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Fiji is strategically located in the South Pacific on the crossroads of shipping and air services between North America, Australia and Asia. This group of 300 islands lies approximately 2100 kilometres north of New Zealand and 3000 northeast of Sydney. Most of its 663,000 people are concentrated on the two largest islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, which together account for 90 per cent of the country’s total land area of 18,333 square kilometres.
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E. H. Griffin, Bank of New Zealand: A Century in Fiji 1876–1976 (Wellington: Bank of New Zealand, 1976) p. 3. There was also a German trading company, F. and W. Hennings and Company, which issued banknotes locally at about the same time.
It apparently was unable to do so because its charter was for operations in British colonies and Fiji was not under British control until the 1870s. See S. J. Butlin, Australia and New Zealand Bank: the Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia Limited, 1828–1951 (London: Longmans, 1961) p. 207.
R. F. Holder, Bank of New South Wales: A History (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1970) p. 509.
Bureau of Statistics, Insurance Report and Statistics on Fiji 1980/81 (1982) p. 42.
Central Monetary Authority of Fiji, Report and Financial Statement, 31 December 1978 (1979) p. 60.
Robert Keith-Reid, ‘Fiji Adding More Finance Facilities’, Weekend Australian, 13–14 Nov 1982, p. 82.
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Narube, S., Whiteside, B.T. (1985). Financial Institutions and Markets in Fiji. In: Skully, M.T. (eds) Financial Institutions and Markets in the Southwest Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04115-2_2
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