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Managers' reports on the annual balances and associated correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 502
  • Collection
  • 31 December 1929 - 31 January 1965

Papers relating to Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji. Reel 1: Returns 1- 18 (31 Dec. 1929-31 Jan. 1938); Reel 2: Returns 19-29 (31 Jan. 1939-31 Jan. 1949); Reel 3: Returns 30-40 (31. Jan. 1950-31 Jan.1960); Reel 4: Returns 41-45 (31. Jan. 1969-31 Jan. 1965).

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

Inspection and audit reports

  • AU PMB MS 500
  • Collection
  • 1931 - 1963

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

La petite histoire a Fiji'

  • AU PMB MS 437
  • Collection
  • c.1937

The author, who is unknown, returned to France in 1929. See also PMB 432

A typescript of 78 pages - a history of the Catholic Church in Fiji (1846 - 1937).

Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission, 1937-1960

  • AU PMB DOC 205
  • Collection
  • March 1937 - March 1960

For details see PMB Doc .199

Issues for March 1937 - March 1960. Following issues only: No.369 (March 1937): No.547 (Oct. 1952): No.583 (Jan. 1956): No.633 (March 1960)

Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu

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

Journal of auxiliary Cutter Koroibo

  • AU PMB MS 153
  • Collection
  • 1962

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.

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

John Baker slides of Fiji and Tonga

  • AU PMB PHOTO 127
  • Collection
  • January - September 1971

These slides were taken by John Baker while he was undertaking fieldwork for a PhD at the Australian National University (ANU) on the relationship between shipping transport costs and patterns of spatial development in Fiji and Tonga. John and his wife Liz (Elizabeth) lived in Suva and Nuku’alofa and were fortunate to travel extensively by ship around Fiji, as well as visiting the Vava’u Group in Tonga. The collection mostly includes ships and other vessels (including Japanese fishing boats, punts and whaleboats), as well as shipping infrastructure. It also includes landscapes, street scenes and personalities encountered.

In Fiji, shipping infrastructure includes Queen’s Wharf, Suva Wharf and the CSR (Colonial Sugar Refinery) wharf/jetty in Lautoka. Cargo is loaded and unloaded, including sugar, cars, timber and copra. Businesses include Pacific Fishing Co. and Morris Hedstrom. People photographed are Barry Shaw, Bill Erich, Dorothy Toussaint, Ian Fairbairn and Heidi Fairbairn and their son John Fairbairn, Liz Baker and John Baker, as well as the ANU House caretakers Manuele and Asenat. Places photographed are Sigatoka, Walu Bay, Deuba, Mualevu village and Lomoloma at Vanua Balavu / Mbalavu Island, Munia Island, Cikobia Island, Korotoga, Levuka, Yacata Island, Kanacea Island, Nayau Island, Naivaka Village, Bua coast of Vanua Levu Island, Nadura, Macuata coast, Undu Point, Somosomo, Taveuni, Taveuni coastline at Naikelemusu, Rewa Delta and Laucala Bay, Suva. There are general views of sugar cane / sugarcane fields and other agriculture (including rice, copra and use of bullocks), coral reefs, Suva housing, including new and informal housing, as well as the ANU house at 30 Beach Road.

In Tonga, photographs include shipping and other vessels (including steel barges, cutters, landing craft, sailing boats and others), as well as shipping infrastructure at Faua Harbour, Touliki Harbour, Neiafu wharf and Queen Salote Wharf at Nuku’alofa. Ships carrying passengers and cargo. Places photographed are Makaha'a Island, Pangaimotu Island, Tokulu Island in Ha'apai Island Group, Ha'afeva Island, Pangai village on Ha'apai Island, Vava’u Island (including abandoned airstrip), Onetale Bay and Neiafu town. People photographed are Liz Baker, Bill Toussaint and Elizabeth Toussaint. Scenes include coral blocks for Langi tombs, lakes, horses, vanilla gardens, Wesleyan church and Burns Philp store, amongst others.

Selection of slides for digitisation was made by John Baker.

Baker, John R.

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