Echo of Cakobau’s Despotism

Land For Landless Fijians

SOMEWHERE around about 1870 a land owning group of Fijians on Ovalai took part in a rebellion against th( so-called King of Fiji, Ratu Cakobau For their temerity, their lands were taker from them and sold, and ever since the? and their descendants have lived at Taw iya village, Ovalau, and have beer dependent on a small land-owning groui of about 30 whose lands are scarcel; sufficient to maintain them.

Until recently there were 280 of thesi landless Fijians living in Taviya village but now they are landless no longer The circumstances were brought to tin notice of the Secretary of Fijian Affair some time ago and the Government sub sequently bought for these folk two ad joining estates on Ovalau —Rukuruku an< Natusara. Thus, after paying for th sins of their fathers for 80 years they a last have somewhere of their own t« settle.

Fifteen bales of wool have arrived ii Sydney from the Hallstrom Experimenta Station at Nondugl, Central Highlands New Guinea.

Fetu Moana and her crew as they reached Bris bane.

Courier Mail.