SLIGHT INCREASE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 10

SLIGHT INCREASE

DECREASE ON AUGUST, 1933

The Unemployment Board's latest return of numbers receiving assistance from the Unemployment Fund at August 4, 1934, reveals an increase of 1818 in the total assisted, as compared with the total for the previous month. There is a substantial docreaso of 10,515, however, when the present total of 62,451 is compared with the corresponding total at August 5, 1933. The figure of 62,451 recorded in the present return is made up as follows:— 33,320 receiving part-time relief under Scheme No. 5; 4974 receiving sustenance without work; and 24,157 workers engaged in industrial undertakings with assistance by. way of subsidy.

The detailed figures are as follows: —

Applicants for work on registers of Government Employment Bureaux as at August 4, 1934: —Men on registers unplaced or- ineligible for unemployment relief for various reasons, 3840; men on registers receiving relief (excluding gold prospectors), intermittent workers (waterside workers, coalmincrs, and goods-shed employees) who aro receiving supplementary assistance under Scheme No. 5, 238; men whose relief wages are supplemented for fulltime employment, 4343; men who are receiving part-time relief under Scheme No. 5, 33,320; men receiving sustenance without' work, 4974; total, 46,715. jjote.—Of .the above-mentioned total of 42,785 receiving relief, it is estimated that 13,500 were employed -on developmental and reproductive work calculated to benefit the Dominion's primary industries.

Workers engaged in industrial undertakings whose earnings ' are subsidised from the Unemployment Fund as at August 4,1934: —Farm workers (Schmes 4a, 4b, etc.), 8108; building tradesmen and builders' labourers under Sehemo 10, 1476; workers in Public Works Department, State Forest, and local body camps under Scheme 6 (principally single men), land development 1599, highways and backblock roads 769, afforestation 843, total 3211; workers employed by Public Works Department at standard rates of pay (principally married, men),. land development D7O, roads 1841, general 128, total 2939; gold miners and prospectors, Scheme o 3575, .other 136, total 3711; miscellaneous, 131; total, 19,576.