ARMAMENT ORDERS.
Month’s Increase of £16,000,000. (British Official Wireless). Rugby, April 8. In the House of Commons last night, in moving the second reading of Government’s Special Areas Biill, he Under secretary of State for Scotand, Mr. H. J. Scrymgeour (Wedderburn), said that in the past month armament orders given to the special areas had inireased from £41,000,000 to £57,000,000. CommiDixien-t-s on schemes 1 of assistance for local authorities, development councils and social improvement in England had increased from £8,500,000 to £10,500,000, he said. Unemployment in the special areas had fallen by more than 10,000, and die Special Areas Commissioner had been empowered to settle a further 100 families on the land.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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112ARMAMENT ORDERS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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