OUR FORCES OVERSEAS.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 4

OUR FORCES OVERSEAS.

Q-OOD work is being done by the National Patriotic Fund Board in making arrangements for Ihe best and most convenient methods of sending gift parcels to New Zealand soldiers overseas and the pamphlet to be issued to the next-of-kin of all men who enlist setting out the best way to pack parcels, suggestions as t o I heir contents, and other general information no doubt will be much appreciated. So, too, will the efforts that are being made to secure a reduction in the postal charges on parcels addressed to members of the Expeditionary Force.

There are other aspects of the question of' maintaining contact witli our forces overseas which have not yet received the attention they deserve. Reference was made recently, for instance, to the fact that the Commonwealth Government has organised a wireless unit to accompany the Australian Expeditionary Force and provide a news service, and that special correspondents have also been appointed. It is rather astonishing that no corresponding arrangements have yet been made by the New Zealand Government. At all events nothing appears to have been said officially on the subject. The people of this country no doubt will expect to get prompt and dependable news of their Expeditionary Force in the war theatre or theatres in which it will presently be engaged and no time should, be lost in making adequate arrangements to that end.