Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1955Vol. XXV, No. 12

For Murder

p. 125 · Read in the full issue

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wo Young Tongans to Die For Murder

IE sentencing to death of two young Tongans for the murder of another young man is the nination of a series of crimes /iolence in the Kingdom, writes fukualofa correspondent, he men are Kelekolio Funaki Uikilifu Nau, of Folaha village, the victim was a fellow-villager m Pahulu. be last execution in Tonga took ;e at Vavau in 1927, when a ig man was hanged for murder a girl. is a general opinion, the corre ident adds, that the crime-wave ’onga is mainly due to increased sumption of alcoholic drink by ig Tongans.

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