DISTRESSED MINING AREAS
NATIONAL SYMPATHY FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN EXPRESSED IN MANY FORMS IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 24. National sympathy for the women and children in distressed mining areas is finding expression in many forms, the chief being the Lord Mayor of Loudon’s fund, which exceeds £lOO,OOO. The people of Worthing have “adopted” the South Wales district of Brynmawr, with a population of 8000, in much the same way as British towns adopted devastated French villages at the end of the war. An extension of this method of giving help, together with other schemes, will be considered at a conference of heads of cities and municipal boroughs which the Lord Mayor of London has summoned.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 54, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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