UNEMPLOYED FALLING.
BIG DROP SHOWN IN BRITAIN. British Official Wireless. (Iteceivecl 12 noon.) RUGBY, August 4. As forecast by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, in the House of Commons last week, the number of unemployed in Britain last month was down by 50,000. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at July 20 the number of insured persons in employment, exclusive of agricultural workers, was approximately 10,895,000. This was 03,000 more than in the month before.
Unemployed persons totalled 1,002,072 —comprising 1,285,805 wholly unemployed, 290,007 temporarily laid off, and 70,200 normally in casual employment. This total was 50,004 less than at June 22, 1930, and 320.809 less than at July 22, 1935.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 7
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113UNEMPLOYED FALLING. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 7
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