London, Apr. 26, The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, announced to-day that Sir Arthur Rose was to be the commissioner to investigate the "derelict areas in Scotland.
He, together with the commissioners for other districts already announced—namely Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, Captain Euan Wallace and Sir Wyndham Portal—to-day discussed their tasks with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chainberlain, and the Minister for Labour, Sir Henry Betterton, and will be work without delay.
'The Government' decision. to send special investigators to places most severely it by the depression "and which, from various causes, are not obtaining a share in recovery, has been widely welcomed by all par Mamentary parties and by trade union organizations,—Wireless Throuxn Reuter.
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