HEAD-HUNTING REVIVED.
■ m SOLOMON ISLANDS RAIDS. DECREASE IN POPULATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, June 12. The Solomon Islands correspondent of the Sun reports that since the war started head-hunting has been revived to an alarming extent. The condition of Choiseul Island is worse even than in the old days. The Choiseul natives challenged the natives on the islands of Ronongo and Vella Lavella, and projected a raid upon New Georgia. As raids are now almost perpetual there has consequently been a great decrease in the population. So far no Europeans have been harmed, but their success has so encouraged the raiders that planters are adopting precautionary steps.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16254, 13 June 1916, Page 8
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