[?]nd and Parliamentary

[?]ter to the Editor [?]nd and Parliamentary Reform in Tonga

READ with interest your article in September PIM—“A European and a Tongan Speak Then ids.” Further to this article, I ild like to tell you something of Tongan Democratic Party and views regarding racial discrim fcion. . , here is no need for racial dis nination in Tonga, or anywhere . All the people of my country uld work together for the good he Kingdom. The great potenc ies of a nation are all the people ig under its flag. Discrimination racial grounds is a sign of poor iership, decay and a feeling of iriority. 7e of the Democratic Party in iga do not want to abolish the igan nobility. What we do want or the nobles to subdivide their i and hereditary estates so that more equitable distribution of i can be made amongst the pre b landless ones. If any trouble s start in Tonga, it will come n these people who have no land, usands of people living on nobles’ i at present cannot register their tment because it has not yet i subdivided.

Te want, too, a democratic form government for Tonga, taking best from the British and erican forms of legislature, t present, the Tonga Parliament s out of date as a Model-T Ford, consists of 7 Government Min t's (6 Tongan nobles and one opean); 7 representatives of the les; and 7 representatives of the pie. The 13 nobles naturally can

outvote the people’s representatives every time. The speaker is also a noble.

Tonga should have, like Britain and the British Dominions, two Houses in its Parliament—a House of Nobles, and a House of Commons or representatives of the people, with a premier who is also elected by the people every three or four years.

I am, etc.,

Leloma Mataele.

P.O. Box 3, Nukualofa, Tonga. fl Mr. R. Yates, Assistant Superin tendent, Police and Prisons, BSIP, left Honiara on October 11 for leave in England.