Queensland, Brisbane.
Individuals, 1873 (File 4. AJCP Reel No: 2204)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; Letters of introduction; plantations; white settlers in Fiji; HMS Dido; case of Challenge (ship); trafficking of Polynesian youths; slave trade; annexation of Fiji; issue of Australian and New Zealand Gazette; atrocities on the Carl (ship); 'The Queen v. Mount and Morris'.
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley); James Bennet, Rev. W. Findlay, Dr James Patrick Murray.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Ba District, Queensland.
Despatches, October 1874 - December 1874 (File 5. AJCP Reel No: 2204-2205)
Subjects include: Annexation and cession of Fiji to Britain with related newspaper clippings; negotiations with Chiefs including meeting at Dryimba; tribal wars; organisation and appointments to Colonial Government; maps of Fiji and surrounding islands; HMS Pearl; HMS Dido; Polynesia Land Company and indentured workers; request for loan from Government of New South Wales; checks on importation of forged foreign coins; meeting between King Thakombau and Queen Victoria; Era (yacht); allowances to former Kings.
Individuals mentioned include: Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Sir Hercules Robinson, King Cakobau, Commodore J. G. Goodenough, Sir George Bowen, David Wilkinson, Edgar Layard.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Viti Levu, Taviuni (Taveuni), Norfolk Island, Levuka.
Offices and Individuals, 1874 (File 5. AJCP Reel No: 2204-2205)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; annexation and cession negotiations; labour trafficking prevention; HMS Dido; kidnappings from Carl and Daphne; return of captives; Lavinia (ship); politics; HMS Pearl; murder of crew of Plato (barque); mail; appointments; Hallie Jackson (American brig); 'Coolie' trade; payment of Polynesian labourers; character of prominent residents in Fiji (ff.622-629v); land; proposed publication of Polynesian Dictionary with sample (f.658).
Individuals mentioned include: John Wodehouse (Earl of Kimberley), Sir Hercules Robinson, Robert Hall, Commodore Frederick Stirling, Captain W.C. Chapman, Edgar Layard, Commodore J.G. Goodenough, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), King Cakobau, Edward Thornton, John Thurston, King Thakombau, Sir Alfred Stephen.
Locations mentioned include: Samoa, Tahiti, Friendly Islands (Tonga), Levuka, South Sea Islands, Solomon Islands, Caroline Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Banks Islands, Isabel Island (Santa Isabel), Makira, Mortlock, Horn Island, Tamana, Bau, Vanua Levu, Ngaloa Bay, Kadavu, Ovalau, Rambi (Rabi).
Despatches, January 1875 - October 1875 (File 6. AJCP Reel No: 2206)
Subjects include: Cession and annexation; meeting between Government and Chiefs; charges against Robert Swanson; HMS Pearl; regulation of arms and ammunition dealing; blackbirding; measles; repatriation and report of kidnapped Polynesians; HMS Dido; mail; land titles; unrest on Mathuata (Mathuata-i-Wai) and Macuata; murder of Captain Frederick King of the Loelia; HMS Beagle; injury and death of native girl by Mr and Mrs Fitzgerald; destruction of Bau by fire; despatches and expenses; HMS Barracouta; local press; land matters; claim for Volunteer (cutter); navigation and trade; ordinances relating to health and liquor. Contents list at beginning.
Individuals mentioned include: King Thakombau, Edgar Layard, Sir Hercules Robinson, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Commodore Goodenough, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Captain Charles Stevens, John Thurston, George Blair, Alfred Martin, King Cakobau, Captain William Chapman, James Watts.
Locations mentioned include: Polynesia, Samoa, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Tonga, New Caledonia, Levuka, Naduri, Navuso, Aurora Island (Makatea), Viti Levu, Lau Islands, Ovalau, Lomaloma, Nasova, Niue.
Despatches, November 1875 - December 1875 (File 7. AJCP Reel No: 2207)
Subjects include: Mail and postal arrangements; revenue and expenditure; ordinances regarding creation and provision of various appointments, legal, and judicial frameworks; Native Laws; return of G.A. Woods to Fiji, working with Polynesian Company; slavery in Fiji; provisional appointments; expedition through Viti Levu and printed report; land claims; annexation of New Hebrides (Vanuatu) to France; 'Coko' (Thoko) disease; maps.
Individuals mentioned include: Edgar Layard, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Frederick Langham, Sir Hercules Robinson, Walter Carew, King Cakobau.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Windward Islands, Levuka, Nasova, Macuata, Ovalau, Bau, Moturiki, Noumea, Goro (Koro), Vate (Efate).
Offices: Admiralty, 1875 (File 7. AJCP Reel No: 2207)
Subjects include: Blackbirding; kidnapping; labour traffic; measles; HMS Dido; Reservation of site for Naval service; attack on HMS Pearl; Plantations visited by and attacks on HMS Sandfly; theft by crew of Jessie Kelly (ship); murder of crews of Zephyr and Lalia; HMS Rosario; criminal acts of William Henry 'Bully' Hayes of the Leonora (brig).
Individuals mentioned include: Edgar Layard, Robert Hall, Commodore J. G. Goodenough, Sir Hercules Robinson, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Vernon Lushington, Lieutenant Nowell, King Cakobau.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Samoa, Levuka, Ovalau, Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands, Noumea, New Caledonia, Maskelyne Islands, Tanna, Aoba/Ambae, Mallicolo (Malekula), South Sea Islands, Pentecost Island, Banks Islands, Tapona (Tapana), Aurora Island (Makatea).
Offices (except Admiralty), 1875 (File 8. AJCP Reel No: 2208)
Subjects include: Appointment of Governor; consular arrangements and jurisdictions; Royal Engineers Detachment and machinery; blackbirding; labour traffic; French vessels in New Hebrides (Vanuatu); criminal acts of William Henry 'Bully' Hayes; judicial appointments; mail; murder on Torres Island; proceedings in Fiji; claims by Fijians; expedition by and attacks on Challenger; emigration; annexation and cession.
Individuals mentioned include: King Thakombau, J.H. Farrer, Sir Hercules Robinson, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Edgar Layard, Frederick Stanley, John Thurston, Commodore J.G. Goodenough, Rowley Lambert.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Western Polynesia, Levuka, Ovalau, South Sea Islands, Friendly Islands (Tonga).
Individuals, 1875 (File 8. AJCP Reel No: 2208)
Subjects include: Attorney General; Government and judicial appointments; emigration; Myths and Songs of the South Pacific; measles; sanitary welfare.
Individuals mentioned include: Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), James De Ricci, Sir Hercules Robinson, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Sir William Hackett, Rev. William Wyatt Gill, James Octavius Ward.
Locations mentioned include: Levuka, Kadavu.
Despatches, January 1876 - April 1876 (File 9. AJCP Reel No: 2208-2209)
Subjects include: Choosing and setting out Fijian capital; legal and judicial especially Supreme Court; taxes, financial matters and banking; typhoid; ordinances; land; maps; customs; stamp duties; cession and annexation; jurisdiction; Naval Reserve; HMS Dido; mail; Board of Health; labour; Walter Fitzgerald perjury trial; HMS Barracouta; building plans. Includes contents at beginning.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Warwick Weston, King Thakombau, Sir Hercules Robinson, James De Ricci, King Cakobau, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), Captain Stevens, James Octavius Ward.
Locations mentioned include: Samoa, Suva, Ovalau, Levuka, Macuata, Nasova, Ba District, Noumea, Bua Province, Highland Districts.
Despatches, May 1876 - September 1876 (File 10. AJCP Reel No: 2209-2210)
Subjects include: Land grants; rebellion, unrest and burning of villages; banking, taxes and other financial; Polynesian Company; meetings with Chiefs; labour regulation and payment; expeditions; maps; earthquake; ordinances; Kai Colo; colonial appointments; government; S.S Fitzroy; sketches; sanitation. Includes contents at beginning.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Edgar Layard, Sir Hercules Robinson, Henry Herbert (Earl of Carnarvon), John Thurston, King Thakobau, Captain Louis Knollys, Alfred Mandelay.
Locations mentioned include: Polynesia, Viti Levu, Mathuata (Mathuata-i-Wai), Bau, Vatu Korassa (Vatukarasa), Korotogo, Levuka, Suva, Ovalau, Vanua Levu.
Offices: Admiralty, Crown Agents, Council, Board of Trade, Law Officers and Treasury, 1878 (File 17. AJCP Reel No: 2217)
Despatches, January 1881 - April 1881 (File 25. AJCP Reel No: 2225-2226)
Subjects include: Pensions; Agriculture; insects; Contagious disease ordinance; Auxiliary steam yacht Cruiser; Postal; union, services, rates; Council of chiefs; death of Henry Maafu Roko Tui of Lau; admiralty courts; Criminal procedure; Matagali land.
Places include: Fiji, Kasava, Nasova, London, Liverpool, New Zealand, Wellington.
Individuals include: John B Thurston (Colonial secretary), Mr Wingfield, William Des Voeux, Ex King Thakobau, Earl of Kimberly.
Despatches, May 1881 - July 1881 (File 26. AJCP Reel No: 2226-2227)
Subjects include: Survey and works department; census; of 1881, of Italian and Hungarian subjects; currency; coffee leaf disease repeal ordinance; tests for colour blindness; annexation of Rotumah; Medical officers; industrial school at Yanavai; expenses of public officers.
Places include: Fiji, Tailevu, Rotuma, Viti, Yanavai, Nasova, New Zealand, Australia, New south Wales.
Individuals include: G. S. Solomon (acting attorney general), Sir Arthur H Gordon, D Wilkinson, Hon. J.E. Mason, William Des Voeux, Mr De Hunter.
Despatches, August 1881 - December 1881 (File 27. AJCP Reel No: 2227-2228)
Subjects include: Ordinances, contagious diseases, public river rights; alleged murder and cannibalism of government official in Viti Levu; Visit of Prince Edward and Prince George to Levuka, detached squadron, security; breach of quarantine regulations; removal of prisoners from Levuka to Suva.
Places include: New Zealand, Wellingon, Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Nailagi, Ba, Colo, Australia, New south Wales, Hobart.
Individuals include: Prince Edward, Prince George, Sir Arthur H Gordon, Commodore Wilson, Vice Admiral Richard Meade (The earl of Clanwilliam), Captain Purvis, H.M.S. Danae, William Bently.
Offices and Individuals, 1881 (File 28. AJCP Reel No: 2228)
Subjects include: Rotumah annexation; Banks; in Fiji, Bank of New Zealand claims, loans; Introduction of cacao plants; Admiralty; board of trade; coal claim; Financial administration of Fiji; estimate for expenditure, Fijian post.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Rotuma, London, New Zealand, Java.
Individuals include: Sir Arthur Hamilton K.L.M.G. (governor of the colony of Fiji), Dr Cruikshank, W Francis, F Cavendish, Robert Hall, Earl Granville, Mr Wingfield, W Poulton, W. Evans.
Despatches, January 1882 - April 1882 (File 29. AJCP Reel No: 2228-2229)
Subjects include: Crime return for Levuka and Suva; police matters; Steam Launch; payment of fees to medical officers attending executions; relinquishing sovereignty over Rotumah; alleged dissatisfaction amongst the natives; cost of works at Suva; native appointments and dismissals.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Rotuma, Australia, New south Wales, New Zealand, Christchurch.
Individuals include: Sir Arthur H Gordon, William Des Voeux, G. S. Solomon (acting attorney general), John Forrio, Colonel Croftsman, Mr Mitchell, W.V. Williamson, Mr E Hall.
Despatches, May 1882 - October 1882 (File 30. AJCP Reel No: 2229-2230)
Subjects include: Disturbances at; Vanua Levu, Dreketi; Fugitive offenders act; Planters association; Supply of silver coin from the Sydney Mint; suspension of the Roko Jui Mauata; Vessels employed in collection of tax produce; appointment of Mr A Julian as magistrate; resolutions of the Bose Vaka Juraga; vacancies for medical officers; land claims; loan for public works at Suva.
