THE DESTINY Of FIJI.
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE
•([united press association —copyright] (Received Feb. 15, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 15. Sir E. Imtliurn, in an article in the V “Quarterly Review” on ‘‘Fiji as a *•' Crown Colony” states that the Native • question is complicated by the introdaction of colored labor, which some Australians reprobated, wrongly hoMino- the vieyv that it would be better it the Islands were left undeveloped than if they were developed by natives from elsewhere. The article continues: Manual labor in the tropics must largely lie by colored importation, which is essential where indiginous labor is insufficient. Besides Canada’s, Australia’s and New (Zealand’s interests in the Pacific Islands, the United States, Japan, Germany and France are also concerned, ; and strengthening their positions, influence the islands’ politics. Britain should do the same. The Pacific islands at present should not he annexed by either Australia or New Zealand, despite geographical position and commercial 'interests, but the time Las come to assist Fiji towards the point where she will pass from a Crown colony and join the L nited .of Australasia.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3451, 16 February 1912, Page 5
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180THE DESTINY Of FIJI. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3451, 16 February 1912, Page 5
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