Friendship
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Tonga’s 50 Years’
Friendship With United Kingdom Anniversary Celebrations in February
TONGA, as well as Australia, will cele brate a 50th anniversary in 1951.
This year marks the 50th year of Federation in Australia; in Tonga it is the 50th year since the signing of the Lreaty of Friendship between the King dom and Great Britain.
Queen Salote of Tonga, who has been spending the summer in Auckland, NZ, returned to Nukualofa on the January Matua in order to be present at the celebrations which will take place be :ween February 15 and 17. There will 3e a Tongan feast, a procession, a regatta md dances. The Governor of Fiji, Sir Brian Freeston, will be present. (Under the treaty which was signed on February 16, 1901, the then King of Tonga Dlaced himself and his territory under British protection. It was, however, King Fubou f, who became King of Tonga in L 845, who laid the foundation of the present government of the Kingdom. He established his government on the Euro- Dean pattern wherever possible by voluntarily limiting his own powers and establishing a Parliament with a Privy Council and a Cabinet.)