Tongan Royal
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Wedding
Notable Social Event Next Month
EARLY next month, there will be a double Royal wedding in Tonga: Prince Tupouto’-a-Tungi (heir appar ent) to Mata’aho ’Ahome’e: and Prince "p’atafehi Tu’ipelehake to Melanaite Vei kune.
It will be the most important social event in Nukualofa since the Coronation of Queen Salote in 1918. The Queen is now 47 years old.
After an absence from Tonga of 43 years, Mrs. F. A Moulton left Sydney by air on May 7, to attend the double wed ding.
Mrs. Moulton went to Tonga as a bride in 1896 with her husband, the late Rev. •T. E. Moulton, a Methodist missionary, who was in charge of the Methodist College there for 10 years. His father, Dr. J. E. Moulton, founded the college.
Mrs. Moulton, who was present at the wedding of the Queen of Tonga. Queen Salote, of whom she is a personal friend, said that in a letter recentlv, the Queen expressed her happiness at the coming marriages of her sons. Princess Melenaite was educated at Ravenswood Methodist College. Gordon, Sydney, and Mata’aho was educated in New Zealand.