Flour And Prisoners
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For Tonga
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Nuku’Alofa, April 6.
THE Tongan Government vessel “Hifo fua” left at noon to-day for Suva where she will undergo fumigation before nicking un some of our Australian flour left there recently by the cargo ship “Waikawa.”
“Hifofua” took about 210 bags of candlenuts from Tonga to the candlenut mill operating at Suva.
The vessel will bring back to Tonga the notorious Tongan prisoner Mahe Tupou, who has escaped from Tonga to Fiji on
three occasions, once on a frail outrigger canoe and twice on small sailing Vessels.
With him will come his companion Tevita Tau’aika.
The death has occurred at Levuka of Mr. Rudolf Vollmer, aged about 68, the son of the late Mr. R. Vollmer, who came to Levuka from Germany in the eighteen sixties, and Adi Vasamaca, of Lomaloma.
After being educated in Germany, Mr.
Vollmer entered a business partnership with the late Mr. Albert Pfeiffer at Loma loma, later returning to settle at Levuka.
He married a Tongan lady and is survived by a large family. His father died in an internment camp in Australia during the First World War. Adi Vasamaca died not long ago at Levuka.