Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1981Vol. 52, No. 10

The Codes

p. 49 · Read in the full issue

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Church and State in Tonga reproduces the fascinating law codes which were nego tiated in 1839, 1850 and 1862 between Wesleyan mis sionaries and the King. Here are extracts from the 1850 code: • Canoes may be waved to, and should the canoe not come to the beckon, the person in it shall be fined a pig • Any persons catching the larger fish shall not do as they please with them but, on obtaining one, shall take it to the Chief; the second he takes shall be his.

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