FIJI INDIANS’ BOYCOTT
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL NOMINATIONS NO CANDIDATES OFFER SUVA, Monday. No nominations have been received for the election to fill the vacancies on the Fiji Legislative Council caused by the resignation qf the three elected Indian members in November. Apparently the Indians intend to boycott the Council, as was done in Kenya Colony. The motion of the three Indian members of the Fiji Legislative Council favouring a common electeral roll having been defeated on November 5, they withdrew and announced their intention to resign. Under the new Letters Patent the Indians elect three members on a communal roll, and the Europeans elect six on a separate roll. The Indians want one common roll, to which the Government and tne European members of the Council are definitely opposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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128FIJI INDIANS’ BOYCOTT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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