Histories of Suva

After Tok Stories about Suva's histories with Dr Tarisi Vunidilo, I decided to put together a short documentary. This is my first one ... or first one I have made in about 20 years so please do not be too brutal! I do welcome constructive feedback and definitely engagement with these histories because there is so much more to be said. This is truly just the tip of a huge iceberg.
Thank you to archives digitised at National Library of Australia, Fiji Museum, Te Papa Museum whose images have been used in this short film.
Sources used include:
‘Sugar growing in Fiji: Messrs Brewer and Joske’s sugar plantation, Suva’, The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 10 January 1874, p. 6.
‘The Fiji Islands’, The Argus, 16 September 1870, p. 6.
‘One of the party, Fiji’, The Suva Land Quest, Melbourne, 1880, p. 2.
‘Suva prepares: Albert Park Landing’, Evening News, Sydney, 2 June 1928, p. 1.
‘New public markets in Suva’, Pacific Islands Monthly, vol. 21, no. 2, 1 September 1950, p. 7.
Derrick, R A, ‘The removal of the Capital to Suva’, Fiji Society of Science and Industry, vol. 2, no. 1, 1940.
Scott, Sir Henry, ‘The development of Suva’, Fiji Society of Science and Industry, vol. 2, no. 1, 1940.
Wall, Colman, ‘Historical notes on Suva’, Domodomo, vol. 10, no 2, 1996, pp. 28-39.
Unknown author (2004). Native constabulary and police on parade outside Govt. [i.e. Government] House, Suva [digital image]. www.dspace.cam....
Unknown author (2004). Group of native chiefs [digital image]. www.dspace.cam....
Animation of Dr Tarisi Vunidilo and I was done by Enoch Chinweuba.
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