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PUSHING OUT TO WINDWARD: ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN PLANTATION ENTERPRISE IN NORTHERN LAU, FIJI, 1870-1971
Bruce Knapman
The co-operative copra plantation is a recent innovation in the organisation
of village economic activity in Fiji. But it is an experiment which is neither divorced from a history of indigenous participation in the cash economy, nor without historical precedent in the attempts of Europeans to establish plantations in Fiji. It is the purpose of this paper to examine such attempts at plantations enterprise in the northern Lau islands, with particular reference to a plantation on Vanua Balavu known as Tota estate. There are two chapters to the narrative: first, European expansion, settlement and the story of the story of the small man in the late ninetenth century; and century milieu of port town growth and merchant company power. The central concern thoughout is to reveal how individuals adapted to changing objective economic circumstances and climatic unpredictability.
THE FREE PRESS IN A DEVELOPING MULTI-RACIAL SOCIETY: FIJI - A CASE STUDY
Lasarusa Vusoniwailala
There are a number of problems in the adaption of various democratic institutions in the developing countries, and the ‘free press’ is one that not only meets with more
than its share of tribulations but in some instances itself creates added problems for a country in its transition toward political maturity. In this paper I shall discuss a dilemma
of the press, which is the responsibilities of a ‘free press in a developing multi-racial society’, with Fiji as the case study.
LAND INCORPORATION IN THE COOK ISLANDS
Anthony Utanga
Section 5 of the Land (Facilitation of Dealings) Act 1970 provides that landowners may consolidate their interests in any land and form a land incorporation, that is, a
body corporate with the main object of undertaking a business venture, be it managing a plantation; felling milling and marketing timber; mineral exploitation; leasing land for
urban development, or some other economic activity.
DEPARTMENTAL AND FAVOURABLE EFFECTS OF EXOTIC WEED SPECIES ON PACIFIC ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS AND CULTURAL COMPLEXES
Randolph R. Thaman
The focus of this paper is on the great range of exotic weeed species which have been introduced, both accidentally and deliberately into the tropical Pacific Islands. The
information is based on field observations of introduced weed species in Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea,
Bali, Sulawesi and Java, as well as on available literature. The study will first look at the nature of weeds and their relationship to the vegetation and flora of the Pacific
Islands, second how these weeds became established in the islands and finally the detrimental and favourable effects these plants have on the ecosystems and cultures of the Pacific islands.
SUVA IN A STORM, 1920
Ahmed Ali
On 15 January 1920 Indian labourers at the Public Works Department in Suva suddenly went on strike. Four days later they were joined by Suva Municipal Council
employees, and by 21 January the strike spread to the adjacent Rewa district where Indians working for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd. of Australia (C.S.R.)
stopped work. During the next three days the industrial dispute extended up the Rewa River to Viria and Vunidawa. The example was quickly followed by two to three
thousand employees of the Vancouver- Fiji Sugar Company in Navua, about thirty miles west of Suva. And for a short period Indian employees of the government and the municipal council in Levuka did likewise.
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