Places include: Fiji, Rotuma, Haudavu, Australia, Sydney, New Zealand.
Individuals include: Mr Seed (Superintendent of police); Mr Charles Mitchell (Commissioner of Rotumah); Mr Wilkinson (Chief native commissioner); Mr Fielding Clarke; Mr Hefferman (interpreter).
Offices and Individuals, 1882 (File 31. AJCP Reel No: 2230-2231)
Subjects include: Conduct of Polynesian labour trades; transmission of Cacao plants; mortality of Polynesian labourers; land claims; rifles required by colonial government; finances; loans, expenses, Rotuma; professional appointments; medical staff.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Australia, Sydney, London, Rotuma, Trinidad, Aberdeen, Kandavu, Malicollo.
Individuals include: William Des Voeux, T.H. Pritchard (Secretary of Planters association of Fiji), Dr McGregor (chief medical officer), The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Joseph Hooker, Sir John Gorrie (Chief Justice of Colony of Fiji), Francis Joseph Pound, Dr Calder.
Despatches, January 1883 - April 1883 (File 32. AJCP Reel No: 2231-2232)
Subjects include: Death of Thakombau, Titular King of Fiji; coasting trade regulations; criminal procedures; Polynesian immigration ordinance; Native witnesses protection order; Everett vs The Crown; public health ordinance; bank of New Zealand claims.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Rotuma, Levuka, Dakuiverata, New Zealand, Australia, New South Wales.
Individuals include: John B Thurston (Colonial secretary), Mr Wigfield, John Berry (commissioner of lands), The Earl of Kimberly, Dr B.G. Corney, Mr Hefferman, The Earl of Derby, Mr James Blythe, Hon Sir John Gobbie.
Despatches, May 1883 - August 1883 (File 33. AJCP Reel No: 2232-2233)
Subjects include: Coffee leaf disease; funeral of Thakombau; detention of natives of Rotumah in Hawaii; ordinances; stamps, liquor prohibition; Salary of Superintendent of Police; proposed naval depot at Suva; medical services; imports and exports.
Places include: Fiji, Taviuni, Vitu Levu, Rotuma, Australia, Sydney, Van Diemens Land, Norfolk island, London, Hawaii.
Individuals include: John Berry (commissioner of lands), John B Thurston (Colonial secretary), Mr G Burness, Dr McGregor (receiver general and chief medical officer), Mary Berry.
Despatches, September 1883 - December 1883 (File 34. AJCP Reel No: 2233)
Subjects include: Federation of the Australian colonies; new public hospital and lunatic asylum; Ordinances; to petition divorce in certain cases, native dealings; James Smith vs Colonial Sugar Company; salaries of government officers; intercolonial convention; Fiji government.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Australia, Western Australia, South Australia, Melbourne, Egypt.
Individuals include: Mr Fielding Clarke (Acting Chief Justice), Mr Wingfield, John Berry (commissioner of lands), Sir Henry Wrensfordsley (chief Justice), John Langford (Cleric of Council).
Offices and Individuals, 1883 (File 35. AJCP Reel No: 2233-2234)
Subjects include: Civic and Judicial representation in Rotumah; Claim for cost of coal; Man of war at funeral of Ex-King Thakombau; Flag and badge of the Colony; German land claims; Fiji Polynesian immigration law; regulations; Native, labour; land due to Polynesia company, appointment of Chief of Police, Fiji; medical staff.
Places include: Fiji, Levuka, Australia, Sydney, London, Trinidad.
Individuals include: The Earl of Kimberly, Ex-King Thakombau, Mr Wingfield, Robert Maleston Booth, Commodore Erskine, Sir William McArthur (under-secretary of state for the colonies).
Despatches, January 1884 - April 1884 (File 36. AJCP Reel No: 2234-2235)
Subjects include: Supply of silver coin; naval depot of Suva; severe hurricane effects; petition for change of government; policing of Sir A Gordon; recreation ground for Levuka; immigration; Murder of Mr Hulton; Fidelity Guarantee premiums; estimation of leave; treatment of Polynesian labourers.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Taviuni, Solo Rock, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Western Australia, London, New Zealand.
Individuals include: Sir H Wrensfordsley (Chief Justice); E.M. Wallington; Mr Julian Thomas; Mr F, Parr; Mr A.R. Wilson; Sir William Robinson; Mr Henry Bentley.
Despatches, May 1884 - August 1884 (File 37. AJCP Reel No: 2235-2236)
Subjects include: Polynesian Immigration; lighthouses required for the colony; returning labourers from New Britain and New Zealand; annual audit report; W Wallington's allowance for passage money; governors return from leave of absence.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, Filbert islands, New Britain.
Individuals include: Sir H Wrensfordsley, Mr Bramton, John B Thurston (Colonial secretary), Mr Wingfield.
Offices: India, Board of Trade, Treasury and Miscellaneous, 1923 (File 167. AJCP Reel No: 4118-4120)
Files: Nos 34301- 34340, 1927 (File 177. AJCP Reel No: 4130)
Subjects mentioned include: Native Lands Amendment Ordinance 1937; Drugs and Poisons Ordinance 1926; Death and Fire Insurance Ordinance 1927; Revision and pay conditions in the Civil Service Nov 1926- Oct 1927; Appointment of Secretary for Indian Affairs Oct 1926- Nov 1927; Status of Indians in Fiji Jan 1927- Dec 1927; Smallpox outbreak and vaccination campaign Jan 1927- Dec 1927; Proposed Medical School for training of native medical practitioners from Pacific Islands Feb 1926-Sept 1927; Resignation of District Medical Officer on health grounds Sept 1926-Dec 1927.
Individuals mentioned include: C.R. Harley-Nott (Acting clerk legislative council), H.H. Rushton (Colonial treasurer), L.C.M.S. Amery M.T. (Secretary of state for the colonies), W.W. Wise (Commissioner of works), W. Ormsby Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva.
Files: Nos 34341- 34420, 1927 (File 178. AJCP Reel No: 4130-4131)
Subjects mentioned include: Appointment of Director of Education Dec 1926- Nov 1927; Provision of quarters for government officers Dec 1926- July; Proposed raising of loan to fund development schemes Dec 1926- Feb 1928; Modifications to the Widows and Orphans Pension Scheme Nov 1926- June 1927; Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York Feb 1927- May 1927; Details of medical appointments and conditions of service Jan 1927- 1928 March; Interinsular steamship service Nov 1926- May 1927; Regulations of the Native Regulation Board; Native Tresspass Amendement Ordinance 1927; Allowances of medical officers April 1927- Sept 1927; Annual abstract account for 1925, 1926- April 1927;Passports Amendments Ordinance 1927; Licence Amendment Ordinance 1927; Live Stock Record Association ordinance 1927; Pension rights of former Head of Police May 1927- June 1927; Tailevu dairy scheme (Plan of area included) March 1927- Nov 1927; Annual Medical Report 1926 May 1927- Dec 1927.
Individuals mentioned include: Mr J. Caughley, H.R. Hamley.
Locations include: Fiji, Suva.
Files: Nos 34421-34474, 1927 (File 179. AJCP Reel No: 4131-4132)
Subjects mentioned include: Forestry resources report; Colonial annual reports Fiji 1926; British imperial oil company acquisition of sites; Public safety ordinance; Pensions ordinance; Rotuma affairs; Liquor prohibition against natives; Sale of liquor in Sweden; Medical benefits for civil servants; Pension of Sir William Allakdyce; Vetinary appointments, recognition of Australian and New Zealand graduates in the UK; Vacancy for an auditor; Vacancy for a postmaster.
Individuals mentioned include: L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P. Secretary of state for the colonies, Sir W.L. Allardyce G.C.M.G., H.W. Harcourt (Acting colonial treasurer), Sir J. Shucksburg, Sir G. Grindle, Sir C. Davis, Sir C. Strackey, Lord Loval, J.P. Mead, Mr Amery, A. Montague (Chief Medical Officer), W.E. Willoughby, Mr Cabot (Ministry of Agriculture).
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, Canada, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Rotuma.
Files: Nos 53801- 53830, 1928 (File 180. AJCP Reel No: 4132-4133)
Subjects mentioned include: Ordinances; Criminal procedure amendment; Map of inter-island service routes; Public works department of labour; Meteorological; Information for Commonwealth government; Tailevu dairy scheme 1925; Government rice mill-contracts for supply of rice; Applications for prospecting licences; Petroleum department board of trade; Oil miners ordinance; Oil exploration; Prospecting for and mining metals and other materials; Liquor prohibition; Franchise for women; Letters patent; Cotton in Fiji; Customs department; Treasury: Currency, surplus of imperial silver coin.
Individuals mentioned include: Stanley Bruce, Mr Jones, Major R.G. Casey, D.S.O. M.C., Walter D. Ellis, Sir Harry Batterbee K.C.V.O. C.M.G. (Dominions Office), Mr. H. Tantram, Mr G. Stephen, Ross R. Anson (cotton specialist).
Locations mentioned include: Australia, London, Netherlands, East indies, Canberra, Infield NSW, Viti Levu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga.
Files: Nos 53831- 53890, 1928 (File 181. AJCP Reel No: 4133-4134)
Subjects mentioned include: Letters Patent; Loans; Bonus on pensions; Consular appointments; Pensions ordinance; Export certificates; Quarantine bill; Positions of Indians in Fiji; Entomological questions; Agriculture; Pensionable offices; Liverpool steam ship owners asociation; Chamber of shipping of the United Kingdom; Immigration fund; Treasury; Government inscribed stock; Transfer of Fiji service to amalgamated wireless LTD; British radio in the South Pacific; Legislative Council standing orders; Income tax, claims in respect of vessels; Quarterly returns; rolls of officers, newly appointed.
Individuals mentioned include: Mr E.J. Harding, Mr Bottomley, Mr Amery, Lord Lovat, Mr Ormsby-Gore, Sir G. Grindle, Sir J Shuckburgh, J.W. Potter (Pay Department, Crown Agents), Martin Hill, G.A. Jones, Esq (Foreign Office).
Locations mentioned include: Liverpool, United Kingdom, London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Mitchell library Sydney, British Museum (Natural History).
Files: Nos 53891- 54100, 1928 (File 182. AJCP Reel No: 4134-4135)
Subjects mentioned include: Public works; Child welfare; Retirement; Drugs and Poisons ordinance; H.M.C.S. Pioneer; Allowances of medical officers; Regulations for the East African medical service; Fiji Royal Gazette; Pineapple growing and canning experiment; Bridge across Rewa river proposed construction; Provison of quarters for public officers; Mosquito campaign; Marriage ordinance; Rotuma affairs; Colonial Sugar Refining Company; Irregularities in Revenues Department; lighthouse services; Royal instructions.
Individuals mentioned include: H.R. Cowell, R.H. Phillips, Baijnath Gazi, Sergent Major G. Walker, L.S. Amery, Dr Clunies, Walter D. Ellis, Mr Titchner (Crown Agent), Eyre Hutson (Governor).
Locations mentioned include: London, Suva, Fiji, Tailevu, Rotuma, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Nadroga and Colo West districts.
Files: Nos 63809- 63819, 1929 (File 183. AJCP Reel No: 4135-4136)
Subjects mentioned include: Loans; Oil mining regulations; Indian education estimates; School building; lighthouse services; Education ordinance, Forestry resources; liquor prohibition.
Individuals mentioned include: Sidney Webb, M.P. (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Sgd. F.G. Clapp, Lord Passfield (Secretary of Mines), L.S. Amery.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, London, Suva, New York, Hawaii.
Files: Nos 63824- 63850, 1929 (File 184. AJCP Reel No: 4136-4137)
Subjects mentioned include: Construction of roads in the colony; Labour laws; Fijian labour; Ships; Revision of salaries; Electoral regulations; Rewa river bridge; British empire typewriters (serviceability of); Chinese immigration; Loan ordinance; Chief justice (Vacancy); Custom duties ordinance; Supply of postal frankers; Senior public officers (enrolments); Income tax (vessel claims); Financial relations (Government and municipalities).
