TRANSFERENCE OF WORKERS
RELIEF OF DISTRESSED AREAS. SATlor PROGRESS MADE, British Official Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 26. The Government scheme, administered by the Ministry of Labour, to transfer boys oi 16 or 17 years of age from distressed areas, and particularly from the coalfields, has been in operation only a few months, but already nearly 1009 boys have been found work and have settled in their new surroundings. The employers express much satisfaction with the excellent type of youth which they have engaged under the scheme. A total u. 2500 boys are now in training for transference, and the Ministry uopcs soon to have placed 4000 boys in work away from their homes. They ... press the belief that the immediate problem of unemployed boys and youths in the areas mainly suffering from industrial depression will be on the way to solution when 5000 have been transferred.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1928, Page 14
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145TRANSFERENCE OF WORKERS Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1928, Page 14
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