ABSTRACT
Again and again I have been asked by the highest Government authorities in Fiji and also by leading Europeans concerning the racial problem and the very rapidly increasing population of mixed Fijian and European descent. The origin of this population goes back a very long way in the history of the islands, before ever Indian indentured labour came. Very many, who are to-day bringing up their own children with great care, are the third or fourth generation from those who were born of mixed parentage in the earliest days. They form a section of the population of Fiji that intermarry among themselves and have also their own way of living. They reside chiefly in Suva and its suburbs and among them are families that are extremely poor. Others have reached a high standard of education and are comparatively prosperous.
