HAPPY TONGA.
A SATISFACTORY STATE OF AFFAIRS. (bT TF.LEGP.AriI—niF.SS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 30. Mr. Hamilton Hunter, British Consul iu Tonga, who is visiting Auckland, stated in the course, of an interview this evening that the country is now practically free of all debt. The officials are receiving, their salaries regularly every month, and at the end of last year tliey had' n surplus of about .C 50.000. Mr. ICuntpr added that a hospital had been built at Tongatabu, and that this year's estimates provided for two more such institutions, one at Vnvau, and the other at Ila'apai. Thus each ot the principal islands would have up. to-dnte means of dealing with cases of sickncss. A contract had also been let' to tho Fcrro Concrete Company of Australasia, for the construction of a ferro-concrete wharf at Vnvau, with ft length of about 200 ft. and a width of about 40ft.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 109, 31 January 1908, Page 6
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