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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 7

[?]ecorded Against

p. 147 · Read in the full issue

[?]eath Sentence [?]ecorded Against [?]ellow River Killers

IE Papua-New Guinea Supreme Court, sitting at Wewak, has recorded the death sentence inst 40 Sepik natives for their 'der of a fishing party of 28 ?r natives on the Yellow River tributary of the Sepik) last ust. lecording” of the death sentence 3 -NG (as opposed to “pronounc ’ it), means that it is most un ly that it will be carried out. r hat will happen to these natives ost of whom are completely nitive —is a matter for decision the Administrator and the Min r for Territories.