Individuals mentioned include: Mr Appabhai Patel (Storekeeper), Mr Pranjiwan Jinabhai (Tailor), Viscount Peel, Lord Passfield, Sir Harry Batterbee, Mr A. Ponsby, Mr R. Boyd O.B.E, Sir G. Grindle.
Locations mentioned include; Gibraltar, Fiji, Suva, Canada, United States, London, Levuka, Australia, Baroda, Kathiawar, Nottingham, Leicester.
Files: Nos 63852- 63895, 1929 (File 185. AJCP Reel No: 4137-4138)
Subjects mentioned include: Mosquito campaign; Pensions, Gratitudes and allowances; Native lands commission; Cadetships (Fiji and Western Pacific); British shipping companies; Coconut experimental station; Agriculture; Marriage ordinance; Land policy; Banana Disease.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir J. Shucksburgh, Ratu J.L.V. Sukuna, N. Pixley, G.R. Harley Nott.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Queensland, Canada, United Kingdom.
Files: Nos 63896-63930, 1929 (File 186. AJCP Reel No: 4139)
Subjects mentioned include: Levana moth (biological control); Salaries and allowances; Districts and Provincial commisioners; Indian affairs; Colonial Sugar Refining Co; Makogai Leper asylum; Native affairs and regulation; General medical school; Indian immigrants ordinance; Price of vegetable oil.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Eyre Hutson, Walter D. Ellis, L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P (Secretary of state for the colonies), Dr Tothill, J.R. Pearson (Secretary for Indian affairs), Mr F.C.T. Lord (Sugar company).
Locations mentioned include; Fiji, Suva, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Makogai, Samoa, Nausori, Trinidad, East Indies, Philippines.
Files: Nos 63933-63960, 1929 (File 187. AJCP Reel No: 4140)
Subjects mentioned include: Liquor conditions; Development of the colonies; Constitutional reform; Estimates 1950; Vacancy for secretary of native affairs; Income tax officer (suggested appt of); Civil service appointments, Salaries; Japanese intermarriage with natives; Leave grants to educational officers; vacancy for a treasurer.
Individuals mentioned include: Lord Passfield (Secretary of state for the colonies), Sgd. Parsanand Singh, Dr Paley, Andre Maingot (Assistant Secretary, income tax).
Locations mentioned include; Fiji, Suva, New Delhi, India, Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Kenya.
Files: Nos 73801-73814, 1930 (File 188. AJCP Reel No: 4141)
Subjects mentioned include: Criminal procedure ordinance; Indian orphans ordinance; Public officers examination rules; Education; Constitution; Indian affairs; Electoral regulations 1929.
Individuals mentioned include: Lord Passfield (Secretary of State for the Colonies), M. Fletcher (Governor), Allan Rose (Attorney-General, acting).
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, India, Ravawai, Tailevu, Rotuma.
Files: Nos 73815-73836, 1930 (File 189. AJCP Reel No: 4141-4142)
Subjects mentioned include: Wireless bill and regulations; Radio activities; Medical sanitary matters; Katu Volavola repatriations; Oil mines ordinance; Liquor traffic; Marriage ordinance; Colonial sanitary boards; Estimates 1931; Indian immigrants ordinance; Financial minutes to the legislative council; Position of sugar industry.
Individuals mentioned include; Dr Neff; J.W. Hunt (Acting chief medical officer), Victor W.T. McGusty (Acting Secretary for Indian Affairs), D.R. Stewart (Acting Colonial Secretary), C.A. Holmes (Chairman, Mining Board).
Locations mentioned include; London, Fiji, Makogai, Suva, Sydney, India, Queensland, New South Wales.
Files: Nos 73837-73857, 1930 (File 190. AJCP Reel No: 4142-4143)
Subjects mentioned include: Colonial development fund (schemes under); Metallic circuit telephone, Rewa Bridge, Subsidy for air services, Purchase of a dredger; Leave and passage allowances; Consular appointments; Extent of territorial waters; appointment of conservation of forests; Chinese immigration, Proposed lease of the island of Vuo.
Individuals mentioned include: W. Wise (Commissioner of Works), L.B. Freeston (Secretary to the Colonial Development Advisory Committee), Apolosi Nawai, A.L. Armstrong (Acting Secretary for Native Affairs)
Locations mentioned include; Fiji, Viti Levu, Suva, Sydney, Australia, Solomon Islands.
Files: Nos 73858-73912, 1930 (File 191. AJCP Reel No: 4143-4144)
Subjects mentioned include: Measures against Cholera; Shipping services; Suva sewage works, Amalgamated wireless (Australasia) Ltd; Trade relations with New Zealand and other parts of the empire; Tariff treatment of Fiji produce in Australia; Copra and Coconuts; Portraits of Governors; Seaplanes; Butter industry.
Individuals mentioned include: J.W. Hunt (Acting chief medical officer), Mr Davey (Town clerk and municipal engineer), A.W. Seymour (Colonial Secretary, Fiji), J.N.O Caughley (Director of Education).
Places mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, New Zealand, Australia, Viti Levu, Taviani, Rotupa, Barbados, Gold Coast, Grenada, Hong Kong, Kenya.
Files: Nos 83801-83830, 1931 (File 192. AJCP Reel No: 4144-4145)
Subjects include: Sedition ordinance; Indictable offences procedure (amendment) order; Agriculture; Education; reorganisation of department, Indian rate; Butter industry; Loan works; Reform of constitution.
Places include: Fiji; Suva, Nasinu; London.
Individuals include: R.W. Hamilton, Allan Rose (Acting attorney general), Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, G.B.E, M.C., M.L. (Secretary of state for the colonies), S.G. Davey (Town Clerk), J.R. Pearson (Secretary for Indian affairs).
Files: Nos 83831-83850, 1931 (File 193. AJCP Reel No: 4145-4146)
Subjects include: Currency; Colonial development schemes; Subsidy for an air service, Roads and bridges; Trade relations with New Zealand and other parts of the empire; Conference of district commissioners; Marriage Ordinance; Extent of territorial waters; Government rice mill; Amalgamated wireless (Australasia) Ltd .
Places include: Fiji; Suva, Vitilevu, Rotuma; Australia, New south wales; UK, London; Gilbert and Elllis islands.
Individuals include: Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), Lord Passfield (Secretary of state for the colonies), W. Wise (Commissioner of works), A.W. Seymour (Colonial secretary), R.V. Vernon Esq, C.B.(colonial office).
Files: Nos 83851-83874, 1931 (File 194. AJCP Reel No: 4146)
Subjects include: Council of chiefs; taxation; hurricane; agriculture; Educatio, Teaching of English to Indians; copra and coconuts; Labour legislation; sugar industry; reorganisation of legal and treasury departments; Loans.
Places include: Fiji; Suva, Rewa, Colo east, Navau, Kadavu, Viti Levu, Nasinu; London.
Individuals include: Lord Passfield (secretary of state for the colonies), L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P (secretary of state for the colonies), A.A. Wright (Assistant colonial secretary), Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji).
Files: Nos 83875-83913, 1931 (File 195. AJCP Reel No: 4147)
Subjects include: Repatriations of Spanish sailors; Rarawai-kavanagasua light railway; Agricultural development; Colonial sugar refining company; quarters for Indian clerks and interpreters; Sigatoka bridge; medical officers duty allowances; department of Indian affairs; Chinese immigration.
Places include: Fiji; Suva, Tailevu, Lomanikoro, Rewa; UK, London; Madrid; New Zealand.
Individuals include: Ratu Joni Matailini, A.W. Seymour (Colonial secretary), A. Harding (director of colonial audit), Lord Passfield (secretary of state for the colonies), J. H. Thomas.
Files: Nos 93351/26-93387, 1932 (File 196. AJCP Reel No: 4148-4149)
Subjects include: District commissioners; customs indemnity order; appointments to executive council; control of school funds; construction of dry dock at Suva; Fiji and Western pacific cadetships; Liquor control; Indian marriages; council of chiefs.
Places include: Fiji; Suva, Walu bay; Australia; UK, London; West Indies.
Individuals include: Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), Sir Eyre Hutson, A. Hallam Roberts (Acting attorney general), J. Craig (Colonial treasurer), Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, G.B.E, M.C.,M.L.(Secretary of state for the colonies)
Files: Nos 93388-93415, 1932 (File 197. AJCP Reel No: 4149-4150)
Subjects include: King Cakobau's mace; Leave and passage regulations; district medical officers' salaries; organisation of constabulary and defence force; teachers salaries; travelling and substitutions allowances; pacific cable board; the government savings bank; fire losses; education; rice; currency.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Nadi, Wainikoro, Karavi, Australia, UK, London, New Zealand
Individuals include: King Thakombau, A.C. Barnes (Chairman of council), I. McOwan (secretary for native affairs), A.W. McMillian (inspector of Indian schools).
Files: Nos 93416-93439, 1932 (File 198. AJCP Reel No: 4150-4151)
Subjects include: Constabulary officers- personal allowance; treasury irregularities, defence contribution, widows and orphans pensions, Fiji trade, young Fijian society, labour legislation, dispute with elected members, roads and bridges, secretarial procedure.
Places include: Fiji, Vittilevu, Suva, Australia, London, New Zealand
Individuals include: Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), A. Hallam Roberts (Acting attorney general), A.J. Harding (Director of colonial audit), Captain M.H. Anderson (Chief justice of Fiji), A.W. Rutledge (The coconut planters union Ltd)
Files: Nos 93440-93479, 1932 (File 199. AJCP Reel No: 4151-4152)
Subjects include: Bananas; exportations to Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Salaries; Indians in Fiji-seditious movements; unified medical service; treasury staff; disposal of prisoners bodies; appointment of native members to legislative service; forestry services.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Vanua, Leva, Australia, Sydney, UK, London, India, New Zealand, Wellington, Tonga, Hong Kong.
Individuals include: J. H. Thomas, M.P. (secretary of state for the colonies), Mr Vishnu Deo, V.W.T. McGusty (Acting secretary for Indian affairs), Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji).
Files: Nos 18401-18430, 1933 (File 200. AJCP Reel No: 4152-4153)
Subjects include: Customs duties; Ordinances; identification of prisoners, public health, life assurance, land, immigrants (amendment), occupation of native lands; council of chiefs at Bau; publications of Fiji; lighthouse services; annual report; agriculture, education department.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Bau, Australia, UK, London, New Zealand, Wellington.
Individuals include: Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister, G.B.E, M.C., M.L. (Secretary of state for the colonies), Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), A. Hallam Roberts (Acting attorney general), Sir C. Bottomley, Mr Tomlinson.
Files: Nos 18431-18433, 1933 (File 201. AJCP Reel No: 4153-4154)
Subjects include: Currency; Design for new series of currency notes, monthly abstracts, new coinage; Colonial sugar refining co Sydney; audit staff; legislative council debates (1933).
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Australia, Sydney, London, New Zealand.
Individuals include: W. Hayward (commissioner of currency), R.C. Evetts (secretary Suva chamber of commerce), F.S. Bumfield (for crown agent), A.E. Fuller (Acting secretary for commissioners of currency), P.J.A, Hamilton.
Files: Nos 18434-18456, 1933 (File 202. AJCP Reel No: 4154-4155)
Subjects include: Indian marriages; Liquor control; Labourers, medical care ordinances; enfranchisement of Indians, mining ordinances and regulations, agriculture, arrowroot; sale of food and drugs; Suva water supply; communal system; pensionable emoluments.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Australia, London, Trinidad, India, New Dehli.
