Linked e-resources
Details
Table of Contents
Intro
Acknowledgements
Language Note
Glossary
Chronology
List of Maps and Figures
Map 1: The Fiji Islands.
Map 2: Provinces of Viti Levu.
Map 3: Suva and surrounds.
Map 4: Early settlements of Suva.
Map 5: Suva City and Lami town and environs.
Figure 0.1: 'Native village near Suva', n.d.
Figure 0.2: Suva Harbour, n.d.
Figure 0.3: A view of Suva Harbour and Queen's Wharf, n.d.
Figure 0.4: 'Indian at Suva Street, 1970'.
Figure 0.5: Nubukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 0.6: Women at a market, Suva, 1939.
Figure 0.7: Vegetable market in Suva, 1950.
Figure 0.8: Indian women in Suva, 1949.
Figure 0.9: A garment shop, Suva, n.d.
Figure 0.10: Suva town, n.d.
Figure 0.11: Suva town, n.d.
Figure 0.12: Tamavua, n.d.
Figure 1.1: 'Native church at Suva 1870'.
Figure 2.1: Sketch of contested blocks of land between Walu Bay and Tamavua River, 1873.
Figure 2.2: Polynesia Company plan of selections at Grove Point, 1871.
Figure 2.3: Sketch of blocks claimed by the Polynesia Company on Suva peninsula and the hinterland, c.1870s.
Figure 2.4: Brewer and Joske's Sugar Mill, Suva, 1875.
Figure 2.5: Company map of selections at Suva peninsula, 4 February 1873. Signed by Frederick Cook and GD McCartney, directors, and Joshua Finner, manager.
Figure 2.6: Plan for a township
surveyed by DB Sellars, January 1870. The plan was misnamed. It was the plan for Lami Town, west of Suva.
Figure 3.1: Map of Suva with proposed township (shaded) and site for cemetery.
Figure 3.2: Sketch of the proposed Suva township, 1879.
Figure 3.3: Town of Suva and adjoining lands, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1885.
Figure 3.4: Bolton Corney report on the selection of a suitable site for a permanent public burial ground in Suva, 1882.
Figure 3.5: Letter from Ratu Aporosa Tuivuya to the Native Commissioner, 20 November 1882.
Figure 3.6: Map of Suva showing township lots, 1882.
Figure 4.1: 'The business street of Suva, Fiji', n.d.
Figure 4.2: Plan of the proposed Vatuwaqa settlement, 1887.
Figure 4.3: Map of the town of Suva and adjoining lands, 1889.
Figure 4.4: Cumming Street under construction, 1876.
Figure 4.5: Queen Victoria Memorial Hall, time of Fiji Agricultural Industrial Show, 1908.
Figure 4.6: Proposed site for swimming baths - Suva, 1890.
Figure 4.7: Ratu Aporosa and Adi Kelera, n.d.
Figure 5.1: 'In native village near Suva - Fiji' (probably Suvavou), 1884.
Figure 5.2: 'Early Suva: Fijian market. Vuniivi tree, c. 1892'.
Figure 5.3: 'Early Suva: Fijian market, c. 1892'.
Figure 7.1: 'View of the jail and depot from the hospital', n.d.
Figure 7.2: 'Suva Prison, 1946'.
Figure 8.1: Walls of St Giles Hospital, 1965.
Figures 8.2 and 8.3: Moala ward, 2018.
Figure 8.4: Mock ECT, St Giles Hospital, 1965 with Dr M Vuki, deputy head orderly, Asena Ranadi and head orderly, Charlie Sachs.
Figure 8.5: Open day, St Giles, 1981.
Figure 9.1: Government Buildings from Fiji Club, n.d.
Figure 9.2: Government House, Suva, Fiji, 1884
Figure 10.1: 'Swimming Baths Suva, About 1930'.
Figure 10.2: AD Patel speaks at a Federation Party election rally in Suva, 1966.
Figure 10.3: The Indian polling Centre in Suva during the elections for the Southern division, Suva 1963.
Figure 10.4: Indian polling station outside Suva Sea Baths, 1966.
Figure 10.5: Fijians go in to vote, in mourning dress after death of Ratu Mara's father, Suva 1966.
Figure 10.6: Main figures, from left to right: Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau, Andrew Deoki, Aileen Regan and Douglas Brown, on candidates nomination day in Suva, 1966.
Figure 10.7: Fijians assisting at the stall of an Indian candidate contesting in a multiracial ('cross voting') electorate, Suva, 1966.
