News From Tonga
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Both Protestant and Catholic members of the community are renewing acquaint ance with two popular priests who have recently returned to Tonga.
His Lordship Bishop Blanc, who re tired in 1952 after 30 years service in Tonga has come back from his native Father E. Tremblay who spent 20 years to the Ha’apai group where he was instru mental in building the boys’ college, has come from Canada and America for a year’s working holiday. * * * Mr. Hank van der Moeln of the -Government Experimental Farm in Vava’u has gone to Nuku’alofa to supervise Agriculture Department activities during the absence of Director Pym Straatsman who will holiday in Holland. * * * The Misses Silia and Meleane Piukala, of Vava’u, shared honours recently at a feast held in celebration of their 21st birthdays. Some 200 Tongan and Euro pean friends met in the Piukala home in Pangai village for good food and an afternoon of singing and dancing. Miss Silia Piukala is just back from Nuku’alofa where she was a member of the graduat ing class of Queen Salote College.
If Police Inspector Ron Clammer, who has been stationed for some time at Sohano, in the Bougainville area of New Guinea, has been pro
moted Acting Superintendent of
Police in Rabaul.