HELP FOR SPECIAL AREAS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20672, 10 March 1937, Page 9

HELP FOR SPECIAL AREAS

IMPORTANT FINANCIAL PROPOSALS UNCERTAIN ATTITUDE OF LABOUR British otnclal Wireless (Received March 9, 5.5 p.m.) RUG3Y, March 8. The financial resolution on which the new Special Areas Bill will be based is to be introduced in the House of Commons this afternoon. The Opposition parties have expressed the opinion that the terms of the resolution will preclude the discussion of certain points they wish to raise, such as the inclusion of other parts of the country within the scope of the special areas scheme. They have accordingly tabled a motion for the omission of the Standing Order on which the money resolution is based, and a debate of this motion will first be taken. After this procedure question has been settled, the financial resolution will be submitted and the newspapers anticipate that the Minister of Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) will announce the Government’s decision to set up a Royal Commission to consider the whole question of the future location of industry. BACK TO WORK FEWER UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN British Official Wireless (Received March 9, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, March 8. The Minister of Labour estimated that at February 22 the number of insured persons, exclusive of agricupltural workers in employment, was approximately 11,187,090, which is 81,000 more than a month before and 662,000 more than a year before. At the same date the numbers of registered' unemployed in Britain were 1,627,845, comprising 1,391,932 wholly unemployed, 161,634 temporarily laid off and 74,079 normally in casual employment. This was 61,378 less than at January 25 and 397,176 less than a year before.