Notes and research materials on the history of Rabaul and the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 1786-1975 [microform]. [1786-1975]

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Notes and research materials on the history of Rabaul and the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 1786-1975 [microform]. [1786-1975]

NT/1-14. Methodist Mission papers: minutes and reports of New Britain District synods, 1896-1941, including study papers presented to the 1932 Synod. NT/15-24. United Church papers: minutes of the New Guinea Islands Regional Synod of the United Church of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, 1969, 1971-1975, 1979-1982. NT/25-40. Early contacts and settlements: including extracts from New Bedford whalers' logs notes from the memoirs of Eduoard Hernsheim. NT/41-78. German New Guinea: official reports and other documents. Chinese settlers (Cahill, Wu). NT/79-88. World War I. The expropriation of German properties, including Pat Hopper's thesis, "Kicking out the Hun". NT/89-99. The Australian Mandated Territory, between World Wars I and II. NT/100-119. Extracts from Albert Hahl, "Governor in New Guinea". More notes from the between wars period. Papua New Guinea history sources list. File of Rabaul news, post-World War II. NT/120-129. Geological and volcanic history, especially the 1937 and 1941-1943 eruptions. NT/130-142. Post-World War II material. NT/143-172. Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul. Problems over land and Multi-Racial Council. NT/173-200. A little more pre-World War I material. Material from the between wars period. World War II, including extracts from files in the Australian War Memorial on defence arrangements in Rabaul, 1939-1941, the Japanese invasion in January 1942, personal memoirs and press cuttings, files of personal interviews and memoirs. NT/201-225. Chronology of prisoners' movements. NT/226-278. Methodist and United Church papers: New Britain District Meeting minutes, 1878, 1880-1895. Notes from the Methodist Overseas Mission Board, minutes, 1874-1912 and 1913-1930, and from the Methodist Overseas Mission Executive Committee and Finance and Advisory Committee, 1898-1909.

13 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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Threlfall, N. A. (Neville A.)

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Neville Threlfall was born in Subiaco, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, on 4 October 1930, and grew up on farms in Western Australia's wheatbelt. Following education by correspondence and at a one-teacher school, then at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1951. He served at Gosnells, Gnowangerup, Mount Barker, Moora and the North Midlands, before going as a missionary to Papua New Guinea in 1961, accompanied by his...