High Cost of Former
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indentured Labour
T tt SUVA, Aug. 3 HE high ultimate cost of what used to be Indian indentured labour bobs up, even in 1947.
The ship “Orna” sailed from Suva to day with repatriated Indian immigrants.
The government has provided £7,850 to cover this expenditure.
Incidentally, the hurried, furbishing-up
of Nukulau Island as a Quarantine station for Indians who arrived at Suva in the “Orna” in June cost £2.500.
It’s odd to think that the indenture system in Fiji was wound up more than 20 years ago. To-day the “Orna” has taken 150 immigrants or their descen dants who are exercising their privilege under the Indian Immigration Repatria tion Ordinance of being provided with free passages to India at the expense of Fiji.