NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

THE SECOND DIVISION.

CAREFUL EXAMINATION WANTED

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan 15

A deputation from the Second Division League interviewed Mr Massey, asking for a guarantee that any men sent to camp should be medically fit. It was pointed out that it would be a great hardship for a reservist to dispose of his business, perhaps, and when he got to camp be turned down as unfit.

Mr Massey said that he could say at once that he would be very glad to lay the request before was the desire of the Government that every possible care should be taken to avoid hardships to reservists, and such care had been, and would be, taken.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

DUNEDIN, Jan 15

It is probable that several appointments to the Legislative Council will be made before the opening of the Parliamentary session, about the end of June. It is likely that a few of the ex-Councillors whose term of appointment has expired during period will be reappointed It will not be surprising if Sir John Sinclair is among that number.

INJUSTICE TO NEW ZEALAND

SPECIAL CENSORSHIP REGULA

TIONS

WELLINGTON, this day.

With reference to the ChrisueTSurcE telegram re prohibition of mail notices, it may be stated that the Manager of the Press Association -has twice brought the matter under the notice of the Minister of Defence, pointing out that neither Australia nor Canada are subjected to such restrictions Mr Allen replied that it was done at the instance of the Imperial Government and could noTTft) altered, but they did not offer to explain why these restrictions are applicable only to, a little district country like New Zealand, and are not enforced by the Imperial Government elsewhere.

A GERMAN OPINION

OP YOUNG AUSTRALIANS

WELLINGTON, this day

The Sydney Morning Herald publishes an article from a German newspaper by Professor Burckbardt, wllo was present at the last Science Congress in Australia, which states that when the Germans, come-to Australia they do not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation, who have proved themselves arrant cowards. They can be put in gangs to manning fortifications for the German conquerors, and locked in stockades at night.

HUN SHARKS AMAZING EFFORT

TO CUT NEW ZEALAND CABLE

WELLINGTON .this day

The Telegraph Department was greatly surprised recently to find that the cable newly-laid across Cook Straits had developed a fault. On inspection, a shark's tooth was discovered embedded in the insulation, which had caused a leak.

CENSORSHIP OF MAIL NOTICES.

RESTRICTIONS WILL PROBABLY

BE RELAXED

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan 15

A great deal of Inconvenience is being caused to business people and others in the Dominion by the censorship regulation which forbids the publication of any information regarding the arrival and departure of the oversea mails. In Australia a less tight rein is kept on the censorship, and the newspapers there regularly announce the arrivals and departures as long as they are only three or four days ahead of expected event. The matter was brought to the notice of Sir J. G. Ward. In reply he said he had been considering the matter durin the last day or so. Personally', he could see no reason at all why in New Zealand the same procedure should not be followed as in Australia, but he pointed out that the regulations controlling the censorship here were in the hands of the Defence" Department. He realised that a longer notice of the arrival and departure of the mails would be of benefit to the public generally, and if Australia could give it without danger, he thought we could, do so here He had already made up his mind to communicate with the Minister of Defence on the matter, and bring it before the Cabinet, and he believed that a change that would be satisfactory to all concerned should be made.