ABSTRACT
The growth of holidays with pay seems likely to involve a great expansion of the tourist trade in the South-west. The level of employment in Devon should be sufficiently high without any great addition to manufacturing industry, and many of the pre-war difficulties in the way of industrial development in the South-west remain. During the course of the Survey a plan for the reconstruction of South-west Cornwall, centred round the re-development of Camborne-Redruth as a regional capital, was received from a local source. The number of hired workers on agricultural holdings in Cornwall fell by 3,250 between 1931 and 1938, and, while the small farmers who predominate in Cornwall were not driven out of the industry, their standard of living and of farming in many cases deteriorated. The main economic problems in Devon seem likely to remain, as in the past, those of agriculture and the tourist industry.
