§ Sir WILLIAM JENKINSI beg to present a humble Petition from county councils, city councils, and other local authorities in South Wales and Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Pembrokeshire and from other bodies and persons interested in or concerned with the improvement of social and industrial conditions within the areas of these authorities. The petition shows that in South Wales alone there are 142,636 persons unemployed, or over 34 per cent. of the total number of insured persons; that this excessive unemployment has persisted during the past nine years, notwithstanding the fact that since the year 1921 there has been a net loss of population by migration of 280,000 persons, and that the provisions of the Special Areas (Development and Improvement) Act, 1934, have proved inadequate for the purposes the Act. Wherefore, your Petitioners pray that the Act may be so amended as to confer on the Commissioners acting thereunder such further powers as are necessary for enabling full effect to be given to the objects of the Act, and that provision may be made by the establishment of a Committee of the Cabinet, or otherwise, for co-ordinating the functions of Government Departments in regard to matters which form the subject of recommendations of the said Commissioners.