EMPLOYMENT ON LAND
BRITISH SCHEME UNDER WAY. [British Official Wireless .] (Received 10 a.m.) RUGBY, August 13. Plans for the settlement of unemployed persons on the land, which the commissioners, appointed by the Government to look after the interests of areas specially affected by the economic depression, are encouraging, have to take a number of different forms, according to local and other circumstances. The Glamorganshire County Council is co-operating with the commissioners in a scheme for about TOOO quarter-acre holdings for unemployed men from the South Wales coal fields. It is not expected that these men can become economically self-supporting on these holdings, and the Unemployment Assistance Board has agreed that their unemployment , allowances shall be continued. The object is to give men with small prospects of getting back into employment a stimulus of activity and self-respect, and an opportunity of supplementing their standard of living by their own efforts. The men will be provided with tools, chickens, pigs, poultry, houses and sties and they will make a weekly payment for rent after the first year. The holders will pay back in three annual instalments the sum of £l2, which it is costing to start them.
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Northern Advocate, 16 August 1935, Page 7
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