Young Tongan Prince

HERE is the young Tongan prince who has been making a name for himself as a footballer and athlete, at college in Sydney—Jione Wellington Gu Fatafehi Manu-mata-ogo, youngest son of Queen Salote and the late Prince Uliami Tugi.

Born on January 7, 1922, he is nine teen years of age, more than six feet tall, and weighs around 20 stone. A

student at Newington College like his father and brother (Crown Prince Tuboutoa) before him, he now is studying for the Intermediate Examination.

At the end of the year, he will leave for Nukualofa, with Tuboutoa, on a visit to their mother. Touboutoa will continue with his legal studies at the University of Sydney next year, but Jione may re turn to Newington for a time, then take a course in tropical agriculture at a Queensland college. The decision will rest with Queen Salote.

Jione received his early education at Tubou College, Tonga. Later, he studied for a couple of years with a tutor (Rev.

A. H. Sharp), in Auckland. He is the first Tongan to have flown the Tasman Sea, having arrived at Sydney from NZ early this year to enter Newington. A friendly, spontaneous lad with a cheerful smile, he is popularly known among his school-fellows as John Gu.—E. R.

Miss Mavis Eather arrived in Sydney from Papua last month on furlough. A member of the New Guinea Mission, she is stationed at Gona.

Prince Jione Gu.

—Photo: May Moore.