American's Scheme For
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Buying Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 6. mWO schemes —which, it may be said, Jl are not likely to succeed—have been put forward in Honolulu by Mr. Otto Degener, an American botanist who visited Fiji in 1940. (He arrived in the American-owned Chinese junk “Cheng Ho.”) Mr, Degener advocates (a) the impor tation of 6,000 Fijian labourers to work in Hawaii; and (b) the United States to buy, for an unspecified number of dollars, Fiji and other parts of the British South Pacific.
Assorted Fijian and European com ments, publicised in the local press, might be described as sulphurous.
The schemes were outlined in a letter written by Mr. Degener to Mr. Sahodar Singh, and published in the Indian weekly paper “Fiji Samachar.”