UNFAIR TO FIJI " A Spectator's Notebook " on January
31st„ " Janus " quotes a letter about Fiji which is a travesty of the facts. I do not wish to occupy your time by describing the usual types of dress worn by Fijians; it will suffice to say that the police uniform is a blue tunic and white skirt or sarong falling to below the knees. They are dis- tinguished from other wearers of the white sarong in that theirs is cut in triangles round the lower edge vvvv. These details are, however, trivial. The point is that " Janus's " note conveys the impression that the Fijians are almost naked savages, and must cause offence to your Fijian readers, among whom you probably number at least one chief who is a graduate of Oxford, and the two royal princes in the defence force. Our Press constantly betrays abysmal ignorance of the Empire, but it is unexpected in The Spectator.—Yours faithfully, J. J. KEEVH., Surgeon-Commander.
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