MEMBER FROM TONGA
Dear Anne Shirley,—Perhaps you might be interested to hear something about myself. I was born in the little Pacific Island of Tonga. In Tonga there is a native queen and native Parliament. Queen Salote Subou is a truly charming lady. The chief export of Tonga is copra, which is the dried kernel of the coconut. Bananas are next in importance as an export. I left Tonga with my brother and parents in 1934. When we left it was the first time my brother had ever been away from the islands. I had been away once before. We went to England when I was two, but I had forgotten it all, and trains and trams were as new to me as to George. Another novelty for us was to see huge mountains, for on the island of Tongatabu. where we lived, tliero were no mountains or rivers. .However, it was all familiar to mum and dad, who had lived in New Zealand before they went to Tonga.—Yours faithfully, Marian Ogram (14), Morrinsville.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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