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Thursday, April 30, 2020

pages 17-18

 It started on 19 September 1914 there was a rugby match the crowd cheered Tipu was playing he got the ball and ran but there was someone bocking Tuip. The name was big big George, big George tackled Tupi to the ground Then a man in the crowd gave it all you got boy. Then Tupi's younger cousin, Rahia, was holding a paper in their hand and said are you joining?''. Then big George said are you going Tupi looked at the paper and said I am going for sure then Tupi little cousin said you have to be 20 before you can go then Tupi got angry.

Comprehension.
What is meant by “a native contingent”
A group of Moari people
How are the two boys feeling about signing up to fight? Provide direct quotes as evidence.


Tipu - confident


Rongo - Unsure

Explain in your own words - “Tipu listens as she reminds Rongo of the land confiscation in the Waikato during the 1860s, of the lives lost trying to defend that land in the colonial wars.

There was a war about who gets the land. The Maori people were fighting to protect their land and pakeha.

Railey - There was a war about who gets the land or not . and it was between maori and british.

Eh Htoo - There was a land war about who got the land Maori tried to defend their land for pakeha then they had a war.

There was war for the Maori peoples land.

There was a big war between Maroi and the British it was called the land wars it started when the British tried to get land off the Maori



Write about the Maori Contingent in your own words (where did they come from, how many people, where did they go to fight etc).

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/maori-soldiers-sail-war

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-units-nzef

https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/roll-ww1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_(M%C4%81ori)_Pioneer_Battalion


The first contingent sailed from Wellington in February 1915. There was about 500 men that left Wellington on the 14 of February 1915. By 1916 the battalion was in desperate need of reinforcements,

The first contingent sailed from Wellington aboard the ship warrimoo in february 1915. Its motto was ‘Te Hokowhitu a Tu (the seventy twice-told warriors of the war god). Some moari had been in gallipoli from the beginning, having enlisted in the provincial infantry battalions. In the war 336 people died and 734 people were wounded. An old boy of wellington college grace was talented sportman.


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