An Oil-Mill

Prince Tungi Now Considers An Oil-Mill

r[E Tongan Government is considering building a copra processing factory at Hamilton, Ontario—according to a Toronto press report on May 10.

At that time the Prime Minister of Tonga (Prince Tungi) was visiting Toronto, where he had talks with the Canadian Minister of Planning (Mr. K. Warrender) and with planning and development officials.

Prince Tungi also visited a vege table oil extraction plant at Hamilton.

Canadian officials said that the Prince’s visit might be a step towards a two-way trade agree ment.

Earlier, while in England, Prince Tungi discussed the question of a set of coins to supplement Tonga’s Treasury notes and to replace the Australian coins now in use.

After vifjitmg the Royal Mint, he said. When the new coins have been minted, the Australian coins now in currency will be called in and a date set for the coming into currency of the new Tongan coins.

nHntina Per f tS on the mintin g and printing of currency in the Crown i g S n L fo ' Overseas Governments and Administrations are offering their help. . . I believe that Tonga I^ol- 2 CqulSl^Sn of its own coins, will gain an added assurance of its own independence.”

Speaking in English and Pri uce Tungi reviewed his visit to the Netherlands and England in a BBC broadcast from London on April 12.

During his stay in Holland, from

March 17 to April 5, he was reci; * a ?o d ii ence by Queen Juliana j was taken on a tour of the coum industries by the Prime Minist©

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audience by Queen Elizabeth Buckingham Palace, when Pr Tungi presented to the Queen the Duke of Edinburgh the spec bound copies of the official res of the Royal visit to Tonga ?f travelled homes way of Canada, the United StJ Panama, Tahiti and Fiji.