Islands

Pacific

Monthly

November 18, 1947

Vol. Xviii. No. 4.

Established 1930.

IRegistered at the G.P.0., by post as a newspaper ]

ON DAY WAS OBSERVED IN FIJI THIS YEAR on October 13. The ceremony took place at the new Cession monument which has recently been built outside the entrance of the Supreme Court Block of the Government Buildings, Suva. The monument incorporates the marble tablets from the original Cession obelisk, which has now been demolished. Photograph shows the Acting-Governor of Fiji, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, delivering an address. Seated in front of the monument (facing camera) are the descendants of the Fijian chiefs who signed the Deed of Cession in 1874. A representative gathering attended the ceremony and the outside galleries of the Government Building were crowded with school-children.

Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.