Chch jobless number down 764
: Figures released yesterday fdr March show an increase oi 12.135 on last year in the number of people registered as unemployed or involved in jdb-creation schemes, according to the Press Association. J Last month, 46,984 people wjjre registered as unemployed and 28,795 involved in public and private sector job-creation schemes, said tlfe Minister of Labour (Mr Bolger) yesterday. . |This was a drop of 10,135 from February, usual because of the" number of school-leavers seeking jobs aijd’ tertiary education students out of work during tlieir holidays. : ■By the end of last month, 1205 school-leavers who had been registered as unemployed in February had found jobs. The number of sqhool-leavers out of work is ntlw 4816, 719 less than at the same time last year.. ‘The biggest increase in unemployed last month was in’ Rotorua (up 114) and the biggest reductions in r ffristchurch (down 764), Auckland (down 429), Hastings (down 395), and Manukau (down 387). job placements
and the end of the university vacation led to 764 fewer being registered as unemployed in Christchurch last month, according to the Labour Department. The number of job seekers in Christchurch .dropped slightly from 6046 in February to a total of 5968 registered unemployed last month. The 686 students no longer registered accounted for most of the 764 reduction from a February total of 6732 registered unemployed. In March last year, 7069 people were on the dole. Last month’s total included 445 school-leavers, compared with 668 in February. More people were working in public and private sector subsidised job-creation schemes, 4061 compared with 3969 the previous month. The department’s district superintendent, Mr W. T. Holland, said that more than 80 per cent of the 115 young people who completed skills training courses had found jobs and another 130 were due to finish training courses. Employers were also taking advantage of additional job subsidies with almost 300 placements made.
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