Tongan Attacks
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Policeman.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Nukualofa, Jan. 18.
WHILE he was being arrested to be committed to prison for non-pay ment of poll tax, a young Tongan, Tufui Sesele, attacked Constable Manu Mila with a knife. Although losing much blood from a gash in the palm of his right hand, Mila closed in with Sesele
and, after a short struggle, overpowered him.
This is the first occasion in Tonga that a police officer has been attacked while making an arrest.
At the annual general meeting of the Norfolk Island Association in January, Mr. W. M’Lachlan was re-elected Pre sident for a further period of 12 months; Mr. Fairfax L. Quintal was elected Hon. Secretary; and Mr. J.
Baird, Hon. Treasurer.