EAST COAST NATIVES’ DECISION
Maori Returned Men Should Stay In N.Z. (By Telegraph—“ Dominion” Reporter.) RUATORIA, October 6.
The decision of the native people on the East Coast that the Maori members of the furlough party at present in the Dominion from the Middle East should not be allowed to return there was announced by Sir Apirana Ngata when welcoming visitors at the Victoria Cross investiture ceremony at Ruatoria today. He said this decision had been made at all meetinghouses.
It was, he added, not a question of the men on furlough volunteering to go back to the Middle East again or remaining behind. They should be made to stay. That went for all Maori soldiers on furlough, with the exception of key personnel. There were plenty of men willing to go who wanted to take their place.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 4
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138EAST COAST NATIVES’ DECISION Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 10, 7 October 1943, Page 4
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