Death Of Curator Of
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Suva Museum
Mr. G. T. Barker
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, August 20.
AMONG several widely-known Fiji people whose deaths have occurred in recent weeks was Mr. George Thomas Barker, who for 17 years has been curator of the Fiji Museum, Suva.
Mr. Barker was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Barker, who arrived in Fiji in 1885. He was born in 1872.
Partly through research and partly through experience in the remoter parts of Fiji, he became an authority on Fijian history, language, traditions and customs. Except for several years in the 90’s, spent in gold-prospecting in WA, he spent all his life in the Colony.
Mr. Alport Barker, owner of the “Fiji Times,’’ is a brother of the deceased. Mrs.
T. P. Nicholson, of Suva, is a sister.