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Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 May 1938Vol. VIII, No. 10

A Tongan Wedding

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

MR. and Mrs. R. J, Woodbridge, of Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga, Mr. Wood bridge is Collector of Customs at Vavau, and he was married on April 10 to Miss Dorothy Whitcombe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Whitcombe, of Devon port, Auckland. Mrs. Woodbridge was born in Suva and has spent several years in Tonga, so is no stranger to Islands life. Her father, Mr. J. D.

Whitcombe, spent some 30 years in the South Seas, both in the Tongan Govern ment and in the Customs Department, Fiji. He is now a resident of Auckland.

Sogeri Plantations Ltd., Papua, has re gistered an increase of 5,000 £1 shares, bringing the total capital of this rubber growing Company to £lO,OOO.