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Fifty young married Esperanto speaking English, couples shipped to Australia in a disused Navy transport with a doctor, pedigree stock, farm implements and seeds, and set down in a remote, un- opened region to establish their own garden city..

That is the dream of Mr. James Leakey, the 81-year-old friend of Mr. George Bernard Shaw and Mr. Snowden. .**

At his home in Hatfield, Herts, Mr. Leakey, Esperantist and town-planner, was putting the finishing touches to a book called "Outward Ho" in which ho

is setting forth his conception of the modern Swiss Family Robinson, It is an idea I have been work ing on for the past two or three years, and which I should like to see carried out in all our Domi- nions Canada and New Zealand. for example," he told a reporter.

"Like a Desert Island."

"My scheme aims at the garden city ideal, where the land, as in Welwyn and Letchworth, belongs to the community and cannot be bought by individuals."

"It would be like settling on a desert island. There would be no railway, but as the settlement: prospered the railway would come to it. All we should ask of the Dominion Government at first would be a weekly aeroplane, ser- vice to deliver small parcels and letters. While the settlers building their huts and establish ing their homes' we should pect a certain amount of protec- tion.

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LACK OF NURSES IN LONDON.

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There is so great a dearth of hospital nurses that the London County Council, which now con trols the hospitals formerly under the Metropolitan Asylums Board and certain of the Boards of Guar dians, has found it necessary ta grades of the service. It has, too, increase its scale of salaries in all hit upon the original idea of ap- pointing a recruiting officer to the right type of girl. tour the country to try to attract

nurse, is the first professional Miss M. E. Green, a fully-trained woman recruiting officer. She is now drawing up her programme for the autumn and hopes to visit. order to get in touch with girla among other places, schools in of school-leaving age and put be- fore them and their parents the attractions of the nursing service.

The L.C.C. has experienced such difficulty in filling the vacancies in its many hospitals-its nursing staff numbers about 10,000 that it has had to appeal to the nursing institutes. With the help of the recruiting officer it hopes to obtain sufficient girls to train for the positions required.

Every type of hospital-general, children's, maternity, fever, small- der the control of the Council, so pox and tubérculosis-comes-un- that a girl entering the service is of hospital work able to train in any or all types

"We take them as soon as they are 18," an official of the Council stated, "and where there are`nur- series we can fix them up at 17."

"Apart from the big London "Twenty thousand pounds hospitals, there is no doubt about would have to be raised by public there being a great shortage of subscription to put the schema nurses all over the country," the into operation. Each, proposed editor of the "Nursing Times" settlement would be fathered and stated recently, "One of the adopted by a particular British greatest difficulties is the question county until its crops and herds of age. Many hospitals will not were well established. It would take girls until they are 20 or 21, then act as a magnet to attract and by that time the interests of ambitious British youth from that other professions have claimed county.

them. The gap between the school leaving age and the hospital age will have to be bridged before the position is likely to improve."

"Under our present emigration schemes, young people are direct- ed to already inhabited localities, where their arrival disturbs exist. ing trade unions and only adds to unemployment.

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"In another 10 years the share-selves of debt, and they would "If the scheme were to begin holders should begin to receive a show that life in now, I am imagining that some modest 5 per cent. dividend, and Dominions can be carried on in- the British where in 1936 or 1937 the leader as soon as the settlers bad repaid dependently, and not as mere pur- of the settlement would have suc- the capital the entire estate would veying of raw materials and food. cessfully planned his garden city, be their collective property, to be to the homeland.

#lected "It is only an idea at-present," added Mr. Leakey. "But I think

"A sufficient area would be managed by their own growing cereals; building, shep-mayor and corporation. herding, tree felling, road making, The increment value of the it worth considering. It may well sinking, tanning and spin-land would have grown beyond never come about in my life-time, ning would be accomplished facts, the amount needed to clear them-but who knows?"

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