NO DISCRIMINATION
' MAORI BATTALION FULL SHARE OF GIFTS [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Complaints of discrimination against the Maori Battalion in the distribution of patriotic comforts and in the provision for their general well-being made some weeks ago in the East Coast district are categorically answered in a letter received from the Officer Commanding the Battalion, LieutenantColonel G. Dittmer, who has since been wounded in the Libyan campaign. "The complaints," says LieutenantColonel Dittmer, "were presumably made by an ox-officer of the battalion. The battalion completely dissociates itself from the statements that have been made. We are one and all extromoly sorry for what has happened. In viow of the favourable treatment wo have received wo never thought it possiblo for such a thing to come about. If there was the slightest foundation for such statements we possibly would not be feeling so distressed over what has taken place."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24145, 11 December 1941, Page 8
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148NO DISCRIMINATION New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24145, 11 December 1941, Page 8
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