 In early 1943, the Fiji Government suspended the publication of "Fiji Samachar" for six months after it published record of the meeting of Central Indian Was Committee in November 1942, in which most of the speakers took the view that Indians could not be expected to enlist for the army unless they were paid the same as Europeans.The "Fiji Samachar" enjoyed wide readership during the period from 1929 to 1959 when Vishnu Deo was active in politics, but lost its readers to numerous other Hindi language newspapers which began publication in the 1960s.In 1963 the newspaper was sold to S. M. Bidesi and labour problems caused it to cease publication in 1974.