This collection of papers includes the following:
(1) - Five letters to R.B. Hardy, 1945 and 1946.
(2) - Delegation of authority to convene District Courts-Martial, 1944.
(3) - Documents concerning the estate of Mrs Eleanor Elizabeth Hardy, 1942.
(4) - (a) -- Menus ("B" Mess, Headquarters, 16 Brigade Group, 2NZEF, New Year's Dinner - 31 December 1943; U.S.N.A.B. Navy 200 - Thanksgiving Day Dinner, 23 November 1944; Inter-Div Rugby Match Dinner, 19 September 1942, Whangarei; 2nd N.Z.E.F. Over Seas, Christmas Day dinner, Tonga, 1944).
(b) -- Programmes (Centenary of Accession to the Throne of the Kingdom of Tonga by George Tupou I, 4-8 December 1945, Nuku'alofa, Tonga; Pacific Review Company - Souvenir Programme, August-September 1943; 3rd Battery Symphonic Concert, Kamo Auditorium, 19 January 1943; Tonga Boys' College - Prizegiving programme; Teachers Training College and Primary School, Nuku'alofa - Speech Night and Prize Giving, 12 December 1944; Tupou College, Nafualu, Tonga - Speech Night and Presentation of Prizes, 15 December 1944).
(c) -- Invitations (Farewell dance in honour of Brigadier F.L. Hunt, Tonga College Hall, Nuku'alofa, 4 February 1944; Commanding Officer and Officers, Tongan Defence Force, to meet New Zealand Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser).
(5) - Three competition pieces sung by No. 1 Platoon airfield, Tonga: (1) - "Oiau he 'Ofa" (hymn), (2) - "Fine Taukei 'o Nuku'alofa" (love song), (3) - "Bomu" (war song).
(6) - Two maps of Tonga.
(7) - Tongan ephemera - Song sheet ("Fasi 'o e tu'i Tonga" and "Oua na'a foa nge'esihina"); New Zealand Gazette extract (No. 112, 23 December 1943, page 1528) containing a list of officers taken on strength for the Tongan Defence Force; piece of folded tapa cloth containing the word "Greetings" written in black ink with a small indistinct illustration above the text; court summons in Tongan (No. 2780), dated 15 November 1944; envelope "Greetings from the Friendly Islands" featuring a man in an small outrigger close to the shoreline of a beach lined with tall coconut palms.
(8) - Three letters concerning the engagement of Miss Margaret Beatrice Gordon, daughter of Mr J. Gordon, of Auckland, New Zealand, to J.A. Joske [Arthur John Brewster Joske], of Levuka, Fiji, 1897.
(9) - Sundry items, the most notable being - US War Department basic field manual titled "Military Courtesy and Discipline" (15 June 1942); bidding forms and invoices relating to the purchase of a Spencer microscope and a set of surgical instruments from the USNAB Navy 200; customs export licence for three cases of bananas sent from Nuku'alofa, Tonga, to Auckland, New Zealand, per the vessel 'Matua'; National Bank of New Zealand (Newmarket branch) cheque book (No. 484) showing used counterfoils for purchases made in 1942; five (5) used US Navy Department envelopes addressed to the General Officer Commanding, Tongatabu; Christmas greeting card from Captain and Mrs W.A. Stoughton, of Shade, Ohio, USA; receipts for goods purchased in 1941 by R.B. Hardy from Auckland furniture manufacturers F.C. Phillips, and Andrews & Clark; piece of repaired khaki uniform material.
