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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 12

Tongan's New Venture

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

A new edition of the Annuaire de la Nouvelle Caledonie” has been published in Noumea, price 200 francs. The annual contains much useful information about local history, geography and administra tion. The last edition appeared in 1922.

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. K. Borron. after six months in Sydney, returned in July to their well-known island home. Mago, in the Lau group, Fiji. Mr. Borron’s father went first to Fiji over 70 years ago. They have some 350 natives employed on Mago.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Borron have been re ceiving hospital treatment and both have benefited considerably.

Mr. J. L. D’Espeissis, Assistant Con servator of Forests in Fiji, has resigned.

He intends to leave the Colony within a few months.

This Tongan, Faingata, is an aspirant to the art of tight-rope walking. He is here posed on a stretched wire. His performances at Tongan concerts are greatly admired. —Photo by Hettig.