Naitasiri

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Naitasiri is one of the fourteen Fijian provinces (yasana) and one of eight provinces on the island of Viti Levu . It is located in the north of the island, north of the capital Suva and covers 1,666 km². In 2017 there were 177,678 inhabitants. This makes Naitasiri the second largest province after Ba in terms of population .

geography

Provinces of Fiji

Naitasiri borders in the north on Ra and Tailevu , in the south on Rewa and Namosi , and in the west on Nadroga-Navosa and Ba . The borders run through Viti Levu mainly from the southeast in a northwest direction from Laucala Bay on the Suva peninsula to Mount Tomanivi , the highest mountain in Fiji on the Nadrau Plateau ("Mai na toba ko Laucala ki na ruku i Tomanivi").

The main town is the city of Nasinu , with a population of 87,446 inhabitants (2007). The suburbs of Waila , Makoi , Kalabu , Tovata , Kinoya , Laqere , Nadera , Nepani , Nadawa , Valelevu , Nakasi and Naveiwakau belong to the urban area . Other suburbs of Suva City ( Rewa ) are also within the limits of Naitasiri: Samabula North , Tamavua , Namadi , Tacirua , Wailoku , Cunningham and Khalsa .

In the Naitasiri area there are agricultural areas, extensive rainforests and five river systems, the Medrausucu Mountains and the Monasavu Dam for water supply, located in the Wainimala area in the Nadrau Plateau.

Originally, the five rivers Wainibuka , Wainimala , Waidina , Waimanu and Rewa served as the main traffic routes, which is why many villages in the province are located on the rivers. Large infrastructure projects have been carried out since the 1960s. These include the Sawani-Serea Road , the Naqali-Namosi Road , a bridge and a hospital in Vunidawa, the expansion of the Sawani-Naqali Road and other bridges at Navuso over the Waimanu River and at Naqali over the Waidina. The Suva Monasavu Road facilitated the access to the hinterland of Wainimala since the late 1970s. The Vunidawa Bridge has made the Matailobau District accessible since 2000 . Naitasiri District

economy

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company had a sugar mill at Viria , Lomaivuna , which operated from 1886 to 1895. This was closed because it was not profitable and the land was taken over by white plantation owners and ranchers. Until the 1960s, the province was the center of the banana industry near Lomaivuna, Waidina and Wainimala. Dairy farming and ginger and dalo cultivation are the mainstays of the economy in the areas of Waibau Waidruso, Lomaivuna, Vunidawa, Muaniweni, Baulevu and Waila. The Rewa Dairy Co Ltd maintains a cooling system (Chilling Station) at Naluwai. Logging has increased with the construction of forest roads since 2000. The Lutu Village Produce Export Enterprise and the provincial Voko Fish Ltd are important drivers of the local economy.

politics

The province has 96 settlements, which are grouped into five districts: Naitasiri , Lomaivuna District , Waimaro District , Matailobau District and Wainimala District . Naitasiri is administered by the Provincial Council, the chairman is currently Ratu Ilaitia Tuisese . The Provincial Center is Vunidawa in the Matailobau District. From 1997 to 2006 the province formed the constituency of Fijian Communal Constituency Naitasiri . This was repealed by the 2013 constitution.

history

In 1945 the hill province of Colo East was annexed to the province of Naitasiri in a restructuring process of the colonial administration. The residents were known for their strong independence and their warlike character (bati). The earliest reports of contacts between the Colo Hill Tribes and whites go back to Reverend Williams in 1858. Later, Reverend Frederick Langham , a Wesleyan preacher, was busy Christianizing the Taukei ni Waluvu , and from 1862 contact became a regular occurrence on the coast . In 1867 Rev. Thomas Baker traveled through Colo West to Naitasiri and Colo East to Christianize hill tribes. The anthropologist Baron Anatole Von Hügel made a voyage of discovery in the province on the occasion of his trip through Namosi and Waimaro from 1875 to 1877.

On January 22, 1875, colonial administrators in Navuso, along with Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau and his two sons, who had just returned on the HMS Dido from Sydney , Australia, taught about eight hundred hill country chiefs and their tribesmen about the effects of Fiji new colony status. Cakobau and his two sons had already contracted measles on the trip . Since there were no quarantine regulations at the time, they inevitably infected a large number of their subjects. The following measles epidemic, which raged in Fiji from January 1875 to June, wiped out 30% of the population (approx. 50,000 inhabitants).

Cakobau's Christianization campaigns among the “pagan hill tribes” in 1873 were replaced by colonial “pacification campaigns” by Governor Sir Arthur Gordon in the Colo Provinces in 1875. It was not until 1876 that the warlike hill tribes were amnestied. The Colonial Administrator Adolph Brewster Brewster (1854-1937) published the first ethnological studies in the 1880s .

The province is traditionally politically linked to the Kubuna Confederacy of Construction . This alliance was strengthened through the marriage of Seru Cakobaus ( Vunivalu von Bau ) eldest daughter to the Qaranivalu of Naitasiri. Other prominent chiefs of the province are Taukei ni Waluvu from Matailobau and Tui Waimaro from Waimaro.

The Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL) party was founded after the coup in Fiji in 2000 on the initiative of the chiefs and people of Naitasiri. The SDL won parliamentary elections in both 2001 and 2006. In December 2006, however, it was overturned by another military coup .

Personalities

literature

  • Man. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1901: p. 121 (Reference to Naitasiri).
  • Stephanie Lawson: The Failure of Democratic Politics in Fiji. Oxford University Press 1991: p. 269 (statistical details of Naitasiri).
  • Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates: General index to the fifth ten volumes. In: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Royal Geographical Society, Great Britain 1831: p. 237. (Stanford University)
  • Adolph Brewster: The hill tribes of Fiji: A Record of Forty Years' intimate connection with the tribes of the mountainous interior of Fiji with a description of their habits in war & peace, methods of living, characteristics mental & physical, from the days of cannibalism to the present time. Seeley, Service & co., Stanford University 1922.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fiji Bureau of Statistics: 2017 Population and Housing Census - Release 1 . In: Census 2017 . January 5, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ King of the cannibal isles: a tale of early life and adventure in the Fiji Islands. ; The hill tribes of Fiji: a record of forty years' intimate connection with the tribes of the mountainous interior of Fiji with a description of their habits in war & peace, methods of living, characteristics mental & physical, from the days of cannibalism to the present time.

Coordinates: 17 ° 50 ′  S , 178 ° 15 ′  E