PRINCE OF WALES
YORKSHIRE TOUR ENDED
INTEREST IN .UNEMPLOYED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 15. The Prince of Wales concluded his three days' tour of Yorkshire this oven-' ing. As in his earlier tours of the industrial areas the Prince displayed chief interest in the works 'of clubs and occupational and training centres established for the unemployed. In Bradford, which has suffered heavily during the severest phases of the depression, he learned with keen satisfaction that the number of local unemployed had fallen from 36,000 in 1931 to fewer than 14,000. At the occupational centre in Morley, the Prince worked a hand loom on which members are making scarves, one of which was presented to the Prince. Similar centres in Huddersfield and Perstone were visited. Although the Prince's visit was informal, great crowds gathered to welcome him;'
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9
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137PRINCE OF WALES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9
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