Resident Commissioner’s Resting Place

The grave of Mr. C. W. Larsen (left foreground) looks out over the sea from [?]fi Village, administrative headquarters of Niue Island. Mr. Larsen was murdered August, 1953, by three of the Islanders who are at present serving life sentences. he headstone on the grave was erected by his colleagues on Niue. Mr. Larsen’s grave next to that of the Chief of Patuiki (seen right), one of the last of the Niuean [?]ramount chiefs who died in 1887. —Photo by Jack Thornton.