Figure 11.1: Miss Griffen and her students, 1935.
Figure 11.2: Ballantine schoolgirls at the original site in Muanikau, 1935.
Figure 11.3: Photos of Ballantine School on its original site 1935.
Figure 11.4: Ballantine students and staff with Australian visitors, 1935.
Figure 12.1: 'The Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Laucala Bay'. Painting by Maurice Conley, 1966, now in the USP Chancellery Board Room.
Figure 12.2: Women's Hall, USP, 1968.
Figure 12.3: USP students demonstrating in downtown Suva against French nuclear testing in the Pacific, 1972.
Figure 12.4: Extension Services, 1977. USP at Suva was a global pioneer in the development of distance education long before digital platforms.
Figure 12.5: Graduation at the Lower Campus (that was also the gymnasium), 1979.
Figure 13.1: The ivi tree (1959). The ivi tree in the middle of the picture stands in front of what is Vanua Arcade today. The sea is now part of Ratu Sukuna Park.
Figure 13.2: The ivi tree, from where McDonalds restaurant is today (1959). Part of the Cable &
Wireless Building can be seen to the right of the picture.
Figure 13.3: Victoria Parade, n.d.
Figure 13.4: Suva wharf, n.d. In the background next to the Union Steamship Company store is the same ivi tree.
Figure 13.5: Victoria Parade, n.d.
Figure 13.6: World War I parade near the Ivi Triangle.
Figure 14.1: Corner of Scott Street and Renwick Road, n.d.
Figure 14.2: Nabukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 14.3: Carnegie Library, n.d.
Figure 14.4: Interior of the Grand Pacific Hotel, n.d.
Figure 14.5: Welcoming Charles Kingsford Smith's aeroplane Southern Cross at Suva, Fiji, 1928.
Figure 14.6: Aerial view of Grand Pacific Hotel, Albert Park and Government Buildings, n.d.
Figure 15.1: Borron House, n.d.
Figure 15.2: The aftermath of the Cummings Street fire, 1923.
Figure 15.3: Morris Hedstrom building next to Nabukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 15.4: Aerial view of Kings Wharf, n.d.
Figure 15.5: Indian musical group auditioning at Broadcasting House, 1957.
Figure 15.6: Indian ladies at Ruve Park, Samabula, 1968. This was presumably to commemorate the end of Indian indenture in Fiji.
Figure 15.7: Indian men at Ruve Park, Samabula, 1968. This was presumably to commemorate the end of Indian indenture in Fiji.
Figure 16.1: Elephant house, Raiwaqa, 2022.
Figure 16.2: Outdoor market, Suva, 1939.
Figure 16.3: One of the original houses left in Raiwaqa, 2022.
Figure 16.4: The Playhouse, 2022.
Figure 17.1: A Solomon Islander's house in Suva, Fiji, approximately 1890.
List of Authors
Maps
Introduction: Reclaiming Suva
Part 1. Foundations
1. The Prehistory of Suva
2. Suva and the Fate of the Polynesia Company
3. The Making of a Capital: A Social History of Suva, 1870-1882
4. The Making of a Capital: A Social History of Suva, 1882-1890
5. Early Suva Fijians - A View Through Sere Makawa
6. The Grand Old Man and the Prince of Thieves
Part 2. Creations
7. Piecing Together a History of Suva Prison
8. Visibly Hidden in Suva: St Giles
9. Supreme Court Stories: Narrating Violence in Suva Streets and Homes
10. Race Relations in Colonial Suva, 1945-1970
11. Methodist Schools in Suva in the Colonial Era
12. From Laucala Bay to the Region: The University of the South Pacific
Part 3. Reflections
13. Swimming under the Ivi Tree: Ratu Sukuna Park, Land Reclamation and Family Connections
14. Suva - Once a Colonial Town
15. Where Is My Home and Where Is My Heart?.
16. Raiwaqa and the Playhouse
17. Minority Melanesians in Suva
18. Suva: Resilient Coup Capital?
19. Wailea
Bibliography
Appendix 1. Recorded Population of Suva
Appendix 2. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou Recorded by Anthropologist Arthur Hocart, c. 1912
Appendix 3. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou Recorded by the Veitarogivanua in 1902
Appendix 4. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou According to Testimony Recorded by the Veitarogivanua in 1921
Appendix 5. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou According to the Final Report of the Veitarogivanua
Appendix 6. Nursery Rhymes of Fiji.
