THE MAORI DRAFT
■ DUE IN AUCKLAND ON APRIL 8. The steamer Westmoreland, which'O bringing a large draft of Maori soldiers, the members of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, is expected to reach Auckland on April is. The .Maori people, who are planning a big welcome to their boye, > were anxious that the Westmoreland should make a call at Uisborne, but the Minister of Defence has informed them tbnt this is impracticable. An effort will be made to have the Maoris sent from Auckland to Gisborno bv coastal sieanicr, in order that the welcome may take place there- This" will apply, it is expected, only to East Coast Maoris.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 153, 24 March 1919, Page 4
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108THE MAORI DRAFT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 153, 24 March 1919, Page 4
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