Individuals include: A. Hallam Roberts (Acting attorney general), J.S. Gamble (inspector general of constabulary), K.B. Singh (member for the Indian southern division), Hubert V. Simmons (government entomologist), Mr Nar Bahadur Singh, Chas. R. Tubert B.V.S.C (senior veterinary officer)
Files: Nos 18457-18485, 1933 (File 203. AJCP Reel No: 4155)
Subjects include: Agriculture; Cotton, Constitution; Golf course; Sugar industry; Bananas, exportation; education; forestry; roads and bridges; constabulary officers, personal allowances.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Tailevu, Vitu Levu, Vanua Levu, Sigatoka, Rewa, Naitasiri, Colo East, Lautoka, Australia, London, New Zealand, Bagdad, Canada.
Individuals include: Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), Sir Maynard Hedstrom, R. R. Anson (Cotton specialist, Empire cotton growing corporation), S. B. Patel (chairman, all Fijian conference), Mr V. E. Douglas (District engineer public works department), Professor Henderson.
Files: Nos 18486-18507, 1933 (File 204. AJCP Reel No: 4155-4156)
Subjects include: Fijian plywood and timber Co, Ltd; district medical officers, salaries; position of Indians; immigration fund; secretary for Indian affairs; control of leaf mining beetle; vacancy, harbour master Suva; senior public officers, enrolments.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Vanua Levu, New Zealand, Tonga.
Individuals include: A.W. Seymour (Colonial secretary), S.H. Hulme, Dr H.S. Evans, A.C. Barnes (Director of agriculture), Mr T.H.C. Taylor (Entomologist to the coconut committee).
Files: Nos 38401-38417, 1934 (File 205. AJCP Reel No: 4156-4157)
Subjects include: Suva improvement loan; council of chiefs; appeals ordinance; Mining ordinance and regulations; west coast pines, limited; Roads and bridges; Government savings bank.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Vitu Levu, Vanua Levu, Australia, London, Surrey, Kenya.
Individuals include: N.D. Cochrane F.G.S. (government mining advisor), H. Vaskess (secretary, western pacific high commission), E. V. Leembruggen.
Files: Nos 38418-38450, 1934 (File 206. AJCP Reel No: 4158-4159)
Subjects include: Municipal councils; custom tariffs; sea island cotton; native lands survey account; Government savings bank irregularities; financial position loans; banana trade; broadcasting stations; medical and sanitary matters; cadets; governors bar.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Australia, Trinidad, New Zealand.
Individuals include: C.R. Robinson (mayor of Levuka), R.C. Evans (town clerk), A.H.B. Pearce (chief medical officer); P.F. Boyd (postmaster general), J. Craig (colonial treasurer).
Files: Nos 38451-38479, 1934 (File 207. AJCP Reel No: 4159-4160)
Subjects include: Public works loans; copra; immigration fund; unified medical service; acting pay and allowances; constitution; excess expenditure; native leases; forestry services.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Tulagi, Tonga, UK, India, Cook Islands, Australia, London, Oxford.
Individuals include: A. A. Wright (Assistant colonial secretary), Dr S.M Lambert (director of western pacific health service), Major R.D.Furse, D.S.O (colonial office).
Files: Nos 38480-38514, 1934 (File 208. AJCP Reel No: 4160)
Subjects include: Nursing sisters; emigration legislation; regulations governing electricity installations; Suva hospital, letters patent; reserve fund; estimates (1935).
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Taveuni, Vanua Levu, London.
Individuals include: A. A. Wright (Assistant colonial secretary), R.S. Thacker (Attorney general), Ratu J.L.V. Sukuna (native member), A.B. Ackland (acting director of agriculture).
Files: Nos 85001-85024, 1935 (File 209. AJCP Reel No: 4160-4161)
Subjects include: Education, Co-operation with New Zealand; Crown acquisition of lands, ordinance; formation and widening of municipal area streets; vacancies; cadets, colonial secretary; preservation of records; gold mining; export warehouses; roads and bridges.
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Loloma, Australia, New South Wales, London, New Zealand, Trinidad, Canada.
Individuals include: Sir Murchison Fletcher (Governor of Fiji), James Russell (director of education, Fiji), Dr A.H. Hallen, H.W. Jack (director of agriculture).
Files: Nos 85025-85074, 1935 (File 210. AJCP Reel No: 4161-4163)
Subjects include: Newspapers and periodical, financial support; Colours for defence force; rice; native leases; pathological laboratory; ordinances; post office, drugs and poisons; constitution,
Places include: Fiji, Suva, Levuka, Navua, London, Cambridge.
Individuals include: J.G.C. Campbell (bacteriologist), A.H.B. Pearce (chief medical officer), V. Deo (secretary, Indian association of Fiji), George Kandavulea Thakombau, Miss Grace Lindsay, R.J. Snodgrass (district medical officer, Ra)
Files: Nos 85075-85134, 1935 (File 211. AJCP Reel No: 4163-4164)
Subjects include: Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions); Education; Medical and Sanitary Matters; Central Medical School: report for 1934; Estimates, 1936; Senior Public Officers: emoluments and leave conditions; Church in Polynesia: status, endowments etc; meetings of Legislative Council.
Individuals include: Malcom MacDonald, M. Fletcher. A.A. Wright, K.V. MacQuire, A.H.B. Pearce, H. Duncan, J.H. Thomas, Thomas Clunie.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85001-85038, 1936 (File 212. AJCP Reel No: 4164-4165)
Subjects mentioned include: Education, salaries, archives, finances, road construction, Colonial Development Fund, hospitals, mining, gold industry, pensions, Fiji Defence Force, Jehovah's Witnesses, missionaries, Pathological Laboratory, nurse training school, racial segregation proposal, elections, Fiji Constitution, demographics.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Murchison Fletcher, Colonial Development Advisory Committee, J.H. Penson, Ramsey McDonald, A. Hallam Roberts, Sir John Maffey, A.L. Armstrong, W.M. Ramsay, H.W. Jack, Lord Plymouth, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, New Zealand, Fiji, Sigatoka, Tavua, Yanawai.
Files: Nos 85039-85116, 1936 (File 213. AJCP Reel No: 4165-4167)
Subjects mentioned include: Colonial legal system, Fijian officials, salaries, agriculture, post office regulations, public works, finances and policies, Suva Town Board, political rights, education, leprosy hospital.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir John Maffey, Dr H.W. Jack, Lord Plymouth, W.E. Willoughby-Tottenham, R.S. Thacker, Sir Murchison Fletcher, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Suva, Makogai, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands.
Files: Nos 85117-85178, 1936 (File 214. AJCP Reel No: 4167-4168)
Subjects mentioned include: Public servants, colonial law, education, agriculture, native affairs, financial policies, public works, pensions, public health, women, salaries, Levuka Town Board, prisons, marine insurance.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Murchison Fletcher, Sir A. Richards, Mr Juxon Barton, C.J. Jefferies, Ransley Thacker, A.I. Mayhew, J.H. Thomas, W. Wise, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati), Solomon Islands, Suva, Hawaii, Tavua, Viti Levu.
Files: Nos 85179-85229, 1936 (File 215. AJCP Reel No: 4168-4169)
Subjects mentioned include: Political rights, Indian population, economy, education, land policies, communication network, racial relations, marriage, health care, Fiji Constitution, British Colonial Empire, public servants, merchant ships, quarry development, mental hospitals, gold mines, census, Fijian police, Council of Chiefs, banking.
Individuals mentioned include: Reverend C.F. Andrews, V. McGusty, Mr Barker, J.P. Bayly, Sir John Maffey, Lord Plymouth, A.L. Armstrong, Juxon Barton, Sir Murchison Fletcher, R.S. Thacker, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, Mau.
Files: Nos 85001-85073, 1937 (File 216. AJCP Reel No: 4170)
Subjects mentioned include: Education, cadets, gold mining, Colonial Development Fund, public works, public servants, HMS Fiji, Fijian Executive Council, defence force, land policies, agriculture, postal service, Suva Town Board, finances.
Individuals mentioned include: Juxon Barton, Sir Arthur Richards, Sir H. Scott, Sir John Maffey, Thomas Barker, Major C.B. Joske, Sir Zafrullah Khan, Sir F. Stockdale, Mr Creasy, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore. Locations mentioned include: Fiji, New Zealand, Viti Levu, Solomon Islands.
Files: Nos 85074-85131, 1937 (File 217. AJCP Reel No: 4170-4171)
Subjects mentioned include: Treasury, colonial currency, public servants, public works, urban development, agriculture, health care, education, Government Savings Bank, Islamic Indians, lands department, Fijian English Dictionary.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Arthur Richards, Sir F. Stockdale, Juxon Barton, Cecil W. Mann, A.J. Harding, W.F. Haywood, Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, O.C.K. Corrie, A. Bevir, Professor Turner, Sir Henry Scott, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa.
Files: Nos 85132-85219, 1937 (File 218. AJCP Reel No: 4171-4172)
Subjects mentioned include: Auditing, treasury, agriculture, forestry, trade, building of government offices, education, financial policies, health care, government printer, quarry development, H.M.C.S. Pioneer, miners, police force, Indian population.
Individuals mentioned include: A.J. Harding, Sir Arthur Richards, Sir Murchison Fletcher, J.N. Oliphant, Professor R.S. Troup, Juxon Barton, A. Bevir, Arthur Mayhew, Reverend C.F. Andrews, Sir Frank Stockdale, Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, P. Kodanda Rao, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Henry Scott.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), China.
Files: Nos 85220-85246/1, 1937 (File 219. AJCP Reel No: 4172-4173)
Subjects mentioned include: Government Savings Bank, immigration policy, Indian political representation in Fiji, Rewa bridge, native affairs, communication systems, coronation of King George VI, public service, reorganisation of government departments including: education, health, customs, prisons, defence, Fiji police and public works.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Arthur Richards, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, Sir Murchison Fletcher, Juxon Barton, Sir Harry Luke, Malcolm MacDonald, A. Bevir.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, India, Australia, New Zealand, Suva, Lautoka, Lambasa, Levuka.
Files: Nos 85246/2-85255, 1937 (File 220. AJCP Reel No: 4173)
Subjects mentioned include: Conditions of public service including allowances, quarters, furniture, introduction of proposals, examinations, salaries, entry conditions and leave.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Arthur Richards, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Frank Stockdale, Sir Harry Luke, A.J. Harding, Major C.A.B. Joske, R.D. Fitzgerald, H. Stokes, Ratu Edward Thakombau.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji.
Files: Nos 85256-85293, 1937 (File 221. AJCP Reel No: 4174)
Subjects mentioned include: Pensions, Indian civil servants, war medals for 2nd Fiji Contingent, writ of summons, petitions, training of nurses, Boots Pure Drug Company LTD, flora and fauna, elections, land legislation, medical research, water supply and preservation of significant documents.
Individuals mentioned include: W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Arthur Richards, Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, W.G. Lawler, A.J. Dawe, Sir Alexander Hardinge, Juxon Barton, G.K. Roth, J.T. Bentley, M.A.C. Hinton, E.B. Bowyer.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Suva, India.
Files: Nos 85001-85112, 1938 (File 222. AJCP Reel No: 4174-4175)
Subjects mentioned include: Crown acquisition of lands, government administration, Second World War refugees, agriculture, Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, education, land tenure, financial policies.
Individuals mentioned include: Juxon Barton, Malcolm MacDonald, Dr A.H. Hallen, Sir George Tomlinson, Sir Harry Luke, T.T. Russell, O.C.K. Corrie, Friedrich Szente, A. Bevir, Sir John Shuckburgh, Sir J.M. Hedstrom, Sir Frank Stockdale, H.R. Hamley.
Locations mentioned include: Fiji, Austria, Australia, New Zealand.
Files: Nos 85113-85181, 1938 (File 223. AJCP Reel No: 4175-4176)
Subjects mentioned include: Church in Polynesia; Indian Marriages Legislation; appointment of guardians of Mohammedan Wards; Public Service Reorganization Committee; Legislative Council Debates; discussion of Fijian dictionary and grammar; education in Fiji.
Individuals include: Sir Arthur Richards, S. Hasan, Sir Murchison Fletcher, Lord Harlech, O.C.K. Corrie, R.L. Turner.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Fiji; London, United Kingdom.
