DRIVEN FROM VILLAGE
NEW MAU MEMBERS THEIR TARO UPROOTED (United P. A.—By Telegraph — Copyright.) (Australian Press Association) .APIA, Thursday. In Letogo, a village near Apia, yesterday, three members of the community who had given umbrage to : others by joining the Mau, had their taro patches rooted up, and were driven from the village, in accordance with i the native custom of banishment. [ The occurrence was magnified by I alarmist reports, but European police who went out found the village peaceful and wholly .|i favour of the Administration as previously, although the natives said the white man had ‘too many laws and insufficient action.” | .ya ftxb
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 9
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105DRIVEN FROM VILLAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 9
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