News Notes From Vayau,

Tonga

Prom Our Own Correspondent VAVAU, October 26.

HER Majesty, Queen Salote Tu pou, paid a fortnight’s visit to Vava’u recently. During her stay, she led birthday celebrations on October 7 in honour of her year old grandson, Prince ’Uluvalu Ngu Takeivulai Tuku’aho.

Prince ’Uluvalu is the only son of the Queen’s younger son, Prince Tuipelehake Fatafehi, who is the governor of Vava’u. „ In Tonga, the first birthday is the one held to be the most important in a person’s life. A royal birthday is the occasion of widespread re joicing and little Prince ’Uluvalu’s birthday was marked by a large feast and by presents brought by people from all the villages of Vava’u.

400 women, members of the Wes. leyan Church in Vava’u met foi five days recently in their Annua Women’s Camp meeting which wai held in Neiafu.

The purpose of the camp, whicl was opened by Queen Salote Tupou who is intensely interested ii women’s church work, was to creato greater community interest in rais ing the spiritual and material leve of Tongan homes.

Speakers who addressed the as sembly were, in addition to th Queen, Princess Melenaite Fatafeh: wife of the governor of Vava’u, wh< spoke on adherence to churcl duties; and Dr. Farquhar Mathesoi who spoke on adequate housing fo Tonga. (Sister Evelyn B. Llewellyn, Pub lie Health Nurse of Nuku’alofa re cently made a month’s tour o Vava’u and Niuafo’ou. While ii Vava’u, Sister Llewellyn addresse< the Tongan Medical Practitioner on Child Welfare and conducts clinics throughout the group. Sh was accompanied by Miss Silia ’ll of Nuku’alofa.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph “Lolo Sanft of Neiafu are the prom parents of twin daughters who wer bom at the Neiafu hospital on Oc tober 16. Mr. Sanft is associate! with his father Mr. Otto Sanft i] the motion picture business am merchandising business in Neiafi The second Annual Agricultur Show was held in Vava’u on Octo ber 11. It featured exhibitions o fruits, vegetables, farm animals flowers and Tongan handicraft Horse races, cattle judging, copn cutting contests were all part o the afternoon’s entertainment.

Prince Fatafehi’s footballers bea the men of the New Zealand cruise Kanieri nine points to three in i closely contested game which wa played in Neifau during the recen two day visit of the cruiser to Vava’u. During the game officers o the ship were served with afternooi tea. Other events of the visit wer' dances for both officers and men.

The Rev. S. Edwards, Warden o the Anglican Theological College a Siota, BSI, returned from Auck land by the Southern Cross.

Mr. F. L. (“Benny”) Burrow, well known engineer of Eastern Papua, where he runs several slip ways, returned to Samarai by air from Sydney on November 3, after a month’s business visit. He has been in the Territory since 1926 and served in the RAAF during the war years.

Photograph shows the group outside [?]e Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby, [?]the recent wedding of Miss Mary Evans Mr. Stewart Clark-Kennedy. The group [?]eft to right): Mr. W. Evans (grooms [?]an); Mr. J. McDiamond (best man); Mr.

Evans (father of the bride); Miss M.

Evans (bridesmaid); Miss L. Evans (chief bridesmaid); bride and groom (Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Clark-Kennedy); flower-girl, Elizabeth O’Brien. Mr. T. Evans, father of the bride, is an old Territorian and is the owner of a plantation at Hom brom Bluff. —Papuan Prints.