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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 3

S , SW“ r T HIE op O') Y TESTS -L of this Issue >rHJ bfr found on Pm*p 80.

- Among the amendments made in Statute Law Amendment Act of last eessiofli was one providing for an increase in salary, of teachers in Grade O school* of fronf £6 to £8 per annum for every pupil ix| average attendance. A regulation has novi been gazetted, giving effect to the prqii The promise of a gift to the Governmenjj , of land valued at £30.000 for the settle* ment of returned soldiers was announoe<j by the prime Minister at Whaka'tane on thi 11th. He said that a few clays ago m resident of the dominion who had no song to 6end to the war went to him and said that ho would make this handsome gift, The land, said Mr Massey, was good, and if would be made good use of. The Govern* ment would bo able to let returned soldierf have the land for considerably less thaqi the ordinary price, and the rental fronj it would bo used for the purpose of assist* ing other soldiers in need of help. Campbell Island lies 350 miles duo soutli from the Bluff. It is leased from the NeW Zealand Government by two Ota go citizens*