Acknowledgements
Language Note
Glossary
Chronology
List of Maps and Figures
Map 1: The Fiji Islands.
Map 2: Provinces of Viti Levu.
Map 3: Suva and surrounds.
Map 4: Early settlements of Suva.
Map 5: Suva City and Lami town and environs.
Figure 0.1: 'Native village near Suva', n.d.
Figure 0.2: Suva Harbour, n.d.
Figure 0.3: A view of Suva Harbour and Queen's Wharf, n.d.
Figure 0.4: 'Indian at Suva Street, 1970'.
Figure 0.5: Nubukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 0.6: Women at a market, Suva, 1939.
Figure 0.7: Vegetable market in Suva, 1950.
Figure 0.8: Indian women in Suva, 1949.
Figure 0.9: A garment shop, Suva, n.d.
Figure 0.10: Suva town, n.d.
Figure 0.11: Suva town, n.d.
Figure 0.12: Tamavua, n.d.
Figure 1.1: 'Native church at Suva 1870'.
Figure 2.1: Sketch of contested blocks of land between Walu Bay and Tamavua River, 1873.
Figure 2.2: Polynesia Company plan of selections at Grove Point, 1871.
Figure 2.3: Sketch of blocks claimed by the Polynesia Company on Suva peninsula and the hinterland, c.1870s.
Figure 2.4: Brewer and Joske's Sugar Mill, Suva, 1875.
Figure 2.5: Company map of selections at Suva peninsula, 4 February 1873. Signed by Frederick Cook and GD McCartney, directors, and Joshua Finner, manager.
Figure 2.6: Plan for a township
surveyed by DB Sellars, January 1870. The plan was misnamed. It was the plan for Lami Town, west of Suva.
Figure 3.1: Map of Suva with proposed township (shaded) and site for cemetery.
Figure 3.2: Sketch of the proposed Suva township, 1879.
Figure 3.3: Town of Suva and adjoining lands, Viti Levu, Fiji, 1885.
Figure 3.4: Bolton Corney report on the selection of a suitable site for a permanent public burial ground in Suva, 1882.
Figure 3.5: Letter from Ratu Aporosa Tuivuya to the Native Commissioner, 20 November 1882.
Figure 3.6: Map of Suva showing township lots, 1882.
Figure 4.1: 'The business street of Suva, Fiji', n.d.
Figure 4.2: Plan of the proposed Vatuwaqa settlement, 1887.
Figure 4.3: Map of the town of Suva and adjoining lands, 1889.
Figure 4.4: Cumming Street under construction, 1876.
Figure 4.5: Queen Victoria Memorial Hall, time of Fiji Agricultural Industrial Show, 1908.
Figure 4.6: Proposed site for swimming baths - Suva, 1890.
Figure 4.7: Ratu Aporosa and Adi Kelera, n.d.
Figure 5.1: 'In native village near Suva - Fiji' (probably Suvavou), 1884.
Figure 5.2: 'Early Suva: Fijian market. Vuniivi tree, c. 1892'.
Figure 5.3: 'Early Suva: Fijian market, c. 1892'.
Figure 7.1: 'View of the jail and depot from the hospital', n.d.
Figure 7.2: 'Suva Prison, 1946'.
Figure 8.1: Walls of St Giles Hospital, 1965.
Figures 8.2 and 8.3: Moala ward, 2018.
Figure 8.4: Mock ECT, St Giles Hospital, 1965 with Dr M Vuki, deputy head orderly, Asena Ranadi and head orderly, Charlie Sachs.
Figure 8.5: Open day, St Giles, 1981.
Figure 9.1: Government Buildings from Fiji Club, n.d.
Figure 9.2: Government House, Suva, Fiji, 1884
Figure 10.1: 'Swimming Baths Suva, About 1930'.
Figure 10.2: AD Patel speaks at a Federation Party election rally in Suva, 1966.
Figure 10.3: The Indian polling Centre in Suva during the elections for the Southern division, Suva 1963.
Figure 10.4: Indian polling station outside Suva Sea Baths, 1966.
Figure 10.5: Fijians go in to vote, in mourning dress after death of Ratu Mara's father, Suva 1966.
Figure 10.6: Main figures, from left to right: Ratu Sir Edward Cakobau, Andrew Deoki, Aileen Regan and Douglas Brown, on candidates nomination day in Suva, 1966.
Figure 10.7: Fijians assisting at the stall of an Indian candidate contesting in a multiracial ('cross voting') electorate, Suva, 1966.
