AFFAIRS IN NEW GUINEA.
«. THE POLICE ADMINISTRATION. SERIOUS CHARGES. tFBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 8, 7.28 a.m.) COOKTOWN, This Day. Mr. Meek, collector of natural history specimens for Mr. Walter Rothschild, in New Guinea, makes serious charges against the police administration of the group. He alleges that some of th© officials utilise* the police for other than protective purposes, making it impossible to obtain proper protection. He reports serious outrages and murders in th© northern division. His native servants, he stated were set upon by hostile tribes. One was killed and another wounded. On another occasion a servant was killed and the murderers sent the cooked arm to Mr. Meek. Mr. Meek declares that unless the police protect him he will have to- protect himself, and if anything happens the fault will not be with him.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 5
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135AFFAIRS IN NEW GUINEA. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 5
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