MAORI IN CABLES.
MESSAGES TO TROOPS. The reference published in Friday's "Star" to the deletion of the Maori greeting "Kia Ora" in a cablegram sent by the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Brigade to the London Fire Brigade, may have caused some readers to think that the Maori language is forbidden in all cablegrams. It has been pointed out ; by the post office that arrangements were made some months ago for the acceptance of messages in Maori to or from members of the Xew Zealand Expeditionary Force abroad. For ordinary cablegrams, however, the only languages recognised by the Imperial censorship are English, French, I Spanish, Afrikaans mkL Portuguese. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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106MAORI IN CABLES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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