Queen Salote's Message
p. 21 · Read in the full issue
To N. Zealand
'J 1 H E following message has been received from Queen Salote of Tonga hy the Prime Minister of New Zealand, in response to messages sent the Queen on her Silver Jubilee on October 11, 1943: “I wish to thank you very sincerely for your telegram conveying the good wishes and congratulations of the Government and people of New Zealand on the silver jubilee of my coronation; also for the very beautiful gift, which I shall ever value.
“I would like also to take this oppor tunity to express my deep appreciation of and gratitude for all the services your Government has rendered my kingdom in these difficult days. Co-operation for defence of the things we value and for the prosecution of the war does much to establish more firmly the cordial re lations existing between our two coun tries.”