MURDER IN ISLANDS
Bill To Reduce Penalty (NJ!. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Nov. 15. The penalty for murder in the Cook Islands, now execution, wiU be imprisonment for life under the Cook Islands Amendment Bill introduced in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Island Territories (Mr Getz). Mr Gotz said that the biU also provided for the rehearing of criminal cases in the Cook Islands. Only Europeans may now legaUy gamble in the Cook Islands, but the biU will extend the privilege to the Islanders. Mr Gotz said that the setting up of a legislative committee of the Legislative Assembly would be a first step to Cabinet government in the islands. “We have given them authority over their own expenditure of subsidies they derive from New Zealand. We have not waited for the Cook Islanders to demand self-government, and we have always taken steps to raise their standards so that they would be capable of administering their own territories. AU our endeavours have been directed to that said Mr Gotz.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29981, 16 November 1962, Page 7
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