For some months past the Overseas Settlement Committee, which is a State-endowed organization under the control of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has been inundated with applications from "Service men and women anxious to take advantage of the Government's emigration scheme before the list closes. Under that scheme demobilized officers and men of the British Naval and Military Forces and ex-Service women are entitled to free passages for themselves and their dependents from Great Britain to any of the Oversea Dominions, provided they are going to assured employment or are otherwise acceptable to the Governments of the Dominions or Colonies to which they desire to go, At the end of April last the number of men and women applicants registered by the Overseas Settlement Committee was 28,704, since which date the applications have been pouring in at the rate of a thousand a week, as shown by the following figures: May, 4,467; June, 4,879; July, 5,033; August, 4,836: total to the end of last month, 47,917, irrespective of their dependents. Up to August 31 the destinations so named, for which warrants have been issued, were as follows Dominion. Men. Women. Total. Canada 4,801 1491—6,292 Australia 2/935 "730—3,665 New Zealand 2,265 240—2,505 South Africa e8l 222—1,103, British East Africa 202 "69—361 Rhodesia 137-23 160
India 8 "38—"124 West Indies % 2 Central Africa 37 Straits Settlements 24 6—30 Newfoundland 3% f—7 Egypt 3 10 Other Dominiots 34 8—42
Total 11,543 2,848—14,391 If to these members the dependents were added the total would probably be brought up to between 30,000 and 40,000 men, women, and children, "Houx chicken—50 dollars" was the account rendered by a Chinese wood carver for making an eagle to support the reading desk of a mission church, states the "C. Post."" of beauty of several different races, Beauty comes out of the melting pot as well as characteristics. At any rate, the dressmaker does not deserve much of the credit Mr. George gives her.
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