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====Fiji==== In 1880, E.W. Knox expanded the company's sugar plantation and milling systems to Fiji with a large estate and mill being established at [[Nausori]]. Another estate and mill was constructed at [[Ba (town)|Rarawai]] in 1886. Cheap Fijian and [[South Sea Islander]] labourers were utilised with high mortality rates being recorded.<ref name="CSR" /> At Nausori, the Agent-General for Immigration in Fiji, described the deaths of the Islander labourers at the CSR plantation as appalling and tantamount to manslaughter.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Docker |first1=Edward Wybergh |title=The Blackbirders |date=1970 |publisher=Angus & Robertson |location=Sydney}}</ref> Local laws made it harder to use blackbirded Melanesian labour and CSR soon turned to Indian [[coolie]] labour imported from [[Calcutta]]. By 1885, most of CSR's Fijian plantation workforce were coolies on 5 year contracts.<ref>{{cite news|date=29 August 1885|title=Nausori Mill, Rewa River. VITI LEVU, FIJI.|volume=XXV|page=3|newspaper=[[Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser]]|issue=2086|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62149139|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=1 January 2022|archive-date=11 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811050821/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62149139|url-status=live}}</ref>
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