PACIFIC ISLANDS ACT.
ISTVEIICAIIGItiL, Juno 1. At the Police Court, Captain Murdoch, of the barquentino Jerfalcon, was lined £1 and costs £2 9s, for carrying 61 natives from Aitukaki, in Cook group, to Malden Island, to load guano, without obtaining a license as prescribed by the Pacific Islanders Act. The matter was brought before Lord Paufurly on his recent trip to the islands, and at his instigation the action was taken. Captain Murdoch hold a license to carry men from the island of Nui, hut owing to an outbreak of measles lie got them elsewhere. The Crown Prosecutor said it was only a technical breach, and did not press for a heavy penalty.
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Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 54, 2 June 1899, Page 3
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