[?]ji Credit Unions

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he Credit Union movement, .blished in Fiji five years , has inculcated a spirit of ft among large numbers of Fijian population, whose ?ral attitude towards money hat it is something to be it almost as soon as it is Lired. vo hundred and forty-eight ’.it unions in the Colony now e a total membership of 10 and assets close to the ,000 -mark and reserves of it £B,OOO. uiding light of the move .t is the Rev. Father M. ey, a Jesuit priest, whom Ronald Garvey (when he Governor ) brought from ish Honduras to established it unions in Fiji, it for credit union many ins would not have posses s which they own today. credit union has estab ?d a taxi service, an indivi in the same union works Vadi Airport and lives 40miles away at Ba. Through credit union he has been to buy for himself the ns of transport between the areas, and also establish a 11 sugarcane plantation at tese are only illustrations le material gains the Fijians : made through credit union. because the Fijian is so lamentally honest, bad s are few and far between, te Indian community has been so quick to take ad ages of credit union, but y of them now realise its ibilities and are expected to existing unions or estab their own.