PACIFIC MANUSCRIPTS BUREAU Room 4201 Coombs Building Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia Telephone: (612) 6125 2521 Fax: (612) 6125 0198 E-mail: pambu@anu.edu.au http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/ REEL LIST. PMB 1257 GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY, Ellice Islands District (Tuvalu), Island Council, Courts and Lands Commission records: Funafuti and Nanumea Islands, including general Ellice Islands Lands Commission records, 1896-1973, Western Pacific Archives TUV 4(1), TUV 4(3) & TUV 7/II-IV. Reels 1-11. (Available for reference. Not to be reproduced without written permission of the Tuvalu National Library and Archives.) Reel Nos. Reel 1 List No. Series No. Item or File No. Description Nanumea Island Council. Unnumbered Land correspondence files and Land Court Minute Books. TUV4(3)IV Item 1 Pepa a te Malo No.15 (official Papers No.15) (Contains part of index of Lands Register; estate papers; pages from an Island Land Court Minute Book; rough notes by Land Court Official; Wills; etc.) TUV4(3)IV Item 2 Fono Manafa Namumea Fakatounga. (Instructions to Land Court, Nanumea, by Mr D.G. Kennedy, Lands Commissioner, Ellice Islands, on 15 Dec, to members and assessors of Nanumea Lands Commission.) TUV4(3)IV Item 3 Nanumea Notes of Mr D.G. Kennedy. (Also contains original instructions from Land Court issued 15 Dec. Date range TUV4(3)IV Item 4 Summonses to Land Court and related correspondence. Nanumea. 1958- TUV4(3)IV Item 5 Summonses to Land Court and related correspondence. Nanumea. - 1962 TUV4(3)IV Item 6 Genealogical Notes, D.G. Kennedy. 1937 Reel 2 TUV4(3)IV Item 7 Land Note. Court Scrap Book. (Also contains 1947 cricket scores.) TUV4(3)IV Item 8 Te Fono Manafa o te Fenua i Nanumea. Nanumea Land Court Minute Book. 184pp. 1957 TUV4(3)IV Item 9 Te Fono Manafa o te Fenua i Nanumea. Nanumea Land Court Minute Book. 181pp. 1957- Nanumea Island Council. Registers, 1935-. TUV4(3)V Item 1 Inward and outward correspondence register. (Also contains schedule of wills and complaints files with Native Court and Lands Court.) TUV4(3)V Item 2 Register of Land and Owners of Garden Pits. Loose leaf. 1947- c.1935 TUV4(3)V Item 3 Register of Lands. Loose leaf. c.1935 TUV4(3)V Item 4 Fakasolonga o Manafa i Nanumaea. Land List c.1946 Nanumea. Ts., loose leaf.
TUV4(3)V Item 5 Tusi Manafa No.2. Register of Land Owners. 1950 Reel 3 TUV4(3)V Item 6 Register of Mataniu. (Land Owning Units.) 2 1937 books. TUV4(3)V Item 7 Copra tax lists and related data. 1937- TUV4(3)V Item 8 Copra tax lists and related data. 1938-1942 TUV4(3)V Item 9 Copra tax lists and related data. 1941- Nanumea Island Council. Wills, Agreements and Contracts, 1899-1968. TUV4(3)VI Item 1 Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 1. (Wills.) 1899-1933 TUV4(3)VI Item 2 Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 2. (Wills.) 