Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 26th April 2022. Part 3 of 4. Time in Fiji, the Rabuka coup. Student behaviour to soldiers. International Year of Peace. Rotary’s role in UN and UNESCO. Joining the Rotary Club of Suva East, supporting an India...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 26, 2022

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 12th April 2022. Part 1 of 4. Early childhood, in Wellington until 12, then Manawatu, boarding school then AFS. To Victoria University studying psychology. To Mid-West and then Harvard, followed by a lectureshi...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          April 12, 2022

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 20th May 2025. Part 2 of 2.   Born and educated in Fiji. Graduated as a dietician in 1973 and worked for Fiji government for 30 years. Moved to New Zealand in 2003 with family because of political...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 20, 2025

These images were taken for the August 27th 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper – the first of which was published with the caption: “Pupils and staff of the Palmerston North Girls' High School embark on a two week educational trip to Fij...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          August 27, 1978

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard on 10 October 1970. The story ran: "Fiji became an independent nation today exactly 96 years after the islands were ceded to Queen Victoria by Fiji's King Charles, handed t...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          October 1970

Ross Morpeth won the Trans Tours Pro-Am Golf Tournament at the Nausoria Golf Club in Suva in August 1974. At the time he was 21 years old and a golf professional at the Manawatu Golf Club. See Evening Standard 28 June 1973 for more information.

Creator:      The Tribune
Date:          September 1, 1974