• Though schemes for the organized transfer of labour from
the depressed areas are still almost non-existent,. labour is transferring itself voluntarily on a not incon- siderable scale, particularly to the London area, with its constantly increasing crop of light industries. This pro- duces some curious results. A country school not thirty miles from London is now half full of children speaking some strange-sounding Welsh or North Country dialect. And it is actually true that the northerners in particular have found the local speech so incomprehensible that, a teacher has had to be imported from Durham to deal with them. This applies only to the infants, who will no doubt soon outgrow their disability. I refuse to believe that an adult Cornishman and an adult Tynesider with ordinary. elementary school education would have any difficulty in understanding each other.
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