PAPUAN NATIVES NOT AS BAD AS PAINTED.
By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.0 a.m.) SYDN'kv, This Day, Sir Herbert Murray, LieutenantGovernor of Papua, has just arrived here. He deprecates the alarmist reports of massacres and tribal risings in New Guinea, and declares that the residents there regard these reports as a joke. Nevertheless such rumours do the country a lot of damage. One affray cost nine lives, whereas the report stated, t'hat live hundred were dead, which was a pure fabrication.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1928, Page 5
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