Higher Wages'
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Rev. L. D. Fullerton, chairman of the Indian District of the Methodist Church in Fiji, said in Sydney in January, where he is visiting, that a survey of Indian families asso ciated with the Methodist Church in Fiji had shown that 80 per cent, of them lived on a cash income of less than £250 a year. Many lived on £lOO or less.
He said that an official Govern ment Labour report for 1958 in dicated that of 23,500 Fiji wage earners, 68 per cent, were on a wage of between 10/- and £1 a day.
“The wage structure in Fiji must be improved,” said Mr. Fullerton.
“It is impossible to live on this kind of money, and there will be more trouble if we can’t do some thing about it.”