Old Fiji

A Glimpse Of Old Fiji

nteresting extracts from yfessor W. P. Morrells new “Britain in the Pacific inds”. .n epidemic of measles in I, between February and y, 1875 , wiped out 40,000 pie — one-quarter of the then mated Fijian population. t was written 50 years ago t the introduction of Indian our to permit the establish it of the sugar industry pre ted exploitation of Fijian our —“but at the cost of iting a plural society which ild bring its own problems”. here was bitter fighting in Sigatoka Valley in 1876; but itually the forces directed governor Sir Arthur Gordon iued the tough mountaineers.