Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 September 1935Vol. VI, No. 2

Salote’S Ill-Luck

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

Page 77

Illness Disorganises Australian Tour

ILL-FORTUNE has dogged the holiday ing footsteps of Dame Salote, Queen of Tonga, who arrived in Sydney in July to fulfil a round of engagements in New South Wales and Victoria, as the guest of the Methodist Mission Society.

She carried out her Sydney itinerary, and then became ill, and eventually had to undergo a severe operation in the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley. She left the hospital on September 21, satis factorily convalescent; but was unable to go to Victoria.

The Queen’s son, Prince Taufa-Ahau, accompanied by a young Tongan noble, Lubeti Finau, has gone to Melbourne to represent his mother at certain important celebrations of the Methodist Church in the Victorian western districts.

The Queen is now the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J, W, Burton, in Sydney. The disorganisation of her tour must have been a severe disappointment, as Salote has few opportunities of travel, away from her little kingdom.

On October 5, Queen Salote will sail by the Katoomba for Fiji, and will take part in the Methodist Mission centenary celebrations there.

Several hundred persons connected with the Methodist Mission will journey to Fiji by the Katoomba, which has been specially chartered for this purpose.

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