In the third report of the Royal Commission on the British Civil' Service, tho evidence is given of Mr. W. H. J3overidge, : Director of Labour Exchanges, with rospect to appointments to Labour Exchanges. lie stated that when the exchanges were created they received 60,000. applications. Fifteen junior clerks we.ro Bet to work sifting these applications, subject to guidance, and the number was reduced to 4000. Of tho seventy-three' managers appointed in the first instance, fifteen had either been dismissed, asked". to resign, or put in a. lower grade. ''■ f Tho French military authorities make use of an ingenious ■ invention to protect.' their carrier pigeons against hawfe. Tlio apparatus consists of a very tiny whistle and a screw attached to the pigeon, 'whoso flight causes tho screw to revolve and blow the whistle. Tho noise effectually scares away tho enemy,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 30
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139Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 30
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