MAORIS' MILITARY APPEALS
NATIVES LIABLE TO COMPULSORY SERVICE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 9. Tho Maori Military Service Board gave judgment in the Maori reservist appeal ciiso in which the provisions of tho Treaty of Waitangi vuro raised. ho board was unanimously ot opinion that it was entirely unnecessary to consider what might bo the elVect ui the ireaty of Waitangi, or «-h«t might to tho true interpretation of Article 3 of Uβ lreaty The Parliament of New Zea ami had b> the Military Service Act 19111, declared in express terms that members of the i\«Hvo" race of military age should be liablo to compulsory military service. Whether Parliament, in eo enacting, hail or had not acted constitutionally, and if not, whether there was any remedy, were matters the consideration of winch appeared to 'be entirely outside tho functions of tho board, but a decision ot the Full Court in 1017 was most illuminating on the general constitutional question.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 276, 10 August 1918, Page 8
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159MAORIS' MILITARY APPEALS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 276, 10 August 1918, Page 8
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