Queen Salote

Tonga’s Ruler Visits Sydney

FLYING the Tongan Royal Standard, the liner Aorangi reached Sydney on June 12 with Queen Salote, D.8.E., ruler of the Tongan Islands, Prince Consort William Tugi, and Princess Fetutuki Oneone (lady-in-waiting) on board.

Queen Salote was in Australia in August last year when she underwent a serious operation in Sydney. She has now returned for further medical attention, and probably will enter the War Memorial Hospital at Waverley.

To make connection with the Aorangi at Suva, the Queen left Nukualofa by the small sailing vessel Fetuuaho. The cutter ran into heavy seas, and the Royal travellers experienced a strenuous four days’ voyage before reaching Fiji.