SEPARATE MINISTER FOR WALES NOT FAVOURED
Recd. 9.10 p.m. London, Oct. 29. Sir Stafford Cripps, outlining in the House of Commons last night, the Government’s industrial programme for Wales, rejected a proposal for a special Welsh Minister, saying that if Welsh matters were to become the primary interest of a Welsh Minister they could not but fail in their treatment as part of an over-all national plan. They would tend to become segregated from the main stream of the country’s industrial life. The programme Sir Stafford Cripps announced was for the building of 200 factories in South Wales, two-thirds of which would be State-financed to cope with the local problem of 125,000 unemployed. He added that if not held up by the shortage of materials, the factories would be substantially completed by the end of 1947,
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1946, Page 5
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