Prince Tungi As Minister.

AS the Prince who will one day rule in Tonga, Tungi is serving a respon sible apprenticeship. Education was one; of his main University interests and in accepting this portfolio in the Tongan Cabinet he has been able to follow his inclinations. He is also a keen and practical-minded Minister of Health with out usurping the authority and know ledge of nis departmental advisers.

He has, perhaps, the strangest hobby of any prince—the collection of gadgets.

Some of his greatest enthusiasms have centred around luminous fish-hooks, ultra-modern writing pens or bladeless razors. Even during the wedding cele brations he was demonstrating a light ning calculator —a Japanese device of manipulated beads which he claimed could do all his mathematics for him. On another occasion, when guests were ad miring the array of presents, he was explaining the value of what was prob ably the humblest gift—a device like an egg-beater designed to grate coconut while still in the shell.

“A Happy Fellow.”

THE Crown Prince’s younger brother, Prince Fatafehi, is a man of rather different stamp. Twenty-five years of age and built even more heavily than the heir to the Throne, he has a jovial eye and ready smile that encourage people to describe him as “a happy fellow.” He radiates good humour and is a pleasant and unassuming dinner companion. In European company he is a better listener than talker.

Fatafehi has a modest role in govern ment, but it is no sinecure. He is travel ling inspector of agriculture. He knows what can and cannot be done in island agriculture, and in the fields and plantations his Royal influence can do more than a dozen experts in stimulating production. He is not the sort of man who can be tied happily to an office desk.