HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
SAMOAN CHIEF IN. GAOL ; (By Telegraph,) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Tamasesc, the Sauioan chief and leader of the Mau movement," who was recently;.brought from Samoa to servo M. sentence of six months' imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol for refusal to pay certain taxes,, has instructed bis counsel, Mr. Hall Slcolton, to file an application in tlio' 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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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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105HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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