Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ive labour corps to go home, the responsewas so great that selection was the only difficulty. And thosewho were selected, distinguished themselves, according to themilitary authorities under whom they served at home, notonly as the best workers of any body of natives that camehome, but also as the best behaved, and the most amenableto discipline. It is true that some part of the success of the Fiji LabourCorps must be attributed to the officers who came from theislands in charge of these men : to Captain Kenneth AUardyce,who, as Native Com
Islands far away; Fijian pictures with pen and brush . ive labour corps to go home, the responsewas so great that selection was the only difficulty. And thosewho were selected, distinguished themselves, according to themilitary authorities under whom they served at home, notonly as the best workers of any body of natives that camehome, but also as the best behaved, and the most amenableto discipline. It is true that some part of the success of the Fiji LabourCorps must be attributed to the officers who came from theislands in charge of these men : to Captain Kenneth AUardyce,who, as Native Commissioner in Fiji, had learned to know andsympathize with the Fijians : to Lieutenant Frank Williams(the brother of Mrs. Hopkins, to whom Miss King makes morethan one reference, and who has long since earned a just repu-tation as the best and most sympathetic manager of Fijianlabour), and to Ratu Sukuna, to whom also Miss King makesfrequent reference, and as to whom I shall have more to saypresently. Had the Fijian Labour Corps been placed on arrival. »? — >>s ? fl rt rt m o — J J= s s 3 F « ni tfl J Qi ra ;/) ^ S cu 6 3 O M tp
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