Pacific

Islands

Monthly

September, 1948

Vol. XIX. No. 2.

stablished 1930.

{Registered at the ft# transmission by post as; a newspaper ]

A C H A RM I N G Photograph of

the princess Mar

garet, at the naming

ceremony of the London Missionary Society’s new vessel, "Johh Williams VI,” at Tower Bridge Pier, London, on August 5.

In this picture, taken just after the cere mony, the Princess is examining, with plea sure, the handbag that' was made by the people of Cook Islands, entirely out of native material, and presented to her on behalf of New Zealand.

A photograph of the ship, and the story of all the “John Williams” line, is