Tuboutoa
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Heir to Tongan Throne is Distinguished Scholar
IN the recent law examinations at the University of Sydney, Prince Tubou toa, heir to the Tongan throne, put up a splendid record. In almost every section his name was either second or third, and it is believed that the Prince (who is deeply studious, though he has also made a name for himself in ath letics) will be among the first dozen students in New South Wales.
Possibly Ratu Sukuna, of Fiji, is the only other Pacific Islander who has achieved such scholastic distinction.
Prince Tuboutoa is the first Tongan BA, and in a couple of years’ time he will be the first Tongan barrister. It was hoped that he would, in the normal course of events, proceed to Oxford. He wishes not only to qualify at the Eng lish bar, but to study anthropology with Professor Radcliffe Browne (who at one time was in charge of the Government College in Tonga). It is now on the cards, however, that he may become an associate to one of the Australian judges. If he does so, he will again break new ground for a Polynesian. Owing to the war, the young man had to abandon his intention of spending the Christmas holidays with his family in Tonga.
Mr. G. G. Smith, of Gerald Smith & Co.. Port Moresby, who became ill sud denly, and was operated upon in the European Hospital early in January, made a rapid recovery. Mr. George Gough, also of Port Moresby, made a good recovery after a long and serious illness, and has left hospital.
Mr. A. G. Jacobson, Seventh Day Adventist pastor at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, left for New Zealand in January.
Dr. M. Rose, assistant medical officer, of Rarotonga, who is also well-known in W. Samoa, returned in January, after a trip in which he had charge of the
transportation of lepers to the Northern Cooks.
Mr. C. Palmer, who is well-known in the Fiji Group, has arrived in Rarotonga to take over the managership of W. H.
Grove & Sons. Mrs. Palmer and their daughter were expected to arrive in January.
A convivial moment during: the sherry party arranged at the Carlton Hotel in Sydney in January by the Pacific Islands Society in honour of the delegates to the Copra Conference.
Prince Tuboutoa, of Tonga, is chatting with Lady Hunter (widow of Sir George Hunter of Hawkes Bay, NZ), and the former Chief Justice of Tonga (Mr. William Stuart), who. a few days before, had been landed on a New Guinea island by a German raider.