AUSTRALIA.
SETTLEMENT OF RETURNED
SOLDIERS
Sydney, Jan. 27
The Bourne Committee's report on a lacd settlement scheme for returned soldiers suggests a Federal loan of from ten to twenty millions to provide advances through banks against improvements effected by settlers, either soldiers or their dependents. The .first section of fifteen blocks and 38 farmlets designed for soldier-settlers, at Frencho Foi'est, is available for application.
New regulations empower the authorities to stop the sale of liquor within five miles of military camps if the welfare of the troops is endangered.
j The City Council objects to the. words 1 "kindergarten" and "liedertafel," and has agreed to discard all German names.:
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 5
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109AUSTRALIA. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 5
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