Imperial Memorial Gallery - Gifts, Fiji

Reference

MCC/AAL/2/TEMP174

Date:

1952-10-09 - 1956-08-03

Level of description

file

Extent

1 folder

Part of

department correspondence and papers (MCC/AAL/2)

Scope and Content

Curator's correspondence (Diana Rait Kerr), and newspaper cuttings relating to gifts from Fiji for the opening of the Imperial Memorial Gallery. Subjects include a description of the chiefly ceremony of welcome to be performed by the Fijians in honour of the MCC team on 1 April 1951 at Nadi Airport, Fiji Islands, donation of Fijian photographs by Philip Snow and a Fijian badge worn by the team on their visit of New Zealand in 1948, presentation by Fiji Cricket Association of a painting of Albert Park, Suva to Earl Alexander of Tunis, MCC President, history of cricket in Fiji.

Associations

Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Philip Albert Snow
Harold Alexander
Fijian Cricket Association

Subject

Fijian cricket, Memorial Gallery, Imperial Cricket Memorial, Fiji in New Zealand 1947-1948

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 folder

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