A DYING RACE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16023, 24 February 1920, Page 3

A DYING RACE.

NATIVES OF THE PACIFIC. A. & N.Z. SYDNEY, Feb. 23. Rev. Piper, a Fijian missionary, in an address said: The native races of the Pacific are passing slowly but surely off the stage. In twenty years Fijians will be outnumbered by Indians, and in sixty to one hundred years there will be a small India in the Pacific. Indians sent to Fiji were slum dwellers who had lost cast distinctions and all old ideas. The were to-day divorced from religion and morality. The Indian problem is testing the best Christian efforts in the Pacific. The islands of the Pacific will never be white men’s islands, but ii is for us to, see their Orientalisation proceeds on the best lines.