IMPRESSIONS OF FIJI

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1921, Page 3

IMPRESSIONS OF FIJI

INDUSTRIOUS indans. SUVA (Fiji) August 20. \ • eeent arrival in Fiji is Air Ihoinas | ’mV Malum. E.K.G.K., who is making Ids first aei|iiaintaliee with the eolnn>. Mr McMahon has spent a week "> the Xtirntr districts on the west coast and he snvs he is sur].rised at the eviiteiu i s llf so' wonder) ol an industrialism. H feels sure ill it the people in Australia and New Zealand would he surpiised wer" they to see the virile closer settlement by the Italians, wdio are found l.usv or. fa. U,s ol iron. 1 to -0 > each, some growing sugar ,-am , m. maize, and nee and .. her P- > 1 « • Some have goat farms w.tl. arf£- > l some dairies and some |unilti> f a,m ■ Everywhere lie had seen the Indians busy making money, and he struck with the many evidences Ot coinfort and even prosperity among these people all of whom came to I'Ml without u of capital. He was sure they could never hope lor sm-li <»m fortable circumstances in India. Apart from the Indians he wa„ ell much struck with the many -v.den.es of iicliieveinent in the island ol Viti L. mi. including the capital of Suva. H all so dilfereiit to what he had xpeeted. lie was sure Australia would sorelv re,-ret her carelessness in holding the trade of the islands whirl, was last slipping away into other bands. lisa w a irreat future for Fiji tvs ;t lug distributing centre in tlie I ’untie am as „ serious rival of Australia and New Zealand for Die trade of the Western Uaeifie ■