"THE BLUE LIGHT"
Unique Troop Journal ALTHOUGH New Zealand has more newspapers to the square mile than any other country, the N.Z. troops overseas promptly carry on this tradition by producing a local newspaper for themselves wherever they find them-selves-in camp, air force station, troopship, or overseas depot. These bright journals are of all shapes, sizes and values, but they capture the very life of camp comradeship, and should be well worth collecting now, while they are available, as the raw material of the great stories that will be written of these exciting days. One of the more ambitious of these troop journals, called "The Blue Light, the Unofficial Organ of the -th Field Ambulance," is produced by a former member of the staff of The Listener who enlisted as a private in the . Medical Corps, Eric de Mauny, together with three other unit members, all ex-news-papermen. It is published fortnightly and makes a profit for Regimental Funds. "The Blue Light," is in fact a newspaper- not a mimeographed journal. It publishes all the local news for and about the boys, dates of concerts, camp meetings and church notices, plenty of jokes, a General Knowledge Quiz, general news, good strong editorials on their faith in their cause and against rumour mongers, and, most ambitious of all, plenty of paid advertising from the local merchants. By wartime necessity, nowhere in the journal is there stated the name of the locality, not even in the advertisements or imprint. So this journal without a placename must be unigue in newspaperdom,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 3
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257"THE BLUE LIGHT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 3
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