MAORI LOYALTY
MESSAGE TO THE KING [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON,. December 15. The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) has sent the following message to the King ; “ Representatives of the Maori race, including the officers and men of the Maori battalion, assembled yesterday on the occasion of the opening of the Maori pavilion at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, which coincided with your Majesty’s birthday, desire me to tender on behalf of the Maori people of New Zealand their respectful good wishes, together with an expression of their unabated devotion and loyalty to your Majesty's throne and person, and of their determination to lend all the assistance in their power to the Empire's cause.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 15
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112MAORI LOYALTY Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 15
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