KING’S GOOD EXAMPLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 12

KING’S GOOD EXAMPLE

JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED ■ WORK AT SANDRINGHAM The King has set a fine example to other Norfolk farmers and landowners in an effort to relieve unemployment among the agricultural labourers of that country. It is believed that there are more than 2000 agricultural workers uneni ployed in Norfolk. There was little hope of any of them finding work before tho end of March. The has recently given instructions that as many unemployed men as possible in the district round his noiue are to be given work on his Sandringham estate. Already several were at work in January', and arrangements were being made to engage more. The lord lieutenant, Mr. Russel Colman, set five or six men cutting the under-fell in his woods, and he is employing a number of extra men on garden work and in the stone pits of his estate. Mrs. Russell Colman said that they were arranging to take ou more mon at once.

Lord Leicester mafle a start on his Holkham estates with three men on tree planting. Ho hoped to soon have a considerably greater number engageu on similar work. Four married ex-service men with families were engaged by Lord and Lady Albemarle. They were to be kept on for about two months at least. Because tho estate is too poor to bear the cost of this extra labour, the wages of tho men are being paid by Lord and Lady Albemarle out of their private incomes.