ROYAL SATISFACTION.
TRAINING OF UNEMPLOYED. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, June 14. The King, in addition to fulfilling a number of official duties, found the time to pay surprise visits to two of the Ministry of Labour's instructional centres for the unemployed. The first centre the King visited was at Acton, where he inspected all departments. He questioned men who are undergoing courses of instruction to fit them for employment in industries other than those to' which they were used, but in wliich there is no longer the same demand for labour. His Majesty then proceeded to Slough, where lie spent an hour in another instructional centre among about 000 men, most of whom were transferred from specially depressed areas. In this centre there are courses for more than 20 different trades. After a complete tour His Majesty expressed satisfaction with the success which was attending the methods of practical training adopted at these centres. King Edward held a meeting of the Privy Council in Buckingham Palace later at which Sir Samuel Hoare took oatli on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Later His Majesty received in audience the South African Minister of Defence, Mr. O. Pirow, and the British Ambassador to Turkey, Sir Percy Loraine.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 7
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