NO MORE NIUE ISLANDERS.
CLIMATE AT FRONT NOT SUIT ABLE. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr Poole asked the. Defence Minister' it' he would mako a statement regarding the future policy of the department respecting enlistment of Nino Islanders for active service, seeing that those already gone had experienced .1 tryinc time in a new country. Mr Allen replied that he did not think it would be wise in future -to accept any more men from Niue Is land. (Hear, hear.) His reason, was that they would have to go to a climate nob at all suitable to them. He thought it was right to make an experiment, which was attended with a certain amount of success, but he did not propose to- continue- it. In answer to members the Minister said that Rarotongans were in a dif -^ ferent category; and ' were doing all" ri S ht - __J_____ ■■'■' '■' a———— i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 4
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152NO MORE NIUE ISLANDERS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 4
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