THE MAORI CONTINGENT
statements denied. frBESI ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) "WELLINGTON, SentemEer 27. With reference to the Fremantlo cable alleging that the Maori Contingent had been cut up, the Hon. James Alletn last night stated that the message was misleading, and 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 units, the fact was that they had been attached to the infantry brigade, but would still be kept together as a. Maori force. He had received a cable from General Godley, which had already been published, in which he said that he had attached the Maoris to the infantry brigade. Reinforcements for the Maoris had been asked for and wero being sent, and the Maoris were to be kept as two companies in the> infantry brigade.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15395, 28 September 1915, Page 8
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