1933- TUV4(3)VI Item 3 Nanumea Tusi Tongi, Book 3. (Wills.) - 1947, Jan- Mar 1968 TUV4(3)VI Item 4 Feagaiga. (Agreements.) Jan - Oct Nanumea Island Council. Station Diaries, 1952. TUV4(3)VII Item 1 Station Diary Dec Sep 1951 TUV4(3)VII Item 2 Station Diary Oct Mar 1952 Western Pacific Archives. List TUV4(3)/Series I- X: Catalogue of Ellice Islands District, Nanumea Island Council correspondence. Nanumea Island Council. Correspondence files, 1947-1967. TUV4(3)I File No.F.1 Untitled correspondence file. On laws and regulations. TUV4(3)I File Tusi ki Manafa te Komesina. (Letters from the No.F.1.7(a) Commissioner concerning lands.) TUV4(3)I File No.F.2 Tusi ki Manafa mai Nanumanga. (Letters from TUV4(3)I File No.F.Napa 2 1957-1950- Nanumanga concerning Lands.) Tino o te Maalo. (Government Officials.) - 1967 TUV4(3)I File No.F.2 Faifainga o Fono a te Malo. (Island Court.) TUV4(3)I File No.F.2.7(e) Tulafono o Manafa Nanumea. (Land Code for Nanumea.) 1951 TUV4(3)I File No.F.3 Faifainga a te Fono Pule.. TUV4(3)I File No.F.3.7(i) Tusi e uinga ki Manafa mai Niutao. (Letters fro Niutao concerning land matters.) 1950-2
TUV4(3)I File Napa F.4 Reel 4 TUV4(3)I File No.F.4.7(a) TUV4(3)I File No.F.5.7(a) Lafonga Popo. (Land Tax copra.) - 1964 Tusi ki Manafa mo toenga o Febua. (Letters from 1947- other Islands concerning land matters.) Tusi ki Manafa mai Nanumea ki nisi Fenua. - (Letters from Nanumea to other Islands concerning 1967 land matters.) 1958- customs.) Manafa mo Faifainga. (Land tenure and customs.) - 1964 Mea Valevale. (Miscellaneous.) 1953- TUV4(3)I File No.F.7 Manafa mo Faifainga. (Land tenure and Island TUV4(3)I File Napa F.7 TUV4(3)I File No.F.8 Vol.2 TUV4(3)I File No.F.8 Mea Valevale. (Miscellaneous.) Typewritten list of lands and landowners. 3 1954 c.1949 TUV4(3)II Item No.17 Papers lying loose in Court Sentences Register. (One paper is the original agreement for the Government Station.) Nanumea Island Council. Island Council and Native Court Minutes and Registers, 1909-. TUV4(3)II Item No.2 Complaints for hearing by Native and Land Courts. 1938-1949 TUV4(3)II Item No.3 Civil and Criminal Court Minute Book. 1927-1909- 1916 Nanumea Island Council Minutes, - TUV4(3)III Item No.1 Island Council Minute Book. - 1955 Reel 5 TUV4(3)III Item No.2 Island Council Minute Book. 1955- TUV4(3)VIII Item 9 Stores, war damage compensation and Island Council minutes scrapbook. Reel 6 TUV4(3)VIII Item 10 Prison tools, communal workers and tasks. TUV4(3)VIII Item 11 War damage compensation and Island Council minutes scrapbook. Nanumea Island Council. Miscellaneous Items, 1934-1952. TUV4(3)VIII Item 1 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1934 TUV4(3)VIII Item 2 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1943-1944 TUV4(3)VIII Item 3 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. Lafonga. (Feasts.) 1944- TUV4(3)VIII Item 4 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. Manafafaite pulapula toki. (Replanting.) 1947- TUV4(3)VIII Item 5 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1950 TUV4(3)VIII Item 6 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1950 TUV4(3)VIII Item 7 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1951 TUV4(3)VIII Item 8 Island Council Minutes Scrapbook. 1951-1952 1939-1947 1942-1949
