THE KING VISITS UNEMPLOYED
Tour Of Centres Of Instruction (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, June 12. His Majesty the King, in addition to fulfilling a number of official duties today, found time to pay surprise visits to two of the Ministry of Labour’s instructional centres for the unemployed. This morning the King held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, at which Sir Samuel Hoare took the oath on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Later his Majesty received in audience the South African Minister of Defence (Mr O. Pirow) and the British Ambassador to 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 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 Sleigh, where he spent an hour in another instructional centre among some 600 men, most of whom had been transferred from specially depressed areas. In this centre there are courses for more than 20 different trades. After he completed his tour his Majesty expressed satisfaction with the success attending the methods of practical training adopted in these centres.
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Southland Times, Issue 22916, 15 June 1936, Page 7
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