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STOLE SISTER’S FURNITURE ; GIRL SENT TO BORSTAL (Per Press Association.) Auckland, July 30. Arrested at Or.otiki oh a. charge of stealing [iiauaia and. bedd.ing valued, at Loll, belonging to 1 Fa Cooper, on June 11. 1931, Yinlefe 17, appeal ed at tin ial.ee Court here. She pleaded, guilty. Belu-iive Kelly .-aid their furniture bi.leo to a ■ ; i‘ . r aiql during i ; . . . a senee horn her flat a id l e a ho-1 ■ ~l the fur- I liiture aud eGi.G i ; an auct oner. , Major . naije Gold n, probat on of-iit■.-1. 1« pull uded xl a, the girl's own ii. • e.e;.; so aid be sent to' tlq B : a v, - i mplctely out oj eon 7 ■i; . .it . u reas that , t’,i : <■■ ." remarked ; the , , Cooper to j ... ENT (UFT to the POPE HUMAN* S’kCI.LS FOlt ALTAR The I*o)ie is in the habit of receiving presents from till parts of the we "id. but one sent him by a trible of ex-cannibals in New Guinea, vbo have embraced Christianity, lias no equal in the Ethnological Missionary Museum at the La I era i; Palace. It consists of a pagan aitaJ - which used to Ik; the tribe’s most, reasurel possession: it is ‘•adorned’’ with six human skulls, offered to the tribal gr.ds after the rest, of tile bodies had been eaten by the tribesmen. The misisonary who presented the relic to tile Pope stated that no young' man of the tribe was allowed to trike a wife until lie could give idle lady of his choice a human skull. Missionaries of the Congregation of the Iloly Word have been working in New Guinea for many years.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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