More Port Moresby Bride

t Under charter to TEAL, a Civil Aviation Administration EC made several charter flights I tween Aitutaki and Rarotonga September.

TOP: Mr. and Mrs. T. Davis (bride was M Cecilia Barker) after their wedding at Ron[?] Catholic Church, Ela Beach, Port Moresby, September 7.

CENTRE: Mr. P. Neilson and Miss R. J[?] son who were married at Taurama Chapel August 31.

LOWER: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fraser (b[?] was Miss Marie Wilson) who were also ma[?] at Taurama Chapel (August 24).

Photos; Papuan Pri[?]

Tonga Has New Law Book

r TNDER Proclamation of the U Queen in Council dated August 14, 1957, a new Tongan Law took came into general use. At he same time the Laws Consolida ion (Removal of Anomalies) Act, 957, was also passed by the Tongan legislature.

According to a notice appearing n the official daily news sheet of lukualofa, the book was prepared q 1947, but it is not explained why t has not come into force until en years later.

Because of the ten years’ delay, ays the report, some method had o be devised of continuing the alidity of the Acts and Amend ments passed between 1947 and 1957

and not printed in the book.

Another problem, the report says, was posed by a number of Acts which were inadvertently omitted by the Laws Commissioner in his revision, and whose validity had to be safeguarded.

There was also the new Registra tion Act which for legal and administrative reasons Government was not prepared to bring into effect this year. This, therefore, meant continuing the validity of the present Marriage and Registration Act and Amendments. All these measures were validated in the Laws Consolidation (Removal of Anomolies) Act, 1957 (No. 2) just passed.

The new Law Book is now, therefore, the sole law of the Kingdom of Tonga with the

exception of the provisions of the above-mentioned Act. Copies of the book in English and Tongan are available in Nukualofa, for public sale. t A 20-year-old Samoan girl Tiatia’i Vili Tagaloa, who had separated from her de facto Samoan husband, was recently found dying on a bush track near the Samoan East Coast village of Manunu, with her 3-weeks-old baby alongside her, unhurt. The girl had been injured by a deep knife gash in the neck and died shortly after she was found. She had been missing from home and had allegedly met her husband, Tele’a Pau, 23, of Sa’anapu. A man was later arrested by the police.

Progress in

Levuka

New buildings are being erected in Levuka, Fiji—perhaps to dis prove the story that the old town is a back water!

Left: Kang Jack War Bros, store at corner of Beach and Hennings Sts.

Centre: New movie theatre. Right: Store and dwelling of Mr. V.

Naidus in Beach St.

Photos: B. Obed.