Robert Sidney Foster Quotes

Sir Robert Sidney Foster was a British colonial administrator, best remembered as the last colonial Governor of Fiji and the first Governor-General of the Dominion of Fiji. He had previously served as Governor of the Solomon Islands and as High Commissioner for the Western Pacific . Wikipedia

✵ 11. August 1913 – 12. October 2005

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Robert Sidney Foster Quotes

“On the 10th day of October, Fiji achieved nationhood in the fullest sense of that term. There was no declaration of independence on her part, since independence was freely given. There was simply a grateful acceptance of the independence that was offered, and a dedication to the tasks that lay ahead and she became the master of her own destiny and assumed her place in the world family of Nations.”

Robert Sidney Foster

Address opening Fiji's first parliamentary session as an independent nation (excerpts)

“In the lives of nations some occasions possess a unique character. Surely this, the opening of the Independent Fiji's first Parliament, is one of them.”

Robert Sidney Foster

Address opening Fiji's first parliamentary session as an independent nation (excerpts)

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