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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 10

Tonga’s New Catholic Bishop

p. 101 · Read in the full issue

U Dr. Pierre Auguste Cassiau has been appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour. Dr. Cassiau is chief of the Health Department of French Oceania.

H Mr. D. V. Cullinane, recently accountant at the Bank of New Zealand, Ngaruawahia, NZ, has been appointed manager of the Bank’s new branch at Ba, Fiji.

When the Rt. Rev. J. Rodgers, Roman Catholic Bishop of Tonga, returned to Nukualofa on March 24, after bis consecration in New Zealand, he was met by Euro pean and Tongan priests. The photograph (by Hettig) shows in the front row (left to right): Father Shahl, the Bishop (with suitcase). Father Boussit, Father Butler and Father Calet.