Files: Nos 85182-85270, 1938 (File 224. AJCP Reel No: 4176-4177)
Subjects mentioned include: Crown Lands Leases; Government Vessels; Civil Disturbances, Military Assistance; Mental Hospitals Ordinance; Education in Tonga; Subdivisions of Land.
Individuals mentioned include: F.S. Blomfield, Arthur Mayhew, A. Bevir, Sir Arthur Richards, H.C. Luke, O.C.K. Corrie.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Fiji; London, United Kingdom.
Files: Nos 85271-85325, 1938 (File 225. AJCP Reel No: 4177)
Subjects include: Fauna and Flora; Emergency Reserve Fund; Government House Servants; Tavua Goldfields; Postal and Telegraphic Facilities; Site for Anglican Cathedral; Immigrants Ammendment Ordinance.
Individuals include: Anthony Bevir, B.O. Mulligan, A.B. Acheson, G.O. Hale Carpenter, E.R. Edmonds, Sir Arthur Richards, O.C.K. Corrie.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85326-85359, 1938 (File 226. AJCP Reel No: 4178-4179)
Subjects include: Investigation into control of Rhinoceros Beetle and House-fly; Moneylenders Ordinance; Tailevu Dairy Scheme; Organisation and Powers of the Courts in Fiji; Visit of Mr. H. King Irving; Jewish refugee immigration to Fiji.
Individuals include: T.T. Russell, Sir Harry Luke, G.J.F. Tomlinson, R.H. Charles, Sir Arthur Richards, O.C.K. Corrie, R. Crompton.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; Wiltshire, U.K.; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85019-85092, 1939 (File 227. AJCP Reel No: 4179)
Subjects include: Administration of Government; visit of the Duke of Sutherland to Fiji; watch tower and trade in Fiji; land tenure; visit by Sir F. Stockdale; Department of Agriculture report for 1938.
Individuals include: Malcom MacDonald, Sir Harry Luke, S.M. Lambert.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; London U.K.
Files: Nos 85093-85197, 1939 (File 228. AJCP Reel No: 4179-4180)
Subjects include: Colonial revenue and expenditures during the war; Native Affairs report for 1938; Sanitary Inspectors.
Individuals include: Sir Harry C. Luke, T.T. Russell, Malcom MacDonald, E.E. Jenkins, Juxon Barton, A.B. Acheson, S.H. Phillips, J. Mullins.
Suva, Fiji; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85198-85353, 1939 (File 229. AJCP Reel No: 4180-4181)
Subjects include: Savings Bank; Native Affairs and Administration Reorganisation; Fiji Defence Force: Mobilisation rates of pay etc; Appointment of an Agent of the Government of India in Fiji; Special Warrants; Indian Immigration.
Individuals include: Sir Harry C. Luke, Malcom MacDonald, W.F. Hayward, Juxon Barton, Sir Arthur Phillips, A.B. Acheson, H.E. Horan.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85354-85391, 1939 (File 230. AJCP Reel No: 4181)
Subjects include: Loans, Liquor Control; Income Tax; National Emergency Leave arrangements; Settlement in Fiji; Fiji Times and Herald: Issue of alarming forms of publicity; War Contributions; Immigration of Jewish Refugees.
Individuals include: Juxon Barton, Sir Harry C. Luke, N.B. Ronald, James Ainsley, A.B. Acheson.
Locations include: Suva, Fiji; London U.K.
Files: Nos 85005-85096, 1940 (File 231. AJCP Reel No: 4181-4182)
Subjects: Crown Acquisition of Lands Ordinance 1940; Administraion of Government; Executive Council Appointments; Pathological Laboratory Staff; Annual Abstract Account 1938; Land Tenure Legislation; Visit by Sir F. Stockdale; Financial Report 1939.
Individuals: Sir Harry C. Luke, O.C.K. Corrie, Juxon Banton, Michael Myers, Victor McGusty. T.T. Russell.
Locations: Suva, Fiji; London, U.K.
Files: Nos 85097-85303, 1940 (File 232. AJCP Reel No: 4182-4183)
Subjects mentioned include: Estimates; expenditure; taxation; defence; finance; World War Two; Legislative Council; audit staff; legislation; medical and health; sanitation; HMNZS Viti; police; public works; building of Anglican Cathedral;
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Harry Luke, Sir Arthur Richards, A.H. Poynton.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Hong Kong, Polynesia.
Files: Nos 85304-85394/1, 1940 (File 233. AJCP Reel No: 4183)
Subjects include: Immigration; control of Oryctes rhinoceros (Coconut rhinoceros beetle) and other pests and weeds; moneylending; Colonial Sugar Refining Company; sugar growing; Kisan Sangh union; Indian affairs; Forest Department; Rugby; wireless telegraphy school.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Harry Luke, Sir Philip Goldfinch, Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, M. Tawahir Khan.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Mauritius, Samoa, Nausori, Taveuni, Windward Islands, Rotuma.
Files: Nos 85395-85420, 1940 (File 234. AJCP Reel No: 4183)
Subjects include: World War Two; Petition of George Washington Halstead for pension; administration; Fiji Museum; medical; Legislative Council; voting records; Crown Lands; fire brigade; preservation of artefacts; pay; translation of books into Fijian; racial discrimination; Forest Bill.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Harry Luke.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Rotorua, Malaya.
Files: Nos. 85019-85104, 1941 - 1943 (File 235. AJCP Reel No: 5020)
Subjects include: World War Two; Administration; Government; botany; Fijian labour in Hawaii; criticism of treatment of Fijians; photographs; Fijian Constitution; Legislative Council; annual accounts, revenue and expenses; building supplies for Suva markets; ordinances; agriculture; education; Fiji Defence Force; medical school; Kisan Sangh union; Indian affairs; Colonial Sugar Refining Company; industry; sanitation; estimates.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Harry Luke, Sir Phillip Mitchell, Otto Degener, Walusio, Ralph Furse, Arthur Hill, Trafford Smith, James Russell.
Locations mentioned include: Honolulu, Oahu, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu.
Files: Nos. 85125-85239, 1941 - 1943 (File 236. AJCP Reel No: 5020)
Subjects include: World War Two; Legislation and administration; Indian affairs; accounts; medical; illness; public health; regulations; RCS HMFS HMNZS Viti; land; council of Chiefs; Letters Patent; Constitution; Fijian affairs; education; tuberculosis; Defence and Volunteer Forces.
Individuals mentioned include: Trafford Smith, Sir Philip Mitchell, Sir Harry Luke, Dr. Victor W.T. McGusty, E. Gent, Oliver Stanley.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Nausori, Ba District, Nadroga, Lomaiviti Group, Levuka, Taveuni, Pacific, Lautoka.
Files: Nos. 85241-85440, 1941 - 1943 (File 237. AJCP Reel No: 5020)
Subjects include: World War Two; police; Public Works; immigration; Indian affairs; land purchase; judicial; labour and industry legislation; Colonial Sugar Refining Company; Kisan Sangh union; expenses; liquor; taxation; forestry; translation of books into Fijian; racial discrimination; Public Service; administration; conviction offences; hurricane/cyclone damage.
Individuals mentioned include: Trafford Smith, Sir Harry Luke, Sir Philip Mitchell, Dr. Victor W.T. McGusty, H. King-Irving, Juxon Barton.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Nausori, Rewa, Sigatoka, Levuka, Western Pacific.
Files: Nos. 85448-85494, 1941 - 1943 (File 238. AJCP Reel No: 5020-5021)
Subjects include: World War Two; malaria; mosquitos; medical; financial; defence; evacuation policy; criminal evidence; legal; sanitation; leases; Colonial Sugar Refining Company; sugar cane dispute and commission; cost of living; Kisan Sangh; National Arbitration Tribunal; defence; labour; public works; National Service; racial relations; barge and wharf construction; shipping; food supply to soldiers; additional newspaper proposal; land for ex-servicemen; teacher salaries.
Individuals mentioned include: Trafford Smith, Sir Philip Mitchell, Dr. Victor W.T. McGusty, Sir Harry Luke, Edward Cavendish (Duke of Devonshire), Henry Polak, Alan Reid, Oliver Stanley.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), Western Pacific, New Caledonia, Polynesia, Lautoka, Fiji Port.
Files: Nos. 85028-85090, 1944 - 1946 (File 239. AJCP Reel No: 5021)
Subjects include: University scholarships fund; education; Fiji Constitution; Civil Service; European Electors Association; Indian affairs; Annual accounts and financial reports; taxation; land trust and tenure; Town Planning Bill; Department of Agriculture; livestock and crops; Colonial Sugar Refining Co.
Individuals mentioned include: J.F. Nicholl, Trafford Smith, Sir Philip Mitchell, Ratu J.L.V.Sukuna, Oliver Stanley, J.B. Sidebotham, Sir Alexander Grantham.Locations mentioned include: Suva, Trinidad, Tonga, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Solomon Islands, Gilbert Islands, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu.
Files: Nos. 85090-85189, 1945 - 1946 (File 240. AJCP Reel No: 5021-5022)
Subjects include: World War Two; Education and teaching; War Memorial; financial – estimates, taxation, revenue and accounts; Indian Association; Legislative Council; Customs; defence expenditure; treasury correspondence; Fiji military; New Zealand Mission; medical; Indian Marriage; legislation; asset distribution; salaries; administration appointments; scholarships for Fijians; civil/public service; RCS HMS HMNZS Viti sale and specifications.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Alexander Grantham, John B. Sidebotham, Oliver Stanley, Trafford Smith, Sir Phillip Mitchell, Captain A.R.W. Robertson, J.B. Williams, G.E.J. Gent, John Henry Vaughan, Said Hasan.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Polynesia, Lautoka, Taveuni, Levuka, Tonga, Western Pacific, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu).
Files: Nos. 85211-85234, 1944 - 1946 (File 241. AJCP Reel No: 5022)
Subjects include: Immigration control; Legislative Council; Fijian Constitution; Letters Patent and Royal Instructions and amendments; Civil/Public Service; penal and criminal procedural codes; electoral registration; Fijian Affairs and Administration; prison regulation; Information Office; Military; taxation; Medical Department – rearrangement, recruitment, financial; South-West Pacific Health service; post-war development; hospital construction; tuberculosis; medical ship schematics.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Alexander Grantham, John Henry Vaughan, Sir Charles Jeffries, Trafford Smith, John B. Sidebotham, Oliver Stanley, Sir Phillip Mitchell, Dr Wilson Rae.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Kenya, Western Pacific, South Pacific, Levuka, Rotuma, Australia, New Zealand, United States.
Files: Nos. 85310-85460, 1944 - 1946 (File 242. AJCP Reel No: 5022-5023)
Subjects include: Policy; loans; liquor; Legislative Council; mosquito control - malaria and filariasis; forestry reports; financial – expenditure, revenue and taxation; legal and judicial – salaries, Chief Justice, Puisne Judges, criminal code; Colonial Sugar Refining Co. – industrial dispute, strike, Maha Sangh union; administration; land; education; public works; defence works.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Alexander Grantham, P.H. Nightingale, Oliver Stanley, John B. Sidebotham, Trafford Smith, Sir Owen Corrie, Sir Phillip Mitchell, John Henry Vaughan, Sir Harry Luke, Edward Cavendish (Duke of Devonshire), Vishnu Deo.
Locations mentioned include: Suva, Western Pacific, Nausori, Rewa, Lautoka, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Lau.
Files: Nos. 85460-85531, 1944 - 1946 (File 243. AJCP Reel No: 5023)
Subjects include: Deportation of non-Fijian born leaders; War/Defence expenditure; post-war reconstruction; Suva water supply and dry dock construction; Crown land for housing; leases and licences; Fijian returned servicemen care; war bonuses; penal code of Fiji and revisions; land; sugar industry inquiry; agriculture; social services; legal amendments; land settlement and administration.
