Tongan Premier
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Remarries
Nukualofa, August 22.
A WEDDING of public interest took place here to-day when the Premier of Tonga, the Hon. High Chief Ata, was married to a young Tongan woman named Fualupe Manavahetau. Premier Ata’s new bride is a distant cousin of his first wife, who died in 1945. .
It has been rumoured locally that tne Premier will retire from office at the end of this year, but there is no confirmation of this from official circles.
If he does retire, Tongans hope that his succession will be a man with progres sive ideas and it is felt that there could be no happier choice than that of Crown Prince Tupouto’a-Tungi who at present fills admirably the positions of Minister of Education and Health. The Crown Prince is a graduate in Arts of Sydney University and has, as well, fine qualities of leadership.
Mr. C. A. M. Adelskold, who has been at the head office of, W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., for some time, has gone to the Wewak branch, New Guinea. He did a good job, during the war years, as secre tary of the Pacific Territories Association.