Missions Library

New Hebrides / Vanuatu Related Mission Books.

Call No: Author: Title: Publisher: Year Physical Description: Notes:
GEN 266.96 McDOWALL R G The Birth of a Nation. Presbyterian Bookroom 1952 24p. B&W photos. Describes the work of the missionary in the New Hebrides with questions for discussion.
Rev McDowall was convener of the combined Missions Committee and later the Overseas Missions Committee, which positions he held for more than 10 years.
266.96 NZ MICHELSEN, Oscar Misi Marshall, Morgan & Scott c.1934 238p. B&W photos. An account of Rev Oscar Michelson's early days in Norway, his life in New Zealand, and his experiences among the cannibals of the New Hebrides.
GEN 266.96 NZ NOTTAGE, Basil New Hebrides Calling. Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1940 40p. An account of mission work in the New Hebrides.
266.96 NZ NOTTAGE, Basil Break of Day Islands. Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1988 286p. B&W photos, maps. Records the experience of the author as a young missionary aged 24 in the New Hebrides.
266.96 NZ (DON) DON, Alexander (compiler) Light in Dark Isles. Foreign Missions Committee, PCNZ 1918 195p. Sepia photos, maps. A jubilee record and study of the New Hebrides Mission of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
GEN 266.96 MACDIARMID, D N Meet the New Hebrides.
A pen and camera sketch.
Missions Committee, PCNZ c.1945 16p. B&W photos An account of a visit by Rev D N MacDiarmid.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the New Hebrides to 1880. Book One. Committee on Christian Education & Overseas Missions, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. 1978 201p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps.  
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the New Hebrides now the Republic of Vanuatu to 1880. Book Two. Committee on Christian Education & Overseas Missions, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia 1981 197p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps. Book Two aims to cover the latter part of the period 1839 - 1880 and to concentrate on the planting of the church in the New Hebrides.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in Vanuatu. Book Three. Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu 1985 388p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps Dedicated to the times after World War 2 until the Vanuatu independence in 1980.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the Republic of Vanuatu. Book Four. 1881 - 1920 Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu 1986 442p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps. Appendix contains a roll of Presbyterian missionaries in the southern islands of Vanuatu from 1881 - 1920.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the Republic of Vanuatu. Book Five. Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu 1987 464p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps. Deals with the Central Islands, Efate to Epi, from 1881 to 1920.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the Republic of Vanuatu. Book Six. Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu 1989 539p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps. Covers the history of church planting in four of the northern islands of Malekula, Ambrym, Paama and Lopevi.
266.96 NZ MILLER, J Graham Live: a history of church planting in the Republic of Vanuatu. Book Seven. Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu 1990 544p. B&W photos, maps. Final volume of "Live". Covers islands of Santo and Malo, 1886 - 1948.
FOR (266.96 NZ) FOREIGN Missions Committee, PCNZ Mission to New Hebrides 1904: views and notes. New Zealand Bible, Tract and Book Society 1904 48p. Sepia photos.
FOR (266.96 NZ) FOREIGN Missions Committee, PCNZ Mission to New Hebrides 1904: views and notes, 2nd. edition. New Zealand Bible, Tract and Book Society 1905 48p. Sepia photos.
266.96 NZ FRANCE, Norman The jungle drums are quiet. Presbyterian Bookroom 1953 157p. Pbk. B&W photos, maps. In May, 1951, the author was approached by The Overseas Missions Committee of PCNZ to see if he would be interested in preparing for them, a photographic record of movie and still pictures covering their field of missionary work in the New Hebrides.
266.96 LAMB, Robert Saints and Savages. The story of five years in the New Hebrides. William Blackwood & Sons 1905 313p. B&W photos, maps. (Damage to first 30 pages.)
266.96 NZ MICHELSEN, Oscar Cannibals won for Christ. Morgan and Scott 1893 188p. B&W photos & ill. A story of missionary perils and triumphs in Tangoa, New Hebrides.
