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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1954Vol. XXV, No. 2

Licensed Hotel

p. 141 · Read in the full issue

[?]nga to Have Licensed Hotel

3NGA is to get its first licensed hotel. This was announced re cently by Prince Tungi, elder i of Queen Salote. It will accom date 28 guests. Tenders will irtly be called. it the present time, boarding ises provide the only accommo ion for visitors to Tonga and nk can be bought from Govern nt supplies only on police permit, e of liquor in the new hotel will bably be restricted to guests. liss Margaret Ahearn, daughter Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Aheam, of -t Moresby, was married in Sep iber to Mr. Leslie Smith,

Teaching Natives to Fish

NEW ways of stepping-up fish production in South Pacific islands will be studied by Mr.

H. van Pel, who arrived in Noumea from Holland in mid-August. Mr. van Pel is the new fisheries officer to the South Pacific Commission.

En route he spent several days in Sydney conferring with Common wealth fisheries experts.