Over 200 teachers assisted during the semester break, while women, including Sina Tuuu Schwenke, practiced traditional dances daily, excitedly anticipating the chance to meet the monarch.

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Tofaeono Kitiona Tofaeono, Siumu village representative, said they planned to bestow a paramount chief title of Toa'iga o Tumua to the king, and hoped he would accept it. The title, the traditional name for the meeting ground for Siumu's chiefs, holds great importance to the village.