MAORI RECRUITS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14591, 29 April 1918, Page 3

MAORI RECRUITS.

"V (Special to ■*$$• tteraldi^ ' J tiuVday. T&e Government has :«ppbinted as special Maori '^iti^lSeifvice^ Board : Charles Ed.' f MacGbrmict,. Auckland, judge of the. Native Land Court, whowill be chairman ; John Ormsby, Otorqhangaj and Pitiera Taipua, > Qtaki: This step has been taken m view of the. early selection by ballot of 200 first drvision Maoris of the Waikato and Maniapoto districts, m which, tpe compulsory^p'ro^ visions of Vfche Act will>&pply. .There; are 460 Maoris m the F first division roll. The Act does not apply to Maoris of other districts/ as with the exceptibh of the Waikatos all tribes ..have doric well. The ballot for selection will bring the Waikatos into line with other Maoris m the. contribution -of recruits. (Per Press Association). ; WEM/ESTGTONV this day. " It "has been decided to take a ballot of the First Division of Waikato Maoris within the next few days for the purpose of supplying reinforcements for the Maori contingent serving- m France. The ballot is only being applied to the Waikato natives for the reason that they have consistently stood . aloof -from voluntary recruiting all along, leaving it to the loyal natives to carry the burden. The machinery for taking' the ballot is now complete. The total number of First Division native reservists on the roll? in the district affected ft 420. Of these it is proposed to call up 200 m thejfprthcomingi ballot;