WINDFALL FOR LIBRARY
HISTORICAL DOCUMENT LONDON, March 29. A gift of great value will shortly reach the Mitchell Library, Sydney, from the Methodist Missionary Socieity.
The society has presented to the library all its original documents dealing with the history of Fiji, from 1835 to 1856, as a result of neprescrifafions made by Professor Henderson, Otf Adelaide.
The documents will be of the greatest use to- research students in Australia, which is their natural home. The society will retain photostat copies.
The New South Wales Acting AgentGeneral, Mr. .T. Ferguson, who will shortly despatch the documents, says that they were written by responsible residents, and arc dispensable to a study of customs, institutions, religion, and language, before Groat Britain established regular government in Fiji ♦
WHh other documents already in the Mitchell Library, they will constitute an unrivalled collection dealing with Fiji's transition period.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 7
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