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RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDIES 556/1963

ANNUAL REPGlT TO THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1962

DEPARTMENT OF PACIFIC HISTORY

Staff

Professor

Senior Fellows

Fellow

Senior Research Fellow

Research Fellows

Departmental Assistant

J. w. Davidson, M.A., Ph.D.

H. E. Maude, O.B.E., M.A. F. J. West, B.A., Ph.D.

Emily Sadka, B.A., Ph.D.

P. w. van der Veur, M.A., Ph.D.

H. Feith, M.A., Ph.D. (till 3 June 1962) R. G. Crocombe? B.A., Ph.D. (January and February, 1962). w. N. Gunson, M.A., Ph.D. (from 21 May, 1962). A. M. Healy, B.A., Ph.D. (from 5 April, 1962).

Robin Rawson, B.A. (to July, 1962).

There were a number of changes in the Department during the year. Dr. F. J. West, formerly a Senior Research Fellow, was appointed Senior Fellow, and Dr. E. Sadka, formerly a Research Fellow, was appointed Fellow. Dr. R. G. Crocombe, formerly a scholar, remained in the Department for two months as Research Fellow before joining the New Guinea Research Unit (in the School of Pacific Studies) and Dr. A. M. Healy and Dr. W. N. Gunson joined the Department as Research Fellows. A Research Fellow, Dr. H. Feith, left the Department to take up a post as lecturer in Politics in Monash University. Mr. H. G. Miller, Librarian of the Victoria University of Wellington, was attached to the Department as Visiting Fellow during October and November, 1962. Miss Robin Rawson, a Departmental Assistant, resigned her post and left the Department in July.

Student and Training Activities

Ten stude~ts for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy were attached to the Department during the year. Mr. A. M. Healy submitted his thesis on "Native Administration and Local Goverrunent in Papua, 1880-1960", and was re­commended for the degree. Mr. c. Jack-Hinton submitted his thesis, "The Discovery, Rediscovery and Exploration of the so:omon Is lands, 1568-185011 i this is still being examined. · Mr. R. G. Crocombe, Mr. K. Penny and Mrs. Margriet Roe, who submitted their theses in 1961, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Mr. H. D. Chiang returned from the field in March and is now writing his thesis on the development of Straits Settlements foreign trade, 1870-1914; Mr. w. R. Roff is writing his thesis on the growth of Malay nationalism in the twentieth century, and Mr. I. J. Fairbairn is completing his thesis on the national income of Western Samoa, 1947-1958.

Two scholars were engaged on work in the field. Mr. C. H. Wake was in Malaya during the year to do the research for his thesis on the foundation of modern government in Johore, under the supervision of Dr. Sadka, and Mr. D. A. Scarr left for New Zealand and Fiji in April to do the research for his thesis on the Royal Navy and the Western Pacific High Commission, 1877-1913, under the supervision of Professor Davidson.

Three students for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy joined the Department during the year. Mr. David Routledge came in September to begin research on the problems of government in Fiji, 1865-1874f under the supervision of Dr. West. Mr. C. L. M. Penders is working on goverrunent educational policy in Indonesia, 1927-1942, under the supervision of Dr. van der Veur and

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Dr. A. H. Johns of the School of General Studies, Mr. A. D. Ward took up his scholarship early in the year, but left again in August to take up a teaching post in Auckland, New Zealand. Mr. Peter France, an administrative officer of the Government of Fiji, was awarded a scholarship to write a thesis on land tenure in Fiji and will take up his scholarship next year on leave from the Fiji Government. Mr. N, Rutherford was awarded a scholarship, which he will take up in January, 1963, to work in the field of New Guinea history.

Two students for the degree of Master of Arts from the School of General Studies were attached to the Department during the year. Mr. T. Pathmanathan began research into Malaya's foreign policy in South East Asia, under Dr. Sadka and Dr. Mod 0 lski of the Department of International Relations, but was recalled to Malaya later in the year and forced to terminate his course. Mr. s. Latukefu began research on the relations of Church and State in Tonga, 1840-1875, under the supervision of Dr, Gunson.

Research Programme

The Department of Pacific History is concerned withihe study of historical situations involving contact between Western and non4~estern cultures, with a particular emphasis on contacts of a "colonial" type in which Europeans have occupied positions of political and economic dominance, This field of research presents one particularly important problem of method. The major part of the documentary evidence consists of records made by Europeans and framed in terms of Western thought. The Department is engaged in devising and testing means to supplement the study of such documentary material in order to reach a fuller understanding of the socia l processes involved than is possible by con­ventional historical technique alone . This work makes its relations with other branches of the social sciences as close as those with other fields of history.

