KING’S BUSY DAY
Instructional Centres For Unemployed Visited
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received June 14, 5.5 p.m.)
Rugby, June 12.
The King, in addition to fulfilling a number of official duties to-day, found time to pay surprise visits to two of the Ministry of Labour instructional centres for the unemployed. This morning he held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, at which Sir Samuel Hoare took the oath on bis appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Later his Majesty received in audience the South African Defence Minister. Mr. O. Pirow, and the British Ambassador in Turkey, Sir Percy Loraine.
The first training centre which the King visited to-day was at Acton, where he toured all departments and questioned the men undergoing courses of Instruction to fit them for empl yment in other industries than those to which they hud been used but in which there is no longer the same demand for labour. The King then proceeded to Slough, where he spent an hour in another instructional centre among some GOO men, mostly transferred from specially depressed areas. In this centre there are courses in more than 20 different trades and. after a complete tour, his Majesty expressed satisfaction with the success which was attending the methods of practical training adopted at those centres.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 221, 15 June 1936, Page 9
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