Cakaubau Would See Many Changes...

King Cakobau, who ceded Fiji to Britain in 1874, looks down from his picture (extreme right top corner of photo) above the entrance to the Fiji Legislative Council Chambers on what must have been, for him, a rather startling scene. A Fijian policeman holds the Mace, which used to be Cakobau's war-club, and the Speaker of the Fiji Legislative Council, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, in full-bottomed wig, leads the way into the Chamber, followed by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey. The occasion was the unveiling of a stone block from the Palace of Westminster which has been incorporated in the wall of the Chamber. The stone was removed from the British Houses of Parliament during renovations. Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office.