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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 10

For the small sum of two guineas a •week visitors can have access to Mr Gladstone's library, and receive board and lodging-in a most delightful corner of Wales. This summer St. Deiniol's Hostel at Ha warden has been full of clergy and laymen, including University undergraduates, who have - stayed there for a course of study. Most visitors are impressed with the variety of Mr Gladstone's reading. Many works ( of fiction are on the shelves, and on the 'fly-leaves are written in his own handwriting his criticisms and his idea of how they should have been written. A babv was born to German parents on the 11.M.5. Ormonde, just before the liner reached Fremantle recently, and the Australian Treasury officials admit themselves baffled as to whether the mother is entitled to the baby bonus. The Maternity Allowance Act of 1912 lavs it down that £5 shall be paid to every woman who pives birth to a child, either in Australia or on board a ship • proceeding from one port in the Commonwealth or a territory of the Com on-real th. No mention is made of births on ships which, though in Australian waters, have not vet reached an Australian port. One official statpd that the child would be a'British subject, simply by reason of it having been born on a British ship. The father is a briquetfcing expert on : his way to Yallourn.