DISTRESSED AREAS.
PROVISION OF WORK. extension of camp system. (Official wireless.) (Received Dec. '29, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 28. The provision next year for more camps lor the unemployed from the distressed areas of the United Kingdom it is understood will receive serious consideration. It is hoped to double this year’s number of 15 hutment .semi-perman-ent camps and 12 supplementary tented summer camps. Additional camp sites are being provided as before by the Forestry Commission in the woodland areas. The object of the .scheme,, which has proved most successful, is to provide relays of unemployed men with 12 weeks’ open-air work in healthy conditions, including good food, and free supply of necessary clothing. The annual capacity of a Government Hutment camp is four relays of 200 men and the supplementary tented camps reoelve two relays of between 100 and 200 men in the summer months.
The camps are in charge of,.a small staff provided by the Ministry of Labour.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 5
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