§ Sir F. SANDERSONasked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that of the total number of unemployed workers registering at the Turton Employment Exchange in the Division of Darwen, Lancashire, some 75 per cent. are from five rural districts which are distant from one and a half to three miles from Turton, involving a walk of three to five miles in all weathers at least three times weekly, and that, upon arrival at the Exchange at Turton, the Exchange being housed only in a small cottage, they have to queue up in the road outside with no protection whatever from the weather, and that this is causing sickness, expense, great distress, and loss of time in the above-mentioned five districts, he will authorise the local representative at the Employment Exchange at Turton to send out a representative three times weekly, or as often as may be considered necessary, to Bromley Cross, which is one of the five districts in question, so as to admit of the unemployed workers registering themselves and drawing their money either at the Post Office or at the mill of Messrs. J. and S. Garnett, at Bromley Cross, which is a more suitable and accessible centre for these five districts than the Turton Employment Exchange?
§ Sir M. BARLOWI have called for an immediate report on the position, and will communicate the result as soon as possible to my hon. Friend.