Peat Neville

It was 1974. Neville Peat was a young newspaper editor from Dunedin seeking a Pacific assignment, and the Kingdom of Tonga was a thousand-year-old monarchy with a new king. Volunteer Service Abroad connected Neville with a job at the Tonga Chronicle, and he found himself behind a typewriter in Nuku‘alofa for a year. Neville travelled with the king on a...