Marriage of

Tropicalites

Letters

Marriage of convenience

IN February 1989, a person came into my travel agency and booked a return ticket to Nadi, Fiji.

During my conversation with her, the subject of her marriage came up and she told me that she had just become mar ried to an Australian man and that she was trying to find husbands for two In dian girls who were living in Fiji, and they were willing to pay As4ooo for a marriage of convenience with an Austra lian citizen.

She indicated there was a lot of money to be made in this way and was I in terested and if so, she would give me

both girls’ phone numbers in Fiji.

Michael Azzaz Suleman

Payless Travel Burwood, NSW.

Two errors

THE table headed How the Pacific Is lands Are Doing which appeared on, page 30 of your September issue con tains two errors. The figures given in your table for the GNP per capita for Fiji and Western Samoa had been taken from a column headed Population (thousands) in a table printed on page 234 of the 1989 World Development Re port. The Per Capita GNP figure for Fiji shown in the World Bank’s 1989 World Development Report is US$l57O while that for Western Samoa is US$55O.

At least in terms of GNP per capita, Fiji and Western Samoa are doing better than is suggested in the table you pub lished.

Dr Gj. Abbott

Department of Economics USP, Suva.

Personal view

REFERRING to my letter Japan and Fiji on October issue, the letter does not rep resent the organisations indicated under my name at all. It is all from my person al point of view. I regret any inconveni ence caused to the organisations.

Shigetoshi Takagi

Suva, Fiji

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