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Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 November 1937Vol. VIII, No. 4

Alleged Theft And Arson

p. 71 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia Nov 2

A YOUNG “local-born” trader, Oscar Graf hag been chareed at A nla‘Hleh court with having in April last fictiti ousiy entered large amounts of copra in b - g records thus stealing over £7O from hjs employers Burns PhUp (S s > Co In order t 0 cover up hjs detalcations it is alleged that he set flre to his copra shed at Sataua village, Safata, South Coast of Upolu, There are a large number of Samoan -witnesses in the case, and some of them have made the allegation that Graf pro mised £4O to anyone who would take* the blame for having set the copra shed on fire.