James Valentine Tarte (1837-1918) was born in England and migrated to Ballarat, VIC, Australia in 1857. He went to Fiji in 1869 and took up land on Taveuni where he remained until his death. Some of his descendants still have plantations on Taveuni (1972).

The document is a duplicate typescript. The reminiscences were probably written by hand originally, but the whereabouts of a manuscript is not known. Nor is it known where the original typescript is. The last page(s) of the present copy are missing, and there is nothing to indicate exactly when the document was written. However, the author states on P.17 that he wishes he could 'put the clock back 50 years'; on p.13 he indicates that he was writing in Brisbane; and on p.30 he says; 'I am writing this for my two sons ...' It is an entertaining account of Tarte's early life in England, his journey to Australia, the early years of Ballarat, financial losses and departure for Fiji, his purchase of land on Taveuni and establishment of a cotton plantation, his marriage to Clara Berry in March, 1871 (the first European wedding in Fiji), his purchase of additional land and construction of a sugar mill, his venture into coffee and cattle, and the vicissitudes of plantation life.

All Saints School, Labasa, on the island of Vanua Levu in Fiji, was established by the Anglican Mission in Fiji around 1904.
The logbooks are chronicles of the notable events in the day-to-day affairs of the school.

Isobel Whippy was in Fiji from 1963. She wrote several short plays for school children from 1968 onward. 'Pritchard' was her first major drama, which won a $100 prize in a drama contest for the South Pacific Festival of Arts in Suva in May 1972.

The play concerns the first British Consul in Fiji, William Thomas Pritchard, who arrived in Levuka in September 1858 and was dismissed from his post in January 1863. It is based on a theory that the Consul lost his job because of a love affair with a young woman - possibly a part-European - who gave birth to two children by Pritchard, before he married her in the British Consulate in Levuka a few days after his dismissal. The play is in two acts - the first covering the period from September 1858 to June 1859; the second from November 1859 to July 1862. There is an epilogue concerning the year 1864.

Mrs McHugh, d.1969, was a daughter of the Rev. A.J. Small, a Methodist missionary to Fiji.

There are two documents, both by Mrs McHugh. The first is an 89pp. typescript entitled 'Memoirs of Rev. A.J. Small, Fiji, 1879-1925', which was produced in a roneoed edition of eight copies. The other, a typescript of eight pages, is entitled 'Some Reminiscences'. It bears the pen-name 'Gone ni Bua' and refers to the period 1891-1925.

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

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

The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920. Journal containing shipping and cargo details of the auxiliary cutter Koroibo.

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

William A. Moody was a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Samoa in 1894-98 and 1908-10.

The diary contains an account of Moody's work in Samoa from October 1894 to May 1898 and from April 1908 to August 1910. In the interim years there is an account of his life in Arizona. The diary also contains some information on Fiji in 1908.