BRITISH TRADES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 7

BRITISH TRADES.

Brisk Demand for Products of South England.

RELIEVING- UNEMPLOYMENT.

(Received 12 noon.) . KUGBY, August 6. In the annual report issued to-day by the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, it is pointed out that the flourishing condition of the trades in the south of England has helped to restore the balance of employment during 1929. •' ~ Employment in industry generally was far from satisfactory, and many of the leading trades of the country experienced very difficult conditions, working far below their normal capacity. Among the trades that flourished, how'ever, particularly in the south of England, were those connected with motor ear building, wireless, gramophones, electrical engineering, certain branches of chemical works, furniture, artificial silk, paper manufacture and sugar refining. The demand for the products of many of the miscellaneous trades carried on in the south, particularly in and around London, was so brisk as to cause in some works shortage of suitable workers and to require considerable extensions of;factory buildings. The Ministry of Labour states that the unemployed in Britain number 2,1011,467, of whom 1,257,982 are wholly unemployed.