. Fiji-its problems and resources. a million poundson Fijian securities to-morrow, and rejoice in thedeed. But Fijians must have confidence in them-selves first. Confidence is infectious. And theymust be public-spirited. It must be All for Fiji,trusting to the never-failing law in national econo-mics, that what benefits a country benefits all wholive and work there. There are few countries in theworld less heard of and less known than Fiji. Ipredict that this will be soon rectified. She is onthe threshold of great things. She is in the is in the best spot in the Pacific. She wouldb
. Fiji-its problems and resources. a million poundson Fijian securities to-morrow, and rejoice in thedeed. But Fijians must have confidence in them-selves first. Confidence is infectious. And theymust be public-spirited. It must be All for Fiji,trusting to the never-failing law in national econo-mics, that what benefits a country benefits all wholive and work there. There are few countries in theworld less heard of and less known than Fiji. Ipredict that this will be soon rectified. She is onthe threshold of great things. She is in the is in the best spot in the Pacific. She wouldbe foolish to change it for any other if she need not go and seek, she will be sought. Butwhen she is found she had better have somethingto sell and something to show, or at least someroutes by which that something to show may beseen. As no young country ever prospered withouta debt, so no country ever prospered without roads—roads in all directions. The best opening-uppolicy that I know of in a new country, is that of. NATIVE MADE ARTICLES [photo by f. caine Fiji as a Field for Investment 129 Canada. The Canadian authorities, or the CanadianPacific Railroad, will send out scouts to spy outnew land. They will go into areas previously un-trodden by the foot of man, and when they find astretch of good wheat land they come back likeNoahs dove carrying a twig. The railway engineergoes to work and makes a track, lays rails, puts upstations, and constructs branch lines. When all isfinished, or about finished, the surveyed sections ofland are advertised, and are rushed, and the emptyspaces are filled up while you wait. In New Zealand, for instance, the conversepolicy is followed. A petition comes year afteryear from settlers, patient, tired-out settlers, fora railroad. But careful calculations have alreadyshown, that, adding prospective fares to prospect-ive freights, and deducting running expenses, therewould be a loss, and the petition goes into the waste-paper basket. Th
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