Nukualofa Club Ball

From Our Own Correspondent.

NUKUALOFA, December 30.

WE must confess with regret that, until to-day. we did not notice the letter at the foot of page 16 of the P.I.M. October issue, where the Hon. Secretary of the Nu kualofa Club, on behalf of the Committee, takes us to task for our remarks in the August issue, anent the (then) forthcoming ball.

We feel that we have been misread and that our attempt at something in the nature of a prediction has been misconstrued as a statement of accomplished fact. The “mis leading article” could only be proven as such after the event, and, as the views and deduc tions expressed were prophecy, we hasten to

assure the hon. secretary that we are glad that we were wrong in some of our prognosti cations.

For instance, we now know that only one committeeman was absent, and we now know that the function was a success, although hardly the success of previous years, because the ball was held “on a much reduced scale.”

Still, we are rather astonished that the committee, while they were about it, did not inform us how many guests were invited — to say that “63 invitations were sent out” is rather misleading, when it is known to the initiated that a, big percentage of those in vitations were sent to the subscribing mem bers and their wives.

Nevertheless, with the limited funds sub scribed, we agree that the evening turned out to be a jolly little affair, and we sin cerely hope that the next one will be just as jolly—if not jollier.