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The following is the staff establishment of officials for each of the three atolls : Faipule and Magistrate (Fa'amasino). Pulenu'u (Mayor of village). Failautusi (clerk and postal officer). Wireless operator. Chief of Police. Police. Wardress. Native medical practitioner. Native nurse. Dresser. Weather reporter. There is one Tokelau medical practitioner in residence at Atafu, and a Samoan medical practitioner divides his time between Fakaofo and Nukunono. Apart from the Chiefs of Police, there are three police at Atafu, two at Nukunono, and three at Fakaofo. The wireless operators from Atafu and Fakaofo are at present in Apia for training purposes. A Samoan trained nurse has been added to the staff at Fakaofo to take charge of infant-welfare work. At Atafu and Nukunono the wireless operators perform the weather-reporting duties, but at Fakaofo this work is done by an additional member of the staff. 7. Criminal Code The existing laws provide for punishments as under :

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Offences. Maximum Punishment. 1. Murder Death. Sentence carried out only on the authority of the Governor-General of New Zealand. 2. Attempted suicide Twelve months' imprisonment. 3. Procuring abortion One to five years' imprisonment. 4. Theft Twelve months' imprisonment. 5. Assault Six months' imprisonment or fine of £5. Where a knife or other weapon has been used, six months to two years' imprisonment. Three to twelve months' imprisonment. 6. Adultery 7. Incest Two to five years' imprisonment. 8. Tinaba (adultery with a daughter - in-law) .. One to two years' imprisonment. 9. Rape One to five years' imprisonment. 10. Fires— (a) Carrying naked lights Fine of 10s. or two weeks' imprisonment. (6) Causing fire to homes and plantations Three to twelve months' imprisonment. 11. Threatening or abusive language Fine of £1 or one month's imprisonment. 12. Libel and slander One to six months' imprisonment. 13. Drunkenness One to six months' imprisonment. 14. Procuration Six months' imprisonment. Three to twelve month's imprisonment, and to make good loss. 15. Malicious damage to cultivation 16. Marriage laws (age-limit—men eighteen, Fine of £5 or three months' imprisonment. women sixteen) 17. Registration of births and deaths (timeFine of 5s. or two weeks' imprisonment. limit—twenty-one days) 18. Sorcery Six months to two years' imprisonment. Fine of £2 or two months' imprisonment. 19. Gambling 20. Contempt of Court Fine of £5 or two months' imprisonment. 21. Aiding and abetting Punishments the same as if the crime was committed by offender. 22. Attempted crime Punishable as if crime committed, except in case of murder (fifteen years' imprisonment). 23. Repeated offences 1 Second offence, penalty half as great again as for first offence; third offence or subsequent offences, double punishment. 24. Refusing to assist the police Six months' imprisonment.