The Hahn Family Of Tonga

OVER 20 years ago, three youngsters named Hahn, from Tonga—where they were connections of the well known Reichelman family—settled down in Sydney with their mother. They were Olita, Dick and Charles. When Mrs.

Hahn died, Olita and Dick shared a flat together.

Then came the war. Dick, who by then was holding a high position in the accounts department of David Jones,

Ltd,, went to New Guinea with the Aus tralians and, in Bougainville, he received injuries from which he later died. He was a leading member of the Sydney Polynesian Club, and his death was re gretted by very many friends.

Olita —charming and vivacious—married an American serviceman, Mr. Mitchell Tableporter, who in private life is a well known song-writer, and he took her home to Hollywood. His latest song is reported to be a great popular success.

The third member of the family, Mr.

Charles Hahn, has established a rest aurant, the Mount Colah Roadhouse, on the Pacific Highway just north of Hornsby and about 15 miles from Sydney’s Harbour Bridge. The restaurant —already famous for good cooking—is decorated with tapa-cloth and Tongan artifacts.

Recently, when a traveller from Vavau wandered casually into the restaurant, and saw the display of tapa, he developed a nostalgic excitement, which was not lessened when the suave and courtly Charles talked to him about well-known Tonga families.

Mr. P. Legh, an Englishman, who had recently been at Keravat, New Britain (P-NG), left Sydney by Trans Oceanic Airways’ flying-boat early in June for the Solomon Islands. He will loin the staff of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty., Ltd., at Banika, Russell Islands, in the centre of BSIP.

A recent photograph of Mr. and Mrs.

Tableporter, taken in Los Angeles.