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DOMINION NEWS.
THE MAORI CONTINGENT
BY TKUEGB^PH—VEERS 48SO0IATION
WAIROA, Oct. 18
About 400 Maoris last night farowelled the local native contingent, T*-^ Rev. Wepiha, the chaplain, who comes °* a, gveat fighting stock, drilled the men, after which a patriotic speech was made by Ihaka Whaanga, a local chief of Rakaipaka, who fought for the Queen1 in the seventies. The troops leave on Moilday. They are a-fine lot and look fit.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5
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70DOMINION NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5
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