The "Garden of England," the! lovely county of Kent, is gradual. ly becoming a seat of industry and the day may dawn when it will be as busy as Lancashire. Since the coal mines were opened at Tilmanstone and other places, other industries have been growing up and taking advantage of the supplies of cheap fuel. Tt has already been. Giscovered that the essential in-gradients of cement are also there in abundance and it is said that the output of Kentish cement is! con likely to be as big as that Kentish coal.
There is, of course, at the present time, a general tendency for the industrial focus to move south and Kent does not stand alone in. this respect. The transference of workers from the overcrowded northern districts to the south, where there is more employment] uvallable for them, is one of the: features of the present age and how' Tong the movement is to last no-say. One only hopes that all The cost will be about £8 millions!
year at present and it is estimated that about 500,000 widows will get pensions as a result, A novel clause states that these' pensions. will still be payable, even if the widow emigrates to some other part the British Empire. In view of the cost, there is likely to be con-fable opposition to the measure, while those who think that all widows ought to have pensions, irrespective cz their ay thing else, fi also have something to say. People are beginning wonder from where the money is to come to finance all these schemes jand the Budget is looked forward to with growing "nervousness.
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