LED MAORIS IN WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 10

LED MAORIS IN WAR

MEMORIAL TO MAJOR PEACOCK K TRIBUTES FROM TRIBES Maoris from every pert of ki Zealand had their represent,-; ,w at the unveiling yesterday ,i t ,“ noon of the memorial in O’N.-lr Point Cemetery to M.j.r H.n2 Peacock, who commanded the f native battalion to leave f op Great War. the About 300 Maoris came specials from the tennis tournament at : ; v , ahia - „ Man >\ tributes were madetj Major Peacock s graveside. ** Major Roger Dansey, Major Suthe. land. Captains Harry Dansey, Tahi • Vereoe and Pitt attended, and mani who were under Major Peacock ♦ Avondale training camp in 1913 w *• present. At the ceremony were Major's widow and her three sor Messrs. Lindsay Frank and r.ontTe Peacock. Padres Hakiwai. of Hawke's m and Haraurira. of Taranaki, ducted an opening service in Maon Orations were given by tribal After the native tributes. Main, Dansey unveiled the memorial. For the Arawa tribe, of Rotorua. Rangi te Aorere gave an eloquent ad ; dress and said that the services of Major Peacock were fresh i n the memory of the native race. Mr. T. Makitanara, M.P. for the Southern Maori electorate, spoke f 0! South Island tribes. He recalled the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and said that the enrolment of the Maori battalion was the fulfilment of th« fealty of the natives to the Briish Ettn pire. pledged at Waitangi. “On the wind-swept shores of GaU lipoli and on the cold fields of France *• said Mr. Makitanara, "those youni Maoris re-signed the Treaty of WaU tangi with their life-blood.” Rere Nicholson spoke for tribe? m the west of the North Island. Padre Hakiwai pronounced Benediction and four buglers sounded the "Last Post.”