Oceania -- History -- Sources

Scope and Contents

Collection contains records relating to the operation of the Western Pacific High Commissioner's Court. This includes papers relating to both civil, criminal and probate cases heard by the Court including minutes of proceedings, correspondence, warrants, notes on evidence and registers.

Scope and Contents Control records for the Western Pacific High Commission inwards correspondence, MP series, including WPHC4/I. Indexes: 1897 – 1941; WPHC4/II. Inwards correspondence registers: 1875 – 1941; and WPHC4/III. Alphabetical indexes to accounts inwards correspondence, 1924 – 1946. These registers and indexes relate to WPHC4/IV inwards correspondence, MP series: 1875 – 1941. Due to the size of WPHC4/IV it has been described in single or two yearly runs with separate collection records...

Scope and Contents

Collection contins files of general correspondence including letters received and sent and some despatches.

Scope and Contents Collection comprises files of correspondence, or minute papers (MP) which include letters received, replies, related papers and publications along with comments, annotations, and instructions by administrators. Files includes correspondence between the Resident Commissioners, missionaries, Indigenous leaders, European traders, scientists and commercial entities and the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and the High Commissioner and the Secretary of State for the Colonies...

Scope and Contents I. Confidential correspondence files, 200–300 series. 1960–1966. (1955–1967). II. Secret correspondence files, 300–400 series. 1967–1971. (1967–1974). III. Confidential correspondence files, 300–400 series. 1967–1971. (1967–1974). IV. Papers relating to Government House Meetings, 1966–1968. V. Restricted correspondence files, 300–400 series. 1967–1971. (1967–1972). VI. Secret correspondence files, 200–300 series. 1960–1966. (1958–1968). VII. Confidential correspondence files, single number...

Scope and Contents

Volumes of Despatches, Letters, Circulars, Telegrams, and Schedules of Correspondence and Telegrams.

Scope and Contents

I. Indexes and lists of secret and confidential minute papers. II. Secret and confidential minute pPapers of the Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. 1909 – 1943.

Scope and Contents

Files from 2/1875 to 91/1878.

Scope and Contents

Files 1/1879 to 113/1879.