Queen Salote

A visit to Australia

QUEEN SALOTE of Tonga will arrive in Sydney on July 31 on her way to attend the centenary of the Victorian Methodist Church.

Queen Salote will be accorded a civic reception by the Lady Mayoress of Sydney on July 31, and in the evening of August 1 in Sydney Town Hall she will be wel

corned by a combined gathering of Metho dist congregations. Speakers will include the State Premier, the President of the Methodist Conference (Rev. M. K. Gil mour), and the Rev. Roger C. Page (who is a resident of Nukualofa, Tonga, and who is a brother of the Acting Prime Minister of Australia).

During the ensuing few days Queen Salote will be entertained at various re ceptions and meetings. She is described by the Sydney papers as “highly educated —speaks English fluently—the Town Hall audiences will hear a gifted orator.”

With elaborate and picturesque cere mony, the Tongan Parliament was opened in Nukualofa in June. The photo graph (by Wm.

Finau) shows the Queen of Tonga ar riving to formally declare Parliament open.