TWO HISTORIC FLAGS
MAORI CAPTAIN'S POSSESSION
EXHIBITED IN WIIAKATANE
Capt. Pcric Taiapa who was recently repatriated, alter serving two years abroad in the Middle East and who a*isited Whakatane yesterdaj', addressed members of the local Maori community in the Toroa meeting house and thrilled his audience by displaying two flags covered with hundreds of signatures of men of the Maori Battalion.
The. flag which attracted/ most attention was a cap tyred German emblem bearing the black Swastika siyn against a red field, Avhich Avas taken by the Maori Battalion in the course of the great advance. The other Avas a New Zealand ensign which had also seen seiwice. (Treat interest was shown in the /lags the l.ocal Maoris recognising with undisguised delight the signatures of many of their relatives and friends. I
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 75, 25 May 1943, Page 5
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132TWO HISTORIC FLAGS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 75, 25 May 1943, Page 5
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