BRITISH ADMINISTRATION The British Government promised that the Fijian's rights of ownership over their land would be preserved. The first duty of the British Administration was, and is, the interests of the Fijians. This was the responsibility of the British Colonial Office, but there was another Government Department called the India Office. It was negotiating with India to recruit labourers for work on the Fijian sugar plantations. In 1875, a new disease called measles had wiped out one-third of the Fijian population. At the same time, the settlers and traders wanted labourers. The Governor of Fiji refused to demand money taxes from the Fijians, so that they did not have to work for wages. The taxes were in produce. In this way, the Fijians were confirmed in the ownership and occupancy of their land.
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Te Ao Hou, Summer 1953, Page 28
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