I wish to thank Stephen Ashton, General Editor of the British Documents on the end of Empire project, for inviting me to edit the Fiji volume for the series; the ever courteous people at the Public Records Office at Kew Gardens for their assistance in accessing the records; the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, for a Senior Research Fellowship, at the University of London where some of this work was written; the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University for granting me leave to undertake the project; and Stephen Ashton, Robert Norton, Rod Alley, Stewart Firth and Jon Fraenkel for reading a draft and making many helpful suggestions for revision. The usual disclaimer applies.