THE UNEMPLOYED
TOTAL OF 70,502
Figures issued by the Unemployment Board for the week ended May 13, show that men on the unemployment register on that day or transferred therefrom to schemes other than scheme No. 5, totalled 70,502. This represents an increase of '2117 as compared with tho previous total on April 15. Of the 70,502 men, 5830 were ineligible for relief for various reasons. This left 64,672 a charge on the board's funds. These 64,672 men.are engaged as follows:—Scheme No. 5, 48,722; subsidised employment on farms under schemes i Nos. 4a, 4b, farm camp scheme, etc., | 9242. Camp scheme: Land improvement and development, 2411; highways and backblock roads, 2499; afforestation (State Forest Service),, 344: Building scheme subsidy, 753; gold prospecting schemes (exclusive of 2637 men prospecting under scheme No.. 5), 579; miscellaneous (subsidised employment >iv various industries), 122. Of the 64,672 men it is estimated thatat least 33,000 men are engaged on work of a definite reproductive and developmental nature in connection with the Dominion's primary industries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 13
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169THE UNEMPLOYED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 13
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