Outline Is Emerging
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The series of talks with the Fiji Governor (see above ) resulted in late January in views being given a general outline.
UNOFFICIAL Legco members have generally agreed there should be no independence at this stage and that there must be a “continuing link with the Crown”, with the Queen’s assent to legisla tion and the appointment of the judiciary by the Crown.
There must be continued UK responsibility for defence and ex ternal affairs, it was also agreed.
All this, of course, is the frame
work of a satisfactory solution to Fiji’s political problems. It remains to be seen how much harmony there can be in filling in the details, but there is much hope in the Colony that these problems can be worked out before the London conference.
It is to be hoped, too, that a full and open report on the whole matter will be put before the Fiji public as a whole, not merely to the Legco members.