Fate Of Niue Murderers
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
Still Undecided
REPLYING to a further appeal in New Zealand on the part of the Howard League for Penal Reform, for reconsideration of the case of the three Niue Islanders, condemned to death for the murder of Resident Commissioner C. H. W.
Larsen, the NZ Attorney-General (who is also NZ Minister of Island Territories) announced on Feb ruary 23 that the request had been placed before Cabinet in Welling ton but that Cabinet had decided not to do anything.
This decision will not affect the hearing of the appeal to the Privy Council which has been lodged against the NZ Full Court decision.
The case is still being fought in NZ newspapers, particularly be tween supporters of the LMS, on the one hand, and the Mormon Mission, on the other.
Fiji postage stamps of 2d, 1/- and 2/6 denominations, bearing the portrait of Queen Elizabeth in stead of the portraits of the late King George VI, were issued in the Colony on February 1.