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For what readers and for what purpose the elaborately produced

booklet Harvest Home, "The official story of the great floods of 1947 and their sequel," has been prepared by the Central Office of Information is singularly hard to divine. The booklet must have cost a great deal to produce ; it certainly consumed a great deal of paper, and the number of people who want to read about last year's floods at a cost of 2S. must be negligible. I doubt if it would be

much greater if the price were ad. If the C.I.O. wants to justify its existence, this seems an expensive way of doing it. * * * *