266.96 NZ DON, Alexander Peter Milne of Nguna. Foreign Missions Committee< PCNZ 1927 296p. 2 Hdbk, 1 pbk. B&W photos. Missionary to Nguna, New Hebrides, 1870 - 1924 from the PCNZ.
266.96 NZ BROCKET, Duncan Work party to the New Hebrides.
1973 109p. The New Hebrides Association is an incorporated society which was formed by Presbyterians in the first instance to undertake some tasks in the New Hebrides which could not be undertaken by the wider church owing to financial constraints. The book describes the work undertaken during a three week mission to the New Hebrides in 1973. Taken from diaries of the time.
GEN 266.96 TOWNROW, Alice New Hebrides Centenary 1848 - 1948 Presbyterian Bookroom 1949 24p. B&W photos, maps. The journal of a visit.
GEN 266.96 PATRICK, John His praise in the islands. Presbyterian Bookroom, for NZBCU 1966 20p. B&W ill. maps. Christian work in the New Hebrides.
PRE (266.96 NZ) PRESBYTERIAN Women's Missionary Union The Harvest Field. New Hebrides Mission Centennial Number, No. 433 Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union 1948 20p. B&W photos
MUR (266.96 NZ) MURRAY, Grace J Mrs Milne, New Hebrides. (In Memoriam) Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union 1909 40p. B&W photos A memorial booklet.
266.96
New Hebrides Mission
"Dayspring" and New Hebrides Mission Report for year 1892
Presbyterian Church of Australia 1893 Reports bound in one volume. B&W photos, maps. Annual report for the years 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 - 1900.
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The New Hebrides Mission of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand Annual Report 1897. Foreign Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand c.1898 24p. B&W photos Bound with "New Hebrides Mission".
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Second annual report of the Ambrim Medical and Industrial Mission, New Hebrides for year ending June 30, 1894. Foreign Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1894 20p. Maps Bound with "New Hebrides Mission".
266.54 NZ RIDDLE, T E The light of other days. Presbyterian Bookroom 1949 223p. The autobiography of Rev T E Riddle of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand who served as a missionary in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and India until his retirement in 1947.
GEN 266
We Seek a City Presbyterian Bookroom (for Overseas Missions Committee) 1969 54p. Six studies.
The Church in New Hebrides; Lessons from the Past - Hong Kong; Mission work in India; Retrospect of mission enterprise in Indonesia; A bridge to Papua; The way of mission.
266.93 NZ
Views and Notes 1904 - 1907

7 copies bound in one. Sepia photos, maps. Bound copies of PCNZ Foreign Missions Reports from 1904 - 1907
1904 Missions to Chinese; 1904 Missions to New Hebrides
1906 Our Missionaries in India; 1907 Chinese Missions, 3rd ed.
1904 Missions to New Hebrides 2nd ed. ; 1907 New Hebrides Mission 3rd ed.
1907 Our Missionaries in India Rev. ed.
266.96 GILLAN, Helen Rose Vanuatu victory. Spectrum Publications 1988 341p. B&W photos, maps, bibliography, index. Four generations of sharing Christian faith in the Pacific.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee On continent and islands. China, India, Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim. Foreign Missions Committee 1914 31p. B&W photos, tables. Foreign Missions Report, 1914.
PRE (266 NZ) PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1915. Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1915 24p. B&W photos. Tables. Foreign Missions report. 1915.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1916. Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1916 24p. B&W photos. Tables. Foreign Missions Report. 1916.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1917. Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1917 24p. B&W photos. Tables. Foreign Missions Report. 1917.
PRE (266 NZ) PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1918. Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1918 24p. B&W photos. Tables. Foreign Missions Report. 1918.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1919. Nguna, Tongoa, Ambrim, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1919 64p. B&W photos. Tables. Special Jubilee Issue.
PRE (266 NZ) PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1920. New Hebrides, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee 1920 56p. B&W photos. Tables. Fifty-first Annual Foreign Missions Report.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1921. New Hebrides, China India.
