INDUSTRIAL MIGRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 271, 15 November 1935, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL MIGRATION.

The continued industrial development of Greater London is further illustrated by a survey issued by the British Board of Trade, giving particulars of factories opened, extended and closed during 1034. Of 478 new factories opened in Great Britain last year and employing 37,200 people, 209, employing 15,750, were in Greater London. There were also 38 factory extensions in this area out of a total of 144. The factories closed numbered 515. Of these, 162 were in the Greater London area. The regions which suffered most were the towns in the North of England. In North-west England, while there were 82 new .factories employing 5500 people and 28 extensions, no fewer than 156 factories were closed. In North-east England there were 37 new factories, employing 2700 people, and 20 extensions, but 64 factories were closed. The Midlands had 83 new factories, employing 6150 people, 31 extensions, and 86 factories closed. Scotland had 18 new factories, employing 1400 persons, with four extensions, and 21 factories closed. South and South-west England, the Eaetern Counties and Wales and Mon- , mouth all shov sd increases