Sea Baths
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“As You Were” In Suva’s Sea Baths
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Feb. 10.
THE Battle of the Suva Sea Baths will probably end quite amicably with everything pretty much as it was in the beginning.
Some Indians tried to make common cause with Fijians over the issue, but the Fijians, who had stood aloof from the start, showed that they had every intention of remain ing aloof. The result has been that for the first time on record Indians wrote to the press declaring that the whole trouble might have been a mistake. It was openly admitted that the rank and file Indians had
not the slightest desire to push anybody out of the baths, and that the few Indian swimmers would be content if the derelict No. 2 bath (abandoned many years ago be cause agitators demanded the Euro pean bath or nothing) were re habilitated for Indian use, and — most startling contention of all — it was added that the whole uproar was due to “trouble-makers who would be better occupied investi gating the desperate house-shortage instead of waging inter-racial wars over trivialities.”
Rev. Ronald Woodgate, of Nuku alofa, with his wife and children, is on a visit to Brisbane. He is prin cipal of the Theological College at tached to the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga.