Mountains - Fiji

Date: [ca 1941-1948]

From: Fiji Forces Association :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9783-3

Description: Contains photographs of Lautoka Sugar Mill, Nabui Mountain, and women in Fiji. Also contains group portraits of New Zealand servicemen, including a photograph of the 20th field company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force's A rugby team, a formal portrait of `F.M.F., M.T., Stores sub - depot, June 1945' as well as casual photographs. The subjects of these portraits are identified by captions or by annotations on the reverse. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, with typed captions and ms annotations

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

Date: 1930

By: Savage, Cedric Daniel, 1901-1969

Reference: A-459-001

Description: A Fijian man transports his produce, including coconuts and bananas, in a simple canoe down a river. He stands at the back of the canoe, propelling it with a pole. He wears a plain white sulu to his knees. On the riverbank, a village can be seen, with mountains rising in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.Savage/30 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 238 x 315 mm