FOR MAORI TROOPS
A MOBILE CANTEEN
GIFT OF NATIVE SCHOOLS
In response to an appeal by the Education Department towards the end of last year Native schools have raised just over £900 to buy and equip a mobile canteen for the Maori Battalion overseas. This, amount represents an average of Is 8d from each pupil.
The Minister of Education (Mr. Mason), commending this fine effort last night, referred to the keenness displayed by the children in raising the money. A pupil of a Native school in the heart of the Urewera (Country had written about penny concerts which were held each week to raise funds. Other letters had also been received. One school in the North Auckland district, with a roll of little more t1 -n 60 pupils, had sent £70 to the fund, and in quite a number of cases more than 5s a head was realised.
"The Government fully appreciates the warm-hearted response that has been made by the children. It is a ver. - fitting demonstration of the loyalty of the Maori race," said the Minister. "It demonstrates in no uncertain manner the keenness of the children to give every assistance to their older brothers and in many cases their fathers, who are so gallantly upholding the fighting traditions of their race in the Middle East."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 11
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218FOR MAORI TROOPS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 11
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