LWer donates authentic Tonga skirt to Hui O Hula
Hui O Hula gives a big “malo,” which means thank you in Tongan, to James Bacchetti of Mutual 9, who donated a handwoven grass skirt sewn with tiny sea shells and koa wood beads to the club. The skirt belonged to his mother Elizabeth, who was also a Leisure Worlder. The skirt was purchased in Tonga in 1944, when she was newly married to James’s father, James J., during World War II while he



