THE MAORI CONTINGENT.
A MISLEADING MESSAGE. By Telegraph.~>Pres3 Association. Wellington, Yesterday. With reference to the Fremantle cable alleging that the Maori contingent has been cut up, Mr. Allen last night stated that the message was misleading. It would be wrong to let the impression get abroad that the Maoris had been badly cut up. They had suffered loss, but no more than anybody else, and the casualty lists had all been published. As to the point that they had been incorporated with other unit"), the fact was that they had been attached to the infantry brigade, but could still be kept together as a Maori force. He had received a cable from Sir A. Godley, which had already been published, in which he said he had attached the Maoris to the infantry brigade. Reinforcements for the Maoris had been asked for, and were being sent. The Maoris would be kept as two companies in the infantry brigade,,
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1915, Page 2
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157THE MAORI CONTINGENT. Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1915, Page 2
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