THE PUHIPUHI MURDER.
KAKA TO BE EXECUTED
(United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Sunday. A meeting of the Executive Council (His Excellency the Governor presiding) was held 0 a Saturday to further consider the case of Taki Kaka, the young Maori, now under sentence of death at Auckland for murder at Puhipuhi. The decision of the Eexe-•cut-ive is that the law must take its course. It is officially stated that no circumstances 'which could be considered favourable to the prisoner were excluded from the Council's deliberations.
THE AGITATION FOR REPRIEVE. MEETING AT DUNEDIX. DTJ.NEDIN, Monday. • A meeting of citizens called by the Mayor this morning with a representative attendance resolved to forward to the Acting Premier a unanimously passed resolution deploring the Executive's decision to execute the Maori murderer Kaka, and respectfully urging a reconsideration. Speakers were -unanimous in declaring that the execution of Kaka -would be reprobated by the whole Dominion, and would bs a reversion to the brutality of early part of last century, when young people of tender years were condemned to death.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLV, 19 June 1911, Page 8
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174THE PUHIPUHI MURDER. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLV, 19 June 1911, Page 8
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