MR. A. P. RITCHIE, who arrived by the Tofua yesterday from Samoa, where he haw been Director of Agriculture for 13 years. He is to take up a similar post in Tonga.
A TRAGIC FINALE. —The murder of Miss Margaret Lawrence, the noted American actress, by Louis Bennison, an actor, is announced by cable from New York to-day. Bennison committed suicide afterwards. The pair are seen above in a scene from "The Road to Rome," which they played in Australia. Louis Bennison played "Johnny Get Your Gun" and "The Great Lover" in New Zealand in 1922.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 136, 11 June 1929, Page 9
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96MR. A. P. RITCHIE, who arrived by the Tofua yesterday from Samoa, where he haw been Director of Agriculture for 13 years. He is to take up a similar post in Tonga. A TRAGIC FINALE.—The murder of Miss Margaret Lawrence, the noted American actress, by Louis Bennison, an actor, is announced by cable from New York to-day. Bennison committed suicide afterwards. The pair are seen above in a scene from "The Road to Rome," which they played in Australia. Louis Bennison played "Johnny Get Your Gun" and "The Great Lover" in New Zealand in 1922. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 136, 11 June 1929, Page 9
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