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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 12

Training

p. 139 · Read in the full issue

Tongan Army Soon in Training

EQUIPMENT for the new Tongan military forces has been arriv ing in the Kingdom from New Zealand by air and sea. The RNZAF, in two Bristol freighters flew in some of the gear at the end of June. Other supplies etc, arrived in HMNZS Lachlan.

Captain A. M. J. Milliar of the NZ Army has been in Tonga for the past year supervising the erection of a training camp near Nukualofa.

Initially the force will be of Com pany strength. Training will be along infantry lines.