Valuable Pacific
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Library To House Valuable Pacific Collection
The Fiji Government and the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. will meet the cost of building a library which will be the per manent home of a valuable col lection of books and documents about Fiji and the South Pacific.
The collection, which was the property of Sir Alport Barker, was presented to the Government after Sir Alport’s death in 1956.
The CSR’s share of the project is £2,000. Lady Barker has agreed that the library will be known as the “Sir Alport Barker Memorial Library”. The main part will consist of more than 3,000 books, with publication dates varying from 1599 to the 1950’y. Most were published in the 19 th century.
The collection includes many rare documents, etchings, coloured plates and early maps of the South Pacific.