SPREADING POPULATION.
ACTIVITIES IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 17. The Minister of Health, during a House of Commons debate on the report of the Royal Commission on the distribution of tho ‘industrial population, said the country was now under conditions in which planning, control, and authority were being exercised to an extent which none of the signatories of the report could have envisaged when they started their work before the war.
The dispersal of the industrial population as recommended by the Commission had been the policy of the Government in recent months. Even the Commission’s suggestion that the groat aggregation in London should be cheeked was being carried out by the course of events, at least 1,500,000 people having been lost to the metropolis by the evacuation measures. In September last the total number of refugees from Germany and Central Europe was about 82,250, of whom 74,000 came from Germany and Austria and the remainder from Czechoslovakia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 8
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159SPREADING POPULATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 8
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