Second Edition Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Great Britain

GRATUITY FOR SOLDIERS. SPECIAL FOR NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Press Association—Copyright, Austral liari and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) London, October 8. A Royal warrant provides that soldiers discharged now to -nervous breakdown shall receive a gratuity under the special- circumstances ■of £IOO. SCOTTISH BIRTH RATE FIGURES. LOWEST FOR 47 YEARS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) London, October 8. A Blue Rook shows that the Scottish birthrate in 1915 was the -smallest since lStiO, and 12,363 below the average of the last decade. THE PREMIER IN LONDON. DELIGHTED WITH FIRST IMPRE&SIONSr PRESENT AND FUTURE PLANS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian arid N.Z.,, Cable Association. (Received 12.20 p.m.) ~ London, October 8. ! The Hon., Mr Massey's and Sir Joseph Ward's quarters at the Hotel Cecil are already the centre of newspaper excitement, indicative of public interest. When the news arrived it was generally known that it had been kept secret even from the Anglo-New Zealanders, who were unaware of the date of. the fact' that t iho Ministers were aboard thei. Rotorua. Sir 'fhona^sj--MaekeriKie organised the wefcomfi aflstfaddington Statiou on twohoHrfifinotinffii lis Mr Massey, on being interviewed to-day,* said-the was delighted with his first impressions'of Louden, r-rom the very first, New Zealand had good reason to be proud of her boys. The Dominion was determined to send the'needful reinforcements. He and Sir'Joseph Ward were visiting Britain at the Government's invitation to discuss matters of. a confidential nature, including important commercial problems, such as the meat supply, the-future of<the troops, and trading with Germany and Austria. There ..was no contemplation of any loan for New Zealand, is fortunately, they had all the money they, quired. He intended to visit the New Zealanders in France, see *he •North Sea Fleet, including the New Zealand, and would visit the hospitals in Britain. - Mr Massey said he would visit the North of Ireland, if positole, and see his birthplace, Derry. The *i«it would enable Sir Joseph Ward and himself to explain New Zealand's Militarv Service Bill to the Briti&i public. It was -gratifying* ;to remember , that when he and Sir Joseph Ward left New Zealand not a man bad been taken compulsorily.