§ Mr. MARDY JONESasked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called by his Department to the failure of a Welsh coal miner to get any kind of work despite diligent efforts on his part to secure it both in South Wales and in the Midlands, namely, Alfred Hunt, of 11, Hilder Street, Treforest, Glamorganshire, who is only 29 years of age, in good health, a skilled miner, with wife and child; is he aware that this man went to the Midlands on the advice of the local court of referees on 21st January last and has failed to get work there to date; and will he ascertain why this man was sent to the Midlands by his officials?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDMr. Hunt was not sent to the Midlands by officials of my Department, and I cannot say whether he was advised by the court of referees to go there. I understand, however, that he is a native of the Wolverhampton district, having gone to South Wales in the last few years for coal-mining work and having been unemployed in South Wales for a year and nine months.