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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 August 1946Vol. XVII, No. 1

Tongan Public Service

p. 23 · Read in the full issue

Changes

Nukualofa, July 4.

AS a result of the retirement of the Minister of Lands, the Hon, T. Afu Taumoepeau, certain changes in the personnel of the Tonga Civil Service were made recently.

The Hon. High Chief Tu’iha’ateiho, who was Governor of the Ha’apai Group, and who, incidentally, was educated at Newington College, Sydney (old Newing tonians of his time would remember him as Sione Fatu) is now Minister of Lands; and High Chief ’Ahome’e, formerly of the Staff of the Lands Department, has been appointed Governor of Ha’apai. his position bPing filled by High Chief Fielakepa, from the Premier’s Dept.