George Toganivalu

Ratu George Toganivalu OBE (died 17 June 1951) was a Fijian chief and politician. He was Roko Tui of Bua and Ba, and a member of the Legislative Council between 1940 and 1951.

George Toganivalu
Roko Tui of Bua
In office
1928 –  
Roko Tui of Ba
In office
1946 –  
Nominated Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1940–1951
Personal details
Died17 June 1951
Suva, Fiji

Biography

During World War I he joined the Māori Battalion and served in France.[1] When he returned to Fiji he joined the civil service, becoming Native Assistant Commissioner in Bua. He was subsequently appointed Roko Tui of the province in 1928, succeeding his father Deve.[2]

In 1940 Toganivalu was appointed to the Legislative Council. During World War II he was a captain in the Labour Battalion of the Fiji Military Forces.[1] He became Roko Tui of Ba Province in 1946, and was given an OBE in the 1949 New Year Honours.[1]

He died in June 1951 in Suva.[1] His sons Julian and William also later served as MPs.

gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.
gollark: I think you can think about it from a "veil of ignorance" angle too.
gollark: As far as I know, most moral standards are in favor of judging people by moral choices. Your environment is not entirely a choice.
gollark: If you put a pre-most-bad-things Hitler in Philadelphia, and he did not go around doing *any* genocides or particularly bad things, how would he have been bad?
gollark: It seems problematic to go around actually blaming said soldiers when, had they magically been in a different environment somehow, they could have been fine.

References
  1. Death of Fijian leader Pacific Islands Monthly, July 1951, p21
  2. Timothy J. MacNaught (1982) The Fijian Colonial Experience Australian National University, p55
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