QUEEN OF TONGA
CELEBRATION OF SILVER JUBILEE. NEW ZEALAND GOODWILL MESSAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Queen Salote to the throne of Tonga fell yesterday. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, has sent to the Premier of Tonga the following message:-— “Please convey to Queen Salote the sincere congratulations and good wishes of the Government and the people of New Zealand —Maori and pakeha alike—on this happy occasion of her Majesty's silver jubilee. “We in New Zealand B so closely bound to the Polynesian people of Tonga have greatly admired their wholehearted war effort under her Majesty's inspiring and vigorous leadership, and we are pleased to think that this new period of the Queen’s reign opens upon a time which is ushering in a new conception of the
unity and mutual co-operation of all peoples.” Her Majesty has also been asked to accept as a token of goodwill an inscribed inkstand, beautifully made, of silver and paua shell, mounted on a totara knot base.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 3
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