INDIANS IN FIJI

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 8

INDIANS IN FIJI

BEING OUSTED BY CHINESE. PROGRESS OF INDUSTRY. [Special to "Tribune"] Auckland Nov. 30. "The Chinese are nocking into Fiji on every ship which arrives there,’’ said Mr. Hart Lewis, a prominent citizen of Suva, yesterday morning on his arrival on the Tofua. ‘‘Al one lime all the small stores and businesses were run by the Indians, but now they are being ousted by the Chinese. An Indian and a Chinese cannot live next door to each other.’’ Mr. Hart Lewis also stated that there are now about 70,(Ml Indians in Fiji, and a rapidly growing population of Chinese. A meat-canning industry is making great strides in Fiji. By January uie proprietors hope to have their tinned meat on the market. A special Mohammedan is being employed to kill some of the animals so that the meat can be placed on the Indian market. The proprietors of the meat-can-ning plant have a very large tract of country on the north side of Fiji, and cattle do very well there. On board the Tofua are 90 boxes of butter. It is on its way to England to be sold on the London market. This is not the first Fiji butter to be sent Home, and it is thought the dairying industry of Fiji shows great promise of future development.

This season in Fiji there is an extradorinary good crop of sugar-cane, which will mean a great deal to the Crown Colony.

“New Zealand is our big brother," said another visitor from Fiji who was on the Tofua. “We look to the Dominion for the most of our trade at present; we are doing nothing with Australia.’’