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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1932, Page 6

The most undesirable person in the world is the Fiji half-caste, when half drunk writes a Suva Correspondent. There is no mean thing that he will refuse to stoop to, and he delights to do the unexpected mean thing. In the past he has usually been seen alone but lately there has been evidence in the Police Court that Suva now has gangs, well organised, whose main object is to live well, whether by stealing or otherwise. Last week three young men were brought before the Court and bound over. The next, day their leader was ’found by the police, and in Court he was heavily fined. It was shown that he, presumably “ui dor the influence’ called upon an innocent Indian, and, when the man oped the door, violently assaulted him. When he had hit t.lm Indian, he evidently feared reprisals, for he clapped his hands, and immediately he was surrounded hv s»mo -0 members of his gang. These lads are much worse than flic gangsters of big cities, as fhev are without any civilised feeling at all.