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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 88, 12 October 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL " As far as I am able to judge, every man in New Zealand who is prepared to go to the front will have an opportunity to do so," remarked the Prime Minister in Parliament to-day. He added that ho hoped and believed that every member would do all he could to assist recruiting in this country. Another reference to the New Zealand war correspondent was made in the House of Representatives by the Prime Minister yesterday. Mr Massey read from the London Times and the Graphic two paragraphs comprising a report from Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent, in which the writer said he was indebted to Mr. Malcolm Ross for his description of an engagement in which the New Zealanders were prominently concerned. Mr. Massey added that this confirmed what he had previously been informed by Mr. Ross in a recent letter, that he had been rigorously censored. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ross and other correspondents had been placed on an island, and had only been allowed occasional visits to the fighting area. (Laughter.) A member : "Interned !" (Laughter.) Mr Witty asked if the Graphic and Times were paying Mr. Ross for his information, and the Prime Minister suggested the question had better be put on the order paper. (Laughter.) Public applications are to be s invited for positions on the Board of Trade, which is about to be constituted, "and," said Sir Joseph Ward in the House this morning, "Cabinet will make the best selection possible." A Gazette Extraordinary was issued last evening stating that "the Minister of Defence may by notice gazetted prohibit the sale of any book or other publication, the sale of which he deems mii jurious to the public interest in respect of the present war, and so long as any such notice remains unrevoked the book or 'publication to which it relates shall be a prohibited publication within the meaning of this regulation. If any such notice relates to a periodical publication, such issue of that publication shall be a prohibited publication within the meaning of this regulation. No person shall sell, or offer for sale, or have in his possession for sale, or procure or attempt to procure possession of, a prohibited publication. No person having the possession or custody of a prohibited publication shall deliver or offer to deliver the same to any other person, or permit the same to be read or examined by any other person." There was a light calendar of police cases at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided. Lillian Jukes, a well-known offender, was charged with drunkenness, and also with wilfully damaging the lining of a padded cell. " She looked much the worse for her experience, and she was remanded for. one week for observation. "She appears to be mentally weak," said SubInspector M'Kinnon, a remark which Jukes strongly resented. Elizabeth Musgrave pleaded guilty to escaping from the Salvation Army Home. It was the third time she had got away. A sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed. "I have just done three months," - said Musgrave. "Well, igo and do another," said his Worship. I Charles Branch, for assaulting John M'Leod, chief engineer of the Arawa, was fined £2, in default seven d«ye in g*ol.