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God that man should be free, as He has made all men of one blood, therefore shall the people of Tonga and all who sojourn or may sojourn in this Kingdom be free for ever’...

“The land was stated in this Con stitution to be the property of the Crown, but neither the Crown nor anybody else has the power to sell the land.

“The population has doubled ii the last 30-odd years, and the rei lation of population to resources ii bound up with the land. Therefor' it is essential that this preservatioi of the land for the Tongans shoult be rigidly maintained.”

Of “democracy,” the writer says?

“There was an outcry when Kin George Tupou II signed the Treat:

First Tongan to gain the New Zealand Uni versity's degree of Bachelor of Commerce is Mahe 'Uli'uli Topouniua, a 1955 graduate of Auckland University College.

of Friendship with Great Britain.

The King acted against this popular clamour. He allied Tonga with a Power whose system of government and of law has a Christian basis and provides for the full freedom of the individual in all funda mentals.

' “There are certainly portions of the Tongan Constitution in which the people have no say. Why not?

It must be so until the wise use of democracy is fully understood.

F “During the reign of Queen Salote, Tonga’s economy has made big strides and education has advanced.

Promising students, both commoners and of noble birth, are constantly being sent abroad, with Govern ment support, for further study. i “Outcry against the Government is heard at Nukualofa, where some of the literate and semi-literate people allege that the Government’s aggregation of industrial power is curbing individual freedom. It is forgotten that side by side with the Government-controlled enterprises there is encouragement of individual enterprise, together with regulations to prevent the exploitation of work ers for individual profit.

I “What Tonga needs is not political reform’ but more loyal Citizens who fully comprehend their 3uty to contribute their quota of htellectual and industrial service to ;he good of the nation. “My contention is that nothing vill be gained by any attempt to ;hrow overboard the traditions and justoms of our land. That is not ;he way to ‘freedom.’ Reasoned sriticism has its place in the life >f every progressive people, but nuch of the destructive stuff talked )y a minority is merely damaging o the common welfare.

“The measure of a true Tongan s his loyalty to a beloved Queen md to the ideal of the unity of the fongan people.”