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FORMER PREMIER WEDS — Here is the scene in Chaumont- aur - Taronne, France, when Andro Tardieu, former French Premier and retiredt political lender of the Right Wingers, was married to Mine. Julle Blanchard, in the civil ceremony. A church wedding followed. M. Tardieu will soon rezuma his writing.
She Hasn't Seen Another Woman For 2 Years
She is white-haired, 70-year-old Flora Macrae. She came to the door of her white-washed cottage leaning heavily on a stick.
Open-mouthed, as if she were seeing a ghost, she started. It was a long time before she spoke.
And then she apologised-and explained-in the beauti-
ful tongue of the islanders.
Flora and her two shepherd brothers, all septuagenarians. are the entire population of Rona, which lies off the West coast of Scotland.
BIG INCREASES
IN STAFF OF CIVIL SERVICE 297,140 in 1928: 338,604 in 1936
HOW WORK HAS GROWN
Complaints of over-staffing in the Foreign Office and Dominions
When the islanders, their living! Hone, abandoned their homes, the Maernes stayed on
"More than two years since 1 saw knother woman, repeated Flora Maerae, inviting me into the sparsely- furnished cottage.
"Aye, it's a fonety life, especially in winter, and I miss the tittle-tattle of other women."
As she made a pot of ten she asked questions about lite on the main-
land.
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Flora Macrae has never seen
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or a motor-car. The stories I told of lic mainland were fairy tales of another world to her.
Then, as we sat over our cups of tea, she talked of her own life on the island.
YOUTH'S EXODUS
quite comfortably," she said.
Then Flora Macroe went on to tell
"It wasn't always like this. Rona Office, contained in the report of was well-populated nut so long ago, the Select Committee on Es-and when I was a girl folk lived timates, call attention once again to the steady increase in the number of people employed in almost every Government.
In 1930 there were 41,404 more Civil Servants than there were in 1028, according to the official state- Govern- ment en "Staffs
alls Employed
ment Departmenta" issued by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury
for life
that the
of the struggle islanders had waged,
The young propic, with no opportunities to make good, left the stand. Year by year it was more difficult to And enough people to cultivate the land and get food,
At last all but the Macraes left in
body. Some went to neighbour- cach year. On April 1, 1928, the ing Islands, the rest to the main- "grand total of all departments" was land.
given as 297,140; the corresponding "You see, we've lived here all our figure on April 1, 1930, was 339,004. lives." Flora Macrae sald, as if that From the Estimates of the various explained everything. "I miss the Departments It is clear that in many sound of the children's feet more used cases there will be further increases than anything, though. They in staff during the current year. to come playing and laughing round
there every day. An Interesting feature of Civil Ser- vice growth is that of three Depart- menia which, a few years ago, were be abolished: They are the Ministry of Transport, the Mines Department, and the Department of Overseas Trade,
to
It's awkward having no doc. tor, too. I was laid up last win- fer with neuritis for two months, and when the weather was bad the doctor couldn't get across to me.
"It's nice when you're ill to have But
In 1928 the Ministry of Transport a woman about the pince, too. staff totalled 602, Last year accord- my brothers are very good to me." int to the official returns it was 2,245, ! —-—-—-—-—-—--- For 1937, according to the Depart- ment's esiinates, it will be 2,023,
certuln Departments: -
Foreign Office.-The complexity of the International situation; prepara-
Mines Department staff in 1928 totalled 343. Last year it was 377.tion of replies to a large number of For 1937 it is estimated at 390.
questions to the Foreign Secretary and other work; Interest taken in On the stair of the Overseas Trade Foreign Affaira as shown by the fact Department there were 340 in 1928; that four or five Press Department 440 in 1930 and this year (estimated) officials have to answer the inquiries of scores of journalists, British and Among other Departments show-foreign. London is now the diploma- ing increases in statt over a number tie_centre.
403.
of years are the following:
Post Offen
Inland Revenue
Dominions Offce, Considerable work following the Ottawa Agree- menta; preparation of the Imperial Conference; the Coronation; develop- 263ment of Imperial Air Mails; shipping 11sic and other questions of growing Im-
portance. 11,053
1028. 1036. 1937,
(estimated) 191,623 203,000 20,210 23.522 Customs and Exciso 11,621 14,739 Name Dept. (Law
and Jusilve) .... 0.578 11,575 Health England and
5,743
0.208
(Wales)
Labolis
Transport---Taking over trunk
5.12 roads: administering the Road Act, BREWED ́AND 13.092 23,950 25.187 and the mass of other recent legisla Following are some of the reasons ton governing all sections of Trans- 'advanced for increased staits in port.
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