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He faced a severe drought in the southern Gilberts, rendering impossible to collect the new capitation in those southernmost islands. He also faced the claims from traders, especially in
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in 1895. Swayne spent his Resident years in a peripatetic way, moving from island to island, by whatever commercial or naval vessels, returning to
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A History of Kiribati: From the Earliest Times to the 40th Anniversary of the Republic
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Simati Faanin (1983). "Chapter 16 – Travellers and Workers". In Laracy, Hugh (ed.).
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Fragments of Empire: A History of the Western Pacific High Commission 1877-1914
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British colonial governors and administrators in Oceania
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Swayne had spent more than 20 years as a Magistrate at
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Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
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Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
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Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
William Telfer Campbell
Colonial Service
CMG
Dublin
Resident Commissioner
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Lomaloma
Lau
Fiji
John Bates Thurston
High Commissioner for the Western Pacific
Ellice Islands
Gilbert Islands
Ellice Islands
Gilbert Islands
Tarawa
Betio
Suva
Sydney
Butaritari
Colonial Office
"Charles Richard Swayne"
ISBN
9-79869535-895-7
Categories
1843 births
1921 deaths
Governors of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
British colonial governors and administrators in Oceania

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