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TONGA NEW ZEALAND 1950

HOW PARTICIPATION WITHIN GROUPS INVOLVES BOTH RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS

Respecting Queen Salote

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Andrew Afeaki says:
After World War Two Queen Salote wanted to create scholarships to send promising young Tongans offshore to schools, and she was conscious government had very little money. She asked people to raise funds for creating these scholarships. I know my father spent months and months, following the copra buyers around, setting up a little table and asking people who had just got money from their copra, please make a donation to this scholarship the Queen wishes to set up. He worked voluntarily for months to set that up. It’s a type of patriotism, of loyalty. He did that because the Queen wanted it done. He saw as son of the Afeaki it was his duty to do it.

Find out more about Queen Salote and the history of Tonga in:
- Sione Latukefu, "Church and State in Tonga", Canberra, 1974
- John Carter, "Pacific Islands Yearbook", Sydney, 1984
- Ron Crocombe,"The South Pacific", Suva, 2001

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Salote Tupou III was Tonga's Queen from 1918 to 1965. She was the daughter of King George Tupou II and a descendant of King George I, who was responsible for Tonga's constitution established in 1875. Queen Salote was suceeded by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.

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