FIJI AND TONGA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 274, 8 November 1911, Page 6

FIJI AND TONGA.

a "residents views. Mr H-.tinr-bn y Berkeley. a leading resilient of Suia. D at present vis.C ;„g Sidnev. Mr. Berkeley took a leading part in the movement some vears ago for the annexation ‘ * Zealand of F«j> ; ‘n«l Tonga. I! • then of opinion that it would be w«11 for tho?. groups to be attached o th,. Dominion, ralher than to Australia. on nee mat of the absence o conflicting interests. New Zea.a haring no tro[.n ai produce of h< r own to enter into competition »ith those grown by f oloiiod labour in the irland?. His views on the subject have, however, changed of late. He now considers that the present system of government in Fiji is well suited to the requirements <,f that colony, and that unless Fiji joint d the Commonwealth or New Zealand under a definite agreement, by which coloured labour would not In* interf.'ied with, or the products penalis■l. it would be absurd for the colony •>> change its status. Fiji was now piospering. the j>oli<y of the last three Administrations having been a -•••.i.-kI am! progressive one. As for Tonga, it was the last native kingdom in the Pacific, and u would be a pity. he thought, if it lost its independent- ?. and became an append age of New Zealand. Mr. Berkeley. •vl:o is a keen student of ethnology, ha? an interesting theory of his own. which i." pro,"-.- or sently to publish. .■- t > th - or.gin of the Polynesian • Piofc Maemillari I’>!'>.lll . then’ -. !. t! at til.' Poll ni'v.an came ong.nalli from sorne-■di-r.- in North Africa, through Eui >[.-■. Hindi: tan. and the Mrday Uchij.el.ico. to the islands. Mr. Berkeley’s theory, in brief, is that the migration took [dare from M. ICO,