Possibly shipping agents with premises at Levuka, Fiji
Morris Hedstrom Ltd
Melrose, Ray : Camohe, a history of four generations of the Carpenter family
Date: 1914-1956
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1113
Description: Poor quality photocopy of the original. Covers the history of the firm W R Carpenter and Company Ltd, and its trading and shipping activities in Papua, as well as its expansion into copra plantations, until its takeover by Morris Hedstrom and Company in 1956. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2003
Fiji Public Relations :Photographs of Fiji
Date: [ca 1950s]
By: Fiji. Public Relations Office
Reference: PAColl-0449
Description: 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
An Apia street scene with a group of boys outside the Morris Hedstrom Limited Cocoa She...
Date: Sep 1945
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-01104-G
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches