N.Z.E.F. PUBLICITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1919, Page 3

N.Z.E.F. PUBLICITY.

A NEW APPOINTMENT.

A recent development in connection with the N.Z.E.F. i 9 the establishment of a publicity department under the War Records section in London. Tho new department Kau' become a necessity for the purpose of keeping the N.Z.E F. in line with the Australian and Canadian forces in the matter of publicity in the English press. It is in charge of Lieutenant H. T. B. Drew, ■2nd Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, who was l invalided from France badly gassed after the battle of Passchendaele last year.

The Publicity Department is charged with the circulation of information and pictures relating to the activities of the N.2.E.F. throughout the English press, and also" with the despatch of a weekly budget of N.Z.E.F. news to the press of New Zealand- The result, so far as Tho ■British press is concerned, is already apparent. During the last month more than 50 official pictures from the division in France Tiave been reproduced in English papers, and a good hearing has also b*en given' to extracts from the despatches of the official correspondent with the N.Z-E.F. The circulation of these pespatches in England was previously in the hands of the Ri?h Commissioner's office, and the letters were not circulated until they were about six weeks old.'

Those on Mr. Drew's staff include:Lieutenant Burns (late of the Otago Daily Times), Gunner Sidney J. Waters (The Press), and Corporal Hugh Fraser (Taranaki Daily News).