POLYNESIAN VOLUNTEERS.
(Our Special Correspondent.) Wellington, July 18. . Twenty-fivo stalwart Polynesians from the Elliee Islands and Gilbert Islands have arrived in Wellington, on their way to Narrow Neck camp, where they are going to train with the Maori reinforcements. These wen from the coral islands of the Pacific are all volunteers. Their homelands are not controlled by the New Zealand Government, but it has been, convenient to attach tu e m lor recruiting purposes to this Dominion, since the Australian forces do not include any native troops. "We would like to see the great fighting," said one of these men to-day. "Our people live at peace now; but they were warriors in the past. We are of th«j British race, and we were told that we could come to New Zealand to go to the war with your Maoris. More men would be ready to come, but we are not many in the islands."
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1918, Page 7
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154POLYNESIAN VOLUNTEERS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1918, Page 7
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