SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
! ALLEGED DOMINATION OF I MISSIONARIES. ! ; (Received 8, 8.45 a.m.) ' Adelaide, April 8. With reference to the cable of; the secretary of the Presbyterian j ■ Church, an old missionary in the I ; group denies the statement thatj , missionaries had arrogated to; '. themselves administrative control: j of some of the islands. Prior to the > establishment of the Con-dominium, . the missionaries had advised the i chiefs of some of these islands to j establish local government, but 'as soon as the Con-dominium was: , given, all local government ceased. | Under the old regime it was neces-i sary to have a penal system and; . prisons, but in most cases punish- i : ment took the form of compulsory' ■ road-making. ;
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 1
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