FIJI ITEMS.
(BY TBItKGAAPIX—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) .Auckland, March 31. . i Fiji -filesito' hand.tgr'day 'state-tliat during ; .the . past:, four' months -'qmista':.number ; .oli Indians; liiavd.;i left • Fiji in -the mail.; steamers- s fori Canada. -: 'l'he voyage cost them , £32,- ~; tthis,- including, a;.deposit.;required;, by--. the ! , ■ CanadianV Government-. prior' to. their 1 admis- .fir,. "v- ; : ■sion- -t6" however,- a;. ' •: , law;lias,, beenrpassed-prohibiting,-them land-:,,v ■'. ;j -lhg.'.'there,'V arid"it.has- beeri.iniaad; retrospec-fe' ■ live.,. Three'lndians, left; Suva in the R;M.S.„ ' AoraiigiV.iuJanuary,; but. thc '.law..-, had- ■ /■;- been passed prior -to their., arrival, so ■ they..,;, V . had4o ; :rcturiV : 'on the 'stcanier,'.paving their. '.i ; ! passages both-ways, The -other men -who. : 'landed,' previously' will ■also.' .have ..to return - : at their own, expense. ••;. • Mr, T.' Ling, 'a' Chinese'mandarin, of the-;; fifth class,'passed through Suvfl recently on . his way to Samoa, wliorc he has been ;ai).-. pointed- Com in i ssioii er of;'"Chinese ImnnV ; grants: ' Tile object of .his visit-.to the' Pacific i. '. is entirely crtnhfteditrt the drawing. Up of a report' for .his' Government'.as ; ; to .the Jalibur^:;;, V condition^ 1 of .ChinesO coolies in Sariioa.'. '' :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 4
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