H.I.N. Moouga appears to have been of Mangarevan descent and foreman of a team of coconut plantation workers from French Polynesia and Niue, employed on Flint Island by J.T. Arundel and Co. of London.

The names of the workers are listed in the opening pages of the diary. The mixture of languages in which the diary is written may have been the lingua franca of the multi-lingual community on Flint Island. Moouga details daily weather conditions, prevailing winds, land areas cleared, coconut palms planted, coconuts harvested, crushed and cut. He describes also the difficult conditions under which the group worked - fire-ant infections, lack of medical care, lack of food, food contaminated by rust - and the often difficult relationships between the workers themselves and between them and the Arundel family. In the concluding pages of the diary, Moouga says that he has had more than enough of the life and asks to be repatriated.

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1895, 5 May 1899-1909

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1916-1926

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 16 July 1914-1915

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), cont. 1899, 1927-1946

Correspondence, cont. 1909 - 1 August 1910

Correspondence, cont. 1904 - 1908

Main journal entries written from brig "Vision", Butaritari, Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati); Mille, Arno, Majuro, Jaluij (Jaluit?), Namorik, Ebon, Marshall Islands group. On board schooners "Agnes Donald", "Fortune" and Lotus. Other islands mentioned but illegible.

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Reel 1: Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in: Cook Islands, 1910-37 (English, local language); Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), 1877-1940 (some damaged) (English, Gilbertese); Niue, 1907-39; Tokelau Islands, 1907-42; Tutuila (American Samoa), 1908-47. Reel 2: Correspondence with American Samoa, 1908-47 (English, Samoan).

Correspondence, cont. 4 August 1910 - 21 December 1911