WALL NEWS PAPERS

Arawa Guerilla, Issue 19, 1 October 1943, Page 5

WALL NEWS PAPERS

MORE GEMS.

Below are featured further extracts from wall-newspapers in the district. The light-hearted flavour of these selections does not reflect the whole quality of wall-newspapers, which contain much valuable material on current affairs, the progress of the war, etc., but it is characteristic of the spirit in which much of the material is conceived. Contributions of selections from unit newspapers are welcomed for reprinting in these pages.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Why is this newspaper called “Igniter?” It is intended as the official bulletin of the Engineer Wing, and through it to be explained all the hidden mysteries of the T.N.T. combinations and other things which go Bang! or should go Bang! and don’t? These are the questions being asked by so many of so few. Let me explain. It means simply that once again the School has come to the Engineer Wing, and sought assistance. As you know they often come to us from varying departments and ask for help in the most widely varying tasks. A stray Queen comes with her colony and settles in one of the school buildings. From the Engineer Wing comes a man to repossess the building and take it forcibly from the Queen. Little personal comforts (boy, could 1 do some blackmailing), material for works, and a host of nameless little things are supposed to be permanently on tap for the thirsting and the incapable. Even the M.O. in some little difficulties comes to the Engineer Wing, believing that they, like Carter the Great, can produce the requirements out of thin air or from the Third Base at Tamaki or from the Calliope Dockyards.

Well, so it was when the School decided to produce a newspaper all of their own, which would be free of vested political and financial interests —they wanted a name for it. Now one of the purposes of this paper, as the Editor has already explained to you, was to brighten up the intra-School life and throw light on many secret things about us. But before you can have light you must have some way of starting that light. It can be started in many ways; from getting a bit “lit up” yourself and setting the town alight, to more obscure ways such as the emanations from the light rays travelling all the way from the sun to form the basis of the power on earth which we call electricity. But Engineers have a way, too. By an Igniter. A little gadget which can start fires. BE CAREFUL because

“Igniter” just might warm you too. And if you think that it can’t reach you, just step on one of our talent scout’s toes. (Editorial to “The Igniter,” wallnewspaper of N.D.5.1.)