A DISTRESSING PROBLEM
A CORRESPONDENT in to-day's paper has called attention to the question of the belated notification to parents and next-of-kin of war casualties, and points out that in many local cases the news has been released to the press several cVays in advance of the official notice. Most emphatically do we endorse the sentiments expressed by the writer, and join with him in condemning the system which creates a state of such cruel suspense for so many innocent people. In many cases letters from the front bearing the sad news actually beat the release of casualty lists. Something is wrong in the transmission of the news by the authorities with all the official machinery at their disposal, if a member of the fighting forces can in his spare moments jot off a letter which will race the lists from headquarters. Have we to thank that 'god' of officialdom 'red tape' for this the most thoughtless and, callous act of all.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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162A DISTRESSING PROBLEM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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