OUT OF WORK
IHSPRBSSION AT DUNEDIN
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Posrt.") . DUNEDIN, 28th .Tune. Unemployment is increasing steadily in Dunedin. According to figures compiled ixr the Labour Department, 344 men are out of work. Although men are being continually placed, the ranks of the unemployed are. being.: slowly swelled by men who during the summer were engaged in seasonal occupations and by men who have been dismissed owing to slackness in trade. Up till the middle of the month moot commercial houses were reporting excellent trade, but business: has fallen off since then, particularly in "the way of country Orders. Thia depression was coincident, with the earthquakes, and the opinion-is expressed that settlers quickly became ;cautious, fearing that New- Zealand's credit .. would be damaged overseas. Reassuring reports from London that any misapprehensions are being successfully wiped out_ should assist in re-establishing the optimistic tone whioh has sounded in (business wAmkicma wp to thia month.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 150, 29 June 1929, Page 11
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156OUT OF WORK Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 150, 29 June 1929, Page 11
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