THE MAORI AND THE WAR.
" It must be a source of pride to both the Pakeha and the Maori that the Maoris up to the present have secured all the reinforcements under the voluntary principle," said Sir James Allen at a Maori concert in Wellington. " One tribe had not done its share, but they sincerely trusted that the tribe would yet come in, and that thus the voluntary principle would be maintained to the end." "There were people who were apt to forget," said th Hon. A. T. Ngata, " that in this war there were Maoris fighting side by side with the white New Zoalanders. They had known that the Maori would fight well, but it bad surprised them to find that he was also a ' stayer.' They had doubted whether he would stand the intense cold of Flanders, but he had stayed right on." (Applauso.)
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3337, 5 September 1917, Page 2
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