A CHAPTER OF TONGAN HISTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 184, 6 August 1927, Page 8

A CHAPTER OF TONGAN HISTORY.

an article such as flat to Tongan affairs of sixteen ££*£?**> writer commiserates with the ♦JSP' suffered some loss through a being started, and would have «nff n '* B . T more if that company had not *> At that time P (,910) &££+*£ Tongan trade was in the hands tf rJL** and more than half of that conJoJWM^ 1 German concern in Hamburg (tl* wL* Handels Plantagen Geseiulhaft rTft' ?" B S™ Hamburg, tho ■ D.H.P G.»). It wa« ma imy wSL «K that a native company was format ..T^ 1 was mainly, if U solely, g22?JSJJ that caused it to be arbitrarily d«e& The assets were sold for a even the splendid property it \ avau was privately and German trader. The inaccurate, and bSLI! statements are numerous. The ToajTZ not start an action in law, but tluow: Government made an indictment manager of the native company wrong and fraudulent nalanw-sheet n* * only then that the members of tKtiw J? pany took action and engaged TO Moody, of Auckland, to defefd *JLi and prove the wrongs which had been iniSj In the end the High Commissioner fortt. Western Pacific went to Tonga to inert.! and made the British Agent apologue totfc King of Tonga. The BritiT&i; righted matters as far as it could, andiw* since has exercised only a benevolent wot*. tora t e - ONE WITH BKAWsT