ADDRESSING CORRESPONDENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 4

ADDRESSING CORRESPONDENCE.

TO MEN OF EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. We have received f'.ie following from the headquarters i:f the New Zealand M.liiary Forces. Well ngton : I am directed I<> ask if vou will be so i:ood as to notify the public through jour columns, at tile earliest jios.s.lTie opportunity and :n as prom nent a manner as possible, of the correct; manner of address.ng correspondence, to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces after t-hey have left New Zealand. Experience in the past .lias N.inwi" thai an enormous amount of enrresoondence addressed io men on acl ve servire gees astray mr'n? to ibe fact, that it- h:c " been " addressed carelessly. Relatives and iimihU of the men of the Expeditionary Force should therefore take steps to I ::m liar >e theni-eives with the put eulars which are shown in the following sample addresses:— " (1> Sample address to a member of the Advance Detachment-: No. 234 Private John TTenry Jor.e.s, A. Coy.. -3th A\ell!iiLiLOu Regiment, AI)VANCE DETACHMENT. NV.v Zealand Expeditionary Force. C.o G.P.0., A\ ellingten. \.I». In the ease <jt letters fur memel the Advance Detachment, it is very .'tit a! >!i:it the wonls ' "Ad. value D.-Urhment ' > clearly shown. (2' >a'up.e address tu a member of the Man Body:— N. -1321. Private Thomas Atkins, 1 lie Nel.vm Coy.. Canterbury Infantry Regiment. New Zealand Expeditionary Force. C.o G. P. 0., We-liiiLion.