Group Title : Subject File
Series Title : New Hebrides Condominium - Anglo French Rivalry
Date(s) : 1902 to 1929
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Item Description : This
file contains correspondence and reports concerning Anglo-French rivalry
in the New Hebrides condominium.
Note - this file also contains an account of
a land dispute on Epi, 1900 (Synod of Otago and Southland Missions Committee).
Major Topics Include : Slave
Trading in the New Hebrides" (1902); appointment of New Hebrides Land Commission
(1904); Commander WH D'oyly's address on the "Mixed Naval Commission" and
the sale of arms, ammunition and liquor by Europeans to natives (1907);
dispute between the resident commissioner Capt. Rason and Capt. Bentinck
of "HMS Prometheus" with Rev. P. Milne (snr.) on Nguna (1907); reports
of land claims and cruelty prepared by Rev. JG Paton (1901); "The New Hebrides
Missionaries and the Deputy - French Commissioners Call for a Holy War"
by Rev. TE Riddle; "The New Hebrides Problem" (the unsatisfactory nature
of dual British and French Control) (c. 1907); recruitment of natives;
liquor trade; affect of First World War on British claims (1915); proceedings
of Anglo-French Conference in London (1914); the "Joint Commission/Court
and Survey of Mission Lands" (1909); convention banning sale of drink to
natives (1910); correspondence with Rev. C. Murray re visit of Bishop C.
Wilson of Melanesian Mission to New Zealand (1910); PCNZ deputation to
Sir Joseph Ward (1911); correspondence re trial of natives (1913); correspondence
from British resident commissioner (1914); representations to NZ Gov't
re New Hebrides Condominium prior to World Peace Conference (1918); native
attitude to condominium (1919); French claims for allotment of New Hebrides
to France (1920); the protocols of the New Hebrides Condominium agreed
as at 6 Aug 1914 (1923); Victorian (Aust.) petition re New Hebrides (c.
1923); discussion re possible mandate to supercede Condominium (1924);
PCNZ of Victoria Foreign Missions Committee Statement on Condominium (1924);
British and French recruitment for plantation work and labour laws (1925);
drink traffic (1926); Anglo-French protocol to amend the New Hebrides Convention
of 1906 (1926); list of grievances and native injustices (1926); "Indentured
Labour in New Hebrides" (c. 1927); regulations for importing and trade
in liquor (1929); relationship of the New Hebrides Mission with the French
administration (1929).
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