Death threat for Henry

Press, 17 April 1979, Page 4

Death threat for Henry

Ij '! The former Cook Island? I Premier, Sir Albert Henry /says he has received a death threat in a letter posted from J Avarua in March. j In a recent issue of “MornTing Star,” a weekly pro-Sit Albert newspaper, he writes that the threat from a writer signing himself as “Demo Way” says he should leave Rarotonga “or else we will come out and shoot you.” A copy of the newspaper has been posted to “The Press.” The newspaper says in the same issue that its rival, the • “Cook Island News,” has refused to publish news of the threat. “The letter said there were 200 of them Demos who wants me out of the way,” said Sir Albert in a letter to “Morning Star.” Such scare tactics would not work. He would wait for a gunman for a week and would then go looking for him. Sir Albert wrote . two stories for the same issue under his own by-line. One said that there was panic in the camp of the present ‘Premier (Dr Tom Davis).