MORE WORKLESS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 250, 18 July 1931, Page 8

MORE WORKLESS

Last Week’s Heavy Total

NO JOBS FOR OVER 8000

Registrations Now 47,000

Unemployed registrations In NewZealand for the week ended July 13 constituted a new record. The total recorded at labour bureaux was 47,203, as compared with 46,359 for the previous week. In supplying the figures yesterday, the Minister of Labour, Hon. S. G. Smith, said that the apparent Increase was 844. , The number of men who qualified under the No, 5 scheme and were placed In work totalled 33,557; 4500 were engaged under the 4A scheme, and 700 under the 4B scheme. The total number of men for whom no work was found was 8446, but it was probable, said the Minister, that the majority of these were not eligible for employment during the week under the board’s scheme of rationing, while others could not be suitably placed on account of their physical disability. Particulars of the registrations In the main centres were as follow

The total registrations in., the main centres were as follow, figures for the previous we,ek being In parentheses:— Auckland, '6588 ( 6539) ; Wellington, 4431 (4313); Christchurch, 5073 (4950); Dunedin, 2931 (2848); Invercargill, 1176 (1115). Taking the final figures of the return on their face value, It compares as follows with previous returns: —

With Without dependants. dependants. Auckland 2,012 3,670 Wellington ... 2,250 2,175 Christchurch .. 3,173 1,000 Dunedin 1,<M2 l,2$0 Invercargill .. 815 361

ApplicaTemporarily Unemtions. working. ployed. May 28 j. . 89,653 28,760 10,793 Juns 1 . . 42,503 . 35,077 7,446 June.8 . . 43.543 36,914 6,439 June 15 , 41,482 38,620 5,662. June 22 . 44,521 33,387 11,134 June 23 . . 45,201 30,379 (5,885 July 6 . . 46,359 30,696 6,663 July 13 . . 47,203 38,767 8,446