Fishing With Dynamite:
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No Hands
From a Special Correspondent
Nukualofa, Nov. 14.
A young Tongan named Sione? ix To’a, from a village on Tonga— tabu, was admitted to the?
Vaiola Hospital, Nukualofa to-dajn suffering from extensive injuries to< hands, chest and face. The in juries had been caused by a stick: of gelignite which exploded prema turely when Sione was dynamiting’ fish on the reef near his village..
Both his hands had to bet amputated and it is feared that he? will lose his left eye.
Dynamiting fish is prohibited in: Tonga but this method is consid ered an easy and profitable one? and many are prepared to risk the? consequences.