Another Professor's Views

Professor Kenneth Cumberland, Professor of Geography at the uversity of Auckland, has also recently had something to say crtout i Burns Report. In a broadcast over the Fiji Broadcasting Com- Msion, in April Professor Cumberland said that while the report in > main was valuable, straightforward and practical, it was also at nee a little harsh and unfair.

Particularly he thought it was “tongerous” that li to be swallowed in one gulp—either all °r the Com \-ssion insisted. “I cannot believe, he said, that this Rep rt xyrouah and good as it is—is the last, or the only word. Or that e people of Fiji, the officers of Government, the businessmen, trades rn planters, farmers and villagers on the spot have nothing w crrth Hie to add—or deletions to make. The final decisions must be taken \ Suva—and that’s where the ultimate responsibility for Fins future