KILLED BY CHIEFS SON
N.Z. MISSIONARY
THE MURDERER SHOT
tTnited Press Association—By Electric Tele^
graph—Copyright. (Received May 8, 1.55 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
The tragic story behind the recent killing of the veteran New Zealand missionary, Mr. William Veitch Milne, at Nguna, in the New Hebrides, was told by Mr. R. Willis, purser'of"'the Island steamer Morinda, on his arrival at Sydney. "A son of a chief on Nguna ran wild with a rifle and killed four natives and then Mr. Milne," he said; "When the old chief heard what his son h^d done he ordered one of the tribe to shoot his son, and the order was carried auto-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 10
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