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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 209, 1 June 1936, Page 5

That unemployment was increasing in the British Isles and the United States of America was the opinion expressed by Mr. C. E. Foweraker, lecturer in botany at Canterbury College, who returned this week from a trip abroad. “1 was particularly impressed during my stay in England with rhe large numbers of people employed m the Clydebank shipbuilding yards,” he said. "In America, too, a very strenuous effort is being made to provide relief work by various schemes for tie unemployed. It is noteworthy that there seems to lie some sort, of classification of unemployed in that country. Organisations such as museums or herbaria cau obtain tlie services of unemployed individuals to some extent skilled in the type of work involved. It is possible to get helpers In many intellectual walks of life from the ranks of the unemployed. 1 believe that, though there is still a. good deal of grumbling, peoples of most countries seem to regard conditions in general as improving."