Punished For Manslaughter

A SENTENCE of twelve months’ im prisonment has been imposed by Judge Griffiths on James Dennis Woods, manager of the Carpenter plantation on Emira Island (north-west of Kavieng in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea), who was convicted in December of man slaughter. He was held responsible for the death of a native labourer who ran away and was severely punished by Woods when he was brought back. Medi cal evidence showed that as a result of the beating the native contracted blood poisoning, from which apparently he died.

Mr. and. Mrs. L. Dudley, of the Church of Christ Mission in the New Hebrides, were in Australia early in January spending part of their furlough with Mrs.

Dudley’s parents at Northam.