PETITION FROM VETERANS.
The Maori War ended more than half a century ago, but Parliament still from time to time receives applications from people who claim to have served in it and desire to he awarded medals
--and, what is more important, the pensions and other privileges attaching thereto. A petition bearing six very shaky signatures plainly indicative of age was handed in by Mr S. G. Smith (Taranaki), on behalf of six old men living at New Plymouth, who say that they served in the Colonial Itorccs during* the war.-s “Your petitionees,” it states, “desire to point out that though they were not under fire, this was due to the fact that they were compulsorily detained: to do outpost and other dlitiig while their comrades jvere selected for the actual fighting. Some were too young to join the forces, but were sworn in immediately circumstances permitted They were all* certainly under arms during the Titikowaru War and the White Cliffs Massacre. Your petitioners therefore pray that your honorable House will take surh steps as will ensure the granting of the New Zealand War Medal and its privileges to your petitioners.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16781, 14 July 1925, Page 7
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