Official History of Fiji

Now Available

Suva, Nov. 12.

THE first volume of a history of Fiji, by R. A. Derrick (he has written several text books for Fijian schools) has now been published by the Govern ment Printer in Fiji.

This book was to have been published four years ago, but war time conditions and paper shortages delayed its produc tion.

The Fiji Public Relations Office says that the book is the result of years of research and personal observation by Mr.

Derrick, and that it must become the standard work of reference for all in terested in Fiji and the Fijians. This volume covers the period up to the cession of Fiji to Great Britain in 1874. Pre sumably there will later be a second volume with events up to the present day.

A cheap edition of the book is being produced first; a library edition, well bound and containing extra illustrations, will be produced later when book-binding materials are more easily procurable. The present edition is bound in stiff boards, with an attractive dust-cover and is on sale at the Government Printing Office, Suva, Fiji for 5/- (Postage extra).