Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 November 1941Vol. XII, No. 4

Building a Tongan Fale

p. 35 · Read in the full issue

Page 3535

Biggest of its kind built in recent years, a huge Tongan fale (house) has been erected at Mua, Tongatabu, by free native labour. It will serve as a market house for native foodstuffs from villages on the eastern side of the island and also as a banana storage and packing shed for the monthly export of fruit to New Zealand. Photographs show: Top: The framework of the fale; and, bottom: Tongan craftsmen dressing one of the curved beams. —Photos: A. Hettig.

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