Individuals mentioned include: Sir Philip Mitchell, Sir Alexander Grantham, John B. Sidebotham, Swami Rudrananda, Trafford Smith, Oliver Stanley, Sir Charles Jeffries, H. King-Irving, Sir Cosmo Parkinson, G.E.J. Gent, John Henry Vaughan.
Locations mentioned include: Lau, New Zealand, Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Levuka, Walu Bay, Nausori, Tonga, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Solomon Islands, Western Pacific.
Files: Nos. 85532-85560, 1945 - 1946 (File 244. AJCP Reel No: 5023)
Subjects include: Criminal Procedure Code; Fiji Supreme Court and Legislative Council; surplus military property; agriculture – reorganisation, crops, industry and policy; rehabilitation of ex-servicemen; Civil/Public service and employment; Banaban emigration; post-war planning and development; telephone system; loans; political evolution.
Individuals mentioned include: John Henry Vaughan, Trafford Smith, John B. Sidebotham, Sir Alexander Grantham, Professor D. D. Paterson, Dr. H.A. Timpany, D.R. Serpell.
Locations mentioned include: New Zealand, Suva, Western Pacific, Viti Levu, Gilbert Islands, Ellice Islands (Tuvalu), Tonga, Ocean Island (Banaba), Rambi (Rabi) Island, Nausori, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
Series CO 91. Gibraltar: Original Correspondence, 1830 - 1841
30 itemsSelected correspondence of the Colonial Office arranged chronologically within the following subject headings relating to Gibraltar: despatches and their enclosures from Governors, letters from British government agencies, organisations and individuals (arranged alphabetically).
The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed only selected pieces between 109-156 and extracts from each piece.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 91. For further information, see CO 91 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4282).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2107307] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office; Gibraltar: politics and government; Gibraltar
Series CO 92. Gibraltar: Entry Books of Correspondence, 1829 - 1843
6 itemsCopies of despatches from Secretary of State, letters from British government agencies and individuals relating to Gibraltar. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed only selected pieces between pieces 9-15.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 92. For further information, see CO 92 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4283).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584987] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office; Gibraltar: politics and government; Gibraltar; Entry Books: Correspondence
Letters from Sec. of State, Offices and Individuals, 1 January 1829 - 30 March 1833 (File 9. AJCP Reel No: 2944)
Letters from Sec. of State. Despatches, 13 April 1830 - 3 February 1832 (File 10. AJCP Reel No: 2944)
Letters from Sec. of State, Offices and Individuals, 9 April 1837 - 29 June 1840 (File 13. AJCP Reel No: 2944)
Series CO 194. Newfoundland: Original Correspondence, 1812 - 1827
17 itemsSelected correspondence of the Colonial office, relating to Newfoundland, arranged chronologically from 1811. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed only selected pieces between pieces 52-75.
The date range indicates the dates of the records selected for filming rather than the date of the original series.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 194. For further information, see CO 194 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4385).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584996] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office; Newfoundland: politics and government; Newfoundland;
Papers collected by Mr. Wilmot Horton on the Newfoundland Acts of 1824. Fisheries Act; Judicial Act; Marriages Act., 1824 (File 69. AJCP Reel No: 3145)
Office and Individuals, 1827 (File 75. AJCP Reel No: 3145-3146)
P. Morris, Remarks on state of Society at Newfoundland.
Series CO 195. Newfoundland: Entry Books of Correspondence, 1813 - 1830
1 itemSelected copies of letters from Secretary of State and despatches. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed selected items from piece 17.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 195. For further information, see CO 195 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4386).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn585012] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Subjects
Great Britain: Colonial Office; Newfoundland: politics and government; Newfoundland
Series CO 201. New South Wales: Original Correspondence, 1783 - 1900
662 itemsBound volumes, arranged chronologically of correspondence of the Colonial Office including despatches and their enclosures, reports and other papers from Governors and Commissions of Inquiry, letters from British government agencies, and letters from individuals, societies and companies in Great Britain and New South Wales.
In the early period there are separate volumes for Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, Hobart Town and Port Dalrymple. Includess correspondence relating to Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) up to 1825.
Existence and Location of Originals
The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
Series Reference: CO 201. For further information, see CO 201 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4392).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2031353] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
For subsequent correspondence see Australia (General), CO 418.
Finding Aid Note
See Eris O'Brien, The Foundation of Australia and John Cobley The Convicts, 1788-1792, for details of errors in CO and HO lists.
Subjects
Convicts; Great Britain: Colonial Office; New South Wales: politics and government; Tasmania: politics and government; Norfolk Island; New South Wales; Tasmania
Subseries Pieces: 1-629. Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State, 1783 - 1900
662 items
Original Correspondence: Secretary of State, 1783 - 1822 (File 1. AJCP Reel No: 1)
Subjects mentioned include: Sydney and Norfolk Island; fitting of ships Discovery and Gorgon; colony in NSW (draft and printed); list of absconded convicts (f.71); marines; division of land in NSW, Parramatta and Norfolk Island; accounts and expenses; Phillipsburg; Norfolk Island; maize and grain; names and details of landholders (ff.106v-109); ordnance of Laboratory stores; ship clothing; stores received; births and deaths; list of settlers on Norfolk Island (ff.156-158); hospital necessities; provisions; trial of Captain Thomas Dermott of the Britannia; NSW Regiment; employment on Norfolk Island (ff.214-215); Buffalo and Supply; regarding rule of colony under different Governors (ff.241-245); inquest into General Hewett
Individuals mentioned include: Captain Arthur Phillip, John Palmer, Robert Ross, Evan Nepean, George III, Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), Andrew Hamond, George Young, James Matra, James DeLancey, Richard Johnston, Robert Chalmers, William Prater, Roger Curtis, Philip Gidley King, John Hunter, Francis Grose, William Balmain, John Piper, William Raven, James Thompson, Captain William Kent, John King, Maurice Margarot, Joseph Foveaux, John Beckett, Richard Hughes, Henry Goulburn, John Campbell, William Redfern, Lachlan Macquarie.
Port Jackson, 1786 - 1787 (File 2. AJCP Reel No: 1-2)
Subjects include: First Fleet; Nautilus; HMS Sirius; HMS Supply; provisions for marines on Lady Penrhyn; Charlotte and Friendship; HMS Fishburn and Golden Grove; HMS Scarborough and Prince of Wales; accounts; correspondence with Treasury and Admiralty; preparation of HMS Alexander; illness of marines and convicts; names of officers; suggested stops during voyage; wine and spirits; names, aliases and original residences of convicts to go to Botany Bay (ff.233-293v, f.318).
Individuals mentioned include: Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), Arthur Phillip, Evan Nepean, William Hopkins, George Teer, Lieutenant-Colonel Stirling, Charles Middleton, Mr Thomas, John Hunter, Robert Ross, David Collins, Thomas Walsh, John White, Benjamin Vaughan, Duncan Sinclair, Francis Walton, Thomas Gilbert, William Cropton, John Mason, William Richards Junior, George Moore.
Port Jackson, 1788 - June 1789 (File 3. AJCP Reel No: 2)
Subjects mentioned include: First Fleet; Lady Penrhyn; journey around the Cape of Good Hope, Botany Bay and arrival at Port Jackson; HMS Sirius; HMS Supply; HMS Scarborough; HMS Friendship; HMS Alexander; account of earliest days in colony - Norfolk Island, encounters with Indigenous Australians (Eora) and conflicts; need for more women; descriptions of Port Jackson region; proposed cultivation of Norfolk Island flora; land grants; court martial of Private Joseph Hunt; Account of livestock, Marines, Civil and Criminal Judicature; lack of food, medicinal, and general supplies accompanied by list of items 'most wanted'; native fauna and flora; naming of Richmond, Lansdown Hill, Carmarthen Hills; early exploration; sowing of crops; clothing issues; instructions for governance of Norfolk Island; food requirements; heavy loss of stock; deaths since landing (f.125); remaining provisions; list of skilled labourers with their trades (f.129); soldiers who wished to remain in colony on 1 October 1788; HMS Lady Juliana; prevalence of disease; discipline issues.
Individuals mentioned include: Arthur Phillip, Evan Nepean, Arthur Bowes Smyth, John White, Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), Robert Ross, John Hunter, Henry Ball, Philip Gidley King, Joseph Banks, William Dempsey, Private Thomas Jones, Jane Fitzgerald (convict), Watkin Tench, Private James Redman, David Collins, John White, John Shortland, Noah Mortimer, Edward Westlake, Richard Johnson, Thomas Freeman, William Chinnery, George Alexander.
Port Jackson, 1789 (File 4. AJCP Reel No: 2)
Subjects mentioned include: First Fleet; Second Fleet; Criminal Court Affair; testimony of officers; trial of soldiers for robbing storehouse; grants of land to non-commissioned officers; religious duties; lists of provisions; clothing, tools and agriculture supplies; list of superintendents of convicts on board HMS Guardian (f.46); embarkations, convicts and casualties on board HMS Surprize, HMS Scarborough and HMS Neptune; lists of convicts with age, sentence and location of arrest per Lady Juliana (ff.105-110) and Guardian (f.147); invoices; purchase of moveable hospital; Justinian; Sirius, calculation of clothing requirements for convicts (f.88); required medicines; Fortune (ship), Lion (ship); linen.
Individuals mentioned include: Captain Arthur Phillip, Major Robert Ross, Evan Nepean, Captain James Campbell, Mary Turner (convict), David Collins, John Johnstone, John Poulden, James Maitland Shairp, Watkin Tench, John Creswell, James Furzer, George Johnston, Thomas Davey, Ralph Clark, William Dawes, William Faddy, John Long, William Grenville (1st Baron Grenville), Samuel Marshall, William Richards Junior, Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), John White, John Hunter, John Barber, Alexander Davison, Thomas Clarke, Benjamin Dawes, Duncan Campbell.
Port Jackson, 1790 (File 5. AJCP Reel No: 2-3)
Subjects mentioned include: Second Fleet; Third Fleet; Norfolk Island; robberies of stores by soldiers; regulations and members of Night Watch; fraternisation with female convicts; arrival, heavy casualties and cruelty on board HMS Neptune; HMS Scarborough; HMS Surprize; HMS Fishburn and Golden Grove; HMS Supply; work gangs; Botany Bay, Port Jackson and Harbour entry charts; exploration; land distribution; smallpox; Indigenous Australians; HMS Justinian; HMS Gorgon; HMS Discovery; Sandwich Island; HMS Sirius; arrival of HMS Lady Juliana; provisions; list of ships (ff.83-86); marines; flax; East India Company; loss of the HMS Guardian; housing; 1790 Census (ff.198-199); expenses; medicine; list of skilled workers on hulks (ff.313-314); Philip Gidley King service details (f.323).
Individuals mentioned include: Captain Arthur Phillip, Thomas Townshend (Lord Sydney), Major Robert Ross, David Collins, John Hunter, Evan Nepean, Watkin Tench, William Roberts, John Long, James Thody (convict), George Johnston, William Grenville (Lord Grenville), Alexander Davison, James Meredith, James Campbell, Richard Johnson, Henry Brewer, Henry Dodd, Thomas Freeman, Zachariah Smith, William Broughton, John Irving, Walter Brody, Francis Grose, Donald Traill, Joseph Sutton, John Shapcote, William Richards Junior, Edward Rion, Samuel Enderby, Samuel Moore.
Norfolk Island, 1790 - 1793 (File 9. AJCP Reel No: 4-5)
Includes lists of convicts, settlers and list of Maori vocabulary on f.293. 373pp.
Norfolk Island, 1794 (File 10. AJCP Reel No: 5-6)
Includes lists of convicts, settlers and a list of Maori vocabularies on f.389. 398pp.