1921 32p. B&W photos, Tables. Fifty-second Annual Foreign Missions Report.
PRE (266 NZ) PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee. Our fields afar. 1922. New Hebrides, China, India.
1922 36p. B&W photos. Tables. Fifty-third Annual Foreign Missions Report.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee Our fields afar. 1923. New Hebrides, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee. 1923 36p. B&W photos. Tables. Fifty-fourth Annual Foreign Missions report.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee The Church afield. 1911-12. New Hebrides, China, India. Foreign Missions Committee
54p. B&W photos. Tables. Foreign Missions Report 1911-12.
PRE (266) NZ PRESBYTERIAN Church of New Zealand Foreign Missions Committee. A year's work - 1913. - Foreign Missions. New Zealand Bible, Tract and Book Society 1913 100p. B&W photos. Tables. Maps Foreign Missions report 1913,
ALL (92 PAT) ALLEN, James T John G Paton: The hero of wonderful work in the New Hebrides. Pickering & Inglis n.d. 61p. B&W ill. Series: Memoirs of Mighty Men.
GEN 266.96 THATCHER, Margaret M Dr. Paton and the New Hebrides. Foreign Missions Committee Presbyterian Church of Victoria 1924 59p. B&W photos. Map.
266.96 PATON, John G The story of John J Paton: his work among the South Sea cannibals. Hodder & Stoughton 1930 126p. Edited by James Paton, and abridged and revised by A K Langridge.
266.96 MILLER, R S Misi Gete: John Geddie, pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides. Presbyterian Church of Tasmania 1975 368p. B&W photos & ill. Biography constructed around the journal kept by Dr Geddie during his first nine years on Aneityum.
266.96 PATON, John Gibson The story of John G Paton's thirty years with South Seas cannibals. Hodder & Stoughton 1927? 256p. B&W ill. Map. Edited by James Paton and revised by A K Langridge. - Third edition.
266.96 PATON, Maggie Whitecross Letters and sketches from the New Hebrides. Hodder & Stoughton 1894 382p. B&W photos & ill. Edited by her brother-in-law Dr James Paton.
266.96 MICHAEL, Charles D John Gibson Paton DD: the missionary hero of the New Hebrides. S W Partridge & Co 1911 160p. B&W photo & ill.
92 PAT PATON, John G John G Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: an autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton 1889 375p. B&W photo. Edited by his brother.
92 PAT PATON, John G John G Paton D D, Missionary to the New Hebrides: an autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton 1891 493p. B&W photo. Map. An autobiography, edited by his brother, Rev James Paton, B.A. Popular edition, complete in one volume.
92 PAT PATON, John G John G Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: an autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton 1890 382p. B&W photo. Edited by his brother. Second part, Fourth Edition.
GEN 266
WHO'S who in our overseas fields? Overseas Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. 1950 - 61 B&W photos and maps. Brief description of overseas mission fields with photos and biographies of missionaries serving them.
POS (266.93) NZ
POST war problems in our overseas work. Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union. 1945 30p. A series of studies by Rev J M McKenzie, Mr G T Gray, Rev M R Robinson,
Rev F A Thompson, Rev Basil Nottage.
GEN 266.96 BROCKET, Duncan (editor) By this... New Hebrides Association Inc. c.1977 112p. Maps. The 1977 work party to the New Hebrides, from the diaries of work party members. Includes a list of members, where they came from, and where they worked.
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NEW Hebrides. Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions. 1964 34p. B&W photos. A series of articles written by Australian and New Zealand missionaries serving in the New Hebrides.
92 MUI (NZ) JACKMAN, Helen A memoir of Alice Howie Muir. Presbyterian Bookroom 1946 63p. B&W photos.
266.96 ANDERSON, George Tour of the New Hebrides. Foreign Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of Victoria 1943 40p. Report of a visit to Mission Stations presented to a combined meeting of the Foreign Missions Committee and the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union on Tuesday, 30th November, 1943.
