"EXAGGERATED."

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"EXAGGERATED."

unemployment problem IN newjealand ® 1 COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. [THE PEEB3 Spaciil taiiu.] ' WELLINGTON, M&y m Speaking at the National foduiL Conference to-day, the "2 Sliailer Weston, presidont of the N. f. ealand Employers' Federation that many of the statements made ,? garding unemployment i a N * were exaggerated, m.* JJ* compared the position in New S. M v. ith that in other country it ° 4 found that New Zealand Si L WaS Mr Mr Weston proceeded to Mt L figures comparing New Zealand £*3 America and England. Tattinn^? outside estimate of unemplS Sf New Zealand at 10,000-that w usi workers estimate—and taking I adult working population, mall "5* female at 435,000, the proportion - unemployed was one in 43.5. K ' America the number of imemnJotaS had been varioujly estimated at k tween 4,000,000 and '8,000,000. W number of actual workers wai bW at 35.000 000 and the - proportion § unemployed was one in 8.55. -TnriJ with a population of 45,000,000 fi ' ''oo male and female *orM and the number of unemployed *h Estimated at just over a million "M made the proportion of miemnlmi one in 11.94. It would thus be & that other countries were m & ft worse position than New Zealand