Gold Production and the Mining Community in Fiji

Reflections on a region: New Zealand geographers and the study of Pacific peoples with special reference to the period 1945–1970

“…He was already publishing more generally on population issues in the Pacific by 1959 and went on to develop a substantial research interest in internal migration and urbanisation initially in Samoa, Cook Islands and Fiji and then later in Papua New Guinea (Bedford & Overton 1999). James Whitelaw, who moved from Auckland to the ANU to complete his PhD on Suva's development, published on Suva and Fiji's small gold mining town, Vatukoula (Whitelaw 1964, 1966, 1967), while Peter Curson (1965, 1968), a junior lecturer in the Department in the mid‐1960s who subsequently went on to do a PhD at the University of Tasmania, contributed short pieces on the small towns in New Caledonia (other than Noumea) and the town of Avarua in the Cook Islands in a series of articles on Pacific urbanisation published in the SPC's South Pacific Bulletin .…”