DEBARRED FROM NAVY
MAORI LADS ANXIOUS TO SERVE Maori lads, many of whom are anxious for a naval career, an said to be debarred owing to their colour. Only Britishers by birth are accepted for the Royal Navy. Members of the Te Akarana Maori Association, who have taken thia Reject. up, point out that at least one lad of Maori parentage served witi distinction in a responsible position ir the Navy during the Great War. Hr was attached to H.M.S. Monmouth The secretary, Mr. Patrick Smyth has been instructed to write to the Navy Office at Wellington and aacrr tain whether the existing regulation against the entry of Maori lads to the New Zealand Division of the Boyi. Navy can be modified. The Maoris, as is well known, war* splendid navigators and seamen in tfc past. There are many of their de scendants in New Zealand to-day wii. are anxious to follow a seafariac life as members of the Navy. The French Navy, for many years past, has continually called the Padfe Islanders to its service.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 10
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176DEBARRED FROM NAVY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 10
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