LABOUR SCARCE
PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY IN FIJI
PLANTERS WANT CHINESE Fiji’s new pineapple canning industry is growing so fas-t that planters foresee a time when labour will be impossible to obtain under the present conditions. JVIr. F. H. Warren, a , coconut planter of Fiji, made this statement to a Sun man yesterday after his arrival on the Niagara. Mr. Warren is visiting New Zealand on holiday and will remain in for about three months. He is accompanied by his wife and two daughters. Two pineapple companies have begun operations, he said. They are doing a great deal of good to Fiji, and are going ahead fast, but they are eating up the available and limited native labour.
The copra planters hope to induce the Imperial Government to allow the importation of Chinese labour, otherwise their position will be an unenviable one. Mr. Warren added that good seasons had been experienced by planters, but the increasing production of whale-oil was having its effect on the worlds’ copra prices; that and the recent combine of Lever Bros, and a great margarine firm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 16
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