WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
APPLICATION BY SAMOAN CHIEF Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 11. Tamasese, the Samoan chief and leader of the Mau movement, who was recently brought from Samoa to serve a sentence of six months’ imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol for refusal to pay certain taxes, has instructed his counsel, Mr. Hall Skelton, to file an application in the Supreme Court at Auckland for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus. Tamasese, who was arrested, for declining to pay his poll and medical taxes, is about 24 years of age, and a grandson of King Tamasese, a former native ruler.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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103WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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