Not any old truck
PA Auckland A 1941 Ford V 8 truck that arrived at the Auckland Museum of Transport and Technology on an Army transporter looked like just another old wreck. But for the men who fought with the Maori Battalion in the Second World War it holds a warm place in their memories. The truck is Rau Aroha, the mobile canteen that followed them through thick and thin in the North African and Italian campaigns.
The canteen was given by Maori school children in 1941 after the New Zealand Division lost almost all its transport to the Germans in Greece. For many years it has been slowly decaying at Waitangi — until the army agreed to transport it to Auckland to become a permanent exhibit at the museum. It will be restored to its war-time condition — Including the bullet holes that have since been patched over.
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Press, 18 October 1976, Page 15
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