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Loading sugar cane, 1884

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Loading sugar cane, 1884

Large sugar cane plantations were established in Fiji in the late 19th century by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. This sugar cane has been harvested on the island of Mango.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Burton Brothers Collection

Reference: PA7-34-07

by Alfred Burton

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Geoff Bertram, South Pacific economic relations – Sugar and phosphate, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24239/loading-sugar-cane-1884 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Geoff Bertram, published 12 April 2010.