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Alfred Mond, First Com- missioner of Works, states in the Parliamentary Papers that the *War Cabinet Committee on Ac- “commodation have, subject to Treasur authority, approved of the acquisition of two sites in the suburbs of London for the erection -of-buildings for Government De- "partments, in which, approximate- ły, 11,000 staff can be accom- modated. One of the buildings is intanded for the Ministry Pensions staff of 6,000, and the other for staffe in various Depart- ments to the number of 5,000, all of whom are now housed in public institutions and business premises which it is necessary to vacate as soon as possible.
KNUTTIER KNUTS.
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Demobilisation and the spring sunshine have brought the "kaut back to town-if anything a little dandier than ever.. Except for a healthier complexion and a more spring step, he is, the familiar "knut" of pre-war days. Every": day scores of his type may be seen ambling along the Strand, Regent, street, and Oxford-street, wearing the latest and smartest rig-out which his Army gratuity or his private means permit. In colour his clothes are the farthest re- moved from khaki that he can possibly get. They are spotlessly free from dust, and the trouser crease is even more pronounced than of old. His footwear draws the admiration of the shoeblacks, and his socks and neckties
suggest that the British dye industry has not much now to learn from German. Most con- vincing of all, he has restored the pre-war monocle to its position. and adjusted it at the correct angle something of a triumph after so long a period of disuse.
**UNDUE PROFITS UPON NECESSARIES.
Cape Town, March 20-The Cost of Living Commission's was published › torday. -report
One of the terms of reference was whether undue profits, bad been made upon necessary com- modities. The report replied:- (1) Undue profits have been made by wholesale merchants in food. stuffs. boots and shoes, soft goods and hardware, and these profits
will tend
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• A POSSIBLE POSTPONEMENT:
and retail grocers have not made
behind a possibility of the United States the profits they did in pre-war nearly every plan and dream not being in a position to enforce days, and many small firms have there lurked the desire for sd-national prohibition on July 1. ... Mr. Roper, head of the Govern- severe struggle. The venture, for new lands and Commission also finds that peoples, for something different ment's Internal Revenue Bureau. wholesale merchants during the from the old way (writes Hilda declares that there is no provi
M. Love, in the London Daily sion in the law as passed by Con- war certainly increased their
Mail.) control over retail trade, and this.
gress as to how prohibition as a is not in the interests of the
I can walk back into a com-war time measure shall be made -country.
PREFERENCE TO DOMINIONS,
fortable post of £300 a year, effective. Its enforcement is announced a V. A. D. calmly, automatically left, to the prose- fingering a letter as she spoke, cutions by the Department of "but while I'm pleased to think Justice.
A cable stating that Mr. Austen they want me back, I just dread It is suggested that influences Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the idea of returning. The com-will be brought to bear on Mr. the Exchequer, had, while sub fort of it will cripple me. Three Wilson to issue a proclamation mitting a Budget to the House of hundred little gold chains will declaring that the domobilisation Commons, said, in reference to pull me each time I sigh for the of the American Army is com preference to the Dominions, East, each time. I
pleted. This would automatical- that the present rate of British Walk back to your three han-ly prevent prohibition becoming Customs duties could be made dred and give thanks as you walk," effective on "July 1, and would wide enough to develop Imperial Broke in a voice. "Haven't you postpone the "bone dry era trade, has aroused favourable com- heard of the hard times coming until January 16, 1920, when ment among those interested in Haven't you had enough adven-America becomes permanently a the export of Australian products.ture out here.
prohibition country through the] Mr. Chamberlain's announcement is regarded in political and com-
"No, I've not," came the action of the recent constitutional
amendment. mercial circles as an indication
decisive answer. This has only that the British Government just whetted may appetite for it.
is
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preference to all classes of goods dance and laugh and be untired,A comfortable husband is my from the British Dominions and go everywhere and do every-fear, declared a pretty, dark- suitable for British consumption thing, even if I have to scrape to eyed girl with an attractive mop
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When the Imperial War Con- do it. When I hear these men of "clubbed hair. He's not a LADIES AND GENTS TAILORING ference was held in 1917 Imperial calmly say that they're going proposition one turns down light-1 preference was the subject of back to the Argentine, to China,ly in these days either" she added considerable discussion, and after or South Africa-remember that laughing, but, with his advent, a long debate the Prime Minister man whose job it was to find adventure finishes! The thing of New Zealand, Mr. Massey, water in the desert with camels one wants to do with other girls, and things just long more or by oneself, are impossible. For submitted the following motion:
The time has arrived when all then ever to launch out and see the instance, Laura and I intend to things I want to see, to raise every take a caravan right through the possible encouragement should be given to the development of halfpenny I've got, risk the South country and sell things, Imperial resources and especially comfortable job, and take my and make it pay. No ordinary, of making the Empire. indepen-chance afterwards."
husband is going to stand that,
dent of other countries in respect "It's a dangerous time," de-is he?"
of food supplies, raw mateclared a hitherto silent tea-drink- "I wonder if any one of us wil rials, and essential industries.".er. Restlessness is abroad. So really have the courage to launch -The Conference expressed itself many men and women have a out when we get home, to risk -in favour ofthe principle that each reluctance about going back to comfort and capital,” for bfr part of the Empire, having due the job or the old conditions. dreams **** queried. a ~ young regard to the interests of our There's just this armistice interim: Waac." There will be three Allies, should give special favour- just the chance of a lifetime to choices a comfortable job, a able treatment and facilities to step out of the rat where circum comfortable husband, and adven- the produce and manufacture of stances formerly placed one; fust ture, pure and simple.
parts of the Empire. This a glorious opportunity for snap- These three," said one ion was screed to without any ping one's fingers at everyone and girls as she rose to return ssentients, and in a probability for everything and doing the ord
by the Conference thing one wants to do, even if it for MrChamber. does seem tiskyincially. In the House of Does one always have to comander
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