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Our daughter and son-in-law
(Mary and•Wayne Baker) went to
Australia in August 1972. He Ls
teaching Secondary school in
Lake Bolae and she is nursing in
Ararat Hospital in the state of
Victoria,
This fall, we decided to visit
them and see as much as pos-
sible,both going and coming. Our
first stop was Fiji - some people
told us that we were foolish to
stop there - even our Travel
Agent said we could see every-
thing in one day. How wrong
they were! One day onlyiroused
our desire to see more of the
three hundred islands, 100 of
which are inhabited, in the Fi-
jian group.
In Fiji, the greeting word is
“Sa hula" pronounced Sahrn boo-
lah; (Hello); your reply should be
"Bula Vinaka.st (Hello Thankyou);
Goodboye is "Sa moce" pro-
nounced sah maw-thay.
FijianS are well-built, hand-
some, hippy people. They•love
to have their pictures taken and
are quite anxious to make the
tourist's stay a happy one. we
were told not to tip .in Fiji but
sometimes we found that unless
we had the correct change, we
tipped whether we wanted to or
not. Men and women both wore
brightly patterned skirts, the men
wearing theirs a little shorter
than the women. Most natives
• • Walton wornap.descri
• go barefoOt (even the waitresses
in the dining room). Since there
are no poisonous Insects or
snakes there, it is quite safe to
go barefoot, Out on the reefs
is the only place where poison-
ous creatures abound and .visit-
ors are advised to , wear stout
footwear. The weather is per-
fect all year round according to
the natives. We asked a Fi-
jian lady what the temperature
was and her answer was,
"we don't bother with ther-
mometers as the temperature is
the same today as yesterday and
will be the same tomorrow."
The population is made up of
approximately 272,000 Indians,
231,000 Fijians and the remain-
ing 32,000 are Europeans:part
Europeans, Rotum ans , Chinese
and other pacific Islanders. Most
stores, taxis and buses are owned
and operated by Indians. Fijians
are engaged in the tourist in-
dustry and tropical farming.
While English ,is the official lang-
uage, most children learn Fi-
jian and Hindi. A nine-year-old
Fijian girl gave me a demon-
stration of Hindi writing com-
plete with translation. Fiji needs
more schooli but they do have
primary, and secondary schools
and one University on the islands.
The tourist industry is ex-
ceeded only by the sugar indus-
try. On the short bus trip to our
es stay in Fiji
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boat cruise, we saw sugar cane
at various• stages of growth and
fields of tapioca. In one field,
a team of oxen were ploughing
and we were told that the sugar
cane would be planted in the
furrows by laying canes end to
end. A new plant would grow
from each knuckle or joint of
the cane. It came up in straight
evenly spaced. rows, There
wasn't a weed in the field but
with the vigorous growth of the
cane, a poor, weed wouldn't have
a chance.
Sugar cane is harvested once
a year depending on when the
individual farmer plants it - it
is cut by machete (by hand), left
on the field, to dry then piled on
carts which ran on narrow gauge
railroad tracks built alongisde of
the road. The empty carts were
dumped off the tracks, loaded
with the dried cane, lifted back
on the tracks by hand then pro-
ceeded to the sugar plant a few
miles distant.
There were some small mod-
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we were late coming back on the
boat. The bus ride now was
really something to be ,reMituk. .
bored - the bus oriveri a younig,
Indian, must have been late for a
very Important date. Be drove
like a fiend on those rough, par,-
'row winding roads, lust missing
people and fences by inches. The
bus itself was a very old SCh001,
bps mostly made of wood, the
backs of the seats had been re.,
covered with grey aroorite, the
same as I put on the countertop
of my cupboards 24 yeare ago,
There is no need tor a roller-
coaster there - one ride on that
bus will do the trick nicely, eti,
Pecially if it is your first day
riding in a vehicle on, what you
feel, is the wrong side of the
road. Every time approaching
lights appear over a sharp hill
or around a curve yOu are sure
they are on the wrong side of
theoyubirolae.d -, and a collision is in-
evitable.
In the evening, we went to a
Meke in a hotel in Lautoka. , A
taxi manned by a young. Indian
tookm too us tooloe o the hotelsok
for
u and wse asked hi
ten
.
o'clock. He said fine. When we
went to pay 'the 000 fare he said:
Wait"Wunhtyil pIabYr
imu ge yn000w ,
home
ut y
and
not
pay both fares . at once."' we
admired his faith in people. A
Mekeshortuticnalssaongss o d concertdauoes
given
oftra-
by Fijians in native costumes of
grass skirts, flowers etc. A Meke
is held at each hotel in turn and
afterward the participants . sit
around the lawn where tourists
may talk to them, ask questions
and take pictures.
