BRITAIN
THE PUBLIC SERVICE RETRENCHMENT METHODS London, Feb. 27. The committee on Public Service retrenchment does not consider the pay over-high or the staffs overmanned, but vacancies should not be rilled. It recommends reorganisation of the circuit and county court systems, simplification of the Insurance Act, temporary suspension of old age pensions where the recipients are earning over the statutory limit, the reduction of unremunerative postal facilities, the institution of the minimum age of six for the admission of school children. . „ RESOURCES OF EMPIRE. London, February 25. Presiding at a lecture at the London School of Economics on 'The Agricultural Resources of ■ the Empire," Air. Bonar Law said: "We should all like to see the dominions peopled by our kin! dred, but I, for one, would be sorry to see the best and most vigorous of our people leave these shore, even to people the dominions." He long had cheri«lied an ideal whereby intercourse between all parts of the Empire might be made easier, and whereby a standard of living, approximating to the he>t, could be obfar $8 wjhgjg, -
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 February 1916, Page 5
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