STOKE S GOOD STROKE.
The Potteries town of Stoke-on-Trent has evidently a far-seeing body of governors in its Corporation. It has a large number of unemployed, to whom thousands of pounds have to be paid yearly in relief, and it has valuable sites for new works. Hearing that a big firm was inquiring for a site for new works in Wales, the Town Council communicated with the firm, and offered to provide a free site if the firm would but establish its factory in Stoke instead of in the Principality. The offer has been accepted. The firm thus acquires for nothing 120 acres of ground, valued at £12,000, and Stoke ensures that of the 15,000 workpeople who are ultimately to be employed in the £51X1,000 works to be erected in the. course of the next two years thousands will be provided with permanent employment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 14
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144STOKE S GOOD STROKE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 14
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