DISTRESSED AREAS
DECREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT 1 [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS] '] RUGBY. April 77. In (he House of Commons, moving] the second reading of the Government’s] Special Areas Bill, the Under-Secre-tary for Scotland said that in the last month the armament orders given to the special areas had increased fromi £41,000,000 to £57,000,000. Commit-] meats on schemes of assistance for] local authorities, development councils, and social improvement in England had increased from £8,500,000 to £10,500,000. Unemployment in the special areas had fallen by more than 10,000 and the Special Areas Commissioner had been empowered to settle a further 1000 families on the land. i COAL INDUSTRY RUGBY, April 7. The coal industry is beginning to enjoy its share of prosperity, which returned sooner to other industries. It is calculated that the wages paid to miners in 1936 totalled £94.190,149, compared with £85.284,004 in the previous yeai's.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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