Contrbution:
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Fiii-Indian Tax Contrbution: 6/- Per Head
THE total amount received from direct income tax in Fiji dur ing 1950 was £836,906.
By far the greater proportion of this amount came from European trading companies (£636,100). Euro pean shipping and insurance com panies paid £15,000.
Indian trading companies which outnumbered European companies paid only £629. Chinese companies paid £5,570.
Individual European taxpayers paid £118,500; Indians, £46,200;
Chinese, £15,000; and Fijians ano. others, £1,030.
Indians, who now provide hall of the population of Fiji, contribute only six per cent, of the colony’' direct taxes—about 6/- per head.
It is interesting to note that oc the £lOO,OOO worth of buildinjj projects approved by Suva Towr Council in the last quarter, Indiar. applicants predominated. They an*: apparently ploughing their profit! back in.
Professor Guillaumin of the Parii Museum, the greatest authority in. the world on the flora of New Caledonia, extended his stay in thu Colony from three to five monthr and has taken back to France witl him a valuable collection oc botanical specimens, which will ad« great value to his Museum’s coll lection from the Pacific. He har publicly thanked the Governor antj General Council for their support and co-operation in his important work. The Colony contributes 100,000 Pacific francs to the ex? penses of himself and his Swise colleague.