KING SETS EXAMPLE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 3

KING SETS EXAMPLE

JOBS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

WORK AT SANDRINGHAM

LONDON, March 11

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 county. It is believed that there..-are more than 2000 agricultural workers, unemployed in Norfolk. There .was little hope of any of them finding work before the end of March. . The King has recently given instructions that as many unemployed men as possible in the district round his home are to be given work on h'is Sandringham estate. Already several were at work in January; and arrangements were being made to engage more.

The lord lieutenant, Mr Russell. Co-l-111 an, 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 RuSsoll CoTman said that they were arranging to take on more men at once.

Lord Leicester made a start on his Holkham estates with three men on tree-planting. tie hoped soon to have a considerably greater number engaged 011 sjmilar work.

Four married ex-service men with families were engaged by Lord and Lady Albemarle. They were to he kept on for about tw 0 months at least. Because the estate is too poor to bear the cost of this extra labour/ the wages of the men are being paid by Lord and Lady Albemarle out of their private incomes. '