Light and Shade

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1917, Page 3

Light and Shade

(Mang.watu Daily Times.) Some people have all the luck. Tlia cableman tells us that "Captain"'' Malcolm Ross, who is costing New Zealand £1200 to, £1500 a year as a war correspondent, and his son Noel who is reported to be a journalist on the London Times, have made a Christmas hit with a book called "Light and Shade in the War." When "Captain" Ross left these shore;*' amidst the acclaim of his fellow journalists it was imagined that lie would keep the people of New Zealand through the, newspapers intimately informed of the doings of their representatives at the front. There may be people who imagine that we are getting a service worth £1200 or £1500 a year from this souirce. Quite condidly, we do not. Of course the censor may be toi blame. AYe don't know. Mr iNoel Ross left these shores as a corporal. After a short time spent at Gallipoli he was reported as suffering from shell shock. As he is pursuing the arduous calling of journalist and 'author, presumably ii-e luis recovered. How is it that the .military authorities have lost tag of -hiin? Or have they P Is there a special dispensation in such cases? If so by whom is it manipulated? And wiiy, see ing that there is no special dispensation in other cases?. Perhaps there majyi be something in "Light and Shade" which may dispell our curiosity. Or perhaps, not.