MANY UNFIT
■—— '•; io' .< * '2OOO. 'AKPROV&D?'' LONDON, August 8. Over 10,000 applications have been registered from all sources from Unemployed men anxious to go to Canada for the harvesting season, but considerable allowance must be made for elimination after civil and medi-cal-examinations. . , ;i- j However, most of the applications emanate from distressed , mining areas, where those offering are of the sturdy, hard-working type. The success-of the scheme is believed to be. {fully assured. -Two thousand men have been approved already, and are awaiting embarkation at Liverpool. , ,Recruiting began in London . today, but rejections due to poor physique have already totalled fully 50 per-^cent.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 18, 16 August 1928, Page 6
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