Queen Salote In New
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Zealand
QUEEN SALOTE, of Tonga, arrived in Auckland, NZ, on January 12, on a short health trip. She was met by representatives of the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, the Navy, and the agents for the Tongan Government.
At the request of the British Ministry of Information, Sir Harry Luke, a former Governor of Fiji, has written a booklet of some 70 pages, entitled, “Britain and the South Seas.” Another pamphlet, which he published in 1943, had sold 35,000 copies up to the end of last year. A book by Sir Harry Luke, in which he describes his four years in Fiji and the Western Pacific, will be published by Nicholson & Watson, of London, in 1945. It may tell the interesting story of the scenes behind the scene in the Central Pacific in 1940, after France had surrendered and the Vichy-ites were trying to get control of New Caledonia and Tahiti.