Tongan Notes.
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Corretpondent
Nukualofa. Sept. 16.
The Government’s decision to increase the payment to growers to 1/6 per case for to-day’s shipment of bananas by the “Waipahi” to New Zealand appears to have met with approval.
Government lorries distributed the empties a week ago to the country packing depots and these same lorries have been streaming to the wharf depot for the past two days laden with packed fruit. Unfortunately, the Dominion buyers have fixed our quota at 3,500 cases for this vessel, so, presumably, any surplus will either go forward “on spec.” or be fed to local pigs.
From a Tongan point of view, a wedding of the first magnitude is announced for the end of the present month. Princess Fusipala, half sister to Her Majesty the Queen, is to be married to Haamea, eldest son of high chief Finau, and descendant of that redoubtable Finau who, 130 years ago, was war lord of the Tongan Group. The wedding is to take place at the Royal Chapel, and the happy couple will then journey to Vavau, where Chief Haamea has extensive holdings.