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Notes on the sugar industry of Fiji
A compilation of extracts on the sugar industry of Fiji, culled from The Fiji Times from 1869 to 1886. The notes were gathered for a paper on the early history of Fiji's sugar industry, which was published in the Transactions of the Fiji Society, 1959, Vol.7, No.2, pp.104-130.
Potts, John Cuthbert
Articles relating to the Pacific Islands
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.
Juvenile Instructor
Correspondence and diary of Ba Campaign
John Hall James, an Australian, was born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1848. He went to Fiji at the height of the cotton boom in 1866, took up land on Viti Levu, and returned to Australia eight or nine years later after a hurricane had destroyed his crops. He died in Melbourne in 1923.
The correspondence, which covers the period 1870 - 1875, and the diary of the Ba Campaign, May 1873, give a vivid idea of the life and attitudes of a European planter in Fiji just before and just after Cession.<BR><BR>For further descriptions see <I>Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society</I>, 1958-59, Vol.7, pp.73-89.
James, John Hall
Journal of auxiliary Cutter Koroibo
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
Miscellaneous papers on Fiji - letters, notes, book draft
Fison (1832-1907) a university-educated man, with a keen interest in anthropology, was born in Suffolk, England. He migrated to Australia in 1856, joined the Methodist Church, and went to Fiji as a Wesleyan missionary in 1864. He remained in Fiji until 1884, when he returned to Australia and became editor of the Spectator, a Melbourne church paper.
Copies of letters, notes on Fiji customs and personalities, sketches of life in Fiji, and an early draft of Fison's book 'Tales of Old Fiji' (London, 1907). The wording of some of the tales, as recorded in these papers, has been much worked over and occasionally differs in its final form from that in the published versions.
Fison, Lorimer