MAORI SOLDIERS
No Liability' To Serve 0 Of Netf Zealand j All members of the armed forces, came liable for service wherever quired by an amendment to the * tional Service Emergency Regulat, which came into force on June 23. Si liability attached automatically Maori members of the forces, bu has been removed by a further aiw ment gazetted last week. The I ister of National Service, Mr. Br foot, has stated that in view.( the fact that Maoris had not at ; stage been subject to compulsory vice, and as their voluntary erments had been made on the exp undertaking that they would no required to serve beyond New land, it had been decided that rathan require them to exercise t,, right of appeal against overseas vice it was preferable to remove' liability. The right of Maori mem? of the forces within New Zealand elect to serve overseas was in no affected.
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 135, 14 August 1942, Page 6
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