Tonga

Old European Resident of Tonga

rIS is a recent photograph of one of Nukualofa’s best-known European residents—Mr. A. Cowley, fie is

advanced in years, but still takes a keen interest in pubjjc affairs.

Mr. Cowley, a young Englishman, who had learned the baking trade, went to New Zealand 60 years ago; and, in 1895, he settled in Nukualofa, and has com pleted 49 years’ residence there He married before he left England, and he has had five daughters and two sons. He has conducted a bakery business in Nukualofa for over 45 years. On a num ber of occasions he assisted the Tongans in a fight against what he regarded as the impositions of a bureaucratic despot ism. (Photo, by Hettig.)