DEMOBILISATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 4

DEMOBILISATION

A COUNCIL OP MINISTERS.

A Ministerial Board of Repatriation is to be sell up in connection witu tno demobilisation scheme. The members of this board will be Sir James Alleu (Minister of Defence), the lion. D. H. Guthrie (Minister of Lands), Ihe Hon. W D S. MacDonnld (Minister ot Agnculture), and tho Hon. J. A. Hanan (Minister of Education), lhe Departments represented by those Ministers will all be involved in the comprehensive scheme of repatriation that is being prepared. The Men in Camp. "We shall not hold any of the men in camp a day longer than, we need to," said the Minister ot Detente _(&ir James Allen) yesterday. i'l he Minister said that) it was impossible to do much in the way of demobilisation while the j influenza epidemic was raging, lhe soldier patients and the contacts could i not be Kent away from the camps even ■if transport were available., lho dislocation of steamer services and Wie general shortage of etnff made it impossible to rnovo lnrge bodies of men about the country. ~,.,. i Sir James Allen said that ib was not intended to allow men discharged from the draining- camps to retain their uniforms and kits. This concession was I mado to men returned from abroad, but ! it did not apply to men who had not !been on service! The recruits, as a matter ot' feet, were told to keep their civilian clothing with them in 'camp until immediately prior to embarkation, and if they all did this there would not be difficulty over the uniforms.