Interesting

Fiji-Indian School Annual Is Interesting

C° far -the Government of Fiji has only?; LJ partially undertaken the task ofl« providing secondary education inn that growing Colony; and the schools! that it has provided are generally onn racial lines. There is a Boys’ and an Girls’ Grammer School for Europeans) and part-Europeans; the Queen Victoria); and Kadavulevu Schools for Fijian Boys„e and the Adi Cakabau Intermediate fon< Fijian Girls; and the Natabua Secondary?' School for Indians.

As a result, the different tend to provide private secondary schoolssJ for themselves; and, among the three on< four Indian institutions there now isgi prominent the ambitious and active Shrrh Vivekananda High School, of Nadi, whichfi was established as a result of the pioneeri work of Swami Avinashananda. He cameo, to Fiji from India in 1937, on behalf ofl< the Ramakrishna Mission.

The Vivekananda School has com menced the publication of an Annual, andb we have a copy of the 1954 issue, wellll printed and containing 100 pages. Iti gives some interesting sidelights onr Indian education in Fiji. It is mostly inc English, but there are large sections inn Hindu and Fijian. The published articles*; generally express a moderate Fiji-Indian r. viewpoint; there are many moral G precepts, based on Hindu religion; and it ii is apparent that the School generally * seeks to maintain a strong culture -o' relationship with India. Anyone trying g to see the future of Fiji should examine this excellent little book. Some of thee answers may be there.