Figure 11.1: Miss Griffen and her students, 1935.
Figure 11.2: Ballantine schoolgirls at the original site in Muanikau, 1935.
Figure 11.3: Photos of Ballantine School on its original site 1935.
Figure 11.4: Ballantine students and staff with Australian visitors, 1935.
Figure 12.1: 'The Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Laucala Bay'. Painting by Maurice Conley, 1966, now in the USP Chancellery Board Room.
Figure 12.2: Women's Hall, USP, 1968.
Figure 12.3: USP students demonstrating in downtown Suva against French nuclear testing in the Pacific, 1972.
Figure 12.4: Extension Services, 1977. USP at Suva was a global pioneer in the development of distance education long before digital platforms.
Figure 12.5: Graduation at the Lower Campus (that was also the gymnasium), 1979.
Figure 13.1: The ivi tree (1959). The ivi tree in the middle of the picture stands in front of what is Vanua Arcade today. The sea is now part of Ratu Sukuna Park.
Figure 13.2: The ivi tree, from where McDonalds restaurant is today (1959). Part of the Cable &
Wireless Building can be seen to the right of the picture.
Figure 13.3: Victoria Parade, n.d.
Figure 13.4: Suva wharf, n.d. In the background next to the Union Steamship Company store is the same ivi tree.
Figure 13.5: Victoria Parade, n.d.
Figure 13.6: World War I parade near the Ivi Triangle.
Figure 14.1: Corner of Scott Street and Renwick Road, n.d.
Figure 14.2: Nabukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 14.3: Carnegie Library, n.d.
Figure 14.4: Interior of the Grand Pacific Hotel, n.d.
Figure 14.5: Welcoming Charles Kingsford Smith's aeroplane Southern Cross at Suva, Fiji, 1928.
Figure 14.6: Aerial view of Grand Pacific Hotel, Albert Park and Government Buildings, n.d.
Figure 15.1: Borron House, n.d.
Figure 15.2: The aftermath of the Cummings Street fire, 1923.
Figure 15.3: Morris Hedstrom building next to Nabukalou Creek, n.d.
Figure 15.4: Aerial view of Kings Wharf, n.d.
Figure 15.5: Indian musical group auditioning at Broadcasting House, 1957.
Figure 15.6: Indian ladies at Ruve Park, Samabula, 1968. This was presumably to commemorate the end of Indian indenture in Fiji.
Figure 15.7: Indian men at Ruve Park, Samabula, 1968. This was presumably to commemorate the end of Indian indenture in Fiji.
Figure 16.1: Elephant house, Raiwaqa, 2022.
Figure 16.2: Outdoor market, Suva, 1939.
Figure 16.3: One of the original houses left in Raiwaqa, 2022.
Figure 16.4: The Playhouse, 2022.
Figure 17.1: A Solomon Islander's house in Suva, Fiji, approximately 1890.
List of Authors
Maps
Introduction: Reclaiming Suva
Part 1. Foundations
1. The Prehistory of Suva
2. Suva and the Fate of the Polynesia Company
3. The Making of a Capital: A Social History of Suva, 1870-1882
4. The Making of a Capital: A Social History of Suva, 1882-1890
5. Early Suva Fijians - A View Through Sere Makawa
6. The Grand Old Man and the Prince of Thieves
Part 2. Creations
7. Piecing Together a History of Suva Prison
8. Visibly Hidden in Suva: St Giles
9. Supreme Court Stories: Narrating Violence in Suva Streets and Homes
10. Race Relations in Colonial Suva, 1945-1970
11. Methodist Schools in Suva in the Colonial Era
12. From Laucala Bay to the Region: The University of the South Pacific
Part 3. Reflections
13. Swimming under the Ivi Tree: Ratu Sukuna Park, Land Reclamation and Family Connections
14. Suva - Once a Colonial Town
15. Where Is My Home and Where Is My Heart?.
16. Raiwaqa and the Playhouse
17. Minority Melanesians in Suva
18. Suva: Resilient Coup Capital?
19. Wailea
Bibliography
Appendix 1. Recorded Population of Suva
Appendix 2. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou Recorded by Anthropologist Arthur Hocart, c. 1912
Appendix 3. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou Recorded by the Veitarogivanua in 1902
Appendix 4. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou According to Testimony Recorded by the Veitarogivanua in 1921
Appendix 5. Classification of Communal Units of Suvavou According to the Final Report of the Veitarogivanua
Appendix 6. Nursery Rhymes of Fiji.