Bachelor of Arts
pp. 58-60 · Read in the full issue
Tonga's Prince is Now Bachelor of Arts Young Scholar and Athlete
From Our Own Correspondent
Nukualofa, March 1.
ADVICE has been received from Syd ney that Crown Prince Tubouto’a has passed the final examination for the B.A. degree at the Sydney Uni versity, where he has been an under graduate for the last three years. The news of the success of the young man, who is only 21 years old, was received with pleasure throughout Tonga.
It is a matter of interest that Prince Tubouto’a is the first Tongan and Poly nesian (from the Islands) to have attended and graduated at a university.
The prince first received his education at the well-known Tubou College (founded by Dr. Moulton in 1866 and named after King George Tubou I), Nukualofa, where he early showed pro mise as a scholar and an athlete. Apart from being the youngest student (he was 14) to pass the college’s qualifying examination, he created a new record for the pole-vault for the annual sports meeting between Tubou College and the Government College.
At the end of 1932 he left for Newing ton College, Sydney, where his father, Prince Consort and Premier of Tonga, Prince Tugi, was educated. He matricu lated with honours in 1936, and entered Sydney University as an arts student in 1937, where he has won both academic and athletic success. He is the present holder of the University record for put ting-the-shot, with a throw of 39 ft. 71 ins.
The prince is now taking a law course at the University, with a view of tak ing an LL.B. He is also ambitious of taking a diploma of education after he has taken his law degree, before pro ceeding to Oxford to study anthropology under Professor Radcliff Brown, who was director of education in Tonga from 1918 to 1919.
Patrol Officer G. M. Rodger, of the Papuan Public Service who has been in New Zealand, has joined up with the New Zealand military forces for overseas service.
Mr. Muhammad Khan, a young Indian in the employ of the Vacuum Oil Co., in Fiji, died in the Suva Colonial War Memorial Hospital on March 15, after a short illness.
Rev. Henry Holland, of the New Guinea Mission, returned to his station in the Sangara district, Papua, early in April, after furlough in Australia.
Mr. John Harold Allen died at Lae, New Guinea, on March 7. He was origin ally an inspector under the Expropria tion Board and had been living for several vears in the Morobe district.