"Tin-Can Mailman" Returns
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To Tonga
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Oct. 5.
THE good people of the Tongan isles will be interested in reading this story, which appeared in the New York press on September 10: A British world-war veteran, Charles Ramsay, is on his way back to the Tongan islands, before another world war breaks out.
Ramsay, a copra exporter, arrived in New York from England aboard the liner “President Roosevelt” to-day. He was in a hurry to reach the Tongas, a South Sea island group, 1,000 miles north-east of New Zealand.
“Things over in Europe are crazier than they were 20 years ago”, Ramsay said.
“But in the Tongas life is different.
“The islanders are a happy people’ , Ramsay added. “They have no under standing of the strife and war which so much of the world takes for granted.
There is no crime. Tongans help each other.”
The Tongas are inhabited by 250 Euro peans and 30,000 natives.
Rev. T. G. Paul, M.A., rector of. Cam den, N.S.W., has accepted the position of commissary in Australia for the Bishop of Melanesia.