MAORI MILITARY UNITS
PLAN FOR REGROUPING OWN OFFICERS AND N.C.O.’S Wellington, This Day. The War Cabinet has approved a plan for regrouping Maori personnel in the armed forces into exclusively Maori units with Maori officers and non commissioned officers, the Minister in Charge of the Maori War Effort, Mr Paikea, stated in an interview last night. This had been received with the utmost satisfaction and delight by the Maori people from one end of New Zealand to the other. The Maoris, said the Minister, felt in this movement an appeal to their racial pride and an op portunity to accept responsibility in keeping with their past traditions and the right to express themselves in their own Maori way. This must not be considered as a reversion to obsolete methods of organisation but on the contrary an adaptation of modern methods based on that outstanding and ancient characteristic of the Maori to co-operate with one another in the attainment of a common object.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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