PART II 

 SETTLEMENT ON THE LAND 



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THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE 



It is desirable to say something here of the work of 

 the Departmental Committee which led up to the 

 issue of the Minority Report. The *' settlement " of 

 discharged sailors and soldiers on the land was the 

 subject of Part I of the Committee's Final Report, 

 and the subject of Part II was " employment." Part I 

 was a unanimous Report ; Part II contained Majority 

 and Minority Reports. Employment is by far the 

 larger question, and, as we have seen, the Minority 

 discovered that it could not be properly considered 

 apart from a great national policy for agriculture. 



The Committee was appointed in July 1915, and 

 consisted of Sir Harry Verney (Chairman), Lord North- 

 brook, Mr. Henry Hobhouse, General Crutchley, Mr. 

 Vaughan Nash, Mr. Sydney Mager, Mr. F. H. Pad- 

 wick, Mr. G. H. Roberts, Mr. LesHe Scott, and Mr. 

 F. L. C. Floud (Secretary). Its reference was " to 

 consider what steps can be taken to promote the settle- 

 ment and employment on the land in England and 

 Wales of sailors and soldiers, whether disabled or other- 

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