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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 9. 1st May 1974

Law enforcement trouble

Law enforcement trouble

When local leaders from seventeen South Pacific islands met recently for an intergovernmental conference on economic and social needs, chief Tamasese of Western Samoa came out forcibly against mixing aggressive commercialism with the traditional life of his homeland: "Western Samoa is not ready for this," he said. "The impact would destroy our communal family system." The Fijian Minister for Education, Youth and Sport, Jane Naisara, said "Law enforcement has become a bigger problem since mass tourism came to Fiji."

Dislocation of the traditional social and ecological elements in Fiji is so clear that the Wellington newspapers on consecutive days (April 16 and 17) published a feature article on the matter. But they didn't stop the advertising which draws the tourist who, in fact, tramples underfoot the heritage that is Fiji's own.