Pacific Islands Monthly
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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1949Vol. XX, No. 5

Tonga's Finance Minister

p. 73 · Read in the full issue

Page 7373

Dies In Suva

Mr. Horace Evander Nicolson,

Minister of Finance in the Govern ment of Tonga and a member of the Queen’s Privy Council, died at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, on November 25.

Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Nicolson

was taken to Suva from Nukualofa by art RNZAF Catalina on November 23, a few days after he had become ill.

Mr. Nicolson, who was born at Thames, New Zealand, 51 years ago, entered the Tongan Government service in 1925. His industry and devotion to the interests of the Kingdom won him the widest possible respect in all circles in Tonga as well as among many people in Fiji and New Zealand.

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