- AU PMB MS 503
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- 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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Miscellaneous correspondence connected with Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji.
Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji
Miscellaneous (non-local) correspondence of Bishop J. Vidal and Bishop C.J. Nicolas
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Correspondence from New Caledonia, Wallis, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Moruroa (Tuamotu archipelago), Sydney, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Naples.
Roman Catholic Mission Fiji
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Minutes of council meetings.
Roman Catholic Mission Fiji
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.
McHugh, Winifred
Managers' reports on the annual balances and associated correspondence
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
Managers' Reports on Annual Balances
The Labasa [Fiji] Branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. was established in 1920.
Managers' Reports on Annual Balances: Reel 1: contains reports for 1920-34; Reel 2: 1935-49; Reel 3: 1950-52.
Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Ltd, Labasa Branch, Fiji
Captain William Driver (1803-1886) was born Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He went to sea aged 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji in quest of beche-de-mer in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.
The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on January 30, 1831, when the ship was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in March, 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier as it was feared that their island was becoming overpopulated. Driver describes this episode in some detail in an 1871 memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett.
See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, December 1969:17.
Driver, William
Dr William Henry Harvey was a botanist, becoming professor and chair of Botany at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, from 1856 until his death in 1866.
The letters, four in number, give vivid accounts of Dr Harvey's visits to Tonga and Fiji in the latter half of 1855 during the course of a world tour. The letters are addressed to Harvey's sister Hannah (Mrs Hannah Harvey Todhunter) and his niece Mary (Mary Christy Harvey). Dr Harvey was particularly interested in algae; but he also investigated other aspects of the natural history of Tonga and Fiji, and wrote at length of a religious revival in Tonga and cannibalism in Fiji. (Twenty-six other letters of Dr Harvey, dealing with other aspects of his world tour, which took in Gilbraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, are deposited in the library of Trinity College, Dublin). See also the Bureau's newsletter PAMBU, March 1968: 8, pp.1-4.
Harvey, William Henry
Letters from Superior-General, Society of Mary
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Letters from Superior-General, Society of Mary.
In 1836, Pope Gregory XVI was looking for missionaries for Oceania and approved the formation of a
religious institute, the Priests of the Society of Mary, or Marist Fathers. Jean-Claude Colin (1790-1875) was elected as the first Superior General and held the office until 1854. He was succeeded by Julien Favre (1854-85), Antoine Martin (1886-1905), and Jean-Claude Raffin (1905-22).
Roman Catholic Mission Fiji
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