INDIANS IN FIJI
MORAL DEGRADATION ALLEGED. Mr. C. Andrews, who has been commissioned by tho Indian Government j to report on the condition of indon- | tured Indians in Fiji, delivered a lecture in Sydney on Thursday night. He stated there are about 60,000 freed natives of India in Fiji, and he had found they were in tho toils of moral degradation. Originally only 40 women had been imported to every 100 men, and this had led to immorality. Children born in the lines were roared in the. same life. Ho had proposed to the Fijian Government that any unmarried Indians who wished should bo granted a free passage to India to marry, and also that those whose indentures expired in tho next four years should lie pot free, so that degradation in the lines might cense. Ho .had also asked the Colonial Sugar Refining Company that trained nurses should he provided in tho hospitals whore Indian women wore treated as patients. At present thn hospitals woro stnfM by Australian men who had not fully qualified as doctors. Ho had also naked that ynumr unmarried Australian men should not bo nut in dmrg" nf Indian women .trnngs in tho enne fields, as it )ptl to evil. ' Mr. Andrews will present his report to the Viceroy as soon as he ■ returns to India.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 30 January 1918, Page 6
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221INDIANS IN FIJI Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 30 January 1918, Page 6
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