[?]igration Query

[?] Ulation Question

Fijians in Lau [?]se New [?]igration Query

From Our Own Correspondent SILE controversy over the Indian population increase in Fiji has been going on for 3, a smaller problem has been ing in the Lau Group, which, 11 intents and purposes, is all n. ne Lauan islands are subject to sional droughts, with accom ing serious water-supply diffi *s, but what is more important lat several of the islands are sufficiently fertile to provide ■crops for increasing popula . Furthermore, the sea is not ys a reliable provider, hough island-dwellers the 1 over are usually reluctant to their family lands, the situa in some parts of Lau has led the point where migration, especially of the younger e, seems inevitable. this stage it may well be ered whether the Fiji Govern did a wise thing when it per d the displaced and well-to-do bans of Ocean Island to re the rich freehold island of latever the claims of the bans to a new home—and iy is likely to question the Lty of the claims —it is un nate that an island which I have been the logical solu te any Lauan overflow question d have been pushed right ie the Fijian orbit. iere are people who allege that Janabans will never make full f Rabi as long as their Ocean i phosphate royalties come in), mwhile, there has been talk Lauan migration to Viti Levu. b road from Sawani, 14 miles Suva, to Serea, near lawa, is completed, it would land for Fijian settlement. ; more conservative of the is, while seeing this as a )le solution, are not enthusias- They claim, with some cation, that it would probably to another “drift to Suva”, ; there is already a consider- Lauan colony, 1-known Rarotonga business md politician, William Watson, ipanied by his wife and two tive daughters, recently spent time with friends in Tahiti i joining the liner Caledonien lurope, in continuation of a iy trip round the world.