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TAMXSESE IN PRISON Dominion Special Service. Auckland, February 13. During a visit of inspection to the Auckland prison, the Minister of Justice (Hon. T. M. Wilford) tyd a con- : versation with the .Samoan Chief, Tamasese, who is. serving a sentence of .six months’ imprisonment for resisting the police on the occasion of his arrest on a charge of refusing to pay fiis taxes. , - ■ Mr. Wilford stated subsequently that Tamasese was doing no work in prison, ... and was entirely separate from all other prisoners. “He was busy with a.very • , substantial meal when I saW him, ana ms weight is 17st. 61b.,” added the Minister.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 120, 14 February 1929, Page 12
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