PACIFIC ISLANDS
WILL BECOME A SMALL INDIA
A MISSIONARY'S PREDICTION.
(UNITED PRES3 ASSOCIATION.—COPTIIICIIT.)
SYDNEY, 23rd February.
The Rev. Mr. Piper, a Fijian missionary, in an adxtress said the Native races of the Pacific wero passing slowly but surely off the stage. In twenty years the Fijians wouid be outnumbered by Indians, and in sixty to a hundred years there would be a sma.ll India in the Pacific. The Indians tent to Fiji were slum dwellers, who lost caste distinction, and ail old ideas. They were to-day divorced from religion and morality. The Indian problem was testing the best Christian efforts in the Pacific. The islands of the Pacific would never be white men's islands, but it was for us to sea that their orieatalisatior proceeded on the best lines.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1920, Page 7
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