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shelled the village and a shore party burnt down the village and killed the pigs. Malaita was a difficult island to administer as
Mahaffy believed that 80 per cent of Malaitan males possessed firearms in the 1900s. There were frequent inter-tribal killings and pay-back killings. Indiscriminate naval
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journal, published an article under the title "Modern buccaneers in the West
Pacific", and described the maladministration of Telfer Campbell, and challenged Mahaffy’s impartiality, because he was a former colonial official in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. The anonymous correspondent
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was appointed as the
Resident Commissioner, remaining in office until 1908. Telfer Campbell was criticised for his legislative, judicial and administrative management. It was alleged that he extracted forced labour from the islanders. In 1909, Mahaffy returned to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
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bombardments or naval shore parties destroying villages, canoes and killing pigs to punish
Solomon Islanders was a common response to incidents, where the colonial administrators could not arrest the perpetrators of killings.
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Retribution in the Western Solomon Islands: Punitive raids, material culture, and the Arthur Mahaffy collection, 1898–1904".
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Mahaffy acquired artefacts held in high value by the Solomon Islanders for his personal collection.
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in 1902 to investigate several deaths. Mahaffy demanded the
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and neighbouring islands. Mahaffy had a force of twenty-five police officers armed with rifles, who were recruited from the islands of
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