A Tongan
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Brett Milder Profile
Old Hand
August Hettig, photographer
and trader of Nukualofa, comes from a German family which arrived m the Islands m about 1890. The Hethgshved m Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand, before settling in Tonga in 1892. „ . , , , , August Hettig s father, Wilhelm JaC( iT7-S ettlg ’ k n ?^ n to everybody as Willie, married a Nukualofa girl (later he was to marry another local girl) and went into business as a copra-buyer, trader, boatbuilder and manufacturer of aerated waters. He died in 1949. * o^ gU TT was on une * 1896. He spent four years at school m Auckland before joining his father s business.
Over the years August has added photography to the busi-
ness, but dropped the boatbuilding and copra-buying, August has married twice. His fi rs t w jf e was Anna Maria Maka, and t he Maria, daughter p Atnnio D ™ t .. A . . .
By his first wife August had a son , Frederick, now a schoolboy of 14. August also has two adopted daughters, Betty and Lili. .
A;P art * rom business, and colour-photo processing, August b QS always enjoyed producing amateur theatricals. In the Novem ber, 1951, issue of PIM there appeared a photograph of the cast G f t h e Mikado, a production directed by Princess Mata’aho, the present Queen of Tonga, assisted
by August Hettig.