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Land Settlement in the New Hebrides - Burns, Philp and Company, Limited
No full textBrochure produced by Burns, Philp and Company to promote settlements in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) for British subject
SS Mindini at the Burns Philp wharf, Makambo Island
No full textSS Mindini was acquired by Burns, Philp (South Sea) Company Limited, in 1910, for the Solomons-Sydney (via Rabaul) run. In 1923, SS Mindini was lost on a reef near Rabaul
Tulagi Island
No full textIn 1908 Burns, Philp (South Sea) Company Limited established a depot (updated to the status of a branch in 1913) on Makambo Island, near Tulagi Island
SS Titus at Gavutu, 1897
No full textThis picture shows the scene when the British Government was first being established in the Solomon Islands. On this occasion the Titus, a screw steamer of 760 T. gross register, under the command of Captain John Williams, and owned by Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd, arrived and anchored at Gavutu, where a whaleboat was loaded with tents and personal equipment for the first Resident Commissioner, Charles Morris Woodford (later CMG) and his small party, including native police from Fiji. They proceeded from Gavutu through unchartered reefs and passages to the Island of Tulagai, where the Commissioner was landed on a beach and the boat's crew remained until some space was cleared and tents erected. Thus was founded the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, with a one-man government in residence
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