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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1960Vol. XXX, No. 6

Just Solution

p. 28 · Read in the full issue

Difficult?

Professor O. H. K. Spate, Pro fessor of Geography at the National University, Canberra, and author of the Spate Report on the economic problems and prospects of the Fijian people, has this to say on the Fiji riots: “The general political and social structure of Fiji can hardly be said to reflect the real dynamics of a very complex situation, or to offer much hope of a free and orderly develop ment of national unity. At pre sent, inter-racial relations are usually good, sometimes re markably so; yet, unless some heroic economic and political operations can be performed, it is very difficult to envisage the i/ndefinite maintenance of this equilibrium, and equally difficult to see any solution at once feasible and even approximately just.”

Professor Sprite was writing in a January issue of a fort nightly Sydney journal, “The Observer