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383:, the Fijian register of births and the only legal way to claim associated communal rights to native land, fishing rights (qoliqoli) and claim to hereditary chiefly titles. His father Ernest Fearon Walker was a Scottish settler and worked for the Hedstrom and Hennings families managing a local trade store. Walker was fortunate to have the choice and ability to move between two very different worlds: the traditional Fijian/Tongan way of life in the
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652:, Yasana ko Lau, Tikina ko Lomaloma, Koro ko Sawana, Vanua ko Lau, Yavusa ko Toga, Mataqali ko Toga, O ira na lewe ni tokatoka ko HA'APAI, No. 2, Entry no. 204 "Charlie Walker T 12/06/1928 SK 46" Date of Record Vide EB (iv), p.165&166. Note: I reproduce the reference in the language of record which is Fijian because some of the words have no exact English translation.
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of
Agriculture. He became Permanent Secretary for Agriculture in 1969 and after Independence came in 1970, he served in various portfolios including Finance and Foreign Affairs until he became Permanent Secretary to the Public Service Commission, effectively the first local to head the civil service.
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Walker began his career in the
Colonial Civil Service in the Colonial Department of Agriculture in the late 1940s as a Senior Agricultural Officer. By the time he married in 1958 he had progressed to the post of Director Agriculture and remained in that post until 1966, when responsible internal
434:, which he won, holding until the military coup-d'etat of 1987 after the Alliance defeat to the Labour/NFP Coalition. He served invariably as Minister of Agriculture, and then Finance and was Acting Prime Minister on a couple of occasions in the Alliance Administration. He resigned as
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After the failed civilian overthrow of George
Speight in 2000, he tendered his resignations for Fiji Pine and Tropik Wood Limited due to perceived conflicts with the new interim military administration's handling of these government subsidiaries.
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After returning to Fiji in 1993, he was appointed
Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Chairman of the Police Services Commission, a member of the Higher Salaries Commission as well as Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji.
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Shortly afterwards, he accepted the
Chairmanship of Fiji Pine Limited and Directorship of its subsidiary Tropik Woods Limited. He also accepted board positions two private companies with BOC Gases and Golden Manufacturing Ltd.
1045:"FASANOC shares a Tribute to Mr Charles Walker by Graham Leung. Mr Walker served as one of two FASANOC Trustees, alongside Mr Barry Sweetman for many years. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family at this time"
540:, the ambitious Tongan chief and loyal lieutenant of Ma'afu, who conquered much of Eastern and Northern Fiji before being reined in by Fiji's cession as a crown colony to the United Kingdom in 1874.
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They had three children Martha Jean Walker (1959–2008), Lilian Davila Walker (born 1961) and Ernest Fearon Walker (born 1972). Charles Walker He died in Suva on 11 March 2021, at the age of 92.
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After the 1987 coup, he served for a short stint as
Interim Minister for Information for the military junta before being appointed Fiji's Ambassador to the Empire of Japan in late 1988.
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Parliamentary Democracy was restored in 2001, he accepted appointment as Chair of the Sugar Industry Restructuring Committee by the leader of the SDL Government Prime Minister
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at
Cantebury in New Zealand, receiving a BSc in Agricultural Science in 1948. He later completed a MSc in agriculture at the University of Trinidad & Tobago.
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Walker was educated at the Levuka Public School, then completed his secondary education at the Marist
Brothers High School in Suva. After attaining his
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due differences with the Prime
Minister over how to handle an industrial dispute and served out the rest of his parliamentary term as a backbencher.
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Radio New Zealand Website, 'Fiji PM details claims opponents benefited from Sugar reform', Posted at 19:31 on 9 December 2005,
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Brij V. Lal, In the Eye of the Storm: Jai Ram Reddy and the Politics of Postcolonial Fiji, ANU E Press 2010,pages 191, 309,
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Alisi Davila Walker née Uluiviti (born 12 August 1937), a lady of rank from the village of Natauloa on the island of
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Walker resigned from all those positions after a strong disagreement with the SVT government led by Major General
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in Fiji and regionally through participation in International Christian Groups like
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Fiji Prisons Service, Rehabilitation Project, Guest Speaker Adi Davila Walker,
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self-government was introduced, he became Deputy Secretary of the newly formed
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The Cyclopedia of Fiji: A Complete Historical and Commercial Review of Fiji
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Walker was the youngest of the three children of Ernest Fearon Walker of
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Fiji Association of Sport & National Olympic Committee on Facebook
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Wanderings Among South Sea Savages: And in Borneo and the Philippines
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Regional Directory, 'Pacific Islands, Davila Walker, Chairwoman',
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Village, Lomaloma District, Vanua Balavu Island, Lau Province,
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478:Walker then retired to his family home in Suva.
629:. People's Coalition Government. 7 October 2000
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858:, 'Partnership Key to Sugar Success: Walker',
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782:Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund website
707:, University of Hawaii Press, 1997, page192
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987:Ramrakha, Karam (23 August 2011).
817:http://www.fijisun.com.fj/?p=43663
360:Walker was born in the village of
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1019:"Obituary: Mr. Charles Walker"
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705:The Pacific Way: A Memoir
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989:"Do you remember?"
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