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this scheme ; it is based on a central idea that should invoke the very spirit of success. We hope the Auckland centre will undertake and develop the idea with the object of extending it to the other centres. The League's seal or badge should be a useful adjunct to this movement. Appointments as Registrars and Inspectors under Arms Act. —This suggestion was made byMr. D. E. G. Cardale. We recommend that the League at headquarters investigate this idea, and, if thought proper, take it up with the authorities. Rangers for Internal Affairs Department.—An opening probably exists here for work of a kind suitable for a partly disabled man. We suggest that the League at headquarters negotiate with the Department. Cottage-home Settlement. —This plan, as a method of providing homes for prematurely aged men, was described and advocated by Mr. T. L. Drummond. We think that this scheme, if men temperamentally and otherwise suited and willing need such assistance, is worthy of careful examination. We recommend this to the Christchurch centre for exploration and report to other centres. Group-farm Settlement with Model Village.—Such a scheme, with details fully worked out, was submitted to us by letter by Mr. 6. G. Griffiths, of Matamata. We followed this up by a questionnaire and received answers. We recommend this to the Auckland centre, to be taken up with Mr. Griffiths for further information. Public Service Commissioner.-—We beg to call attention to the evidence of the Public Service Commissioner, taken in Wellington. It comprises the closing pages of the Notes of Evidence. We are satisfied that the Public Service Commissioner and the permanent heads of the Departments under the Commissioner's control have sympathetically administered the declared policy of the State to afford employment preferentially, wherever reasonably possible, to returned soldiers, particularly disabled soldiers. Where, in the past, there has seemed to be delay or lapses in the application of this policy, we are satisfied that it has been due to lack of organization in bringing requirements under the notice of the Commissioner. We are confident that the Commissioner will co-operate to the best of his ability with the Officers of the League. Technical Schools and their Equipment for Training Skilled Workers. —We wish to draw particular attention in this connection to the evidence of Dr. Hansen, taken at Christchurch. Seal and Motto and Trade-marks.—Wc wish also to draw particular attention to this recommendation on page 23 of the Report. TABLE E. Suggested Name, Constitution, Objects, and Powers of Proposed League. Name.—The name shall be " The Soldiers Civil Re-establishment League." Constitution.—The League shall be a representative body, consisting of a nominee (or. nominees) from the following : (a) The Government; (b) the various war and patriotic funds ; (c) Returned Soldiers' Associations ; (d) Dominion Industries and Commerce ; (e) organized labour. The League shall be an incorporated body, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to own lands and all classes of property. Objects.—(l) To carry, or assist in carrying, into effect all or any of the recommendations of the Disabled Soldiers Rehabilitation Commission, i929~30. (2) To study the summary of schemes, industries, undertakings, and the industrial and commercial openings which are set out as Table D of the report of that Commission, and to test, experiment in, adopt, or procure the testing, experimentation in, or adoption of any of the said schemes or undertakings, and to procure the establishment, maintenance, and furtherance of such schemes and undertakings. (3) To adopt or otherwise acquire by purchase or by registration distinctive mottoes, seals, names, or marks to be used and displayed on goods or in connection with the manufacture and sale of goods produced or purchased for sale by the League. (4) To acquire and to sell, either as principal or agent, any goods or other forms of property capable of being bought or sold in the exercise of the powers of the League. (5) To undertake or procure the collection of such information, personal histories, or statistics as, being recorded, may afford information as to the economic and industrial effects of war on the community or any classes of the community, and to classify or procure the classification, filing, and publication of such information and records as would give a comprehensive and detailed survey of the economic, industrial, and social effects of mobilization, despatch of troops, demobilization, and rehabilitation of civilian soldiers. (6) To endeavour to deduce and state from the information thus obtained within the Dominion and the information obtainable as the result of similar work in other countries such principles and results as shall tend to inform the people of the Dominion fully as to this aspect of the cost of war. (7) To establish rest-homes for eligible returned soldiers, according to the provisions of the Rest-homes Act, 1929.