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Fiji—Indian Problems

Dr. C. F. Andrews to Investigate

From Our N.Z. Correspondent AUCKLAND, April 29.

A VISIT to Fiji at the request of the Imperial Indian Citizenship Associa tion is to be made shortly by Dr. Charles Freer Andrews, noted Christian leader in India, author and religious mystic, who is at present in New Zealand. He has twice previously visited Fiji in the in terests of Indians there.

Dr. Andrews will leave Auckland on May 2, by the Mariposa , and will probably remain a month in the Colony. His prev ious plan was to travel by the Niagara. arriving at Suva on May 29.

On his arrival in New Zealand, Dr.

Andrews said that he had been asked to visit Fiji to inquire into difficulties in ob taining suitable leasehold tenures of native lands on the part of Indian culti vators, and also investigate the question of franchise. He hoped also to take up the subject of higher education for the very few young people from the Indian community in Fiji who wished to under take University courses.

Mr. William H. Potts, a young English man who recently arrived in Australia by the barque Parma, joined the crew of Mr. Dwight Long’s ketch Idle Hour in Sydney early in May. He sailed with her for Port Moresby, Papua, on May 8,