Arrest in “Waitomo”
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Murder at Papeete
A SHIP’S donkeyman, Henry
Erskine, 49, was arrested on board the Wait o m o at Wellington. NZ. This following the return to New Zealand of a police officer and a doctor, who flew to Papeete by RNZAF flying-boat from Suva to exhume and examine the body of a former seaman of the Waitomo.
Erskine has been charged with the murder of Canadian seaman Victor August Kure aboard the vessel at Papeete on August 20.
Following a severe fire which broke out aboard the Union
Company S trans-Pacific freighter °n that night. Kure’s bodv allegediy strangled, was found in the donkeyman’s cabin. t An American fisheries publication confirms that Japanese fishing vessels of a Pago Pago-based fleet, have been fishing in the Cook Islands and eastward this winter, and have been bringing in record catches. tGr overnment administrative officers throughout Fiji were called to a conference in Suva late in August to discuss matters connected with the work of district com missioners and district officers. One such conference is held every year.