MAORI BATTALION.
DATE OF ENTERING CAMP.
The Maori Battalion is to go into camp at the Palmerston North Showgrounds on Friday, January 26. The officers and non-commissioned officers at present at the Army School of Instruction at Trentham will proceed to Palmerston North on January 24. The battalion is now designated as the 28th Maori Battalion.
The quotas of the various Army areas are: Area No. 1 (Auckland), 25; No. 2 (Paeroa), 166; No. 3 (North Auckland), 206; No. 4 (Waikato), 35; No. 5 (Wellington), 10; No. 6 (Manawatu), 15; No. 7 (Napier), 165; No. 8 (Hawera), 6; No. 9 (Nelson), 2; No. 10 (Christchurch), 6; No. 11 (Otago), nil; No. 12 (Southland), 2.
A proposal has been made to the military authorities that a recruit it.g office be opened at Waitangi during the Centennial celebrations, as a large number of natives will be gathered. This proposal has met with full support from the elders of the northern tribes, and the leading men in the Whangarei district have communicated with j-'ir Apirana Ngata, requesting his support for the proposal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 3
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