Funafuti Island Council. Correspondence files, -1964. TUV4(1)I File No.F.2 Tino o te Malo o te Fenua. (Island Government Personnel.) Note Encl. No.25 is a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Island Land Court by the LMS Pastor, 6 Dec 1956, about mission land. TUV4(1)I File No.F.2 Kakasolonga o Tangi Tausi I konei a pepa ko se toe faka-aonga. (Schedule of complaints about lands. Papers no longer required.) TUV4(1)I File No. Ngaluenga Faka-te-Malo. (Miscellaneous Works, F.3 (Vol.II) etc.) TUV4(1)I File Ngaluenga Faka-te-Malo Tusi mo Uaelesi mai te No.F.3/2 Komisina. (Miscellaneous works, etc.) TUV4(1)I File No.F.7 Manafa mo tu Mote Masani ate Fenua. (Land and Customs.) TUV4(1)I File No. Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.) ff.1- F.8 (Vol.I) 103. TUV4(1)I File No.F.8 Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.) ff.101- (Vol.II) Reel 7 TUV4(1)I File No.F.8 (Vol.III) 243. Mea Valevale. (Nisi Mea.) (Miscellaneous.). ff.244-582. TUV4(3)VIII Item 12 Nanumea Census Scrapbook. 1951 TUV4(3)VIII Item 13 Instructions for submission of claims for War Damage compensation. - 1962 - - - 1963-1954 1953-1957 1954-1964 (Instructions for Island Scribes.) TUV4(1)II Item No.8 Te Pepa o Fakatonunga mo te Faifainga ki Tangata talue o te Malo. (Instructions to Government Officials.) TUV4(1)II Item No.9 Te Pepa tenei o Fakatonunga e uinga mo Tamalike e Fakamasino i Fono. (Juvenile Court Procedure.) Funafuti Island Council. Un-numbered Files. TUV4(1)II Item No.1 Administrative Circulars.. 1932- TUV4(1)II Item No.2 General Correspondence, Vol.1. ff.1-177. 1951- TUV4(1)II Item No.3 General Correspondence, Vol.2. ff.1-122. 1951-1962 TUV4(1)II Item No.4 General Correspondence, Vol.3. ff.6-158. 1953- TUV4(1)II Item No.5 Pepa Fakamaoninga o Tamapuke. (3 adoptions.) 1958- TUV4(1)II Item No.6 Te Pepa mo Tulafono a te Malo. (Island c.1932 Regulations.) TUV4(1)II Item No.7 Te Pepa tenei o Kakatonunga e uinga mo Faiautusi. 1932-1950 1933-1938 1934-1938 Funafuti Island Council. Minute books. TUV4(1)IV Item No.1 Minute Book. - 1956 4
TUV4(1)IV Item No.3 Various papers found loose in Island Council minute book. TUV4(1)IV Item No.2 Minute Book. To 2 Jun. 1956- Reel 8 TUV4(1)IV Item No.2 Minute Book. From 2 Jun. 1956-1956- Funafuti Island Council. Court Minute Book. TUV4(1)V Item No.1 Funafuti Court Minute Book. 1923-1932 Funafuti Lands Commission and Land Court Minutes. 1957. TUV4(1)VI Item No.1 Lands Commission Minute Book. 8 Nov -8 Mar 1949 TUV4(1)VI Item No.2 Land Court Minute Book (and Adoptions). - 1957 Funafuti Island Council. Registers and Copies of Wills. TUV4(1)VII Item No.1 Will of Seluia. 1949 TUV4(1)VII Item No.2 Tusi Fakamau Tomgia (Mavaenga) a te Fono Funafuti. (Register of Wills.) 1967-1973 Funafuti Island Council. Registers. TUV4(1)VIII Item No.1 Genealogical Record. Copied for Funafuti. Collected on Vaitupu. Believed to have been brought to Funafuti by D. G. Kennedy, 1932. [See also EAP digital images of this document.] TUV4(1)VIII Item No.2 Coconut Tree Planting Campaign. 