MAORI RESISTERS
TWO YEARS' HARD LABOUR. (Per United Peess Association.) AUCKLAND, September 22. ! Six Maoris of tho Waikato tribo who were called, up by ballot, and who have refused to woax tho uniform or obey military authority, wero sentenced by courtmartial to two years' hard labour. About 30 others are still in detention for a similar offence. Tlio sentences were promulgated on Saturday at a parade of 400 Natives in the oartm at Narrow Ncok. A memorandum to tho findings by tho officer commanding tho district warns elders of the tribo against advising reservists to resist authority, statins that the feeling among the other Maoris in camp, tho Fijians, Rarotongans, and Gilbert Islanders is against pasive resistance.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17427, 23 September 1918, Page 4
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117MAORI RESISTERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 17427, 23 September 1918, Page 4
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