Early years In 1908, Page was appointed chairman of the Wesleyan Mission in Tonga, a district of the
Methodist Church of Australasia. In 1912 Page married Hannah Morrison, with whom he had one son. He gained respect among the local population by lobbying on their behalf to
William Telfer Campbell, the
British consul, and assisting with relief efforts after hurricanes and the 1918
Spanish flu pandemic. According to
Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, a biographer of Sālote, Page was "not only her counsellor in her grief, her chaplain, a censor, and a member of the Home Guard, but also her unofficial adviser on almost everything". He was one of the only
papālangi with easy access to the
Royal Palace. In 1935, in Tungī's absence, he accompanied Sālote on a visit to Sydney where she was diagnosed with cancer and received a hysterectomy. In 1939, Page's wife Hannah died after a brief illness. Sālote and Tungī arranged for Hannah to be given a chiefly funeral, providing
taʻovala mats and
tapa cloth, and allowing her to be interred at the royal burial ground. Tungī died two years later in 1941, with Page supporting Sālote through her own grieving process. As a
papālangi, the
tapu that prevented Tongans from approaching Sālote during mourning did not apply to him. Each day he would bring "a basket of food to the Palace [...] and persuade the Queen to eat a little of the food he had brought". Page also convinced Sālote that Tungī's former residence – which would ordinarily be considered
tapu and burned to the ground – should instead be relocated to Tupou College where it became the residence of the college principal. ==Later life==