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THE necessity for close attention to the location of industry has in recent months received repeated emphasis, and nowhere more than in the three volumes comprising the Second Industrial Survey of South Wales, undertaken for the National Industrial Development Council of Wales and Monmouthshire by Prof. H. A. Marquand and a staff of assistants with the aid of a grant from the Commissioner for Special Areas. The First Industrial Survey of South Wales was made for the Board of Trade by University College, Cardiff, in 1931, and was designed merely to determine the surplus of labour attached to the existing industries of South Wales. Nevertheless, valuable work was done, and the significant reference in the present report to the difficulties which were experienced, simply because the limited resources of the College made it impossible to keep continuously up to date the information which had been prepared and collected in the Survey, will not be overlooked by those who appreciate the value and significance of such research.
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The Special Areas and the Location of Industry: Industrial Survey of South Wales. Nature 139, 899–901 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139899a0
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