1949 TUV4(1)VIII Item No.3 Register of Funafuti Pulaka and Banana Pits. c. 1949 TUV4(1)VIII Item No.4 Lists of Landowners and Lands, and Registration of Coconut Trees. c.1952-1958 TUV4(1)VIII Item No.5 Copra Tax Lists. 1952 and Reel 9 TUV4(1)VIII Item No.6 Fakasolaga o Manafa i Funafuti. (Funafuti Land n.d. List). TUV4(1)VIII Item No.7 Land Tax Receipt Register, ff.1-173. - TUV4(1)VIII Item No.8 Land Tax Receipt Register. 1962-1967 Reel 10 TUV4(1)IX TUV4(1)IX Item Nos.1-37 Item Nos.38-55 Lands Commission, Ellice Islands, Funafuti. Records of Lands of Individual Land Owners, including gardens. Also includes transcripts and some genealogies. To item No.37. Records of Lands of Individual Land Owners, including gardens, continued from Reel 9. c.1955 c.1955 Lands Commission. Ellice Islands. Funafuti. 5
TUV4(1)X Item No.1 Administrative Circulars on Lands Court Procedures. 1932 1935 TUV4(1)X Item No.2 Draft Lands Code for Funafuti Island. TUV4(1)X Item No.3 Various Notes: (a) Fakatonunga e fakasino ki te faitanga o tusi Manafa (b) Tulafono mo te Fono Manafa (c) Te Tulafono Faka-te-Fenua TUV4(1)X Item No.4 Fono Manafa Tausi i konei Pepa Kami. Land Court Summonses. 1958 Lands Commission, Funafuti, Ellice Islands. TUV4(1)XI Item No.1 Lands Commission Findings. Kennedy s 1935 Settlement. Record of findings of the final court. Funafuti. Form F. Original Ms., and transcript, Ts. TUV4(1)XI Item No.2 Lands Commission Findings. Kennedy s Settlement. Record of findings of the Final Court. Funafuti. Form F. Transcript, typescript only. Original badly fragmented and water damaged. TUV4(1)XI Item No.3 (a) Tusi Togi a Tino i Funafuti (Wills.). Original and transcript, Ts. (b) Tusi Tagi a Tino i Funafuti (Wills.). Original and transcript, Ts. 1935 1935-1896- 1937-1988 Ellice Islands (Tuvalu) Lands Commission. Notes and Correspondence, c.. TUV7/II Item No.1 MP No.71 Lands (Native Disputes.) 1933-1940 TUV7/II Item No.2 F.15. Taxation. TUV7/II Item No.3 Miscellaneous Notes. TUV7/II Item Nos. 4 Miscellaneous Notes. Not microfilmed. & 5 TUV7/II Item No.6 Rough notebook of D.G. Kennedy. TUV7/II Item No.7 Tour diary of D.G. Kennedy. Reel 11 Ellice Islands Land Commission. Regulations and Instructions. TUV7/III Item No.1 Land Code for Ellice Islands (in Tuvaluan). TUV7/III Item No.2 Fakatonung ki Malo o Fenua i te atu Tuvalu. Funafuti. TUV7/III Item No.3 Tulafono mo Fenua i te atu Elise. (Laws of the Ellice Islands.) Ellice Islands Land Commission. Land Lists and Registers. TUV7/IV Item Nos.1 & 2 List of Land Claims: Funafuti, Nukufetau, Nanumea, Vaitupu, Nuitao. [Badly damaged.] TUV7/IV Item No.3 Register of Land Claims. All Islands. Form B. TUV7/IV Item No.4 Register of Land Claims. All Islands. Form B. TUV7/IV Item No.5 Revision of Land Registers. Nanumea. Form A 6 1952 1941
TUV7/IV Item No.6 Pepa e Fakaonga mo Manafa: Nanumea. Form A. TUV7/IV Item No.7 Registration of Coconuts, etc. Nanumea. Form F. TUV7/IV Item No.8 Revision of Lands Registers. Funafuti. Form A. TUV7/IV Item No.9 Revision of Babai Pits. Funafuti. Forms B and E. TUV7/IV Item No.10 Registration of Coconuts, etc. Funafuti. Form F. * * * 7