THRIFTY INDIANS
LARGE SUMS TAKEN WHEN STEAMER LEAVES SUVA PHLEGMATIC PAUPERS From Our Own Corresposdent SUVA, March 17. An indication of the amount of wealth taken by Indians from Fiji was given in the departure of the Sutlej for Calcutta. On board were 642 Indians, 336 for Calcutta and 306 for Madras. By no means all were adults, but the Indians took from Suva no less than £16,547 in cash and £3,298 in jewellery. Besides those amounts, the Indians paid into the Post Office in two days £3,007 in postal and money orders. A remarkablb feature at the departure of the Sutlej was the pathos of the farewells by many Indians remaining at Suva. Phlegmatic calm was revealed, strangely enough, only on the faces of 60 paupers standing aloof from their moneyed country-people. They were returning to India to join their relatives and to die in their native land. One Indian leper was shipped on the vessel.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 9
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