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.

Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. Six reels as follows:
Reel 1: files 1 to 11; includes Consular Correspondence 1909/1910; Premier's Department Correspondence inward and outward 1909/1910; Royal Correspondence 1909 and Series I and II of 1910; Parliamentary Reports 1909; Report of Chief Justice, 1906-08; Report on Agriculture 1910.

Reel 2: files 11 to 20; includes Premier's Department Correspondence inward and outward 1910/1911; Lands Department 1910; Papers relating to the Toga Ma'a Toga Kautaha 1909-11; Finance 1908-11; Laws of Tonga revised by R. Skeen (Chief Justice) 1911; Royal Correspondence inward and outward 1911; Consular Correspondence 1911.

Reel 3: files 20 to 26; includes Premier's Department Correspondence inward and outward 1911/1912; Miscellaneous Correspondence 1911/1912; Royal Correspondence 1912/1913.

Reel 4: files 27 to 38; includes Premier's Department Correspondence 1913; Diary (author unknown) 1913; Royal Correspondence inward and outward 1914/1915; Privy Council Minutes 1914; Cabinet Ministers' and Miscellaneous Correspondence 1914; Report of auditor-General 1914-15; Miscellaneous Papers relating to Government 1914/1915; Royal - Consular Correspondence 1915.

Reel 5: files 39 to 44; includes Royal and Premier's Correspondence 1916; Royal - Consular Correspondence 1916; Premier's Department Correspondence outward 1916; Premier's Department Memoranda 1916; Miscellaneous Correspondence 1916; Reports of Government Departments and Correspondence 1916.

Reel 6: files 45 to 50; includes Parliamentary Reports 1916; Diary 1916-31; Auditor-General's Report 1916-17; Royal Correspondence 1917-18; Undated papers.

The articles mainly concern Hawaii, the Society Islands in French Polynesia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Samoa, Tonga, Pitcairn Island and Fiji. The Juvenile Instructor was published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City. For other publications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 110 for Improvement Era; and PMB 113 for Contributor.

Reverend Charles Moore went to Tonga as a Methodist missionary in 1924. He spent four years in Ha'apai, followed by four years in Vava'u, and returned to Australia in 1932. The correspondence (85 items) chiefly consists of letters from the Rev. Rodger C.G. Page, president of the Tongan Conference of the Methodist Church. Other correspondents include Queen Salote Tupou and a number of other Tongans, whose letters are in the Tongan language. In addition there is a copy of a letter from the Rev. Shirley W. Baker, Premier of the Tongan Government, to the president of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Melbourne of 1888.

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.

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.

The papers comprise:

• New Hebrides-Oceania Novae Ebudae (OE): Documents include correspondence (1895, 1901-3) relating to the Higginson Loan, Curiosites Linguistiques on the languages of the New Hebrides [Vanuatu], Theogonie de l'ilot Vau, newspaper clippings (1928) on racial problems in the New Hebrides, list of ethnographic publications on the New Hebrides, New Hebrides census (1900, 1913), lecture notes to accompany slide presentation (1926)
• Recueil de diverses pieces sur les lerniers evenements concernant la mission catholique de Tonga-Tabon (dated 1853): Documents include report to the Governor of Tahiti re the Tonga-Tabon war (1852), inquiry into the Catholic mission by M. Belland (1852), article on the emigration of the Wallisian chief, Pooi, to the Tongan archipelago, Tam, King of Futuna, arrest of Captain Mauriac (1853)
• Vicariate of Tonga - Documents under the following headings:
  OT 331 Relations Visitatorum
  OT 411 Mgr Blanc (1901, 1902, 1906)
  OT 450 Procurator Missionum, Wallis, 1884
  OT 498 T.O.R.M. Epistolae - letters from Marie de la Pitie (1881-1937)
  OT 61-200 Maofaga Historiae; Niua-Foou Historia
  OT 61 - 500 N. Toputapu activatas (1855, 1908)
  OT 970 Protestantismus (articles on disturbances in Tonga c.1880)

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.