Items on Pacific Islands from reports of annual and semi-annual conferences associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church was active in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands, and Tubuai, as well as Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga in the period covered.

A history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Tongan Building Program. Covers the period 1955-59 in Tonga.

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.

Captain William L. Hudson was commander of the US ship Peacock, one of the vessels of the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific 1838-42, commanded by Commodore Charles Wilkes.

The journal begins on 20 August 1838 and is preceded by a list of the officers and scientific corps of the United States Exploring Expedition and correspondence relating to it. It continues to 8 August 1840 and includes copies of correspondence exchanged during the voyage. The journal and preceding papers fill 567 pages. On p.564 is a summary of the voyage showing the dates of arrival at various ports. Places visited in the Pacific were: The Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Lord Howe Island, Tonga and Fiji.

Letters to Catholic missionaries at Rotuma from Bishops Bataillon, Elloy and Lamaze and Father V-F. Poupinel, written from Apia (Samoa), Tonga, Wallis, Futuna, Sydney and France. A typed summary in English of the contents of each letter is given at the beginning of the film.

Under the 1926 Marriage and Registration Act the Chief Justice is also the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and the Registrar of the Supreme Court is the sub-registrar for the districts of Tongatapu and 'Eua. In other districts the local magistrate is the sub-registrar. A centralized registry combined with a sub-registry for the islands of Tongatapu and 'Eua has been created in the one office in Nuku'alofa under the Registrar of the Supreme Court. He is assisted by an executive officer (vital statistics).

• Tongatapu, Births & deaths registers,1867-1888, Births registers, 1888-1907, Deaths registers, 1888-1906, Births by villages, 1892-1900, Deaths by villages, 1906-1931
• Vava'u, Births registers, 1872-1915, Births registers, 1888-1918
• Niuafo'ou, Births registers, 1885-1973
• Niua'topu Tapu, Births registers, 1895-1926

See reel list for further details.

These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

The papers comprise:

1. 'Conference Avec Projections sur le Vicariat de l'Oceanie Centrale' (ts 13pp)
2. Marine et Colonies, Division Navale de l'Ocean Pacifique, Exercice 1886 (Invoices for missionary travel expenses)
3. 'Explication du blason de Tonga', n.d.
4. 'Kingdom of Tongatabu' (Map)
5. Movement of the Catholic population in the Apostolical Vicariat of Central Oceania (Graph)
6. 'Chronology of the Vicariate Apostolic of Tonga' (ts)
7. 'Traditions Tongiennes' (70pp)
8. 'Pungalototioa et Munimatamabae'
9. 'Government Gazette', Nuku'alofa, 4 November 1876
10. An historical account and chronologies of Tonga, New Zealand, the New Hebrides, Wallis and Futuna (tss) - filed under 'OT 200 Historia'
11. Histories, filed under 'OT 202 Narrationes'
12. Correspondence, 1874-8, 1852-3, 1869, 1859, 1845, 1842-04, filed under 'OT 208 Epistolae variae'
13. List of letters from Tonga

Please see PMB 191. These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

Correspondence - 1844 - 1870 - filed under 'OT 208 Epistolae' in the Marist Archives.

Please see PMB MS 191. These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

Correspondence - 1870 - 1883 - filed under 'OT 208 Epistolae 1865-72' (SIC).

Please see PMB MS 191. These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

Letters from missionaries in Tonga to Marist headquarters in France. Correspondents include Fathers Reiter, Chevron, Remy, Castagnier, Loyer, Olier, O'Dwyer, Guitta, Petelo, Young, Thomas, Berger, O'Connor, Doizy, Maussey and Kervegan.