Execution Stay For Tait
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright; MELBOURNE. Aug 13. Robert Peter Tait, a Glas-gow-born miner under sentence -of death for the Melbourne "vicarage murder,” has been granted a one-month stay of execution to allow an appeal to the Privy Council. Tait was sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Ida Ethel Hall, an 82-year-old widow, at the vicarage in suburban Hawthorn. Tait’s execution, set down for later this month, would have been the first in Victoria for 10 years. probably three streams of introduction into the Pacific—a pre-European introduction into Polynesia, probably by Polynesians; and two postEuropean introductions, one into New Guinea and New Britain by the Portuguese, and the other into South-east Asia, through the Philippines, by the Spanish. Mr Yen’s first trip under the new grant will be to the Philippines, later this year. In 1963 he hopes to visit New Caledonia and New Guinea and in 1964 Eastern Polynesia.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 18
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