MAORI M.P. AS SENTRY
DINED WITH HIS MAJESTY Wheeled Coal For The Camp Cook Press Association —Copyright. Received May 17, 9.5 a.m. London, .May 16. Mr E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., has had probably an unparalleled experience. He was dining with the King on May 10 as a member of the Empire Parliamentary delegation and was mounting guard at the palace on May 11 as a private In the New Zealand territorial forces.
He had a similar unusual experience when he was on sentry duty at Pirbright on May S and lunched with the Duke of Gloucester on May 9, while between times he was wheeling coal to assist the New Zealand camp cook.
Mr Tirikatene never forgets that when on guard Mr W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, visited him and asked, "How are you?” but Mr Tirikatene, knowing that palace sentries do not talk, did not bat an eyelid.
Mr Tirikatene served, in the Great War with one or two Maori battalions.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 435, 17 May 1937, Page 5
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164MAORI M.P. AS SENTRY Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 435, 17 May 1937, Page 5
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