ABSTRACT
I have already mentioned the incident that occurred when the leading women of Australia took up the cause of the Indian indentured women on the sugar plantations of Fiji; how they sent out Miss Garnham to make an enquiry' into the evils from which they suffered. This fact has done something to modify the bad impression caused by the "White Australia" policy. I have referred to this often in India and have added a further consideration, that this invidious restriction did one unexpected service, for which India to-day may be thankful. It stopped, at the outset, the importation of indentured labour from India into the tropical Northern territory on the very same conditions that it was sent to Fiji. Few things could have done more harm if once it had been allowed to take place than such an importation of indentured labour.
