“Around the Coral Sea” is a journal about the repatriation vessel S.S Moresby’s 1906 journey to the Solomon Islands as written by a special correspondent of the Queenslander newspaper. The newspaper published a series of articles about the trip and they provide a fascinating in depth view of life in the Solomons, looking at both colonial and indigenous peoples. The author illustrated the book with 212 black and white photographs and while some of the images are known, the vast majority have never been published. The journal will be available as an online publication with the texts published in their original format and with all the photographs and their captions. It can be found on www. kevinconru. com and will be released in six monthly installments.
Conru
African and Oceanic art +32 (0)478 566 459 kevinconru@yahoo.com www.kevinconru.com Web Publication © Kevin Conru - 2013
Str Dawn bringing off “returns”, Port Douglas
Mr. Caulfield waiting for them
Man overnoad. The rescue
Governement House, Port Moresby
New Guiena belle
Elevara scene
The famous Croton avenue, Samarai
Coastal Native huts
Raised houses Elevara
London missionary societies station, Elevara
Service on the S.S. Moresby
Auxiliary vessel Papuan in Quaipan Bay, Woodlark Island Afterwards burnt at Cooktown
Island natives tree-houses . New Guinea
Woodlark Mine, Woodlark Island and Rulamadau
Native miners hut, Woodlark Island
Across tropic seas
Boat in which Jack Mc Couville was murdered
Fisai trading staion, Shortland Islands
Jack Wildberg’s trading station, Poporang
Orlofe, home of the misses Austin
Awa house
Loading copra at Fisai
Group at mission stations
A trader’s house
Warri house at Mallei
Deputy commissioners residence, Gizo
Mr. Edge Partington Deputy Commissioner
In his garden
Trading schooner Simbo
Simbo native talking to Mr. Mehaffey formerly Deputy Commissioner
Native grass work design Front of a feast house
Government house servants
Bagging Pasiopo shell for export, Gizo
Natives making copra, Marovo Lagoon
Frank Wickham’s schooner Clara Jackson
Bow of a headhunting canoe
Rubiana dandy
Rubiana mission station
Paipa, chief of Viru, New Georgia
Entrance to Marovo Lagoon
Leading chiefs of Rubiana and Rev. J.F. foldie
Boys from Choiseul
Rubiana girl
Seta’s Canoe prow figurehead
Bullock team at Loonga
Mr. Weirnheim in the only vehicle in Solomons
Natives watching a pulling boat approach
Planting cocoa nuts at Pepisala
Rubber nursery at Pepisala
Cocoa nuts nursery at Pepisala
Lever Brothers steamer Upola
Cotton at Sagilan
Prison, Gizo
Native currency
Native police at Gizo
Governement house, Gizo
The schooner Jessie off Double Island
Natives fishing on a reef, Choiseul
First-Cape, Choiseul
Girls getting water from a well, Savo
A Savo village scene
Brigantine Helena - Since wrecked in Wide Bay Bar
Recruiting schooner Tom Fisher at Cairns
Schooner May with 176 Kanakas on board. Since wrecked in New Zealand
Schooner Lochiel, since broken up
Panoramic view of Gavutu
Quarters for returned women at Gavutu
Mens quarter
The Lindsay leaving with returns for Fela
Landing a boy at Siota
Canoe passed in Mboli pass
Waiting for returns in Sanofly pass
Women at Olevugu
Chief leeper and his staff
A group at Nogatana
Belle of rogatana
The Leneneniva
The commissioner superintends operations
Preparing to embark for Malaita
Steamer at the wharf, Gavutu
Landing a married couple and children at Ouarrie, Coleridge Bay
Canoe of Sassacanna
Canoe selling fish at Tarwhinmax
Boys landed at Mallu station
War canoe of langa langa enquiring for friends
Two armed bushmen at Mallu
Canoe off to Malaita coast Urassie
Fortified Island at Funavow
Fighting chief Numela / Hereditary chief Malla, Manoba
Landing returns at Rangisela mission station ,Kwoi
Village scene at Manoba
Entrance to Maramasiki Pass
Savages of Sinerango
Maramasiki Pass as seen from seaward
Onepussi mission station
Another view of Onepussi with schooner Dawn as foreground
Native mission school at Lo
Canoe landing at Lo
View in Gavutu
Net fishing in Ariel Harbour
A semi-civilized child at Rubiana
Nurses quarters, Rubiana mission station
A totem, New Georgia
“Returns� meeting friends
Native church at N
The Bridal party
Boys at Rubiana mission
Rev. J.F. & Mrs Goldie & some of their family folowers
New Georgia, a youthful warrior
Rubiana mission station
Rev. Nicholson, first missionary (ordained) on Nella Lavelle
Group of girls at Rubiana
Native school house, Rubiana mission
The Cloister and the world Yam 8 feet long. Grown on Tanna