DERELICT DURHAM
MINING AREA REPORT. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIEELKSS] RUGBY, February 25’. The British Government’s new Bill dealing with the special areas will probably be issued early next week. The report presented, last November to the then Commissioner of the Special Areas, Sir Malcolm Stewart, by the firm of engineers, Sir Alexander, Gibb and Partners, on the situation- in south-west Durham, has now been made public. Its authors find themselves unable to put forward: any comprehensive cure for the troubles which affect, this area of 140 square miles with, a population of 170,000. These troubles arise from the collapse of the west Durham coal workings, and-the authors of the report are unable to see any means of securing effective Industrial development there. In their opinion the area can only revert to its original and real role of agricultural land. The bulk of thei unemployed in the district would have to be found work outside this area, where, however, some industrial development was feasible. In publishing the report, the Minister for Labour (Mr E. Brown) says that it must not be assumed that the commissioner or the Government will necessarily endorse the proposals contained in it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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