UNEMPLOYED REGISTRY
LAST WEEK'S RETURN
The total number of unemployed registered at Labour Bureaux, throughout New Zealand for the week ended 23rd March was 33,945, compared with 31,678 for tho previous seven days^ 'an apparent increase of 2268. . Beturns supplied by the Minister of Labour (tho Hon. S. G. Smith), howover, showed that although now or renewed applications for work totalled 54.02 during the week, 21,618 men wero qualified for and placed in work under tho Unemployment Board's second and fifth schemes, which meant that there was an actual decrease for the week of 3114. Particulars of registrations iv the I main centres for tho week under review arc:— With Without, ' dependants, dependants. Auckland .. '5371 22.15 Wellington .'. 12372 20H9 Chrisfchurch . 2540 17;":-! Duncdin- .... 1353 1377 Invercargill .. 577 355 The total registratio7is in the centres, with the figures for the previous week in parentheses, were: Auckland, 7600' (6D76); Wellington, 4401 (4257); Christchurch, 4293 (3931) Duucdin, 2730 (2571); Invercargill, 932 (SOS). Excluding tho men placed on the above-mentioned schemes, the position regarding registrations was as follows at 23rd March: Auckland, 1712; Wellington, 1284; Christchurch, 1143; Duncdin, 594; Invcrcargill, 209; other towns, 7380; total, 12,328.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 11
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192UNEMPLOYED REGISTRY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 11
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