Hospitality
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Economic Problem of Fijian Hospitality
Prom Our Own Correspondent . SUVA, April 25.
THE impossibility of squaring rigid Fijian traditions of hospitality with present-day conditions in the over crowded towns is the subject of an article by a Fijian in the “Fiji Times.”
The main difficulty is the habit of country relations who visit towns to live temporarily at the expense of Fijian wage-earners.
Added to this is the fact that Indian owners of tenements and other houses immediately (and illegally) demand higher rents if more people are added to those already accommodated in their properties.
Describing this as another example of Indian exploitation of Fijians, the writer of the article suggests that the only way out of the muddle is for the Fijian authorities to discourage temporary mi grations from the villages to the towns.
Mr. R. L. Barnes, of the Methodist Overseas Mission, New Ireland, was ordained as a Methodist minister, in Bris bane, on February 28.