READING MATTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11508, 2 October 1915, Page 6

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, to have them carried free of cost. The reading matter may ba 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 despatched to Wellington, and. from that point by the Defence Department by means of the troopships. The following will not be_ accepted :—(1) Newspapers of any kind; (2) magazines more than a year old; (3) books or magazines (a) written in a language other than English (unless it bo an educational text book), (b) dirty, (o) incomplete, (d) known to have been exposed to Section (any such book or magazine if not discovered to have been exposed, to infection until after acceptance to be destroyed), (e) handed iu merely to propagate a particular view, (f) wrapped or packed in any way, (g) addressed to any particular soldier or unit (unless, of course, they be prepaid and addressed in the ordinary way as a postal packet).