FOR THE FALLEN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 177, 29 July 1942, Page 6

FOR THE FALLEN

MAORI MEMORIAL SERVICE

(0.C.) WELLINGTON, this day. of the Maori race from the Dominion attended a K i^i rv u e l, which was held in the Maori Hall, Lower Hutt in rnllSiL'i t* 1 ® ' ate Lieutenantnf thi V°l e and tbe members of the Maori battalion who laid down their lives. The service wag followed by a meeting at which many speakers referred to the gallantry and noble service of the

Ralph Love, on behalf of his ♦?,2i 1 a ?i? m °ther, expressed grati- * ?i? e who had come to pay memory of his brother and others of the Maori battalion

Mr. Wi Hape Love, father of the Lieutenant-Colonel Love, said Tlwi did not belong to his family, but m-,^ 8 c £ri nt P r /u "° th . pakeha and Maori. His father and mother had nurtured him, but his country had made a man of him. Tiwi had the blood of a Love arid a Park as well as of his great ancestors of the Maori race, and this made him a unifying force for the joining of pakeha and Maori, and that was what must be aimed at in the future for the two races stood or fell together. n X e > 4 rl P itam a expressed his pride that in his small village there were 60 men between 18 ana 70, and of these 45 were overseas. »„. Spe ?J llng o a , s „ acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Sullivan expressed the sympathy of the Government and the nation with the bereaved, and especially Lieutenant-Colonel Love's widow, paramount chieftainess of Rarotonga, and his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hapl Love.