Methodist Overseas Mission records

MLMSS 11596/Boxes 1-32
MLMSS 11596/Boxes 33X-34X

sub-fonds

1898-1986, predominant 1970-1977

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Cartographic Materials

9605404

5.86 metres of textual material (32 boxes, 2 outsize boxes) includes photographs

Comprises administrative papers of various Methodist organisations in the Australasian territory, predominantly in the Pacific region and Northern Australia. Papers include but not limited to correspondence, minutes, reports

Box 1
Records of The Uniting Church in Australia Commission For World Mission; correspondence 1970-1977 relating to Fiji

Box 2
Correspondence 1973-1976 relating to Fiji including papers relating to the Methodist Consultative Council of the Pacific 1975-1976

Box 3
Correspondence 1970-1977 Tonga including negotiations with the Australian Government; Free Wesleyan Church General correspondence 1974-1977; Hango Agricultural College material

Box 4
Correspondence 1970-1977, papers relating to staffing matters; Methodist Church of Samoa General correspondence 1974-1977

Box 5
Correspondence 1970-1973, minutes 1968-72 relating to Papua New Guinea 1970-1973 including New Guinea Islands correspondence 1970

Box 6
New Guinea Islands correspondence 1971-1973, Solomon Islands correspondence 1968-1973, Highlands correspondence 1970-1973; Highlands minutes 1968-1973; Papuan Islands correspondence 1970-1971

Box 7
Papuan Islands correspondence 1972-1973; United Church in PNG and Solomon Islands General correspondence 1974-1977; Rarongo Theological College 1974-1977; Regional correspondence

Box 8
Indonesia general correspondence 1967-1974; SE Asia general correspondence including Christian Conference of Asia 1974-1977; New Zealand general correspondence, minutes 1968-1977

Box 9
India General correspondence 1970-1973; Church of North India 1969-1972; Azamgarh Hospital, Lucknow Diocese 1974-1977

Box 10
United Church in North Australia correspondence 1972 – 1973. Includes meeting minutes, reports, and staff training booklet. Report from the select committee on grievances of Yirrkala Aborigines, Arnhem Land reserve 1963

Box 11
United Church in North Australia and Methodist Church of Australasia correspondence 1969 – 1973 and documents. Includes Northern Territory of Australia ordinance between Commonwealth of Australia and Nabaclo Pty. Limited 1968

Box 12
United Church of North Australia correspondence relating to meetings 1974-1975. Darwin Planning Guidelines 1975, comments on future of Shepherdson College 1964, memorandum and articles of Association of Aboriginal and Islanders Development Fund 1975. Committee minutes, conference papers and reports 1973-1977

Box 13
Nungalinya College material 1973 – 1977. General correspondence, minutes, and reports regarding staff matters 1973-1977

Box 14
Various correspondence, United Church in North Australia 1972-1977, Methodist Church of Australasia 1974-1977, Methodist Missionary Society U.K. 1974-1977, Pacific Islands Council 1976-1977, Theological Education Fund 1973-1977, World Council of Churches 1974-1977, World Student Christian Federation 1974-1977. Australian Council of Churches correspondence and pamphlet 1973-1977, General Conference Board of Finance reports and correspondence 1968-1977, IDOC International correspondence, pamphlets and newsletter 1974-1977, general U.S. correspondence 1974-1977, World Methodist Council correspondence 1973-1976 and the Encyclopedia of World Methodism 1974

Box 15
Correspondence and documents relating to Australian Presbyterian Board of Mission 1968-1973, Congregational Council for World Mission 1968-1973, Australian Council of Churches 1970-1973, United Methodist Church USA 1970-1973, World Council of Churches 1967-1973, Methodist Missionary Society U.K. 1970-1973, and Theological Education Fund 1965-1972

Box 16
Correspondence relating to several Australian states including Queensland 1969-1977, Victoria 1970-1973, New South Wales 1976-1976, and South Australia 1974-1977. Includes photographs

Box 17
Correspondence relating to Australia 1970-1977 and several states including Tasmania 1974-1977, Victoria 1975-1977, and Western Australia 1974-1977. Women's Auxiliary of Overseas Missions correspondence and documents 1968-1977. Includes pamphlet ‘Tasmanian Women’s Auxiliary of the Methodist Foreign Missionary Society of Australia’ 1917

Boxes 18 and 19
Mogumber Methodist Training Centre Council correspondence, minutes and reports 1960-1977. Includes personal letter to Constable Timis, as well as newspaper clippings, correspondence and documents regarding Indigenous Australian customs, figures, people. Also includes ‘the Future of Aboriginal missions’ 1967

Boxes 20
Uniting Church in Australia correspondence and reports 1974-1976, Methodist Overseas Missions correspondence relating to New South Wales and Victoria 1974-1975. Includes map ‘Methodist missionary society of Australasia. Papua New Guinea district’. Also includes 'Sister Minnie (Billing) Life and Work in Papua' 1930

Box 21
Correspondence and documents pertaining to information regarding legacies 1970-1971 and Methodist Overseas Mission 1958, 1970-1980. Includes book 'The Proclamation of the Gospel in Timor' by Reverend Gordon Dicker. Also includes photographs from Fiji, Tonga, and Australasia with names and descriptions

Box 22
General correspondence and medical reports 1975-1977. Medical reports and correspondence relating to Mogumber 1952-1968, India 1952-1966, and Fiji 1957-1971. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 23
Medical reports relating to North Australia missions 1954-1971. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 24
General medical reports 1970-1974, as well as medical reports relating to India 1958-1969 and Mogumber 1963-1969. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 25
Personnel files containing correspondence, medical records and other documents. Filed by name in alphabetical order. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 26
Correspondence and other documents relating to enquiries, applications and references 1969-1973. Personnel files containing correspondence, medical records, newspaper clippings and other documents. Filed in by name in alphabetical order. Includes photographs. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 27
The Methodist church of Australasia board minutes and committee minutes 1971-1973. Also includes The Methodist church of Australasia mission district minutes, estimates, accounts, circuit reports, home auxiliary, and balance reports 1973

Box 28
The Methodist church of Australasia estimates, accounts, circuit reports and home auxiliary balance sheets 1972

Box 29
Correspondence from overseas personnel 1972-1975. Methodist women’s foreign mission auxiliary interstate convention minutes 1916-1932 as well as receipts and payment statements 1974-1977. Includes the Constitution of the women’s auxiliary of the department of Methodist overseas missions of Australasia

Box 30
Various financial records including a ledger 1971-1973, expenditure 1972-1973, legacies 1972-1977, and monthly financial statements 1969-1975. NSW W.A.O.M. Women's Auxiliary to Methodist Overseas Missions correspondence, documents, and records relating to invested funds 1972-1977, auditors reports 1959-1975, and receipts and payments 1977

Box 31
Medical records and correspondence relating to North Australia 1957-1971 and Papua New Guinea 1952-1966. Filed by name in alphabetical order. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 32
Medical records and correspondence regarding Tonga, Fiji, Samoa 1958-1968 and Papua New Guinea 1952-1968. Filed by name in alphabetical order. (Restricted - medical records)

Box 33X
Retiring fund records for Fiji, India, Mogumber, North Australia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tonga 1919 – 1956

Box 34X
Accounts book of United Methodist Church relating to various missions across Pacific Islands, Australasia, and India

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Detailed contents listing available in box 1 for original boxes 1-15 (now 1-32) [MH 21/06/2022]