Pacific Is. Club Entertains
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Sir Charles Rosenthal
THREE distinguished guests Sir Charles Rosenthal (Administrator elect of Norfolk Island), Mr. Robert Semple (Minister for Works in New Zealand), and Dr. V. Collocott, M.A., Litt.D. (first principal of the Methodist College at Nukualofa) —were entertained by the Pacific Islands Club at the Hotel Carlton, Sydney, on July 27.
Replying to the speech of welcome by the President (Dr. H. I. Hogbin), Sir Charles Rosenthal said that he was go ing to N.I. in October with an open mind and a firm desire to assist and under stand the Islanders by personal contact.
Within five years he expects a Pacific aerial service to be in operation, with Norfolk as an important link.
Referring guardedly to the New Hebrides, Sir Charles declared that Aus tralia was anxious to take Britain’s place in the Condominium in order to maintain an unbroken chain of defence islands down the eastern coast.
Lecturing on “Tonga of Yesterday,”
Dr. Collocott traced the history of the Tui Tonga or sacred kings. He quoted a number of native proverbs and poems to illustrate the Tongans’ irony and wit.