SETTLING DOWN AT HOME.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16703, 11 December 1919, Page 7

SETTLING DOWN AT HOME.

DISMANTLING AND DEMOBILISING. irnou ors own courkstovpent.) LONDON. October Id. Government hotels are chanting bonds n« rapidly a.s possible. Each Department is milking an effort to r«v !um to normal life, either under the .'id office rrof or in a specially adapU»:l j mblic building. I>o Kcyser's, the Gorn;;, and the Belgravo Mansions Hotel !iave already been vacated ; tlie formal surrender of the Hotel Cecil to the iwners will be made in a day or two, iml die Grand will bo handed over within a month. Of particular interest to the general public is the announcement taat, the National Fortran Gallery, now occupied by a Department of the "W'.ir Orike, and Hertford Hou.-*\ the home of tlio Wallace collection. will lie vacated in a tciv weekA. To house the displaced staffs Alexandra Palace is to be itsed, and an army of -1000 clerks will shortiv be assembled thoio. It is unlikely that any of the larger hotels will bo ready for occupation this voar, with the possible exception -of The Goring. which may bo ready by Christina.-;. assessment of damages. No tinal assessment luis boon arrived at yet in respect ol any ol thq larger hotels, owiug to tae considerable araouut of technical work involved. An official of the Office of 'Works said that in every case it is tho duty of the owners to put in their claim. Each, side then appoints its surveyors ■& inspect the building thoroughly. If they agree as 1o the damage for reinstatement ther»« is no difficulty, but if they do not. tho views of both parties arc put before tho Defence of tho Ileal in Losses Commission for final decision. "Inch by inch, fightinr to tho last attic,says one critic, ■ "the great war departments are boine driven from their gilded strongholds—the people 6 hotola. They are leaving behind them iu so 1110 places what looks like the _ wreckage' of a riot." NOT INTO THE KITCHEN". W.A.A.C.s, W.ll.A.F.'a, and W.R.N.S.'s are being rapidly demobilised. Three thousand W.11.A.F .'B, the remnant of an army of 25,000, are according to plan, to be demobilised by November Bth. They aro mostly stationed around Reading, and are returning to work in tho lactones, their places having been kept open. Few, if any. aro offering themselrcs for domestic scrvico. At Ldgbaston, Binning* ham a resident secured the services of one Army cook. Ho wont so far a* to have a shed put up in tho bock-yard for Iter motor-cvclc. Most of the gfls have l>een rooei'ving from 15s to il a week and their keep, but tho fact that families are prepared to pay Army wages does not teem to attract thorn. Housewives declaro that not ono in a hundred arc returning to domestic service, whilo the W.R.A.F. demobilisetion oificors say those of their cooks and general scrvico women who are so disposed are. being "snapped up —a statement which does not hold out much hope for cookless kitchens. OiiOWDJiD MISDICAIi SCHOOLS. Students released from Armjr service arc uocKiug to tlie universities, some of them as l'resiuneu and otiierb to resume tue 6tuuics interrupted bi' the war. Tlio nuuibor oi lueaical students seeking is particularly large, und m sumu cases tue accommodation lor litem is heavily overtaxed. in Jiidinburyh 6tuaeuts will have to nail for admission until the spring'l no jlanclicotur University authorities are laced with considerable difficulty in accommodating tliolai go number of students, tue greater being ielt in the medical, chumistiy, and technological departments, lioxore tho wax the medical students at ilanchester numbered -oU. '10-day it is 1>33, including 373 women. A full-time chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics has been established there. At London Hospital the pre-war average attendance of students was 1100 to 1000; now it is 2000. Freshmen aro there from all parts of the world, and many demobilised men have resumed study. After tho lean years of tho war thero is a Iwom in Edinburgh, and the authorities realise tho urgent need for the expansion of tlie university buildings. fcjehemes are in hand for erecting a new chemical department and ako {or tho establishment of a Lister institute for pathological tcaching ( costing! probably, a quarter of a mjfliop each. At Glasgow the accommodation is taxed to the utmost, and overflow arnuigomejits have had to be made, particularly in regard to the faculty or medicine. New students in mcdicino cannot be accepted before tho spring. FRENCH K^TEIU'IUSE. General surprise has been expressed by American and British motor-car firms at tho rapid recovery of the French motor-car industry as evidenced i>y the motor-car show in Paris. It was generally believed that 1" renoli firms bad been handicapped even rnoro than British mamiiactuiers in regarding to putting their woik oil a peace basis. Tlie fact tluvt one firm is turning out :jo cars a day has aroused great interest, in view of tho difficulties of oui own ma uu l actu rers to preda.e anything approaching this number. J not..','' .-aid the I»ndon reprwontativeof a Birmingham linn, "that tiie i'reuch ihmks production iiiivnuincturcr ststcd that he had been assisted by his (Jovernmen'.- in the enterprise. This may ac:-cunt for their rapid recover;.-. DurltiE the war, when we were making shells we had every assistance from the (iovcrnm nt. Material was thrust upon us. Now that the markets are open there has b-en r. general scramble for raw tnnWnl and some of ns have come of! baciiv. The ironmongers' strike other troubles have not assisted FOR EX-OFFICERS. Tnr- cjjcrct.iry ol the .Mercantile Marine Service A.-sojialion states that a s?hcme U b. injr co'iskiered whereby e."naval officers >viil be enahl. d to purchase Admiralty trawlers, and, ii desired, by instalments. It is understood u:at Ine more applicants there are t.ie greater is the possibi-ity of the M.'hcme materialising, and wie .Secretary to tiie Association accordingly invites all exR.N.R. onj::ers finchi'lmg skippers) wish to participate in th.v :-f-i:eine to communicate with him. stating thcr name and rank, the amount c:f money they can put down, and their proposals as to method of payment. "FISHERS" SIPEHSEDE "BRADBL'RYi&." Trc;isury notes beari.ig the signature of .t<ir \\*arien FisUer, the new permanent bccreiaiv to tno Treasury, have jusL been i.->--iieil for'public circulation. 1 liese bear.ug tiie autograpa ol isir Joan Bradouiy, who had b-cn joint p'.-r-----nuineul scLTei.ii.v since paper currency was introduced, will gradually Iks witudr.itvn. Tiie new £1 an - i 10c> notes are exactly similar in appearance to the "Bradbury" apart from the signaturo at the foot. "After travelling 12,003 miles through 25 Suites find thai l'n.iiibiticn accepted as permanent, great reform because wnom count!v Ijenehted. Liquor antirjuateri. M.'.ke Nvw Zca.und uu to date. •- Jessie Cjunson.'' Tiiis cable massage to the women of New Zealand Iron ,\i?> J. H. fJuns-n, Mayoress of Auckland. f AdTt. | Be sure you vote ri:;ht. Two lines must be. strueli oat. T'» vote for I'rolabition strike out tho Two To,.> Lines. [ADVT.J