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Settlement of Søldiers.
Mr. G. T. Milne, who has been for some years the British Trade Commissioner in Australia, bisa made a report to the President of ite Board of Trade dealing with Cmmonwealth legislation for the repatriation of soldiere, sailors, sod noreet. He says:
"Picviain is made
for Repatriation Commission of! reven members, for Repatria- tion Board, and for local cem mittees. la anch a country ม Australia with sach vast spaces available for settle- ment, it is Batural that a good deal of consideration is being given to the question of placing returned soldiers on the land, the. intensies being that this might to some extent befeated by the joint co-operation of the Federal and State Governments. It i proposed that ibe States should provide land and that
the Federal Government should advance to the States up to $20, C00,000 to assist in carrying out the settlement. It has beta estimated that the valus of the land and the amount of the advance to be made to the settlers will eventually cost £60,000,000. Under the proped scheme tha Boldier will be enabled to secure a block of land end an advance up to £500 for plant, stock, &% Where necessary the settler will be trained at a farm free of cost."
Maala for Self-Accussation. Aweiler named Ledwig flom feld bas just been convicted in Berlin of a repeated cffence of a mant extraordinary character. Whenever one of the innumerable crimes which have been taking place of late attrsoted particular - attention, the police were sure to be rang up on the telephone by someone who give a name of "authority, ordering the arrest of Hamfeld. Sometimes, the police received the order in writing on. cfficial paper. Hamfeld was taken into custody no less than seventeen times, but on ese occasion Was discharged, as nothing could be brought against him. Eventually the polica suspected that it was Hamfeld himself who had order ed his own errasts, especially as | after each discharge he gave the police a lot of trouble, demanding compensation for his detention. At the trial it was ststep that be had worried the police in this way for yeare. The doctors declared Hamfeld to be an epileptie with: á mania for self advertisement, which expressed itself in this ex- { traordinary way.
8,000 Dest Soldiers. Nearly 8,000 men have been pezsicned for desfaces since the outbreak of the wer. In only a few cases is recovery, complete. The conditions can, however be ameliorated, and the Ministry of Pensions has established evening clinics in Emmersmith, King's Crow, snd Stratford for treatment. Hejr Dandes Grant, the first head of the Burst Board, has bres instrumental in forming lip read. ing classes in all the large towna. as well as st hear quartera. in Park crescent, London. Whilst there are many occupations to which a deaf man can return, there are others, such as motor driving, :and work on the railways, to which bia Motion presente a barrier. la these cases local cit mittees are tasching him noW trades. Many deal men are learn ing diamond polishing, aboe making, and bee and poultry keeping. Any sort cf farming is good for there deaf men, for it is desirable that they should be out in the air.
Premier's Birthplace. The house in which Mr. Lloyd George was born, 5, New York plsce, Manchester, was put up for auction recently, together with 17 adjoining hours. The grced sanus! rente were slated to be 2233 15 812, and the lot was bought for £1160. The name of the purchaser was not disclosed but the auctioneer said the publio ht be aatialed that a place of sack historia interrat was not per called for mate personal would be preserved for
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