UNEMPLOYMENT
LATEST RETURN
REDUCTION OF 15,919
The unemployment return to December 18, 1937, including those on the register who are for health or other reasons unfit for employment, discloses a reduction of 15,919 as against the corresponding figure to December 19, 1936. The reduction compared with the figures for November last is 2909.
Details of the December returns are: —Eegistered but not on relief, 737; on sustenance awaiting placement, 4294; on scheme No. 5 relief, 3336; total, 367. On sustenance, totally unfit for employment for health or other reasons, but. being afforded relief from the Employment Promotion Fund, 8000. For tile four-weekly period under review, the expenditure from the fund ■under the heading of promotion of employment, as distinct from relief expenditure, is estimated at £207,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1938, Page 14
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126UNEMPLOYMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1938, Page 14
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