Viti Lavu. The sugar industry is the most important industry in Fiji. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Australia operates five mills with a total capacity of 171,000 lbs. per season. fact, that India should have been asked to govern Fiji, for are not the Indians the working colonisers! The Fijians, on the other hand, asked Queen Victoria to protect them, and though half a cenutry ago they wanted to federate with New Zealand, today they probably prefer to await self-government under a British Governor, with the New Zealanders taking a friendly interest on the side. Fiji has its two peoples and its two traditions side by side. They each have their values, and the problem is how to preserve the Fijian ways while giving greater political freedom to all, and preserving justice for all. Indian children going to school.