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should be extended to the fullest extent justifiable by the prospect of a reasonable degree of success- ful placing at the end of the training period, and also that the special efforts made by the Employment Exchange Services to secure openings for these men when they are trained should be continued.
(1) "EXTENSION OF SYSTEM OF JUVENILE
TRAINING CENTRES"
To adopt the following recommendation of the Unemployment Policy Committee:-
To approve the proposal to increase as may be necessary the centres established to give training to unemployed boys in the depressed areas, and to continue the special efforts now being made by the Ministry to find employment for the boys in other parts of the country, and to request the Ministry of Labour, in associa- tion with the Board of Education, to make every effort to induce Local Authorities who are responsi- ble for juvenile employment que 8- tions to achieve results in the direction of finding vacancies for juveniles commensurate with the size of their areas and the opportunities existing there.
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(m) "FOREST HOLDINGS". To accept the recommendation of the Unemployment Policy Committee against the proposal of the Industrial Transference Board that the plans of the Forestry Com- mission should be accelerated so as to provide within, say, the next three years, not less than 1,000 Forest Holdings for miners. Further, that the Treasury should issue an instruction to the Forestry Commis- sioners that among new applicants preference should be given to miners in any Forest Foldings that may be provided.
(n) "GRANTS FOR WORK IN RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT"
This question was reserved for further consideration, but the view of the Committee was accepted that no useful purpose would be served by a reference inthe Prime Minister's speech to the question of Unemployment Relief Works.
(o) ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
That, in order to assist the Chancellor of the Exchequer in meeting the
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