FEWER UNEMPLOYED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 10

FEWER UNEMPLOYED

December Registrations TOTAL DOWN TO 54,707 Tiie report of the Unemployment Board on Hie registration of unemployed us at December 22, 1934, shows a still further decline in tiie total number of males who are wholly or partly a charge on the Unemployment Fund. The present total is 54,707, or 1732 fewer than tiie total of 50,439 recorded on November 24, 1934. A comparison of the latest returns witli the figures recorded a year ago shows the present position to be very satisfactory. The number in receipt of part-time employment under Scheme No. 5, or on sustenance in lieu of relief work as at December 22, 1934, was 31.226 compared with 37,870 on December 23, 1933. or a decrease of 3044. The number in full-time employment, but assisted by wages subsidies from rhe Unemployment Fund, was 20,481 on the same date, compared with 29.870 a year ago, a decrease of 9.359. Tins makes the total number who are a charge on the Unemployment Fluid 54,707 as compared with 67.740 a year ago, or a total reduction of 13,033.