NEW HEBRIDES.
- CONDOMINIUM CONDEMNED. HORRIBLE NATIVE PRACTICES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 24, 9-5 p.m. Sydney. July 24. Pastor Stewart, Seventh Day Adventist missionary, in further condemnation of the condominium system in the New Hebrides, said that in Malekula, the wildest part of the Group, judging from the natives’ practices and the plenitude of arms, the condominium Government wae more imaginary than real. The custom of burying infanta alive had reduced the female population to 30 per cent. Old men were strangled, and cannibal io m was rife. The chief of North Malekula was known as the Cannibal King. Ancestral worship was responsible for the wholesale sacrifice of pigs, a«s many as two hundred being killed sometimes at one feast, for the purpose of appealing the dead.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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127NEW HEBRIDES. Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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