CORONATION CONTINGENT
RETURNED SOLDIERS TEN TO BE CHOSEX (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, fins day. Applications from ex-servicehfen for inclusion in the military contingent -to represent,New Zealand at the ; Coronation have been pouring into the 87
branches of the \<\\ Zealand' Returned Soldiers' Association, and next week the Dominion headquarters association, together with representatives of the De loner neparfnieiil and the Pensions Board will arrange to conduct a ballot to select, from the many hundreds of applicants, 10 civilian returned soldiers.
The men woo are accepted will he reijnired to enlist, in the New Zealand regular forces (temporary) us. , from February 2.3 to June 8. and will' be ranked as privates. There is to he. no official Maori contingent for the Coronation, hut provision has been made to give representation to the race in the Other contingent"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 3
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135CORONATION CONTINGENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 3
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