Banished For Seven
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Years.
Offence Against Native Child.
Rarotonga, Aug. 12.
A EUROPEAN, resident at Rarotonga practically all his life, was recently brought before the High Court here before His Honor, Justice Ayson, on a charge concerned with an offence against a very young native girl.
The jury found the man guilty and the Judge, after reserving judgment, sentenced the man to imprisonment for two years and to banishment from the Cook Islands for a total period of seven years.
The case is mentioned here for the reason that, while offenders against the native people in one way and another may “get away with it,” the authorities here have the power of administer a form of punishment calculated to rid the islands of moral degenerates whose pre sence in the South Seas has been re ferred to on more than one occasion in the columns of “The Pacific Islands Monthly”.