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Oceania Marist Province Archives

Oceania Marist Province Archives

  • AU PMB OMPA
  • Collection
  • c.1817-c.1981

The Oceania Marist Province Archives Series (OMPA) is the result of a special project during which records of the Catholic Church in islands of the Western Pacific were copied by Father Theo B. Cook, SM in collaboration with the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. (Cook was born Theodorus Bernardus Wilhelmus Kok but chose to go by the name Cook in Australia: Povey, 2010). The OMPA series covers the Diocese of Tonga (OMPA 1-25), Diocese of Samoa and Tokelau (OMPA 26-74), Marist Fathers, Rome (OMPA 80-100), Diocese of Wallis and Futuna (OMPA 101-126), Diocese of Port Vila (OMPA 127-178), Archdiocese of Noumea (OMPA 179-360) and the Oceania Marist Province Archives (OMPA 361-400).

Detailed indexes were prepared for the six diocese and those records copied in Rome. These can be found at http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/collections/microfilm.php or compiled in The Catholic Church in the Western Pacific: a guide to records on microfilm (Robert Langdon, ed.), Canberra, 1986.

Oceania Marist Province Archives

Notes on the sugar industry of Fiji

  • AU PMB MS 84
  • Collection
  • 1869 - 1886

A compilation of extracts on the sugar industry of Fiji, culled from The Fiji Times from 1869 to 1886. The notes were gathered for a paper on the early history of Fiji's sugar industry, which was published in the Transactions of the Fiji Society, 1959, Vol.7, No.2, pp.104-130.

Potts, John Cuthbert

Notes on the anthropology, myths, legends, ornithology and Catholic Missions of Fiji

  • AU PMB MS 439
  • Collection
  • c.1891-1925

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

The papers are:

  1. 'Quelques Notes sur Fiji, les Fijiens et la Religion Catholique a Fiji'
  2. 'Conference sur les Meke fidjiens', by Father C.M. Flaus, SM
  3. 'La Culte des Morts a Fiji a l'Ouest et a l'Interieur', by Father J. de Marzan, SM
  4. Notes on the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji, 1925, by Father J. Oreve, SM
  5. 'Superstitions Rewiennes', 1891, by E.R. (i.e. Father E. Rougier, SM)
  6. Notes on 'Le Deluge ... aux Fijis', by Father J. de Marzan, SM
  7. 'Noms des Oiseaux ... de Namosi', by Father J.L. Guinard, SM

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Notes and reports on the Petits Freres

  • AU PMB MS 442
  • Collection
  • c.1919 - 1923

The Petits Freres comprised an order of Fijian lay brothers, founded by Mgr Vidal in 1890 to assist in teaching at mission schools and in the maintenance of Catholic mission property in Fiji. See also PMB MS 432

Most of the reports are undated, but several are dated 1919 and one dated 1923.

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Mission correspondence and news items

  • AU PMB MS 155
  • Collection
  • 1894 - 1949

Letters from Fijian missionaries and other news items concerning them copied from the Methodist Fiji-language journal Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu.

Methodist Mission, Fiji

Miscellaneous unpublished items

  • AU PMB MS 463
  • Collection
  • c.1894 - 1928

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

The items are:

  1. Accounts of Fijian secret societies - le 'vaki ou nanaga'; les Kalou Vatu; le keibuca; les kai nakauvadra. (These are contained in a small exercise book and are thought to have been written by Father J. de Marzan, SM.)
  2. Brief histories of Fiji mission stations - Tailevu, Tunuloa, Naiserelagi, Suva, Ba and Yasawa, Kadavu, Lomary, Rotuma - and lists of principal dates.
  3. A 'sketch' entitled 'Slavery in Fiji'. It is dated Levuka, Fiji, 22 June 1894 and is said to be a translation of a German 'communication' in the Geographische Gesellshaft (sic) of 1895. The author states that he had spent 23 years in the Pacific, 'the last twelve of them in Fiji'.
  4. Correspondence, 1903, concerning alleged Bible burnings.
  5. Church statistics, 1900-19.
  6. Reports on native clergy, 1921-22.
  7. An abridged Fijian grammar - 'Petit abrege de Grammaire Vitienne'. It bears the name of Father A. Deniau, SM, but does not appear to be in his handwriting.
  8. Letters re medical matters to and from Bishop J. Vidal, 1906-10, and Bishop C.J. Nicolas, 1924-28.
  9. An account of a visit to Lau by Father J.M. Oreve, SM, dated Suva, 30 August 1923.
  10. 'Notes concernant l'Imprimerie', by Father P. Clement, SM, dated 'retraite 1922'.
  11. Papers relating to Father J.V. Pujebet's removal from Nukunau Island, Gilbert Islands, 1917-1919.

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly historical

  • AU PMB MS 467
  • Collection
  • c.1926 - 1970

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

The papers are:

  1. Papers of Father L. Soubeyran, SM (a) What the Catholic missionaries and Church have done to evangelise the Indians in Fiji (1970) (b) The Fathers in the Past (1970) (c) Sixty Years in the Missions of Fiji and Rotuma (1965) (d) Translation of a paper on Rotuman Games written by Father J.B. Chevreuil, SM. (With the original version) (1967).
  2. The Catholic Church in the Fiji Islands (c.1970)
  3. History of Loreto (c.1970)
  4. History of the Catholic Mission at Wairiki (1964)
  5. Le Reverend Pere Jules Delahaye
  6. The Seventh-day Adventists, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM, (1955)
  7. Rapport sur le terrain Na Somo Levu, Ile Vuaki, Yasawa, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM (1926)
  8. Rapport sur 'l'Histoire Religieuse de Fiji' par Mgr Blanc (author unknown)
  9. Le Rev. Pere Pierre Marie Jouny, SM, l'Apotre des Niua
  10. Marist Fathers who have worked in Fiji (several lists)
  11. Historique de la Stations de Tunuloa
  12. 'An Unusual Priest' (Father Claudius Lurkhur), by Father Denis Fitzpatrick

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Miscellaneous papers on Fiji - letters, notes, book draft

Miscellaneous papers on Fiji - letters, notes, book draft

  • AU PMB MS 26
  • Collection
  • 1865 - 1868

Fison (1832-1907) a university-educated man, with a keen interest in anthropology, was born in Suffolk, England. He migrated to Australia in 1856, joined the Methodist Church, and went to Fiji as a Wesleyan missionary in 1864. He remained in Fiji until 1884, when he returned to Australia and became editor of the Spectator, a Melbourne church paper.

Copies of letters, notes on Fiji customs and personalities, sketches of life in Fiji, and an early draft of Fison's book 'Tales of Old Fiji' (London, 1907). The wording of some of the tales, as recorded in these papers, has been much worked over and occasionally differs in its final form from that in the published versions.

Fison, Lorimer

Miscellaneous correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 154
  • Collection
  • 1927 - 1959

The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920.
The correspondence appears on the microfilm as follows: Savu Savu - 1927-33; Copra - 1934-43; Tui Labasa - 1936; War Service - 1939-44; Fiji Seamen's Union - 1946-56; Stevedoring Union - 1947-57; A.K. Labasa - 1949-50; Miscellaneous - 1953-59

Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji

Miscellaneous correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 503
  • Collection
  • 1955 - 1962

Miscellaneous correspondence connected with Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji

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