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Australia

The retirement was announced recently in Swansea, Wales, England, of Mr. L. Hugh Milne, due to ill-health, as export district inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for South Wales, a post which he has held since 1919.  Hugh Milne, a South Australian, and grandson of Sir William Milne, is an old St. Peter's Collegian.  At the time of the Boer War he enlisted in the Imperial Bushmen's Corps and wet to South Africa.  later he joined the Public Works Department, but relinquished this position, and served through the Great War, during which he was given charge of a fleet of hush boates in the English Channel.  Mr. Milne was a member of the RNVR with the rank of Lt.-commander, and prior to his retirement was doing an instructional job at Swansea.  Hugh Milne is a brother of George, Kenneth and Malcolm Milne, of Adelaide, and of the late Rev. John Milne, of St. Mary's parish, London.  His brother Geroge, now living in retirement in Glenelg, also went to the South African war and served in the Natal Field Artillery.  He later joined the South African Civil Service, retired as shippping master at Capetown some years ago, and returned to Adelaide to live.