Charles Walker (Fijian Politician)
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Honourable Ambassador (retired) Charles Walker MP CMG |
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| Member of Parliament Cabinet Minister |
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In office September 1977 – 13 April 1987 5 December 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Adi Losalini Dovi |
| Succeeded by | Parliament Abrogated along with 1970 Constitution; Constituencies reorganised under 1990 Constitution |
| Constituency | Eastern General National Seat (1972–1977) Vanua Levu/Lau/Rotuma (1977–1987) |
| Ambassador to the Empire of Japan, Republic of South Korea & The People's Republic of China | |
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In office 16 January 1988 – 29 May 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Ratu Tui Cavuilati |
| Succeeded by | Robin Yarrow |
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12 June 1928 Sawana Village, Lomaloma District, Vanua Balavu Island, Lau Province, Fiji |
| Political party | Alliance Party (Fiji) |
| Spouse(s) |
Adi Alisi Davila Walker nee Uluiviti |
Adi Alisi Davila Walker nee Uluiviti
Children:
1.Martha Jean Walker (deceased)
2.Lilian Davila Walker-Ahtack
Charles Walker (born 12 June 1928) is a retired civil servant and Alliance Party politician and former diplomat of Fiji.
Walker was born in the village of Sawana in the Lomaloma district on Vanua Balavu island in the Lau Archipelago. He was registered under Luseane Wainiqolo, his maternal grandmother, in the rolls of the Vola ni Kawa Bula (Native Land Register), the Fijian register of births and the only legal way to claim associated communal rights to native land, fishing rights (qoliqoli) and claim to hereditary chiefly titles. His father Ernest Fearon Walker was a Scottish settler and worked for the Hedstrom and Hennings families managing a local trade store. Walker was fortunate to have the choice and ability to move between two very different worlds: the traditional Fijian/Tongan way of life in the village and as the son of a European settler in the Western world of rapidly modernising Suva City.
Walker was educated at the Levuka Public School, then completed his secondary education at the Marist Brothers High School in Suva. After attaining his Senior Cambridge, he was accepted into the University of Otago at Cantebury in New Zealand, receiving a BSc in Agricultural Science in 1948. He later completed a MSc in Agriculture at the University of Trinidad & Tobago.
Walker began his career in the Colonial Civil Service in the Colonial Department of Agriculture in the late 1940s as a Senior Agricultural Officer. By the time he married in 1958 he had progressed to the post of Director Agriculture and remained in that post until 1966, when responsible internal self-government was introduced, he became Deputy Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Agriculture. He became Permanent Secretary for Agriculture in 1969 and after Independence came in 1970, he served in various portfolios including Finance and Foreign Affairs until he became Permanent Secretary to the Public Service Commission, effectively the first local to head the civil service.
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