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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 15

Efforts to increase the unemployment allowanco for returned soldiers are being miule bv the Canterbury l?epil:riatinn Hoard (stales the "Ey Helton Times"). At last mcf-tiiiK a letter was received from the Directur of lfepatriation, wlio stated that the Department was aware of the fact that the Australian Government had increased the unemployment sustenance scale, and had written to the Australian lionatriation authorities for particulars. All the New Zealand sustenance grants wore higher than those in the Commonwealth, excepting the unemployment sustenance, which was the same as that naki in Australia. The chairman (.Mr. A. W. .Tnmiesnii) paid that; lie would continue to press the matter, and a teleirram would be despatched without delay airaiit the necessity for a higher allowance. As an illrstration of the fascination chess possesses for men of all classes and cnllinKS, the simultaneous playinjf in Melbourne recently of seventeen panics by Mr. Ciundeiv ; en, the Victorian champion, was notable (savs the "Adelaide Advertiser"!. Mr ilunder-ien wan on his feet for over two hours, slowly walking from lable. to table, swiftly ((rasping the petitions of each irame, alio' maldntr his own move with—in nio= I cases-only a fractional hesitation. The sanies were played in the Melbourne Che-s Club, under Ihe direction of Messrs. 11. E. Ciaul and N. liarnnvd. the tirst-nanied lieinj; prot>ablv the best-known ehess player am! writer in the Commonwealth.. Mr. fiunderscn's opponents were drawn from evorv walk of life, and every Allied nationality. The champion was loudly «p----nlauded when lie complcteo' Ins task with a irooillv array of scalps at his belt.