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Rob Wright
Ratu Kamisese Mara
[Fiji in the Forties and Fifties, pl. 15]
1946, July
Book illustration, based on gelatin silver print
Private collection of Ginnie Marlow
Used with the kind permission of Ginnie Marlow and Thomson Pacific Ltd.
LL/20227
This photograph is included in the book "Fiji in the Forties and Fifties" Photography by Rob Wright, Text by Sir Ian Thomson, Edited by Peter Thomson (Thomson Pacific Ltd., 1994, ISBN: 0473027402)
Accompanying text in book:
"Rob Wright took these photos in July 1946, shortly before these two young men were to leave for Oxford University. They were to go on to be outstanding Fijians of their generation."
Further comment by Ginnie Marlow (May 2007):
"Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara GCMG KBE CF, (May 6, 1920 - April 18, 2004) is considered the founding father of the modern nation of Fiji. He was Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as President from 1993 to 2000"
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