FIJI AND TONGA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

FIJI AND TONGA.

t ..M.r Hun^U'rey > Berkeley, a leading a-esideiit . of. "Suya| "is' at'"' present -v-isifcifig'' , 'Sydney. ', *"' Mr'^^elfey^op^ a^llJßadirig •part; ; ii.i , tl>e - riioA'em'erit^soriie^ years .ago .for the annexatiori by- NeAv ZeaUwid- of' ' Fiji and' Toriga.- He" Avas w theii;6f ogump/it. ■that jit. Avquld be weU^jfojt'^'ihpse groups ; 'to,. be attached to the Dominion', rather'than to Austvalia.on account of. tho /ah-* [si^ce.. of '/coi)_icting/.^ iland having no tropical 'produce of her 'own to enter irito coriitfetitioii Avith those (groAvu by 'colored, 'l^upr. /i]h.!it"ie. '/islands.; [His views .bn tho vsiihject *ha.vj^, ihoAvev'er. changed of late. "He ' now conIsiders that the present system of govern,ment in Fiji is Well suited to the requirements of that colony, and that unless Fiji 'joined the CommoiiAvealth or NeAv Zealand under a definite Hgi'ee'ment, by which colored labor would not jbo' interfered - J .Avitli, or • the products 'penalised,- 'it "Would be absurd for tho colony .to change its .status. Fiji Avas irioAV prosiieririg, the policy of the last ( three 4 ) 4 iu inis^ratiqns - been a •sound and -progressive «ne> -As for JTonga, it Avas .- the last native kingdom fiii. tne^'Pae^fic.-'^d- it-'-yjould/^.^'l^ty, 'he" tho'ugHP' 4f ' it;;4pSV.;its ' irid^-pe^de/ricyß,,, 'and .becariie; au. appendage of JfeAV . Zea--[land. Mr. Berkeley,' who is 'a keett . < student of ethnology, has an interesting 'theory /'of his own, which lie proposes presently to; publish, as to' the origin of ■the Polynesian race. Professor Mac;millan Brown's theory is that the Polytnesian carne originally from somewhere >in North Africa, through Europe, Hin:dustan, arid the Malay Archipelago to the islarid^ Mr Berkeley's theory, in, brief, is tliat the- migration took place from Mexico.. '.-v-.-' ,*;.-.; --i- •■■'•. •-.-.••