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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 August 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 1

Inter-Island Rugby

pp. 26-28 · Read in the full issue

Representative Fijian and Tongan Rugby football teams before they played their first Test at Lautoka, Fiji, on July 39. Fijians (light jerseys) defeated the Tongans 31 to 6.

Mr. R. Dierke, of Kokopo NG, was married to Mrs. Ives, of Melbourne, in the Catholic Church at Valavalo, near Rabaul, on June 8.

The engagement has been announced of Miss Lesley Hawken, of Rabaul, to Mr. Neville Holland, of Civil Adminis tration, Rabaul. Mr. Holland is a son of Dr. E. A. Holland, formerly well known in Kavieng, New Ireland.