FAIGAMALAGA I LE FAAUUGA O LE TUPU TOGA Tusia e Galumalemana Steve Percival 29 IULAI 2008, AUKILANI Na taunuu le faigamalaga a le afioga i le Ao Mamalu o le Malo ma le Masiofo i le aso Gafua i Aukilani a o aga’i atu i Toga, i le valaaulia i le faauuga o le Tupu Toga. O le ‘aumalaga e aofia ai le alii Minisita o Aoga, Taaloga ma Aganuu, Afioga Toomata Alapati Toomata faapea ai ma le Alii Pule o le Ofisa o le Palemia ma le Kapeneta, Afioga Auseugaefa Poloma Komiti. Na maua le avanoa e feiloai ai le Ao o le Malo ma nisi o tama fanau a Samoa o lo o taaalo i le All Blacks, sa latou nonofo faatasi i le faletalimalo. Sa ave le faamanuiaga ma moomooga lelei a le Ao o le Malo mo tama taaalo aua le taaloga a le All Blacks ma Ausetalia o loo loma i le aso To’ana’i nei i Aukilani lava.

Standing: Vaai Simona Potoi, H.E. Asi Tuiataga Blakelock, Hon. Toomata Alapati Poese, Her Highness Masiofo Filifilia Tamasese, His Highness The Head of State Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi, , Kevin Mealamu, Neemia Tialata. Front: , Maa Nonu, Rudi Wulf. Absent: Rodney Sooialo (Captain), John Afoa, [Photograph by Galumalemana Steve Percival]

ENROUTE TO THE CORONATION OF THE KING OF TONGA By Galumalemana Steve Percival 29 JULY 2008, AUCKLAND Their Highnesses Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese and Masiofo Filifilia Tamasese arrived in Auckland Monday in the first leg of a journey taking them to the Coronation of the King of Tonga, His Majesty King Siaosi Tupou V, and on to Beijing for the Olympics. Samoa and Tonga share a long history. Accompanying Their Highnesses to the Coronation are Hon. Toomata Alapati Toomata, Minister of Education, Sports and Culture, and Auseugaefa Poloma Komiti, CEO of the Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In Auckland, Their Highnesses had the opportunity to meet with some of the Samoans in the New Zealand All Blacks team who happened to be staying at the same hotel. Tui Atua, Patron of the Samoa , wished the players well in their second test against Australia.