TWO HALVES MAKE A HALF
There was a moment of confusion at a sitting of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board. Auckland, when a quarter-caste Maori appealed against overseas service on the grounds of status. The appellant claimed that he was a half-caste, stating that his mother was a full-blooded Maori and his father a pakeha. The family tree proved difficult to trace until the appellant himself intimated that both his mother's parents had been halfcastes. It was with some difficulty that the board persuaded the reservist that the daughter of two half-castes was not a full-blooded Maori.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24791, 16 December 1941, Page 8
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99TWO HALVES MAKE A HALF Otago Daily Times, Issue 24791, 16 December 1941, Page 8
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