GEN 266.96 BROCKET, Duncan Tanna - 71
1971 62p. B&W photos, Maps. A diary of the Presbyterian Workparty to the New Hebrides in 1971.
GEN 266.96 BROCKET, Duncan (editor) 1978 Workparty. New Hebrides Association Inc. 1978 33p.
An edited diary account of the day to day activities of the 1978 workparty to New Hebrides.
VAN (266.96)
VANUATU Assn Inc.
Info Kits Nos. 85, 90, 91, 92.

c.1985 8p. approx. B&W ill. Newsletters. 4 issues.
GEN 266.96 BROCKET, Duncan (compiler) Background. New Hebrides Assn. Inc. 1972 76p. Maps. The activities of the New Hebrides Association Incorporated.
266.96 NZ INGLIS, John In the New Hebrides. T Nelson & Sons 1887 352p. Sepia photo, map. Reminiscences of missionary life and work, especially on the island of Aneityum, from 1850 till 1877.
266.96 PATON, Frank L The triumph of the gospel in the New Hebrides. Hodder & Stoughton 1908 315p. B&W photos. Map. The life story of Lomai of Lenakel, a cannibal of the New Hebrides who was converted to Christianity and became a leading light in the native church.
266.96 NZ WATT, Agnes C P Twenty-five years' mission life on Tanna, New Hebrides. J & R Parlane 1896 385p. B&W photos. A biographical sketch and introduction by Rev T Watt Leggatt.
MAC (266.96) MACMILLAN, E M Children of the New Hebrides.
1924 64p. B&W photos. A general description of life in the New Hebrides, with particular reference to the work of the Christian churches.
PAT (92 PAT) PATON, John Gibson John G Paton D.D, Missionary to the New Hebrides. An autobiography. Hodder & Stoughton c.1891 170p. Edited by the author's brother, James Paton D.D.
FRA (266.96) FRASER, R D (editor) God calls: diaries of Fraser of Epi. Aborigines and Overseas Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of Tasmania
35p. B&W photos. Map. The diaries of the Rev R M Fraser, the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania's first missionary to the New Hebrides. Edited by his son, R D Fraser.
PAT (266.96) PATON, Frank H L Glimpses of the New Hebrides. Foreign Missions Committee, Presbyterian Church of Victoria. 1913 94p. B&W photos. Map. A history of the New Hebrides missions undertaken by various Christian churches.
LAN (266.96) LANGRIDGE, A K Judah of Malekula, New Hebrides, SW Pacific: cannibal, multi murderer, native pastor. Francis & Sons n.d. 61p. B&W photos. Map. Second edition. This booklet was issued by the John G Paton Mission, New Hebrides. The story of Surin Barang, and his conversion to Christianity through the efforts of Fred Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides.
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IN MEMORIAM - Margaret Mathieson Gunn

23p. B&W photos. A short pamphlet describing the life and work of Margaret Mathieson Gunn, who with her husband, Rev Dr Gunn undertook missionary work in Aneityum and Futuna, New Hebrides. Rev Dr Gunn was appointed as a medical missionary to the New Hebrides by the Free Church of Scotland.
BAL (266.96) BALFOUR, H R, E K, and C G In journeying oft. Brown, Prior & Co. Pty Ltd. n.d. 50p. B&W photos. Map. Sketches of the missionary work in the New Hebrides by the authors.
PAT (266.96) PATON, W F Fred Paton of Malekula. Committee on Missionary Education and Publications of Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church of Australia. 1945 29p. A short biography of Rev F J Paton, who served as a missionary in Malekula, New Hebrides.
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The NEW Hebrides. Information Department, British Residency. 1973 40p. B&W photos. Booklet provides general information on the New Hebrides for students, visitors and people inquiring about the possibility of residence in the Group.
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The NEW Hebrides. Information Department, British Residency. 1972 37p. B&W photos. Map. Prepared by the British residency in Vila to provide general information on the New Hebrides for students, prospective visitors and people inquiring about the possibility of residence in the Group.
