The Smiling Tongans

WRITING about the Pan Pacific Women’s Conference, held in Christchurch in mid-January, a New Zealand journalist had this to say about “a gay group from Tonga”:— “The party of three from Tonga are always an outstanding group.

All three women are very tall and wear attractive coloured dresses with their native plaited grass decorations. They are Mrs. Helu, Miss Puloka, and Miss Finau.

Accompanying them is Miss Row lands, head of the Queen Salote College for Girls, who is an Aus tralian from Melbourne. All the Tongan delegates have ready smiles and a very warm charm.”