See PMB MS 432, material relating to the Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The histories are: 1. The Beginning of the Mission in Fiji (1842-1936); 2. Father J.B. Breheret, 1815-1898

The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920.
The correspondence appears under the following headings - the titles of the individual files: Trocas & Tortoiseshell - 1924-34; Beche de Mer - 1926-33; Insurance Fund - 1929-32; Taveuni Copra - 1933-38; Copra-buying Agreement - 1935-36; Lomaiviti Trade - 1935-36; Shipping Bottoms - 1936; Important Letters - 1939-50; Chairman of Directors - 1948; Suva-Levuka, General - 1948-49; Price Control - 1948-49; South Sea, General - 1948-49; Bua Province, Copra - 1949-50; Moala and Lau Group Clients - 1949-50; Natewa Bay Clients - 1949-50; Savu Savu Clients - 1949-50; Batiki, Nairai and Gau Clients - 1950; Koro Clients - 1950; Taveuni Clients - 1950; Levuka Shipping - 1950

A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti (in French Polynesia), Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB MS 89 and MS 146.

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

Constitution and Rules for the Government of the Catholic Young Mens' Society of Fiji, 15 February 1923 and correspondence with Bishop C.J. Nicolas, SM, 1923-29.

John Hall James, an Australian, was born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1848. He went to Fiji at the height of the cotton boom in 1866, took up land on Viti Levu, and returned to Australia eight or nine years later after a hurricane had destroyed his crops. He died in Melbourne in 1923.

The correspondence, which covers the period 1870 - 1875, and the diary of the Ba Campaign, May 1873, give a vivid idea of the life and attitudes of a European planter in Fiji just before and just after Cession.<BR><BR>For further descriptions see <I>Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society</I>, 1958-59, Vol.7, pp.73-89.

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The papers include accounts of Indians and of part-Europeans in Fiji by Father Helliet and other priests.

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The documents are:

1. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1895-98
2. School inspection reports, 1903-08
3. Legislation on schools, 1917-18
4. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1910-29

See PMB MS 432, material related to the Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

The correspondence is in seven files:

1. Miscellaneous, 1919-30
2. Father L.L. Dubois, SM, 1921-30
3. Mission Station, Wairiki, 1922-30
4. Mission Station, Vanuakula, 1924-30
5. Mission Station, Loreto, 1930
6. Mission Station, Nabala, 1930
7. Procure, Sydney, 1925-30

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

Correspondence of Bishop Julian Vidal, SM with Fr Nicolas SM and other priests.

See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.

Correspondence re mission work among the Indians of Fiji.