The Fiji Times claims to be
'the first newspaper published in
the .world every day SuVa is
just west of the International
Date Line where the day begins.
Each morning, a copy of The Fiji
TiMes is left at the hotel guest's
door. It contains local newsia.nd
some world news (United Nations,
Australia and U.S. • there was
nothing about Canada that we
could find) The Fiji. Beach Press .
is published lortnightly and is
primarily tourist news and ad?,
vertising. It is distributed free.
Tourists in- Fiji are mostly
Australians and NeW Zealanders.
As yet it is relatively unspoiled
but probably in a few years, as
more peOple find out about its
Merits, it will be as crowded as
other popular, holiday places.The
next time we go, it will certainly
be for more than One day and
two nights!
While on the boat to Mana, we
found the following card:
10 Commandments
for Travellers
ThoU shalt not expect to'find
things As thou 'host them at
home for thoU halt left
thy. home to find things dita.
ferent,
2. ThOU shalt no take anything
too seriously - fort a Care-
free mind is the beginning
Of a holiday.
3. Thou shalt not let the other
tourists get on thy nerves
for thou art paying out gOod
Money to have a good time.
4. Remember thy passport so
that thou knowest where it
at 'all times • for a voyage
without a passport 16 a trap-
yeller without a country.
5. Blessed is the man who can
say 'thank you? in any hog-
hege and it shall be worth
more to Min than much ad-
vice.
6. Blessed is the man who can
Make change in any currency
for lo, he shall not he,
cheated,
1, Thou shalt not worry, He
that wottleth has no pleti.
'ante, and few things are
ever fatal. •
8. Thou shalt riot jiidge the
people Of a country by the
person with whoitt thou hint .
trouble.
6, Thou shalt, when
do SoiteWhat as the Romans
do, if Althoff*, thou
Shaft us
in
CorrittiOnaeriter and ttleodiffiess.
10. neofeinho, thou art ORA
in Ott* laid and he Mit
tteateth his hoet with tes.
tea shall, treated
Mit
as ur
ered gletto
l'HE BRUSSELS POST, NOVEMBER .11- 1973.4
DONALD M. LAURIE
INSURANCE AGENCY
Auto — Commercial — Farm — Residential
BOX 129, BRUSSELS — PH: 887-9221
Mrs. Jean Bewley, of Walton, who has recently returned from
a trip to Australia and the South Seas with her husband Walter,
looks over a copy of The Fiji Times, a newspaper that she
brought home with her. Mrs. Bewley, a staff member at the
Huron Exppsitor and the Brussels Post has written an account of
their experiences in Fiji for both papers.
:.‘ern houses but most of the Fijian
farmers seemed to live in that-
ched huts (bures) without benefit
of screens on windows or doors.
Apparently they do not need
screens as there are no fliei in
Fiji. We would have liked to
spend a whole day exploring that
road but our schedule, said move
on, so we had to be content with
what we saw from the bus window.
The boat trip out to Mana Is-
land was delightful with natives
singing and playing guitars all
the way. Passengers could sit
in the open air or enjoy the air
conditioning in the cabin as they
watched the scenery. we used
.field glasses to have a closer
look at the islands we passed
and this only whetted our cur-
iosity to see them more closely.
Mana Island itself has a beau-
tiful sandy beach surrounded with
palm trees and other tropical
growth with the inevitable moun-
tain providing a backdrop. The
mountains are not too high and
trees grow right to the top: The
sand on the beach is white and is
• made of sea shells and dead coral
which have,sbeen ground up by the
action of the water over the
years; the water is warm and
clear, shells on the bottom are
yearly visible and the only pol-
Tution is the odd cocoanut or a
hibiscus blossom floating in.
This island is developed for tou-
rists. The central attraction is a
large thateh,•roofed, open-sided
bure where a small native ,,or-
cheStra plays and sings all the
time. The walls are lined with
native drums, war clubs, bam-
boo fish traps, conch shells, clay
kava bowls and countless Other
articles' pertaining to the native
way of life. A colorful and dell-
cioxis buffet lunch with plenty Of
fresh fthits was served at one
e.
Since the people have no spe-
cial regard for time Or schedules
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