Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 January 1937Vol. VII, No. 6

The Talkies Come to Tonga

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

Page 77

from Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the Montoro on January 13.

The Talkies Come To Tonga

IV/TR- W. BRIGGS (proprietor of Briggs’

Pictures, Nukualofa, Tonga) after facing much expense in fitting up machinery and hall, including a visit by an Auckland expert, presented a talkie programme for the first time in Tonga on November 28. Prince John Gu formally declared the entertainment open, and congratulated Mr. Briggs on his enterprise.

Eager to see and hear what this invention of the white man was like, crowds of Tongans (as well as Burod°° n .a delighted, and the talkie is the talk of the town now, from one end of the

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