READING MATTER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 5

READING MATTER

FOR TROOPS AT THE FRONT. The Postmaster-General has arranged to' accept from the public hooks and magazines- for the entertainment of soldiers on active service, and to have them carried free of cost. The reading matter may' be, handed ;in at any post. office, with' the request that' it be sent forward for "'the use of the troops on active service.. It will be dispatched to 'Wellington,'and from that point by the Defence Department by means of the troopships. Tl|e following -will not be accepted:— (I)' Newspapers of any kind; (2) magazines more than, a year old; (3) books or magazines (a) written in a languago other..than' English (unless it be an educational text book), (b) dirty,'(c). incomplete, (d) known ,to have been exposed to infection (any svch book or magazine if not discovered to have been exposed to infection until after acceptance to be destroyed),, (e) Sanded in merely to propagate a particular view, (f) wrapped or packed in any way, (g) addressed to any particular soldier qr. unit (unless, of course, r they be prepaid. and, ; addressed in. the ordinary, way as a postal packet).