Road Accidents In Tonga

Letter to the Editor THE second fatal accident within three months occurred on Tongatabu on March 10, when a child was run over and killed by a Government lorry.

The first fatality was at Christmas when one of the New Zealand airport trucks swerved across the road and hit an old man with the rear end of the platform.

The vehicles in both fatalities are alleged to have been going at excessive speeds.

By a coincidence, the case against the driver of the airport lorry was commenced in Nukualofa on the day of the second fatality. When is the speed-limit to be fixed in Tonga? Government drivers are the worst offenders, in this regard.

Are the drivers of these two vehicles, having each killed another human being, to be allowed to drive a motor vehicle again? I am, etc.,

August Hettig.

Nukualofa, Tonga.

An American tank landing ship, “Rawhiti,” after 13 months in idleness in port, in New Zealand, sailed for Suva on March 21. She is owned bv the Roose Shipping Co., Ltd., of Mercer, NZ, but will be registered in Fiji. It is understood that from Suva she will proceed to the Solo mons where she will load war disposals goods for the Australian government. Her cargo capacity is between 2,000 and 3,000 tons. Her master will be Captain D. K.

Mathieson, formerly master of the schooner “Tagua.”