COMPLAINTS DENIED
MAORI BATTALION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Complaints of discrimination against the Maori Battalion in the distribution of patriotic comforts and in the provision for their general well-being made some weeks ago in the East Coast district are categorically answered in a letter received from the Officer Commanding the Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Dittmer, who has since been wounded in the Libyan campaign.
j “The complaints,” says LieutenantColonel Dittmer, “were presumably made by an ex-officer of the bat- , talion, The battalion completely dissociates itself from the statements that have been made. We are one and all extremely sorry for what has happened. In view of the favourable treatment we have received we nevr , thought it possible for such a thing to come about. If there were the ; slightest foundation for such state--1 ments we possibly would not be feelI mg so distressed over what has taken j piacß.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21601, 11 December 1941, Page 4
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