NEW ZEALAND'S WAR CORRESPONDENT

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13847, 6 November 1918, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S WAR CORRESPONDENT

Says till© Wairarapa Daily Times: Tihe greatest joke that »New Zealand ever perpetrated was wlfoen tihe official war correspondent was sent out to the front. For £iIOOO a, year amd! expenses we are given elaborate descriptions of how tihe buttercups make butter, the moo-cow® moo, t»h» flies fly, and the grasshoppers Hop. In tibrilling words, worthrv of a Rip' van Winkle, we have long descriptions of how the French women in captured' territory . have their faces j washed by Hun foemen spitting on them, and similar diariog and exciting deeds. Each letter of this worldfamous wonder, wiho is making New Zealand's name, a thing to be spoken of only in awed tones, exceeds the amount of piffle crammed ... into it. Hie latest effort of our great and [ glorious war correspondent is worthy of Cicero. Here it is:—"We aire richer for the many table®, forms, chairs and cupboards that the enemy had no time to burn, or carry off." That is what we are paying £1000 a year for. s ßeally, our war coa"re®- • .pendent is underpaid! Cannot some j member of the "Funk Piarliament" i move this session, that the salary be j raised to a year? It is • really worth it because of t&ne aimoaint ■of fun the people of New Zealand get 1 out of these marvellous eipisifcles.