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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1966Vol. 37, No. 2

People In Pictured

pp. 39-40 · Read in the full issue

Pictured

It was fun and games all the way for these 23 children from the island of Taveuni, Fiji, recently, when they flew to

Dargarville, NZ, as guests of

the Junior Chamber of Com merce. The invitation was made as a thank you to the Taveuni people for their hospitality to a visiting NZ Rugy union team in 1964. In NZ the children were billeted in private homes.

With them, right, is Taveuni schoolteacher Julian Jones. -Anand Studio, Nadi.

Just posted to the US Consulate in Suva is Mr. Harry L.

Coburn, of New York, seen above aboard the Matson liner "Mariposa" in Sydney with his wife and two children, Sarah, 2, and Harry, 4. Mr. Coburn has previously been with the US Foreign Service in Spain.

The smile at left belongs to Miss Ingrid von Reiche, of Apia, Western Samoa, who is doing a hairdressing course in Sydney She is staying with her aunt, Mrs. Olga Page, formerly of Apia and now "First Lady" among Samoans in Australia. The photograph was taken at a Sydney Polynesian Association meeting.—Telephotos.

Grief shows on the faces of these Tongan mourners—all in black —listening to the graveside service during the funeral of Queen Salote.

At left, after the services are over King Taufa'ahau sits inside the black-draped doorway of the palace as visitors pay their respects, and leave gifts. At right sit the King's matapule (spokesmen).