WPHC Archives
Western Pacific High Commission Archives in Auckland, NZ
Stephen Innes
Special Collections Librarian
General Library / Te Herenga Matauranga Whanui
University of Auckland
Ph. (649) 373-7599 ext. 8062
Fax (649) 373-7565
email: Stephen Innes
Background
- The archives moved with WPHC headquarters from Fiji to Honiara.
- Closed in 1976-1978 and shipped to England.
- Shipped from England to Auckland and opened to the public in 2003.
2003 Bones Search
- I read all of the finding aids and called for as many files as I could read in the time I was in Auckland.
- No file explicitly about the closure of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme. There are some resettlement files--moving the inhabitants of Nikumaroro to Nikumaroro Village in the Solomons.
- No hint of correspondence about exhuming Gallagher.
- No bones, sextant boxes or records of inquests concerning the death of a castaway on Gardner Island (that is to say, none that I could find in 2003).