BANISHMENT FROM TRIBE
MURDER OF WIFE PERTH. June; 9.—'Hie most severe punishment that, an aboriginal knows —life banishment frcsn his tribe—was inflicted on Ginawadda, a Rudolph Range native; at the Marble- liar Court yesterday for the murder of Ids' wile, Lora, who had broken the tribal law. Ginawadda. will he sent to a native station among the ahorigiuios of some other tribe. A special Court is formed; to .heat slick eases, and it may co-opt a head man of the accused’s tribe to elucidate the native law.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 206, 12 July 1939, Page 1
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87BANISHMENT FROM TRIBE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 206, 12 July 1939, Page 1
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