FEWER UNEMPLOYED
ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, March 4. A return issued by the Labour Department shows a decline of 13,700 in the unemployment figures, compared with those for February 13, 1937, said the Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) to-day, and a decline of 815 compared with the January figures. The figures are:—Registered but not on relief, 1004- on sustenance awaiting placement, 3502; on scheme No. 5 relief, 2735—a total of 7241. Those on sustenance totally unfit for employment from health and other reasons, but being afforded relief from the employment promotion fund, number 8000. m _ m _ mm
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 4
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