AUSTRALIA'S IDLE.
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURE FALLS (Received 11 a.m.) CANBERRA, this day. Tlic unemployment figures for August of this year, compiled by the Commonwealth statistician, show the lowest percentage of unemployment recorded in Australia since May, 1930. The August figure was 20.4 per cent. In May, 1930, the figure was 18.5 per cent.
The maximum point was in May, 1932, when the proportion of unemployed was 30 per cent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 7
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68AUSTRALIA'S IDLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 7
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