KILLING OF MINISTER
Story Behind Slaughter (Beceived 8, 2.0 p.m.) ' SYDNEY, May 8. The tragic story behind the reeent killing of the vpteran New Zealand missionary, the Bev. Wiliinm Yeitch Milne, at Ngqnga, in the New Hebrides, told by Mr. B, Wills, purser of the island steanrer, Morinda, on its arrival at Sydney. *The son of the chief on Ngunga ran wild with a rifle and killed fonr natives, then Mr. Milne," he stated. "When the qld chief heard what his $on had dpne, he ordered one of the tribe to shoot the son, and the order was carried out."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 5
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