How Tonga Assists
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War Effort
rE Colonial Secretary, Lord Moyne, in a message of thanks to Queen Salote, of Tonga, for an offer to contribute £20,000 a year for the next two years toward the defence of Tonga, says:— “The Government and people of Tonga have given, under your leadership, much encouraging evidence of their determina tion to further the common cause.”
The Governor-General of the Free French Colonies in the Pacific, M.
Brunot, left Noumea on May 22 by PAA Clipper for NZ en route to Tahiti. He visited most of the principal centres in New Caledonia, where he carefully ex plained to the French colonists the poli tical situation as he understands it, and he appears to have succeeded in remov ing a good deal of misunderstanding. M.
Brunot sailed from Auckland for Papeete by Matson liner at the end of May.