LIN (92 LIN) LINI, Walter Beyond pandemonium: from the New Hebrides to Vanuatu. Asia Pacific Books. c.1980 63p. B&W photos. Maps. Father Walter Lini traces the key political, social, economic and international elements of the independence movement of Vanuatu, formally New Hebrides.
92 MUI NZ JACKMAN, Helen A memoir of Alice Howie Muir. Presbyterian Bookroom 1946 63p. B&W photos.
266.96 GILLAN, Florence E New Hebrides calling! : a study book for the Victorian Mission Bands.
c.1938 36p. B&W photos.
266.96 ROBERTSON, H A Erromanga. The martyr isle. Hodder & Stoughton 1902 467p. B&W photos, ill. maps, appendix. History of Erromanga, and especially of the Presbyterian missions there.
266.96 FRATER, Maurice Midst volcanic fires : an account of missionary tours among the volcanic islands of the New Hebrides. James Clarke & Co. 1923 287p. B&W photos.
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NEW Hebrides biennial report, 1967 and 1968. Anglo-French Condominium 1969 124p. B&W photos, map, tables.
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NEW Hebrides biennial report, 1969 and 1970. Anglo-French Condominium 1971 127p. B&W photos, map, tables.
320.995
New Hebrides. The road to independence. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of South Pacific. 1977 128p. B&W photos. Map, tables.
995.95
Vanuatu. Twenti wan tingting long team blong independens. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of South Pacific. 1980 291p. B&W photos. Map.
266.96
Quarterly Jottings from the New Hebrides. John G Paton Mission Fund 1906 - 30
1906: January, April, July
1907: January, April, July, October (complete)
1908: Complete
1909: Complete
1922: October
1923: April
1929: Complete
1930: Complete
92 CRU CRUMP, Chris and McKENZIE, Dorothy Christina's story. Realities of family life on an isolated Pacific island,
1938 - 1956.
Crump Family / Ngaio Press 2000 112p. B&W photos.
266.96 LANGDON, Robert (editor) An index to "Quarterly Jottings from the New Hebrides". 1893 - 1966
(Nos 1 - 284)
Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University 1988 179p.
92 GED PATTERSON, George The life of the Rev. John Geddie D.D. with a history of the Nova Scotia Presbyterian Mission James Campbell & Son, James Bain & Son, and Hart & Co. 1882 512p. B&W ill. Missionary life among the cannibals.
TH 920 JOHNSTON, Ewan C "Cannibals Won for Christ":
Oscar Michelson, Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides, 1878 - 1932.

1995 283p. Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History, University of Auckland.
266.96 . MISSIONARY project 1966. New Hebrides Presbyterian Bookroom c.1966 B&W photos. Map. Description of missionary work in the New Hebrides. Intended for use in Bible Classes etc.
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MISSIONARY project 1971. New Hebrides Presbyterian Church of New Zealand Christian Education Dept. 1971 9p. B&W photos. Description of life in the New Hebrides with particular reference to the work of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand and the Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides. For use with Bible Classes and adults.
266.96 McLELLAN, Fraser C The mission ship "Dayspring".
1937 28p.
266.96
The New Hebrides Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions 1970 32p. Photos, Map. Encounter, December 1970. Volume 15, No. 4.
266.96
Presbyterian Church of New Hebrides. Tangoa Training Institute 75th anniversary celebrations.
1970 33p. Includes a list of students 1895 - 1970.
266.96
The Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides welcomes you.
c.1967 12p.
996 SOPE, Barak Land and politics in the New Hebrides. South Pacific Social Sciences Association c.1974 60p. B&W photos.
266.96 MURRAY, J S New work in the New Hebrides. NZ Presbyterian Bible Class Union 1955 8p. Mission study.
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Our ministry of healing in fields far away. Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union 1946 24p. B&W photo. Reading list.
266 MATTHEWS, P H Our missions far and near. NZ Young Women's Presbyterian Bible Class Union 1925 48p. Maps

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