MAORIBALLOT
200 NAJIKS IJKAW.N" YKSTERDAY.
'('lie first liallol in flic Native Expeditionary Force Jlcserve was taken yesterdny. Tin- Government Statistician (Mr. Mnlcolm Fraser) comiiletcd the drawing within .nil tour, under Die supervision ot Mr. K. E. M'Orthy, S.M. '('he ballot applied Id First Division Maoris resident in th« Waikato-Ma'.iiapoto recruiting district, and 200 names were drawn from a roll containing 420 names. The Gazette containing the names of the selected men will be published next week- v _ _ Tho First Division men in the Native Kworvo arc a .-mall proportion of the total number of Maoris o£ military a&c, owing to the custom of e«riy .marriage Unit prevails among the Maoris, flic Second Division list for the U'aikatoMu»isi]K>to district contains more than Iwice us many .t nines as the First Division list contains.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 6
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132MAORIBALLOT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 6
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