PACIFIC PROBLEM
NATIVES DYING OFF PREDOMINANCE OF INDIAN? OF NO CASTE. . By Telejraph— V iss Assn.—Copyright (Received February 23, 7.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, February £3.
The Rev. Mr Piper, a Fijhin missionary, in an address, said that the native races of the Pacific were passing slowly but surely off the stage. In twenty years the Fijians would be outnumbered by Indians, and in sixty to a. hundred years there would be a small India in the Pacific. I'lio Indians sent to Fiji were slum orwellers who had lost their caste, distinctions aita all old ideas. They were to-day divorced from religion and monfcv.tj. * The Indian problem was testing the best Christian efforts in the Pacific. The islands of (the Pacific would ne\er be white men's islands, but it was for us to see that their Orientalisation proceeded on the best lines.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10521, 24 February 1920, Page 5
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