INSTRUCTIONAL CENTRES
FOR BRITISH UNEMPLOYED VISITED BY THE KING (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 12. (Received June 14, at 5.5 p.m.) The King, in addition to fulfilling n number of official duties to-day, found time to pay surprise visits to two Ministry of Labour instructional centres for unemployed. This morning ho held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, at which Sir Samuel Hoarc took the oath on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Later his Majesty received in audience the South African Defence Minister (Mr A. E. Pirow) and the British Ambassador in Turkey (Sir Percy Loraine). The first training centre which the King visited was at Acton, where he toured all the departments and questioned the men, who are undergoing courses of instruction to fit them for employment in other industries than those to which they are used, but in which there is no longer the same demand for labour. The King proceeded to Slough, where he spent an hour in another instructional centre among some 000 men, most of whom have been transferred from specially depressed areas. In this centre there are courses for more than 20 different trades, and after a complete tour his Majesty expressed satisfaction with the success which is attending the methods of practical training adopted at these centres.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22907, 15 June 1936, Page 9
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