Farquhar, a farmer of Maryborough, Queensland, visited New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides (Vanuatu) in the schooner 'City of Melbourne' in November 1870 to January 1871 to recruit Pacific Islander labourers for himself and other farmers in Maryborough. He made a second voyage to New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and Banks Islands in the schooner Petrel in September 1871-January 1872 as a government agent under the Polynesian Labourers' Act of 1868.
Newspaper clippings, official printed documents and typescripts on the Pacific phosphate industry. Largely associated with mining in Kiribati and Nauru. See also PMB MS 14, 480-495.
Archibald Taylor was a magistrate on Taveuni Island, Fiji. In lending Taylor's diaries to the Bureau for microfilming, Mr Thompson said in a letter dated 5 May 1972: 'I am sorry for the state of the diaries; they are as I received them for safekeeping from Harry Taylor, eldest son of J.G. Taylor, only son of Archibald Taylor. There must have been a great deal of records of this kind in the past, but through nobody taking care of them this is all that remains that I know of ...' The fragment of diary for 1877 is particularly dilapidated. It should be noted that the second date given in this fragment, Thursday, 1 October 1877, appears to be an error for Thursday, 1 November 1877.
Diaries for 31 October 1877 - 15 November 1877, and 1 May 1884 - 30 December 1884.
Twelve inspection reports and one audit report of Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji, numbered and dated as follows: Inspection Reports: No.1 - 20 July 1931; 2 - 11 October 1932; 3 - 21 October 1935; 4 - 20 July 1950; 5 - 27 January 1953; 6 - 27 January 1955; 7 - 8 August 1956; 8 - 29 July 1958; 9 - 14 September 1959; 10 - 17 August 1961; 11 - 27 August 1963; 12 - 9 September 1965. Audit Report: No.1 - 13 March 1937. The reports appear on the microfilm in the order given.
Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji
George Bardsley, born 24 January 1864, was a carpenter of Brisbane, Queensland, who built the first houses at the Methodist Mission at Dobu, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea.
The diary describes Bardsley's life at Dobu from his arrival there on 21 June 1891 to 24 January 1892.
Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Customs Audit, 1886-93; 2. Royal Correspondence, 1893-98, including newspaper clippings; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1894-97; 4. Court Proceedings, 1895; 5. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1898; 6. Royal Correspondence, 1900; 7. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1900; 8. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1901; 9. Royal and consular Correspondence, 1901; 10. Correspondence, 1902; 11. Correspondence, 1903; 12. Royal Correspondence, 1904; 13. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1904; 14. Royal Correspondence, 1904-05.
Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Premier's Department, Correspondence 1905; 2. Royal Correspondence 1906; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence 1907; 4. Consular Correspondence 1907; 5. Royal Correspondence 1907; 6. Correspondence relating to government departments 1907; 7. Royal Correspondence 1908; 8. Consul-Premier Correspondence 1908; 9. Premier's Department - Outward 1908; 10. Premier's Department - Inward 1908-09.
