APPEAL TO MAORIS TO ENLIST
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 4. An appeal to young Maori men to join either the special home defence Maori Battalion to be recruited from volunteers for overseas service or the Territorial Force was made by the Hon. P. K. Paikea, a member of the Executive Council, in an address this evening. Mr Paikea, who spoke first in English and then in Maori, said he was sure the formation. of a Maori Battalion in New Zealand would foster extra keenness in the Maori war effort. The job of keeping the battalion at full strength lay with the Maori people, with the elders, with every able-bodied man and with the mothers of their Maori youths.
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Southland Times, Issue 24685, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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117APPEAL TO MAORIS TO ENLIST Southland Times, Issue 24685, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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