NEW ZEALAND DIVISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND DIVISION.

TIME FOUND FOR LITER Alt YWORK. (From Captain Malcolm Ross, Official Correspondent with the N.Z. Forces in the Field.) LONDON, Nov. 2. The New Zealand Division has produced p. most' excellent Christmas book of prose, verso and illustrations in coheir, black and while. and line. A high standard of literary and artistic excellence lias been readied. Ten thousand copies were sold before the hook appeared, and it is expected that lho sales will approximate 50,000. The publishers are Cassell's, who, in a preliminary notice, stale thai the hook is equal, if not superior to, any similar magazine compiled at the I rout. They add: ''That the soldiers from the smallest of the Dominions should be capable of producing such a hook while actually engaged in battle is a tribute, not only to themselves and their country', but also to the ancestry from which they have sprung. The book will form a lasting memorial of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the great war, and make a charming Christmas gift to relatives and friends. Fifty thousand artistic Christmas cards in colour are also being published by the Division."

Our troops are now enjoying a tpiiet time.

The Commauder-in-Chiel has awarded the Military Cross to So<ond-Lieut. I'\ W. Wilson, of a Canterbury Regiment.