Since all historical research involves the study of specific situations, the geographical limitation imposed on the Department in its title -Pacific History - does not restrict the breadth of its theoretical preoccupations. On the contrary, it gives an added coherence and compactness to the body of factual knowledge which is subjected to theoretically-directed analysis. The danger of an undesirable narrowing of perception is guarded against both by the variety of situations available for study within the Pacific area and by the previous experience in other fields possessed by all members of the Department.

Professor Davidson continued writing his book on the transition to independence in Wes tern Samoa.

Mr. Maude was on sabbatical leave in England and the United States, collecting material for his history of Pacific tr ade.

Dr. West substant ially completed his book on the extension of government control in the central highlands of Papua-New Guinea and continued work on his study of the administration of Sir Hubert Murray in Papua. He also prepared a paper on comparative local government in Tahiti and American Samoa for the Journal of Local Administration Overseas (Department of Technical Co-Operation, Colonial Office~.

Dr. van der Veur visited West New Guinea between January and June, 1962 and continued his work on the political development of the territory.

Dr. Feith returned early in the year from a field trip to Indonesia and before he left the Department he completed a chapter on the dynamics of guided democracy in Indonesia for the Yale University Press Handbook to Indonesia. He began a revision of his chapter "Indonesia" in Governments and Politics of South East Asia (ed. G, Kahin), and began preparing a book of readings in Indonesian socia l thought.

Dr. Sadka returned from a field trip to Malaya in April and con­tinued work on her book on government in the Malay States. She contributed

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a chapter on Colonial policy in Malaya to a book of commemorative essays addressed to Sir Richard Winstedt and completed a chapter on "Malaysia" for a book on Malayan political and economic development.

Dr. Gunson was engaged in preparing for publication his Doctor of Philosophy thesis on missianary activity in the Pacific, in preparing other missionary studies, and in publishing the Tahitian letters of King Pomare II.

Dr. Healy, with the assistance of the Charles and Bunty Banks Fund, was engaged on a history of the Bulolo (New Guinea) goldfields and visited Bulolo in October and November to do research on the post-war development of the area.

Dr. Crocornbe spent his time as Research Fellow in revising his thesis for publication, and in writing, jointly with his wife, a book on the early London Missionary Society pastor, Ta'unga. It is now ready for publication.

Wcr. Miller gave three seminars in November on the relations between Maoris and settlers in New Zealand from the early days of white settlement up to the conclusion of the Maori wars.

Other Activities

Several members of the Department attended conferences and gave lectures outside the University during the year. Professor Davidson attended the Western Samoan independence celebrations in JanuaryJ he also attended the South Pacific conference in American Samoa in July and August as observer for the University. Dr. West read a paper on Sir Hubert Murray at the A.N.Z.A.A.S. Conference in Sydney in August; he also gave a public lecture on the political development of Papua-New Guinea at the Australian National University, and two seminars on New Guinea to the Departments of History, Political Science and Economics at Adelaide University. Dr. Feith read a paper "Symbols, Ritual and Ideology in Indonesian Politics" at the annual conference of the Australian Political Studies Association in August 1962. Dr. van der Veur lectured on New Guinea to the Australian Institute of International Relations (Melbourne Branch) to the New Guinea Society, Canberra, and at Monash University.

The acquisition of material from Malaya, Indonesia and the Pacific on behalf of the Departmental Library, the University Library and the National Library, continues to be an important activity of the Department. Dr. Feith presented to the University Library a collection of books and other material which he had bought in Indonesia during his recent field trip. Dr. Gunson arranged for the purchase by the National Library of the 19th century journals of the Platt-Brodien family of Raiatea, and Dr. Healy arranged for the despatch to Canberra of all the pre-war records and some of the post-war records of the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. Ltd., to be held here for the duration of his research.

QWCOMBE, R • J.

ffi CCOMBE , R • G. (with ffiCCOMB~, M. T.) $6

DAVIDSON, J. W.

FEITH, H.

Publications

"Development and Regression in New Zealand's Island Territories," (Pacific Viewpoint), III, ii, (September, 1962), 17-32.

