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Lomaivuna, Waidina and Wainimala. Dairy farming and market and export produce farming i.e. ginger and dalo drive the economy from areas such as Waibau Waidruso, Lomaivuna, Vunidawa, Muaniweni, Baulevu and Waila. The Rewa Dairy Co Ltd has a Chilling Station at Naluwai. Indigenous timber logging has increased with the construction of feeder road networks since 2000. The successful Lutu village produce export enterprise and the Province's business arm, the Voko Fish Ltd have pride of place in Indigenous business nationally.
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Prior to roads being built, the five rivers that flow through the province, the
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On 22 January 1875 at Navuso, Naitasiri, colonial administrators along with Ratu
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Colonial Sugar Refining Company built a sugar mill at Viria, Lomaivuna where it crushed from 1886 to 1895. It was closed because it was too small to be viable and the land was taken over by white planters and graziers. Until the 1960s the province was the centre of the banana export industry
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in 1862 that more coastal and white contact became regular. In 1867 on his fateful journey to
Christianize hill tribes in Colo West, Rev. Thomas Baker also travelled through Naitasiri and Colo East. Baron Anatole Von Hugel, also explored the Province in his journey through Namosi and Waimaro in
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Naitasiri province in a colonial native administration restructure. The province's people are renowned for their fiercely independent and warrior (bati) character. The earliest recorded white contact with Colo hill tribes is credited to Rev
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Christianization campaigns of heathen hill tribes in 1873 were followed by colonial pacification campaigns launched by Governor Sir Arthur Gordon in the Colo Provinces of Viti Levu in 1875. This was brought to a close in 1876 with a pardoning of belligerent hill tribes. Colonial
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the Sawani-Serea road, the Naqali-Namosi road, a new bridge and hospital at
Vunidawa, roadworks and sealing of the main Sawani to Naluwai road, bridge constructions at Navuso across the Waimanu River and Naqali across the
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Williams in 1858. However, it was after Reverend Frederick Langham, the Wesleyan minister journeyed to Christianize the
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