DISTRESS IN WALES.
DREADFUL CONDITIONS. ONCE PROSPEROUS COALFIELDS. United Service. Nov. 2.'). The approach of winter is making worse llio already distressful conditions on the South Wales coalfields. Included are listricts which Lord Melchett recently trenchantly summoned up as "once prosperous areas where tho conditions now ' iro too dreadful to linger upon." The latest figures show that 73,265 men iro unemployed and 30,000 have only part-
imo job 3 Tho Lord Mayor of Cardiff says £60,000 ould bo spent on relief and would only oijch tho fringe of the problem. Tho Sovarninent is still carrying out its plan i transferring workers to other districts, and already GO,OOO have migrated. Itill tho conditions locally have not imirovod.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 10
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116DISTRESS IN WALES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 10
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