Maurice M. Witts - Diary, 1911 Jan. 1-Aug. 15

PMB 8

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau [19--]

440428

Microfilm : PMB 8

ne microfilm reel 35 mm

Maurice M. Witts, an Australian who fought in the Boer War, went to the New Hebrides as a settler in 1904 after a brief sojourn in Fiji. With two cousins, Theo and Arthur Thomas, he planted coconuts in the Hog Harbour area of Espiritu Santo. He returned to Australia about 1913 and lived in the Moss Vale district of New South Wales until his death in 1966 aged 89

Besides giving a day-by-day account of the life of a copra planter, the diary records Witts' efforts, as a temporary commandant of police, to capture a New Hebridean outlaw named Thingaru who had been terrorising parts of Espiritu Santo

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 8
Available for reference
Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia B 890
Microfilm copy of original in private ownership