Death Of Princess Fusibala

Tragedy Ends Gifted Tongan's Tour.

THE death occurred in Sydney late last month of Princess Fusibala, daughter of the late King of Tonga and step sister to the reigning Queen Salote.

For some time the late Princess had been in indifferent health and came to Australia with the Tongan Choir at the end of last year in the hope that the change would benefit her health. For a time it seemed as if the holiday had brought an improvement, but a latent complaint developed and she was ordered into a private hospital at Burwood and, despite excellent medical skill and nurs ing, her condition grew rapidly worse.

Princess Fusibala, who was known among her many friends in Tonga, Syd ney and Auckland as “Fusi”, was a gifted conversationalist and pianist. For six years she was at school in Auckland and later was at the Methodist Ladies’

College in Melbourne. Though naturally, deeply attached to Tongan ways of life, she was equally fond of and at home in English society.

The body of the late Princess was embalmed and was taken back to Tonga, via Suva on the "Niagara”, on which her brother-in-law, Prince Tugi, and the members of the Tongan Choir also re turned home.

—Photo by courtesy of “The Missionary Review ”