"Land Tenure in the Cook Islands", Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 85 (31 December 1961), 55-60.

"Early Polynesian Authors - The Example of Ta'unga," H·sto · al Stud"es - Austral·an an New Zea and, X, xxxvii, (November 1961 , 92-3.

"The Independent State of Western Samoa," Australia's Neighbours, August-September, 1962.

The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, Cornell University Press, 1962, x + 640.

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GUNSON, W. N.

HEALY, A. M.

HEALY, A. M. (with VERE-HJDGE, E. R.) ~

JACK-HINTON, C.

Ml\UDE, H. E. (with CROCOMBE, M. T.)

ROFF, W. R •

SADKA, E.

VAN DER VEUR, P. W.

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"An Account of the Mamaia or Visionary Heresy of Tahiti, 1826-1841, 11 Journal of the Polynesian Society, LXXI, ii (June 1962), 209-243.

"Native Local Government in New Guineat Its Functions and Problems," Journal of African Administration, XIII, iii, (1961), 165-174.

"Melanesian Contrasts," Ccrona, XIII, viii (1961), 285-288.

"New Guinea - Fast or Slow? (1) Some Peoples of Papua~" Journal of the Polvnesian Society, LXX, iv, (1961) 485-491.

"The Foot Report and East New Guinea, 11 The Australian Quarterly, xxxrv, iii, (1962) 11-22.

"New Guinea under White Rule, 11 eh. in New Guinea. A series of lectures given in September, 1961, to the N.S W Branc of the Australian Institute of Inter­national Affairs, Sydney, Anglican Press, 1962) 10-30.

The Map Approach to African History, Second Ediiion, London, University Tutorial Press, 1962 (4) + 64.

"The Importance of Personal Acquaintance in the Identification of Island Discoveries," Journal of the Polynesian Society, LXX, ii, (June 1961) 233-239.

"Personal Acquaintance in the Identification of Island Discoveries," Journal of the Polynesian Society, LXXI, i, (March 1962) 124-126.

"The Antipodean Quest," Australian Journal of Science, XXV, iii, (September 1962) 84-85.

·~arotongan Sandalwood . The Visit of Goodenough to Rarotonga in 1814. An Ethnohistorica 1 Reconstruction," Journal of the Polyoesian Society, LXXI, i, (March 1962) 32-56.

"Kaum Muda - Ka um Tua s Innovation and Reaction Amongst the Malays , 1900-1941," in Papers on Malayan History. Papers submitted to the First International Conference of South-East Asian Historians, Singapore, January 1961 (ed. K. G. Tregonning, Singapore, 1962), 162-192.

"Malay Newspapers," in Malaysian Historical Sources, (ed. K. G, Tregonning, University of Singapore, 1962) 95-97.

"The State Councils in Perak and Selangor, 1877-1895,11

in Papers on Malaysian History. Papers submitted to the First International Conference of S1uth-East Asian Historians, Singapore, January 1961, (ed. K. G. Tregonning, Singapore, 1962), 89-119.

"Singapore and the Federation; Problems of Merger,'' Asian Survey, I, ii, (1962) 17-25 ..

"West Irian• a New Era," Asian Survey, II, viii, (1962) 1-8.

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VAN DER VEUR, P. W.

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WEST, F. J.

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"West New Guinea," The British Survev, Main Series N.s. No. 165 (December 1962) 1-17.

"A Note on the Pre-1915 Records (Johore Archives)" in Malaysian Histgrical Sources, (ed. K. G. Tregonning, University of Singapore, 1962), 103-104.

"George Clarke and the Government of the Maoris, 1840-45," Historical Studies, X, xxxix, (November, 1962), 339-356.

Political Advancement in the South Pacific, A Com­paratiye Study of Colonial Practice in Fiji. Tahiti and American Samoa, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1961. xii + 188.

Hubert Murray, Oxford University Press (Great Australians Series), 1962. 30 PP•

"The Study of Colonial History," Journal of South East Asian Historv, II, iii, 70-82.

"Sir Hubert Murray1 the Man and His Policy," Australian Territories, I, vi, 4-16.

"Towards a Biography of Sir Hubert Murray, Lt. Governor of Papua 1908-1940, 11 Pacific Historical Review, XXXI, ii, 151-168.

"The Political Development of Papua-New Guinea," eh.III in The Independence of Papua-New Guinea. What are the Pre-requisites? Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1962, 44-59.

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