Rotuman Murderer
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Sentenced
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Feb. 1.
AFTER a quarrel over the partitioning of family lands, Pauriasi Manaki, a 65-year-old villager of Itumata, Rotuma, last year, killed Antonio Meka ere with a home-made bullet, fired from a shotgun at close range.
Pauriasi was sentenced to death at the District Officer’s Court, Rotuma, on December 8. Subsequently, after the sentence had been considered by the Executive Council, the Acting Governor of Fiji commuted it to imprisonment, with hard labour, for life.