ATTACK BY NATIVES
THE NEW GUINEA AFFAIR Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, October 1. (Received October 1, at 11.35 a.m.) Advice has been received from Sala : maua (New Guinea) that Mr Nurton had his leg amputated. His condition is serious.
[A message received from Canberra yesterday stated: News has been received from the Acting-Administrator of New Guinea of an attack by natives on September 24 on a patrol in the Rai Coast area, near Madang. The Assistant District Officer, Mr Nurton, and all members of the camp were wounded. Six of the attacking natives were killed and one woman captured. The natives grabbed Mr Nurton while the women attacked him with knives. Other men attacked Mr Nurton’s native police with arrows.]
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19361001.2.98
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
121ATTACK BY NATIVES Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in