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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1956Vol. XXVI, No.11

So Sda Mission Natives

p. 152 · Read in the full issue

The Big Nambas

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IN July, 1955, the newspapers i ported trouble on the nort west coast of Malekula, in N Hebrides, where the seemingly u tameable Big Nambas had kill one or two other natives and ma threats against the lives and v lages of those living in this an In conjunction with the Gc ernment, the Seventh-day Adve tist Mission evacuated their a herents from a number of villag and took them to Acre, where th remained temporarily.

On May 22, Pastor O. D.

McCutcheon, President of t Seventh-day Adventist Mission the New Hebrides, reported fc mally that the Big Nambas had pa £l,OOO compensation for the dan.-i they caused, as stipulated by t Government, and the evacuees a now being returned to north-wc Malekula—loo having then be* transferred.