Sepeti Sits For
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His Exam
Sepeti Faloafa, a 17-year-old Tongan boy who broke his neck in a diving accident a couple of years ago, sat for Tonga’s Lower Leaving Examination in November in six subjects — English, Hygiene and First Aid, Tongan Language, Mathematics, History and Music.
As he is unable to write easily, his answers to ques tions in the examination papers were taken from him orally by two examiners. One of the examiners, Mrs.
Fine Fifita, is shown in the accompanying picture.
Sepeti was admitted to Vaiola Hospital in Nukualofa in October, 1962. It then seemed that he would have to lie on his back for life. But after months of patient physio-therapy by Mrs. John Norman, the wife of a Methodist mission teacher, he can now sit up and stand in callipers (PIM, Oct. p. 33).
Mrs. Norman was confident that Sepeti would benefit from sitting for the Lower Leaving, regardless of results.