Pacific

Islands

Monthly

April, 1950

Vol. XX. No. 9

Established 1930.

IRegistered at the G.P.0., Sydney, by post as a newspaper ]

QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY: Queen Salote of Tonga, is shown here speaking to crowds of her people who gathered in the public park in Nukualofa on the occasion of her 50th birthday on March 13.

Shown also (left to right): Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart, Acting Governor of Fiji; Mr. J. E. Windrum, British Agent and Consul in Tonga; Mrs. Windrum; Prince Tuipelehaaki and his wife Princess Melenaite. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.