What Fiji Really Wants

Editorial Note.

TSUI’S new governor is evidently a J shrewd observer; so probably he al ready has noted something peculiar re i at ion to the Colony-namely, that a very i arge sum of privately-owned money is lying there, unemployed. No one least of all the owners wants money to remain unemployed; so there must be a cause. .There is more than one reason for the idle funds, it should not take Sir Brian Preeston long to get them into focus. , It really is not necessary for Fiji to go

to London at all for developmental money. It is not governmental money that Fiji lacks it is opportunity for the employment of private money, and protection and encouragement for private enterprise. The story of the CSR, and of the Emperor Mines, and of other great enter prises, can be repeated in Fiji in rela tion to other things if private enter prise is given reasonable facilities, and an assurance that the structures of its creation are not going to be robbed by Socialistic tax-gatherers or torn to pieces by gangs of New Planners.