Sir Ian Hamilton on "Hopeless, Attachme "If I were asked why I do not emigrate," said General. Sir Ian Hamilton to the British' Legion, Club at Pongo "I would bes forced to reply, 'I simply can't do it, because of my hopeless attachnient to London.' London catches hold: of you as an octopus grabs a periwinkle, and, ones you are caught, there is nothing that." will "free you from' that embrace—not collectors, not midnight cats, not' officers playing barrel organs, not even ground' rents "or steaphanging.'
Sir Ian declared that he should be the one great authority "on emigration in the Kingdom, as he had visited every hole and' corner of the Empire as Inspector-Genera] of Overseas Forces.
His experience was that healthiest children, with _rosiest checks, most resembling Kentish children in the Dominions were to', be found in the South Island of ind New Zealand, and, in. Vancouver: Island, on the Pacific Coast. of Canada.
Those were the places he would advise married couples to make for, because perfect energy and per-—fect health were worth a great deal. more than rubies.
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