A PACIFIC ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PACIFIC ROMANCE.

SWEDE WHO BECAME KING. ABDICATION CONTEMPLATED. A letter to Sweden {torn the island of Tabor, in the Pacific,, teib a wonderful adventure of the king of the Polynesia tribe, who is a Swede by birth, and flow wants to resign in order to settle down in his horns country. Karl Pettersson, as his name is, was a sailor on a ship, which, thirty years ago, capsized not far eft tha coast of New Guinea. Peltersaon was th« only survivor, and succeeded in reaching a small Pacific island, where he was at ones surrounded by a tribe of cannibals. Daring the preparation of the feast the daughter of the tribal king fell in love with the prisoner, who was thus saved from a cruel fate, and she actually persuaded her father to marry her to Pettersson, who, after the death of the native king, became thg ruler of the island. Being a clear-sighted man, King Pettersson, realised the commercial value of the island's natural resources, and brought prosperity to the hats of his subjects. His brown wife having died some twenty year 3 ago, King Pettersson travelled to Sweden and married there one Miss Himp3on, of Gevle, who aeornpanied her royal husband to Tabor, and became as popular as the king. Being now sixty-five years of age, King Pettersson has decided to abdicate and to return to his native city of Gothenburg. The succession of the "Tabor throne 13 secured, but his subjects are disconsolate at the decision of their ruler.