Coronation Day

French Warship Shows Tongans Their First Aeroplane or Coronation Day

Dr REO FORTUNE, now of the Ling Nam University, Canton, China, (who recently carried out anthropological research in New Guinea), has announced his en gagement to Miss Eileen Pope, of Wellington, N.Z. Their mar riage will take place shortly in China.

Dr John Wesley Coulter,

associate professor of Geography in the University of Hawaii, is spending leave from academic duties in 1937-38 in the South Sea Islands. He is making a survey of land utilization in American Samoa under the aus pices of the naval government there. From American Samoa, he will go to British Samoa, Fiji, and other islands in the Pacific and then on to New Zealand, Australia, and Europe.

He is an Irishman by birth and received his early education in the Methodist Co>lege, Belfast.

He is the author of several books.

Nukualofa, May 22.

During the Coronation cele brations here on May 12 the French sloop Rigault de Genou illy, commanded by Commander Leon Moron, was in port.

The ship’s seaplane flew over Nukualofa during the celebra tions and gave the Tongans their first thrill of seeing a plane over their island.

Shown in the accompanying photographs are:— Top: Her Majesty Queen Salote Tubou, D.B.E., and her consort, Prince William Tugi, C.B.E. (with A.D.C. and maid in waiting) arriving to attend Coronation Service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Nukualofa, where the Kev. H. A. Favell officiated.

Lower (left to right) : Com mander Leon Moron, Mrs.

Ragnar Hyne, Mr. Ragnar Hyne (British Vice-Consul).

Also in the group are two other officers from the French war ship.