HC Deb 27 March 1930 vol 237 cc631-2W
Sir R. ASKE

asked the Minister of Labour whether she is aware that unemployed women living at Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, have to go to the Wallsend or Heaton Exchange in order to register; that this involves many of these women walking in going and returning a distance of four to six miles; and whether she will make arrangements whereby pressed areas to employment in Rochdale; of the boys, four were placed in hotel service as page boys and two as little piecers in the cotton industry. The girls were placed in domestic employment. No boys have been transferred to Oldham but one girl was placed there in domestic employment. Three boys and 16 girls have been transferred to Manchester. Two of the boys were placed in the electrical trade and one in bedding manufacture. The girls were placed in domestic employment.

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