Fijians And Kindness To Animals
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THE natives of Fiji have a reputation for being cruel to animals—probably because animals are something compara tively new in the history of that country.
But the trait is being eliminated.
When Major C. B. Joske, Scout Com missioner in Fiji, arrived in Sydney in
March, he told of how two Fijian Boy Scouts, after floods in the Rewa River, came across a cow lying on the river bank, with its head out of the water.
They hauled it out and applied resuscita tion methods for the apparently drowned, following the same principles as they would have done for a human being.
The animal got up and staggered away, and the Scouts refused to take any re ward from the grateful farmer.
Care of animals takes an important part in the extension work of the Fiji Department of Agriculture among the na tives; and the above photograph, for which we are indebted to Mr. W. L. Par ham, of Sigatoka, shows one result of it.
Natives on friendly terms with horses on a farm in Fiji.