Sugar Funds for
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Nausori
Planning
Sugar Funds for Re-settlement
PROBLEMS arising from the economic re-planning of the Nausori-Rewa Valley area of Fiji, rendered necessary by the de cision of the Colonial Sugar Refin ing Co. to close down the Nausori sugar-mill after 1959, now are re ceiving the attention of represent atives of the Government and the
Csr Co.
They centre mostly upon the uses to be made of the land thus re
moved from sugar-growing; and the best ways of transferring the cane growers—mostly Indians—to other forms of agriculture.
Fiji’s Financial Secretary, Mr.
H. W. Davidson, has expressed general approval of a suggestion that contributions made to the Sugar Stabilisation Fund by the Nausori section of the sugar in dustry should, in the new circum stances, be detached from the main fund, and made available generally to the cane-growers, to assist them in transferring to other places or other occupations. Considerable financial assistance thus might be made available; and it is considered likely that the other interests con cerned with the Sugar Stabilisation Fund will favour the proposal.