THE ASIATIC PROBLEM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 11

THE ASIATIC PROBLEM

INDIAN INFLUX TO FIJI MISSIONARIES’ DIFFICULTIES The Asiatic problem was discussed by. Dr. Kempt borne, Bishop of Polvnesia, in the course of tin address on the Polynesian Mission in St. Peter’s Church, Hamilton, last week. He said there were 92.000 Fijians and 55,000 Indians in Fiji. Compared with, conditions in their own country, the Indians - found tile in Fiji easy. Money was comparatively easy to obtain and many of them became prosperous. Unlike the Fijians, the move they got the more they wanted. The Indians were not Christians, and many had an active, animus against the church. The influx into Fiji had made ' the work of the missionaries very .difficult. AH the missionaries- could do was to interpret the Christian faith aright. The Indians demanded education, and would get it. If the missionaries did not leach them, someone else would, and it was proferhlc that they sholtld learn from real Christian people than from others. .deferring to the Chinese in New Zealand', the Bishop said the work of the Chinese Mission in Wellington was made extremely difficult by the nay in which the Chinese were treated. Concluding, the Bishop said if Chinese were allowed to come into New Zealand, people should be just and fair to them.