Port Jackson: Offices and Individuals, 1800 (File 17. AJCP Reel No: 8-9)
Finding Aid Note
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Norfolk Island, 1795 - 1800 (File 18-19. AJCP Reel No: 9)
Plan of Norfolk Island. CO 201/18 (f.165,150). Covers period 1790+
Port Jackson: Despatches, 10 March 1801 - 21 August 1801 (File 19. AJCP Reel No: 9)
Plan of N.I. CO 201/18 f.165,150 (covers period 1790+)
Port Jackson: Offices and Individuals, 1801 (File 20. AJCP Reel No: 10)
Finding Aid Note
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Norfolk Island, 1804 (File 30. AJCP Reel No: 15)
includes Norfolk Island victualling books: 1804 (f.210+)
Port Jackson: Despatches, January 1804 - March 1804 (File 31. AJCP Reel No: 15-16)
includes lists of pardons
Port Jackson: Despatches, January 1806 - July 1806 (File 39. AJCP Reel No: 19-20)
Incl. births, deaths 1802 (f.253) 1803(f.85)
Port Jackson: Despatches, 1809 (File 49. AJCP Reel No: 25)
includes proposal for disbanding of Norfolk Island settlement.
Port Jackson: Offices and Miscellaneous, January 1809 - February 1809 (File 49. AJCP Reel No: 25)
Finding Aid Note
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Port Jackson: Despatches, 1811 (File 57. AJCP Reel No: 27)
Includes returns for Windsor, St John's Parramatta and Sydney, Jan-Sep 1811, showing names and dates of people married, burials (name, age, ship, date buried), baptisms (child's name, parent's names, date of birth, date of baptism (ff.147-154).
Also includes: Civil establishment (f.104); Plan of Sydney Hospital 1811 (f.79) and contract to build Sydney Hospital (f.73+).
Port Jackson: Offices and Miscellaneous, 4 May 1813 - 6 August 1813 (File 69. AJCP Reel No: 32)
Includes convict lists for Wanstead and Earl Spencer.
Port Jackson: Offices and Miscellaneous, 7 August 1813 - 31 December 1813 (File 70. AJCP Reel No: 32)
Enclosures in despatch no. 39 respecting the Convict Ship Chapman, 12 December 1817 (File 86. AJCP Reel No: 40-41)
Individuals, etc., A-K, 1819 (File 95. AJCP Reel No: 46-47)
Correspondence mostly to Lord/ Earl Bathurst and Henry Goulburn.
Items of interest include:
6 March 1819 - General Order signed by L. Macquarie appointing John Thomas Campbell to Provost Marshal of New South Wales.
Subjects include: Land grants in New South Wales; Emmigration to New South Wales; Larkins (ship); Lord Eldon (convict ship); widow's pension; requests for free passage to NSW; arrivals of convict ships; trial - the King vs William Bland; Van Diemen's Land; Court papers; Catholic clergy in Botany Bay; convicts; interactions with natives; land surveys;
Correspondents, and names mentioned, include: Lord/ Earl Bathurst; S(?). Adey; Henry Goulburn; John Eyre; Eliza Angell; Capt. Young; James Atkinson; William Abbott and John Tipping W. Allen; M. Anderson(?); Thomas Atkins; Robert Bayles; Alexander Berry; Wollstonecraft; James Garrett Brown; (?) Bayster Buchanan; Eliza Bent; Andrew Badgery; Messrs Jones & Riley; Messrs Kemp & Gatehouse; Capt. W. Elder; (?) Wilkinson; J.G. Brown; John Bowen; Joseph Baylis; John Burrows; Maria Baxter; John Bolton; N. Bayly; Sir Henry Bunbury; Thomas Valentine Brown; R.P. Brooke; Samuel Butler; John Blackwell; Mr Bent; James Brogden; John Braddick; Edward Paine; John Mac Arthur; William Blake; Jeffrey Hart(?) Bent; E. Bromley; Hannah Brown; William Bland; Edmund Wilson; John Brown; Matthew Bowles; Brownlow; Alex Birnie; Peter Blake; George Wheeler; Richard Downward; Lt. Robinson; J. Clarke; Charles Clarke; Frederick Calthorpe; Robert Campbell; Sarah Chap; Robert Cousins; J.S. Copley; (?) Capper; Richard Cockles; Rev. W. Cowper; Mary Cartwright; Thomas Cooper; Joseph Cotton; William Chow; C. Chaplin; Smith Hall; Mr John Thomas Bigge; Robert Dawson(?); John Durnford(?); Jos. Davis; Francis H. Duncombe; M. Donovan; John Duncan; John Greaves; B. Dacre; W. Dunn; Thos. Davidson; W. Eldridge; John Eyre; Thomas Foster; Mariam Frost; Robert Foot; Barron Field; Susanna Jenkins; Elizabeth Jenkins; Justice Field; James Fowler; Thomas Freeman; William and Charles Fraser; Walter Farmer; William Foster; J. Williams; Daniel Fryett; William Fitzpatrick; C.W. Grant; William Gore; Frederick Garling; James Green; Nicholas Garling; R. Hoddle; A. Heatherly; Smith Hall; Edward Harcourt; M. Higgins; Arthur Harrison; Margaret Harrigan; John William Hallion; Josiah Hyde; William Hickey; William Jordan; M. Jamison; Phillip G. King; Rev. Robert Knopwood; T. Davey; Richard Kemp; John Knight.
Individuals, etc., L-Z, 1819 (File 96. AJCP Reel No: 47)
Subjects include: South Sea Fishery; Emigration; Land Grants (Van Diemen's Land, NSW); Colonial Surgeon; School Master (convict children); Grain distillery (NSW); position of Provost Marshal at Van Diemen's Land; Convicts; William Stewart re bad treatment by Lieut. Alexander Campbell.
Individuals, etc., A-F, 1821 (File 106. AJCP Reel No: 54)
Correspondents include: Henry Goulburn; Earl Bathurst; Rudolph Ackerman; Thomas Abraham; B. Alexander; Robert Farquharson (Paisley); James Wylie (Paisley); Harry Abraham (Cheapside); Thomas Squire (Folkestone); John Andrews (Folkestone); Jonathan Greaves; Edmund Hodgson; H. Ainslie; William Allen; Alexander Alcock (Aberdeen); Thomas Brooks; William Bland (Sydney); William Randall; Robert Fulton; Edwin Blomfield (Suffolk); William Highat; John Black; Alexander Berry; George Berry; Richard Bradley(?); John Blake (Galway); George Rankin; Alexander Boswell; Mr Butterworth (Bedford Square); Sarah Brenan (Cork); John Burdsall; Jos. Taylor; Richard Watson; R.P. Brook; G.F. Bromwich (Bridgeworth Market); Robert Brown; W. Bayster; Thomas Barclay; George Clay & Sons; Samuel Bale; George Bridges; Mr Hopkins; Mr Blythe (Millbank); Mr Bennett (Millbank); T(?). Busby; David Bell (London); James Blaxcell; George Bacon; R. Brooke; M. Burridge (Hungerford); Charles M. Burrell; Mr Henty; James Brady (Dublin); John Burne (Bayswater); James Ogilvie; Aneas Burkly; William Backen; Thomas Barber; John Barber; Catherine Bell; Richard Brownlow; Jos. Butterworth; D. Buchanan; John Benson; Robert Bethune; John Hill(?) Blanchard; William Bryan (Dublin); John Brown (Glasgow); George Salmond; John Barnes (Chelsea); Joseph Button (or Butler); J.H. Boughton; Lady Harrington; John Hunt Butcher; Charles Biggs; Sam Bryan (Dublin); John Busby (Edinburgh); A. Coventry; Mr Broadfoot; Peter Monro; W. Brown; Jos. Butterworth (Bedford Square); Robert Bayles; Joseph Castle; M. Corney; Thomas Clark; John Cox (London); Augustus Coulston; John Cook; James Deans Clark; John Thomas Church; Thomas Chapman; Henry Clift; John Henry Cox; Catherine Colville; John Carpenter (Portsmouth); Samuel Carter; Thomas Cullen; W. Cawkwell; Thomas Campbell; John Donaldson; Edmond Donnellan; A. Dallas; James Fowler; D. Duncomb; Henry John Davis (Lambeth); John Dunn; Robert Dixon; Isaiah Dodd; Thomas Hawkins; James Towers; R. Downie; William Duff; Alexander Paterson (Ayrshire); Ralph Dalton; John Dibbs; George Dibbs; H. Donnision; Lieut. Delacomb; Arthur H. Ball; William Duncan (London); Henry Davies; Henry Jacobs; Ralph Dodsworth (Guildford); John Deane (Richmond); William Ellis (London); James Elder; James Edington; James Evans; Thomas Ellis (Dublin); Barron Field (Sydney); James Corry; John Field (Edinburgh); Roderick Forbes; John Friend; James Erskine; Robert Fawcett (Bishopgate); Antony Fletcher (Richmond, Surrey); William Fairbrother; John Fletcher (Cheapside); Peter Fleming (Glasgow); Robert Farquhar; James MacGillivray (Inverness); Charles Fraser; W. Fisher.
Subjects include: Van Diemen's Land; emigration to NSW; Religious Society of Friends; proposal by the Wesleyan Missionary Society to establish a mission in New Zealand; collection of specimens of plants from Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand; rates of passage and freight on ships to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales; mineral surveys; regulation regarding gunpowder; requests for employment with government.
Individuals, etc., G-P, 1821 (File 107. AJCP Reel No: 55)
Mainly letters to Henry Goulburn and Earl Bathurst.
Correspondents include: James Goldie; Thomas Godwin; Charles Grant; Ann Gamble; Matthew John Gibbons (Stepney); William Gibbons (Frome, Somerset); John Gardner (Glasgow); John Gibson (London); Ann Grace (Bristol); Joseph Garratt (Dublin); Jonathan Greaves (Kensington); John Garrett (Portsmouth); Charles Giles (Bristol); Thomas Gaitskell (Bermondsey); W.B. Hutton (St Pauls); Joseph Hume; J. Hawkins; Isaac Buxston; Henry Bentall; Thompson Forster (Guys Hospital); Richard Farre; William Babington; John Hayward (London); Benjamin Hanslow; Arthur Hopper; William Hickey (Barbican); W.E. Lawrence; Henry Hopkins; Joshua Hill (St George's Fields); G. Harrison (London); John Hays (Bermondsey); C. Hope; W.H. Baldwin; Arthur Harrison; J. Houghton; Samuel Hile (Great Scotland Yard); Anthony Hordern (Smithfield); Michael Hindmarsh (Alnwick); Joshua Haydon (Guildford); George Hepworth (London); M. Irving (Dublin); David Jones; Richard Jones; Stockdale Hardy; William Jackson (Leicester); William Jamieson (Glasgow); Thomas Jones (Manchester); Phillip Gidley King (Sydney, Port Jackson); Jane Kemp (Surrey); Edward King (Isle of Wight); Bridget Kennedy (Cork); John Knight (Chelsea); William Jennings (Dorset); Thomas Kendall (Bay of Islands, NZ); W. Lawrence (Trinity Square); George Langford; William Lockyer (London); Andrew Logan (Kent); Edward Hazard (North Yarmouth); Christopher Mackay (Kensington); Robert Mathews; D. McLachlan; Andrew Magill (Fitzroy Square); John Mitchell; Alexander Morrison; Henry Monteith (Glasgow); James Murdoch (Edinburgh); A. McIntosh; Allan McKennon; Thomas Haigh Midwood (Islington); George Wilson (Edinburgh); Robert Wilson (Edinburgh); Samuel Marsden (Sydney); Robert Campbell; King Pomare; Edmund Eager; Macintosh & Degraves; William Nicolay; Robert McArthur; Francis Moran; Thomas MacArthur; John MacArthur; H Millett (Burlington Gardens); Benjamin Morris (London); John Hill Blanchard; Peter Monro (Edinburgh); Robert Scott (Edinburgh); Mathew Buchan (Edinburgh); John Mackenzie; Charles Marshall (Hackney Road); Wesleyan Missionary Society; Charles Norton (Bloomsbury Square); John Nightingale (London); James Newington (Sussex); James Ogilvie (London); M. O'Brien; George Owen (Whitechapel Rd); Herbert Pugh (Grey's Inn); Joseph Pinsent; Henry Powell; George Page (Bermondsey); Joseph Pennington; Montague Pennington; George Page (Bermondsey); Ralph Dalton; George Perrin (Dublin); Alex Paterson; William Murray (Edinburgh); Myles Patterson (Edinburgh); L.W. Parkins (Blackfriars); Jason Phillips; Andrew Pickford (Staffordshire); John Plummer; J. Phillips.
