SIR RIDER HAGGARD

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 97, 25 April 1916, Page 8

SIR RIDER HAGGARD

(PROM OUR OWN COttKESPOKDENT.)

SYDNEY,. 18th April. • We have here at present a- distinguished visitor in the person of, Sir Rider Haggard, author, farmer, arid "practical Imperialist." In his visit to Australia (following a tour of South Africa), he is a specially authorised delegate from the Royal Colonial Institute, enquiring into the possibilities for the settlement and employment of British exservice men in the Dominions after the war. So far he has visited the States of Victoria and Tasmania, and he has just arrived in New South Wales. He is to leave here for New Zealand on 25th May. Concerning the results of his mission in Australia to date, he says that he is "absolutely satisfied." Tasmania has, he tells xis, undertaken to play a noble part on behalf of ex-soldievs and sailors, while from Victoria he has pot the assurance that the Government will extend to ex-service men of the United Kingdom and their; families the samo privileges as to their own returned soldiers, with the one stipulation that the men should be 'selected. Sir Rider Haggard's mission is receiving the hearty approbation of the press here. A typical comment is, "We want British stock in the Commohweath. In days to come, when the world will again be at war, no more valuable asset, outside Britain's central power, can serve the Empire than will bo found in a populous Australia,- a British Australia, helping to supply all that can make for a nation's strength.''.