INDIANS IN FIJI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16675, 24 February 1920, Page 3

INDIANS IN FIJI.

A MISSIONARY’S STATEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. SYDNEY, Feh. 23. The Eov. Mr. Piper, a missionary from Fiji, in an address, said the native races of the Pacific were passing slowly hut surely off tho stage. In twenty years Fijians would be outnumbered by Indians, and in sixty to a hundred years there would bo a smalPlndia. in tho Pacific. _ The Indians sent to Fiji were slum dwellers, who had lost their caste distinctions and all the old ideas. They were to-day divorced from religion and morality. The Indian problem was testing tho best Christian efforts in the Pacific. The islands of the Pacific would never be white men’s islands, but it was for us to see that their Orientalisation proceeds on the best lines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. t