NO UNEMPLOYMENT
EVERY FIT MAN WORKING MINISTER'S CLAIM [Per United Press Association.] WANGANUI, September 16. Addressing an audience at Fordell to-day, the Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) repeated his assertion that there was not an able-bodied man in the country to-day out of employment. In 1936, Mr Armstrong said, the amount paid in wages in New Zealand was £66,209,000, and in 1938 the amount was £91,053,000—an increase of over £24,000,000. The income of the people from sources other than wages and salaries increased in the same period by £23,905,000. For every extra eightpence collected in unemployment taxation the people, therefore, had an extra 19s 4d to spend. The Government had been accused of drafting all the unemployed into public works camps, but of 79,200 unemployed only 18,000 had gone to public works camps. In 1928, said the Minister, there were 10,227 registered apprentices, and in 1935, when the Government took office, the number had decreased to 3,329. There were now close on 9,000, and it would not be long before the 10,000 tnark was reached.
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Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 32
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177NO UNEMPLOYMENT Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 32
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