MAORI BATTALION
DATE OF ENTERING CAMP. The Maori Battalion is to go into camp at the Palmerston North Showgrounds on Friday, January 26. The and non-commissioned officers at present at the Army School of Instruction at Trentham will proceed to Palmerston North on January 24. The battalion is now designated as the 2Sth Maori Battalion. The quotas of the various army areas are: Area No. 1 (Auckland) 25, No. 2 (Paeroa) 166, No. 3 (North Auckland) 206, No. 4 (Waikato) 35, No. 5 (Wellington) 10, No. 6 (Manawatu) 15, No 7 (Napier) 165, No. 8 (Hawera) 6, No. 9 (Nelson) 2, No. 10 (Christchurch) 6, No. 11 (Otago) nil, No. 12 (Southland) 2. A proposal has been made to the military authorities that a recruiting office be opened at Waitangi during the centennial celebrations, as a large number of natives will be gathered. This proposal has met with full support from the elders of the northern tribes, and the leading men in the Whangarei district have communicated with Sir Apirana Ngata, requesting his support for the proposal.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4232, 17 January 1940, Page 7
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