MAORIS AND RECRUITING
THE WAIKATO'S LAST CHANCE The registration of Maoris under the Military Service Act is now almost complete, and .as soon as tho remaining returns' coino in and tho register is compiled, it will be possible to bring tlio Act into operation as '.applied to Maoris. The Defence Minister said yesterday that unless the Waikulo: voluntarily enlisted as tho other tribes had done, it would be necessary to bring the Act into operation. He hoped that this would not bo necessary, but he considered that it was his duty to seo that there was fail play as among tho different tribes of Natives. Tho -number of reinforcements required ir 75 men per mouth.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 160, 26 March 1918, Page 4
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115MAORIS AND RECRUITING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 160, 26 March 1918, Page 4
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