Condemned
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Drift To Suva Again
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 19.
THE process of commercial and indus trial expansion in Fiji, which tends to be centered on Suva, is constantly in creasing the demand for Fijian workers, and the number of Fijians concentrated at Suva is a matter for constant con cern, states the annual report of the District Commissioner, Southern (Mr. J.
Judd), “If taken to its logical conclusion,” the
report continues, “it will largely reduce the Fijian population to a floating labour force, dependent for its prosperity and the means of its livelihood on economic forces outside this Colony. If these fail, the previously abandoned communal life will not be there to fall back upon; neither will it be easily regenerated”.
The Rev. Father O. Shelley, of the Society of the Divine Word, has been appointed to the Roman Catholic mis sion fields of New Guinea. He has been professor of mathematics at St, Vincent’s Mission Seminary, Marburg, Queensland, for the last five years.