Crime In Tonga
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Nukualofa, Nov. 19.
THE quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court were opened to-day by Puisne Judge J. B. Thomson, of Fiji, who came by plane from Suva yesterday. The Court heard five charges before pro ceeding to the northern districts of Vava’u and Ha’apai on the “Matua” on November 21. They included two cases of housebreaking and one of forgery; and in the housebreaking charges the punishment included 12 strokes with a cane.
Mr. W. E. McGowan, the Suva Bowl ing Club’s veteran player, won the A Grade championship for 1947 in a well contested match with Mr. J. A. F. Watson, on January 3. Mr. McGowan had pre viously won in 1932, 1940, and 1944.
At a cost of 2,400.000 francs (300.000 francs a house), the New Caledonian ad ministration is building six eight-roomed houses on Mount Venus, Anse Vata, for the use of colonial officials. Four other cement houses were recently completed in the Vallee du Tir quarter and are al ready occupied by newly arrived officials from France.