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The Volunteers were created by the Militia Act of 1858, and continued until 1910. Highland doublet - Auckland Rifle Volunteers, Gordon Highlanders, circa 1900
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By 1870 the last British regiment had left New Zealand.
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In the field this was often worn with "shawl dress", including a kilt or Māori Piupiu for convenience in wading across streams and rivers. Members wore a blue woollen uniform with black braiding, a red stripe down the trouser seam and either a round "pill box" forage cap or a peaked kepi-like headdress. The Armed Constabulary had combined military and police functions and was the forerunner of both the NZ Army and the New Zealand Police. In the later stages of the Land Wars the government passed the Armed Constabulary Act of 1867, replacing both the British regular and local militia regiments. Māoris served throughout the wars in the 1860s, generally in tribal groups, or as members of the European volunteer forces. Militia and volunteer uniforms consisted of “blue shirt, a cap similar to that worn by sailors, and any kind of trousers”. Uniforms of the New Zealand Wars ĭuring the New Zealand Wars of 1846–1886, settler militia and Māori allies in a variety of clothing styles served alongside the regulars of the British Imperial forces who wore their red and blue undress uniforms until plain dark blue field uniforms were adopted after 1860.