Subjects include: emigration to Van Diemen's Land; assisted passage; land grants; seeking employment; Framework Knitters Committee; coastal surveys and charting; ships at Port Jackson; wives wishing to join convict husbands in NSW; church missions; New Zealand chiefs (printed); voyage of Captain Cook with Sir Joseph Banks; Accounts of Pomare King of Tahiti; invoices
Individuals, etc., R-Z, 1821 (File 108. AJCP Reel No: 98)
Letters mostly to Earl Bathurst and Henry Goulburn.
Correspondents include: Mr Rowcroft; Alex Russel; James Robertson (Glasgow); Charles Rhodes; Mary Reibey (London); David Reid (London); George Reid; John Rush (Chelsea); William Ralph; William Richardson; Charles Rudd (Rochdale); W. Robinson (East Smithfield); John Richardson (Horsham); Richard Ryan (Liverpool); Lieut. James Reid; James Smith (Farley); Josiah Spode (Staffordshire); Samuel Spode (Staffordshire); Samuel Singleton (Staffordshire); J.M. Sheridan (Staffordshire); Hew Stevenson (Glasgow); John Sinclair (Upper East Smithfield); C. Simeon (Cambridge); W. Salisbury (Brompton); John Skinner; W. Scott (Russell Square); Charles Sandby (Camden Town); James Stephenson (Glasgow); Henry Stokes (Doveridge); John Scales; Jos. Steele (London); John G. Smith (Russell Square); John Street; Robert Torrens; Charles Henry Chambers; Sir Henry Torrens; Sir Thomas Brisbane; William Shoobridge (Kent); George Smith; Thomas Smith; H. Sorell; W. Smith (Nottingham); H. Simpson (Aberdeen); Alexander Simpson (Aberdeen); J. Sadler; William Shaw; H. Shand (Bishopsgate); Thomas Smith; Alexander Thompson; William Taylor (London); Thomas Thompson; Charles Robertson (Leith); Arch. Thomson (Edinburgh); James Tapp; Charles Thornton; William Taylor; Hugh Totty; William Tate (Chelsea); William Marley; David Taylor (Portsea); George Taylor (Fife, Scotland); William Murray; David Taylor (Fife, Scotland); Robert Taylor (Fife, Scotland); John Waterhouse (Spitalfields); Edward Whalmore (London); Thomas Wood (Deptford); John Augustine Waller (Lambeth); William Wright (London); Francis Whiston (London); J.W. Walsh; Major Wallis; Sophia Wheeler (Somerset); J. Welsh; Patrick Wood (Glasgow); W. Valentine Champion; Arthur Willis & Co.; James P. Webber (London); Mr William Worthy; Alexander Keith; White & Miller; J.W. Wright (Birmingham); James Wright (Glasgow); W. Williams; Thomas Wylde (Judge Advocate) (Sydney); Samuel Marsden (Sydney); Alexander Riley; John Thomas Bigge; John Walker; Samuel Ward; Anthony Williams; John Wood (Covent Garden); W. Witt; William Williamshurst; Mathew Young Wilson; C. Woodward; John Wilson (Cornhill); Matthew Wilson (London); C. Urquhart (Cornhill); Thomas Urquhart; D. Yates (London).
Subjects include: assisted passage; land grants; New Holland colonies; requests for government employment; transported relatives; black swans; legal affairs in New South Wales; Samuel Marsden; Bigge inquiry in New South Wales (Royal Commission); requests for permission to ship items to the colonies.
Settlers, A-K (includes Tasmania), 1822 (File 112. AJCP Reel No: 100-102)
New South Wales, including Tasmania. Letters mostly to Earl Bathurst. Letters are sometimes written on behalf of a group of people and their names are listed within the body those letters.
Correspondents include: William Allardyce; Josh. Allen; W. Amos; R. Ackermann; William Arbuthnot; Francis Atkinson (Yorkshire); Thomas Atkinson (Cheapside); Thomas Anstey (Devon); George Anstey (Russell Square); Richard Addison; Henry Alexander (Great Yarmouth); John Abbott; David Allen; Robert Abbott; Richard Bradley Junr.; A.H. Bryan; Aneas Barkly; John Burkley; Richard Brownlow; M. Broadfoot (Leith); Sam Bryan (Dublin); James Bartlett (Somerton); Francis Bethel (Ireland); John W. Buckle; Jos. Butterworth; Joseph Bradbury (London); N. Brown (Haddington); Robert Baillie (Liverpool); J. Brownell (Rotherham); Lieut. Lewis von Bibra; W. Brogden; Henry Beaumont; George Brown; James Brown; H. Bain; R. Broxholm; James Beck; Henry Bingham (Ireland); William Baldwin; Henry Briggs; John Bonfield; Henry Brown; H. Bright; Buckles, Bagster & Buchanan; John Burney; Robert Brooks; William Brooks (Lincolns Inn); David Brodie (London); Donald Cameron (Port William); J.J. Cuff; John Cogill; John Crocket; Michael Collins; Thomas Clarke; Felix Clay; Jonathan Garth.
Thomas Collinson; John Crocket; William Cummings; William Cole; William Curtis; Francis Mitchell; Thomas O. Curling; Thomas A. Champion; John Cuff; Thomas Collins; Arch. Campbell; Joseph Clements; Thomas Cracknell; N. Chester; John Cobb; Andrew Dickson; R. Downie; H. Donnison; Thomas Dyke; John James Dawson; Walter Davidson (Edinburgh); Arch. Dickson; Richard Downward; Owen Downey; W.A. Davies; Joseph Dixon; James Dickson; John Davis; William Davis; Frederic Dawes; R. Davidson (London); Patrick Dalrymple; Robert Espie; John Edwards; Samuel Easton (London); George Eagle (Dublin); John Earl; John Eales; William Fisher; John Fabers; Thomas Fabers; George Jackson Frankland; Alexander Fergusson (Scotland); John Fleming; Anthony Fox; George Falconer; Duncan Forbes; James Forbes; Henry Falkner; Charles Farrell; James Henry Fryett; John Foster; Robert Farquharson (Paisley); Edward Griffith (Birmingham); Robert Gooding; W.J. Griffiths; John Grant; John Gilbert; Francis Blower Gibbes; Thomas Garratt (Coventry); Sam Godwin; Richard Gibbs; Richard Holmes; J. Hill; Thomas Holbrook; Ed. Hughes; William Hardwick; John Hyatt; Alex. Henderson; George Hubbard (Deal); J. Hyde; James Humphry (Deptford); Robert Houshold; Robert. G. Hanna; James Holland; Halvar Hanson; William Heath; Edward Hasell; J. Hinton (Westminster) (originally AJCP Reel 101).
Robert Harrison; John Hooke (Cheapside); John Hobson (Dublin); J. Hamillton; John Hobson (Dublin); William Innes; William Jackson; George Innes; Joseph Irish; William Kerr; Thomas Knowles (originally AJCP Reel 102).
Subjects include: New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land; requests for information; giving references; land grants; requests for employment assistance.
Settlers, L-Z (includes Tasmania), 1822 (File 113. AJCP Reel No: 102-103)
Mostly letters to Robert Wilmot; Lord Bathurst.
Correspondents include: J. Lachlan; William Lambe; William Little; John Leake; Thomas Lowes; Arthur J. Liddington; Edward Lee; Patrick Leslie; John Miller; Edward Perkins; William Grierson Murray; George Miller (Perth); David Maziere (Ireland); Walter Macqueen (Edinburgh); Peter Miller (London); James Miller (London); Duncan MacKellar (Liverpool); Francis Mitchell (Deptford); Jos. Monkhouse; Samuel Morris; William Manson (Edinburgh); James Mann; Alex Macrae; Thomas Margetts (Huntingdonshire); A. Mackenzie (Portsmouth); Rev. Archibald Macarthur (Portsmouth); William Murray (Edinburgh); Alexander MacRae (Glensheil); Michael McDonald (Dunbarton); Thomas Morgan (Kent); Cornelius Morris (Dublin); William Marshall; Roderick Macdonald (Glasgow); David Middleton; William Milliken; John Nowlan (London); Edward Naylor; Edwin Nowell; N.L. Newton; Aug. Northcote; John Oliver (Edinburgh); Edward Paine; Jas. Phillips (Portsmouth); David Paterson (Kirkwall); John Phipps; John Paul (London); William Paton (Edinburgh); Temple Pearson; John Phillips; Samuel Rowland (Derby); George Parramore; George Lewis Perriman; William Pike (Woolwich); Richard Parry; William Parker (High Holborn); John Powell (Holborn Hill); Edward Rand (Lincoln's Inn Field); Gilbert Roberts (Cheapside); Hugh Robertson (Dunbar); David Ramsay (Perth); John Robertson (London); William Robertson (London); Thomas Raine; John Ramsey (Yorkshire); Lieutenant G. Raymond (County Kerry); James Ranken; William Rumney (London); Thomas Roe (Shropshire); W.J. Ring (Guernsey); Thomas Smith; John Scott; John Sharland (Sussex); John Smith (Shoreditch); Thomas Scott (Leith); John Stirling (Edinburgh); Percy Simpson; Robert Strachan (Leith); Thomas Stephens; Thomas Slade; N. Stuart; J. Sinclair; Duncan Sinclair (Argyll, Scotland); D. Campbell; Joseph MacIntyre (Scotland); Peter Sinclair; Thomas Sharp (London); Thomas Summerland; Rev. Shiell (Ireland); John Stack (Portsmouth); N.W.(?) Shennan; James Stuart; John Sinclair (Edinburgh); William Manson; William Spain (Gosport); Sarah Smith; Hugh Robertson; Stewart Ryrie; William Stewart (Deptford Barracks); John Swan (London); A.B. Spark (Cornhill); John Sherwin; H.W. Simpson; James Simmons (Bristol); Charles Smith; John Storey; Francis Avery; W.B. Shand (London); J. Shout; Thomas Stace; Hugh F. Sandeman; Roger Taylor (Cheapside); Robert Taylor (Perth); William Tighe (Dublin); William Thomson (Edinburgh); Richard Thomson (Scotland); William Dunbar; William Tille; W. Thomas; William Turner; John Tilbury (Marylebone); Matthew Wilson; John Wilson (London); Arthur Willis & Co. (London); Thomas Oakley Curling (Kent); Abraham Walker (Bethnal Green); George Wood; Charles Williams (Rotherhithe); Harris Walker (London); Robert Wilson (Dublin); William Walker (London); J. W. Woolley (London); Patrick Walker (Edinburgh); James Wilkinson; Thomas Watson (Leith); James Whyte (London); Wilberforce; James Peddie; James Wright; John Weavell (London); John Thomas Walford; Francis Whiston; James Woodhouse (Kentish Town); Lucas Ward; James Wild; Richard Young; Charles Young; Robert Young (Leith).
Subjects include: Reference letters for people hoping to settle in New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land; petitions to be permitted to emigrate; requests for free passage; requests for land grants.
Report of Commissioners of Inquiry into state of New South Wales. Convicts, Part I, 1822 (File 114. AJCP Reel No: 103-104)
Report of Commissioners of Inquiry into state of New South Wales. Convicts, Part II, 1822 (File 115. AJCP Reel No: 104)
Report of Commissioners of Inquiry on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales and Tasmania. Criminal and Civil Judicature: Police: Port Regulations, 1822 (File 116. AJCP Reel No: 104-105)
Report of Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of New South Wales. Agriculture and Trade, 1822 (File 117. AJCP Reel No: 105)
Appendix to Commissioner Bigge's Report: Convicts. Documents, A. 1-50, 1822 (File 118. AJCP Reel No: 106)