Abstract
Governor Gordon's solution to labour problems was to import indentured labourers from India. He drew upon his previous experiences in Trinidad and Mauritius where Indian indentured labourers had been working on the sugar plantations for several decades. From 1880 to 1916 sugar-cane was grown in large plantations which the Colonial Sugar Refining (C.S.R.) either leased or bought outright from the native landowners through the colonial government. The Mission ran the first orphanage for the children of labourers who had been murdered or killed on the plantations. Local writers in the 1960s and 1970s claimed that it was the severe shortage of women on the plantations that caused the moral downfall of Indian women. In Fiji, the manager of C.S.R's plantation Vucimaca was censured by Agent General of Immigration for forcing woman called Baggia to live with a man and 'cook his rice'.
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