and sent to a central development district shed where it is weighed, graded and sent away to the market. It was with a Scheme Manager, Mr Atunaisa R. Tavuto, that we spent a very enjoyable afternoon looking over the Dabelevu scheme in the Sigatoka Valley about half-way between Suva and Nadi on the southern end of the Island. The Dabelevu scheme comprises a settlement of 36 farms almost side by side, of round about 20 acres each. Atu told us that these farmers were given leases for 30 years from the matangali, with a right of renewal for 10 years, and a further right of renewal for a further 10 years. At the expiration of the lease the lessee may get compensation depending on what is granted by the Court, but any compensation granted must be for improvements that have been effected with the consent of the Court, and of the matangali. We questioned Atu about the size of the farms and received from him assurance that 20 acres was the maximum that a man and his family could look after, particularly on high labour content crops like tobacco, The weatherboard house costing £200 which every settler aims to build. water melons, maize and rice, and since the law provides that a farm shall be of sufficient area so that a man may receive £250 a year for living after paying all his outgoings, he considered that this was big enough. It is doubtful whether many of the farmers are making this amount of money, but they all seemed extremely happy and satisfied with their farms. One of the Development Scheme farms, showing a variety of crops.