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family, and, where it proves necessary, for an advance of wages 
to a married man who has to wait several days after entering 
employment before he receives his first payment of wages. All 
these advances are by way of loan, and in our judgment rightly 
50; but repayment is by easy instalments and there is power, in 
approved cases, to grant a short initial moratorium. It is impor- 
tant that full publicity to these arrangements should be given 
throughout the depressed areas. 
Training Centres for Adults. 
61. These centres are in our view an important bridge from the 
depressed areas to other employment. They encourage the indi- 
vidual will to move, more particularly in the case of young 
men who have lost confidence or employability through a 
long period of idleness. Whether the trainee is placed in employ- 
ment immediately upon completion of the course—and obviously 
every effort should be made to secure this—or not, he will have 
definitely benefited from this course in outlook as well as industrial 
fitness. He will have come into contact with other occupations 
and a wider world of opportunity ; he will have regained in part his 
self-reliance, which should be an important aim in policy. 
62. In the course of our work we have advocated extension of 
these training centres and this has resulted in the establishment 
of new centres at Bristol and Dudley, in enlargements at others 
and in the steps which are now being taken to open a new centre 
in Scotland. The value of these cenfres is denied by nobody. As 
the same time there are limits to their indefinite extension—set 
by the capacity of industry to absorb trainees at the end of their 
training. The incentive to make use of his training is very much 
greater when the trainee knows that at the end of his course ern. 
ployment with prospects is almost certainly assured to him. If 
such a virtual assurance as there has been up to the present during 
the working of the scheme could no longer be given, one of its 
attractions would disappear. We have no reason, however, to 
think that the present output of the training centres is equal to the 
capacity of industry to absorb men of the character we have our- 
selves seen under training and we are satisfied that the Ministry 
of Labour should be empowered without delay to set up new 
centres to the fullest extent justifiable by the prospect of a reason- 
able degree of successful vlacing at the end of the training period 
Juvenile Unemployment Centres. 
63. These centres also we regard as a valuable bridge from the 
depressed areas. They have this year been greatly extended and in 
our view this policy should be continued and further attention should