Fiji Public Relations :Photographs of Fiji

Set of photographs of Fijian life taken by the government's Public Relations Office. They include aspects of the copra and sugar industries (transportation, milling etc); view of Nabui a peak in the Korobasabasaga range on Viti Levu; the Triangle, a park in Suva; children sitting on the lawns in front of the Leprosy Hospital supervised by Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary; a bridge carrying the King's Road over the Rewa River at Nausori; trainee teachers learning woodworking skills making furniture at college; a man having a blood sample taken in the fight against filaria (a parasitic disease); a presentation at the start of a traditional feast with whole roast pigs; two men taking part in a yaqona or kava ceremony; two pupils next to a plaque at Queen Victoria School; traditional bure (houses) at Matayalevu; Fijian policemen on parade in Suva; women performing an action song called vakamalolo; Nadi airport; a child being weighed at a clinic; the island of Bau, headquarters of Roko Tui Tailevu, the head of the district; five women in bathing suits walking along a beach at Nukulau; the wharves at Levuka and Suva; a view of Suva showing the Grand Pacific Hotel and the government buildings; an Indian ploughing with bullocks; women doing their laundry in a river; men fishing communally in a yavirau (fishdrive) where the men form a circle and drive the fish into a net; an operation underway with an European doctor and Fijian assistants at the Colonial Medical School; and a class at a school on Moturiki.

Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Prints 259mm x 204mm with captions on the reverse