RESOURCEFUL MAORIS
ENEMY TRUCKS STRIPPED ELECTRICALLY-LIT DOUGOUTS A striking example of the resourcefulness of Maori soldiers was related by Lieutenant-Colonel F. Baker, D. 5.0., of the Maori Battalion, when speaking at the Tin Hat Club in Vvel- t lington recently. He said they could not keep the Maoris in their dugouts after dark. “They would be out in no-man’s land.
often within a few hundred yards of the enemy positions, searching for anything that might be useful to them,” he said. “There are a great many abandoned vehicles all over the desert, and on one occasion my boys removed from them every battery and
electric bulb they could find. “On doing the rounds with the orderly officer that night I found that every dugout was electrically lit. The boys had even rigged up a rough telephone system from wire they had taken from the trucks.
"There was only one ring, and everyone answered, of course, and the caller had to get the m,a.n he wanted by a process of elimination.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3292, 26 July 1943, Page 3
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170RESOURCEFUL MAORIS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3292, 26 July 1943, Page 3
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