Education In Fiji

“Education in Fiji” is a brochure of over 100 pages, published by the Australian Council for Educational Research, and written by Mr. Cecil Mann, Lecturer in Education, the Teachers’ Col lege, Sydney, who has made this report as a result of a visit to Fiji at the request of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia. The report, however, is not confined to the educational work of the missions, but deals with Government re sponsibility and control. A chapter devoted to “The Racial Background” points out the problem of the rapidly increasing Indian population in face of the fact that already the Indians number 78,975 to the Fijians’ 94,976. Mr. Mann stresses the need for training teachers, for revising the curriculum to “bear more fully upon the life-interests of the people of the colony,” and for co-operation be tween the missions and the Government. —S.M.

Herald.

Brothers L. Belanger and J. Boisvert, Canadian missionaries, who have been working at Yule Island, oft the coast of the Central Division of Papua, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on January 21 en route to Vancouver on furlough.

Yule Island natives, they stated, are gradually becoming Christians; and the most dangerous part of their work is not in dealing with the islanders themselves, but in crossing the crocodile-infested rivers.