No More Do They Sit in the Banyan Tr[?]

THE accompanying photogran sent along by Mayor Poroi,, Papeete, will bring nostai memories to the once gay yon bucks of yesteryear, who rememn Tahiti of pre-World War I dsi when to many a little henpec'c stay-at-home, Tahiti was the Gn Dream, the very essence of Escapiii Top photograph shows the fame old banyan tree as it was in 1880’s, then outside the fame Cercle Militaire. At left —as it stai to-day in what are now the grou;i of the Secretary-General’s propes Many a love match is said to hr been made in the old tree’s friem shade down through the years, the recent photo Mayor Poroi s Mr. Leo Langomarzino, chief municipal works, stand at the fi of the battered veteran.

t Of the nine candidates sitting for the 1955 legal examinations in Tonga, one—Siaosi Fifita —passed with honours, one other qualified, six obtained partial passes, and two failed. fl Mr. T. W. Leake, who in December finished his SOPA course, in Syd ney, was a Soochow passenger to Rabaul in January. He was accom panied by Mrs, Leake.

t Inter-island freight rates in . waters were increased on Marclc due, owners said, to recent rises* seamen’s wages and other runm costs. t The population at the site of £lO million Yate dam, New Cr donia, is growing so rapidly tt a school has been opened. Sic children will attend and have teachers to instruct them.