ADMINISTRATION OF NEW GUINEA.
GRAVE ALLEGATIONS. POLICE SUPERVISION INEFFFP TIVE. "J^MURDER ANrTcANNIBALISM, [PBESS ASSOCIATION. J COOKTOWN, June 8. Mr Meek, collector of natural his tory specimens Mr Walter Rothschild in New Guinea, makes serious charges against the police administratlon "* $he. group. He alleges that some officials utilise the police for other than protective purposes, making it impossible to obtain proper protection lie reports serious outrages and murders m the northern division. His native servants were set upon by hostile tribes; one-was killed and another wounded. On another occasion a servant was killed, and the murderers sent a cooked arm to him. ■ Mr Meek declares that'unless the police protect him. he will have to protect himself, and if anything happens the fault will not be with him
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 134, 9 June 1906, Page 2
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133ADMINISTRATION OF NEW GUINEA. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 134, 9 June 1906, Page 2
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