No Construction at Thurston: So what was it all about?

Proposed site above and to the right of the Fiji Museum which is also
outside Thurston Garden. pn 286

It would be helpful if advocates and the media paused to obtain the relevant facts before blowing off steam.

It now seems, if this report is correct,  that the proposed site for the construction of the Indian Embassy on the Thurston Gardens car park is a proposal no more. Why? Because it never was. The site is outside the Gardens and was never, according to records, the site of an ancestral burial ground.


Listen to the Minister on the weblink above, and see my earlier posting pn181.

So why all this pallaver?  It must have been about something. 

The villagers thought they had genuine concerns but they did not checked with the Ministry of Lands or see the survey plans. All quite understandable for villagers.

But not from their highly educated SODELPA advisors, one a lawyer, the other a high chief and former academic,  who should have known —and perhaps did know— better.  
No matter. 

The action has now probably served their purpose by keeping suspicion of Government indifference towards Taukei alive. 

For many ordinary Taukei a residue of resentment will remain in their memory. It does not matter if this is untrue. The  SODELPA-fanned fire has been kept smouldering.

--ACW