"Democracy"
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Fijians Don't Want Our "Democracy"
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 22.
T H nj?ans r who a wrfte°^letters toThe^ocal Tr . p . ress - ° ne o f them recently, L. R.
Vaniqi, neatly disposed of those people who would bestow upon the Fijians the “s °£ Party politics. Rewrote:- We shall ask for changes when we ant them, but 1 think that the British idea of letting each race live its own life, in its own way, is best, “Certain Europeans, want to weaken and even to change our Fijian way of life . no doubt they mean well, but Suva anc * other towns are not Fiji. The great majority of Fijians live in villages scattered all over these islands. What do the y know of voting? What do they want to know of these things?
“™s idea of giving every man a vote and doing away with chiefly rule alto gather, is not Fijian, some Fijians in
Sme fn^th^year^ ahead -Ttolnk U
W ili. But I am sure that the time for n has not yet arrived.”