WORST CONDITIONS IN LIVING MEMORY IN MINING AREAS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18630, 6 December 1928, Page 9

WORST CONDITIONS IN LIVING MEMORY IN MINING AREAS.

MR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN REVIEWS SITUATION. (United Press A*sn. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received December 6, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 5. “The situation in the mining areas in Britain is unparallelled in living memory,” says Mr Neville Chamberlain in a letter to a conference of mayors on the discussion of the allocation of the Lord Mayor’s Relief Fund. Hfe added: “The salient feature is that the mining industry is not likely to re-employ a large proportion of the workless. Their unemployment must be regarded as permanent. The ultimate solution consists in migration from the devastated areas and elsewhere. It is the Government’s policy to facilitate migration by every means. The interval must be bridged through relief payments to prevent those who are unemployed from sinking into irretrievable exhaustion and ruin.”—Australian Press Association—United Service.

NATIONAL APPEAL LAUNCHED BY MAYORS. (Received December 6, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, December 5. A national appeal on behalf of the miners in the stricken coalfields, especially South Wales and Durham, was launched at a meeting of the Lord Mayor and Mayprs of England and Wales, which was held in London this afternoon. —British Official Wireless.