Queen Salote Opens Tongan
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Parliament
From a Special Correspondent
Nukualofa, July 6.
r T , HE 37th session of the Tongan Legis * lative Assembly was opened by Her Majesty Queen Salote on June 15 and is still in session.
The estimates of expenditure for the current year (July 1. 1937 to June 30, 1938) amounting to £63,297, have been passed. This is a rather formidable sum for a country suffering from the effects of a serious hurricane (full recovery from which cannot be much before the middle of next year) and the lower price of copra.
Mr. A. W. Ottawa, sales manager of Riverstone Meat Co. Ltd., sailed from Sydney by the Montoro on August 12 on a “round-trip” business visit to Papua and New Guinea.
Mr. Algernon John Chicester, Sub-
Inspector in the Fiji Constabulary, died
in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, on July 13, at the age of 39. Born in England, he served in the Great War and was for a time in the N.Z, Police Force before going to Fiji in 1921. Mr.
Chicester left a widow and three young children.