RESOURCEFUL MAORIS
BATTERIES AND BULBS FROM ENEMY TRUCKS ELECTUIC ALLY-LI T DUG OUTS A striking example of the resourcefulness of Maori s'o-ldiers was related by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Baker, D.5.0., cf the. Maori Battalion, when speaking at the Tin Hat Club in Wellington recently. He said they could not keep the Maoris in their dugouts after dark. "They would lie out in no-man's iand, often within a lew hundred yards of the enemy positions, searching for anything that might be useful to them," he said. "Therei are a great many abandoned vehicles all over the desert, and on one occasion my boys removed from them every battery anil electric bulb they could find. "On tloing the rounds with the orderly officer that night 1 found that every dugout was electrically lit. The boys had even rigged, up a rough telephone system from wire they had taken from the trucks. '"There was only one ring, and everyone answered, of course, and the caller had to get the man he wanted by a process of elimination."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 06, Issue 96, 6 August 1943, Page 3
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173RESOURCEFUL MAORIS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 06, Issue 96, 6 August 1943, Page 3
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