[?]griculture Men
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[?]ji Loses Its Top [?]griculture Men
CH the impending retirement of Mr. C. Harvey, Director of griculture, Fiji will have lost ri the space of a few months ;wo senior executives of that rtment. Both are men with a leal knowledge of the Colony ts requirements. ; other loss was the departure r. B. E. V. Parham, Deputy tor, who has gone to Western a as Director of Agriculture, a has gained a man who is 7 experienced in tropical agri *e and its problems. i Colony is thus faced with jossibility that two new men •e appointed from overseas for vo top positions. With the new of a unified Colonial Service, considered likely that experi men now serving in Fiji will to accept transfers to other es, in order to obtain advance le, for family reasons and to climatic and health con
ditions in other territories, prefer to see out their time in equable Fiji. In the case of New Zealanders and Australians, they thus remain closer to their homelands and family connections—and closer to the good educational facilities in New Zealand and Australia.
It is a policy which may suit the British Colonial Service, but not necessarily the various Terri tories, each of which has its own economic and racial factors affect ing practical agriculture in the pro duction of food for consumption and export.