RELIEF OF DISTRESS
INDUSTRIAL PROPOSALS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, February 14. (Received Feb. 15, at 5.5. p.m.) The commissioner for distressed areas in England and Wales, in a progress report issued last night, recommends that a special fund be created to stimulate the introduction of new industries and the expansion of existing ones in these special areas. In fegard to agriculture, a programme is announced to enable about 2000 families from special areas to be established on grouped small holdings by the summer of 1937, mostly in groups of about 40 families. The planting of trees on some 200,000 acres within 15 miles of special areas is also recommended.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 9
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