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Rural Workers, Cheshire

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 April 1948.

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Photo of Sir Arthur Harvey Sir Arthur Harvey , Macclesfield 12:00, 8 April 1948

asked the Minister of Health how many cottages for farm workers are being erected in Cheshire during 1948; and what progress is being made.

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