MAORI PIONEERS.
DTJE NEXT MONTH. MAJORITY FOR AUCKLAND. (Pj Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Tte transport Westmoreland, which is expected to reach Nesv Zealand about April 12, is bringing 55 officers and 978 of other ranks of. the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. A cablegram received by the Minister for Defence states that there are aboard the Westmoreland 129 Maoris for Wellington, 170 for Hawke's Bay, 13 for Taranaki, 050 for Auckland, and 6S for the South Island. In France and England there are still 392 Maoris, mostly in hospital. The Minister telegraphed from information ac to what number of East Coast Maoris are included in tnc Auckland quota, but no reply has yet been received. Tho shipping company considers there ere difficulties about landing troops at Gisborne.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 64, 15 March 1919, Page 15
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