Cites F. Kemp
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'Training and Resettlement of Disabled Persons

KEMP, F. - Burwash.

 

Your minute of 3rd April has been passed to me by E.M. Wadhurst, the matter having been dealt with by me as Group D.R.O.

A visit was paid to Mr. Kemp on 5th April in company with the Technical Officer, and we are both unhappy regarding the case. The bench and equipment (with the exception of 4 small items not yet delivered) were installed in Mr. Kemp's house on 1st March, and by 5th April he had only done about six small jobs (heeling) and had so far done no soling. r Kemp will do no advertising by means of a card in his window or a small board in the front garden as he says he doesn't like the idea. In view of the fact that Burwash is a small village surrounded by other small villages, each of which already boasts a boot and shoe repairer, it is difficult to see how Mr. Kemp will ever secure any appreciable amount of work without some measure of publicity of his own volition.

It is significant that when I arrived at Mr. Kemp's house he was not boot-repairing but rug-making. A further visit will be paid in early May to see what, if any, progress has been made.'