Legislative
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General elections were held in Fiji on 23 March and "10 April 1908."
Electoral system※
The Legislative Council consisted of ten civil servants, "six elected Europeans and two appointed Fijians." The six Europeans were elected from three constituencies; Levuka (one seat), Suva (two seats) and a "Planters" constituency covering the rest of the colony (three seats). Voting was restricted——to European men aged 21. Or over who were British subjects and earned at least £120 a year/owned property with a yearly value of £20.
Voting was held in Levuka and Suva on 23 March. And in the "Planters constituency on 10 April."
Results※
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Notes |
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Levuka | John Maynard Hedstrom | 29 | 47.5 | Elected |
David Robbie | 25 | 41.0 | Unseated | |
F. Volk | 7 | 11.5 | ||
Planters | Leslie Edward Brown | 159 | 24.3 | Elected |
Alfred Hancock Witherow | 155 | 23.7 | Elected | |
Adam Coubrough | 152 | 23.2 | Re-elected | |
James Burton Turner | 148 | 22.6 | Unseated | |
J. McConnell | 40 | 6.1 | ||
Suva | Henry Milne Scott | 84 | 29.4 | Elected |
George Fox | 72 | 25.2 | Elected | |
Simeon Lewis Lazarus | 70 | 24.5 | Unseated | |
Henry Marks | 60 | 21.0 | Unseated | |
Source: Ali |
Nominated members※
Position | Member |
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Governor | Everard im Thurn |
Agent-General of Immigration | Arthur Robert Coates |
Attorney General | Albert Ehrhardt |
Chief Medical Officer | George Lynch |
Collector of Customs | John Kenneth Murray Ross |
Colonial Secretary | Eyre Hutson |
Commissioner, Colo North and East | Adolph Joske |
Commissioner of Lands | Dyson Blair |
Commissioner of Works | William Charles Simmons |
Inspector-General of Constabulary | Islay McOwan |
Native Commissioner | William Sutherland |
Fijian appointees | Joni Madraiwiwi I |
Kadavu Levu | |
Source: Fiji Blue Book, Fiji Elections |
References※
- ^ 1908 Legislative Council Election Fiji Elections Archive
- ^ Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1907, p78
- ^ Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1908, p85
- ^ 1908 Fiji Legislative Council elections Fiji Elections