Gift Of £100

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Nukualofa, March 1.

QUEEN Salote Tubou, recently ac knowledged a gift of £lOO from Mr.

W. Cocker, an old established, well-known merchant and a member of the old and highly-esteemed Cocker family of Nukualofa, towards the de fence of Tonga. The gift will be used for the equipment of the Tonga Defence Force.

Mr. W. Cocker’s father, Mr. Joshua Cocker, was the first British Consul in Tonga (1860-1866).

Mr. A. Collins, who was with Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.’s staff in Fiji for a number of years before he returned to Australia about 1921, died recently at Gundagai, N.S.W.

When Captain L. A. Yancey was in Dutch New Guinea last year, as navi gator of Dr. Richard Archbold’s flying boat “Guba”, he made a number of trips to Port Moresby and Australia, and in all places that he visited he formed warm friendships. There was consider able regret expressed, therefore when it became known in March that he had died suddenly in New York. He was a very famous airman—he crossed the At lantic in a single-engined machine in 1929- then he won a prize of 10,000 dol lars for living from New York to Ber muda, in 1930. in a single-engined Stm

son aeroplane. Later, he flew a Stinson completely around the coast of South America, Katu Asen Latianara, who held the post of Roko Tui Serua in Fiji since 1909, died recently at the age of 63. His first Government oflice was as Buli Komave at Serua in 1898; he became Roko Tui Serua at the beginning of 1909; and retired in 1937, but almost immediately was temporarily re-ap pointed and served faithfully until his death. His eldest son is Ratu Mara, N.M.P. at Serua.