Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1958Vol. XXIX, No. 4

Congratulations For

p. 129 · Read in the full issue

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Queen Salote

Congratulations from all over the world poured in to Nukualofa for Queen Salote of Tonga, on October 11, the day she cele brated the 40th anniversary of her Coronation.

One of them was from Queen Elizabeth II (who visited Tonga in 1953) as follows: On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Your Majesty’s Coronation, I extend my warmest congratulations and best wishes for the future. May the years to come repeat the happy fulfilment of the years that are past. I pray that God’s blessings may ever attend your Majesty and your kingdom, my visit to which remains among my most treasured memories.

The Colonial Secretary, Mr.

Lennox Boyd and the Acting Governor of Fiji ipere two others who sent messages to Queen Salote on the happy occasion.

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