"THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 18, 21 July 1934, Page 24

"THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND"

Cheap coal on the spot "was largely the cause of ■so many British manufacturing industries being established in Central and Northern England and Scotland, but of recent years there has been a migration of manufacturing to the southern portion of England, with the result tHat^of 463 new factories' j opened in 1933 in England, Scotland, and Wales, 220 were in the greater London area and 20 in the south and southwest ■ England, employing 14,600 persons out of a total of 29,500. The return was given in the House of Commons., With the general distribution qf electricity . industries dependent on steam for motive power will not necessarily be more or less tied to localities .■where coal is mined and obtainable practically at pit-mouth prices.

The County of Kent is an aspirant for more manufacturing industries—and it has a wide range already from confectionery to varnish-making, cement manufacture to paper. Lloyd's Paper Mill, for example, turns out 500(7 tons of newsprint a week, and thero are other largo paper mills in the county.

Kent is popularly and deservedly known*as "the garden of England," but its industrial activities are far from all related to husbandry in the raising of Bomney sheep, growing hops and fruit—it lias its own coalmines, with a relatively largo shipping trade in coal. Of high importance is its tourist industry, to which London is a great contributor, sending its hundreds and thousands in the season to Margate and Ramsgato, and . other highly popular Tesorts. Kent is anxious to '/tell the world" all about herself, and has issued from the "Kent Messenger" office a copiously illustrated annual replete with historical and topographical as well as industrial information about the county. A cordial invitation is given to Kentish men and men of Kent in New Zealand and all. over the world to go Homo in 1935,, and the present Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Collett, himself a Kentish man, is joined with the county iri its v%l--come. A special appeal to golfers is made by Major J. J. Astor, M.P., who challenges golfers to say "where in the world do you get botter golf and better air than at Deal nnd its immediate neighbourhood?" Kent's claim to attention on account of its scenic, historical, and open-air sporting grounds aro too well established and known to bo more than mentioned in this notice of "Kent Tells the 'World," a highly creditable production in ©very respecti