Abstract

Macu Salato was born in 1915 into a family of commoner status in the Moala group of Lau, Fiji. He died in Auckland in 1990 after a distinguished career in Fiji's medical services, as mayor of Suva and a member of the Great Council of Chiefs, as acting high commissioner in London, and as secretary general of the South Pacific Commission (now the Secretariat of the Pacific Community). He was an active member of the Anglican Church, and was awarded the CBE in 1973. After his term at the South Pacific Commission he spent time as a Fulbright scholar in residence at the University of Hawai'i, Mânoa, as honorary research fellow at the East-West Center and interim director of that Center's Pacific Islands Development Program.

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