LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"THE 38th MOUNTED" Sir, —"Owing to an oversight!" And that is the only reason given to fathers and mothers and whes who nayo been wondering where on earth their boys ha-ve got to. Will Sir James Allen tell us more definitely who is resjwnsiblo for these oversights? Is it Headquarters in Egypt or Records in Wellingr ton ? For the sake of anxio is ones, it is surely time, after fo.ir years' experience, that "heads of Departments" should think a little more for the outside public and a little less for rod tape' and officialdom.—l am, etc., • AN ANXIOUS FATHER. [The news was given to the Press tho day after it was received in New Zealand. Far from the delay being duo to negligence here, it was only through tho vigilance of authorities hero that, tile news was received in the end, a special cablegram asking for information having been sent from New Zealand. At this distance it is not possible to say whose was the fault for the delay in transmission of the news from Egypt. It may be that there was no fault committed by any (fficer of the New Zealand Forces.]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 292, 29 August 1918, Page 6
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197LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 292, 29 August 1918, Page 6
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