Laracy, Hugh

Scope and Contents

Collection includes papers relating to the Samoa Shipping & Trading Company and Allen family history. The collection relates primarily to the liquidation of the shipping company after the death of Captain E.F. Allen in 1924. It would appear that material in the collection was collated by Captain E.F. Allen's son Robert Houghton Allen who served in the Australian Imperial Forces during the First World War. Robert Allen died in New Zealand in 1972.

Scope and Contents

Research materials compiled for a history of the Methodist mission in the Solomon Islands which was not published. Includes research notes on Polynesian Methodist missionaries, biographical essays on Solomon Islanders, and notes on Solomon Island languages. Series 3 contains some significant original material gathered by Carter as part of his research: a translation of the diary of Ishmael Ngatu; papers of the Reverend John R. Metcalfe; and a diary of A.E. Stanford.

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence files and research notes re publications: (1) "Tuvalu : a history" / written by Simati Faanui with assistance from Hugh Laracy. Suva : Institute of Pacific Studies and Extension Services, University of the South Pacific; [Funafuti, Tuvalu] : Ministry of Social Services, Government of Tuvalu, 1983 (2) Ples blong iumi : Solomon Islands, the past four thousand years. Suva : Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific, 1989 (3) "Chanel - bibliography"...