2,000 More Indians
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Now!
Fijians Have Come a Bad Second in Birth-rate Race in Last Decade.
SUVA, March 20.
LATEST population figures issued here recently, show that there are now 2,000 more Indians in the Colony of Fiji than there are native Fijians. Last census taken was in 1936; these new figures are, therefore, estimated.
Total population of the Colony is now 254.676. an increase of over 56,000 on the 1936 figures. The following interesting table shows the position now in compari son with that of the last census year:—
Dec., 1945 Apl., 1936 Fijians 115,724 * 97,651 Indians 117,256 85,002 European. Part- Furopean, other non - indigenous 21,696 15,726 254,676 198,379