SURPRISE VISITS
KING TOURS INSTRUCTIONAL CENTRES
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 12. The King, in addition to fulfilling a number of official duties today, 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 oalli on his 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 today was at Acton, where he toured all departments and questioned the men undergoing courses of,, instruction to fit them for employment in other industries than those to which they had 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 COO men, mostly transferred from specially depressed areas. In this centre there are courses in more than twenty different trades, and after a complete tour his Majesty expressed satisfaction with the success that is attending the methods of practical training adopted at these centres. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 9
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