UNEMPLOYMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT

REGISTRATIONS DECREASING. [PER press association.] WELLINGTON, November 14. The report of the Unemployment Board on the registration of unemployed as at October 27, shows a. further decrease in the total number of males who are wholly or partly a charge on the unemployment fund. The decrease recorded since the previous month is 2162. It is noteworthy that with the one exception a total of 59,230, which was recorded at June 9, 1934, the present total of 59,327 is the lowest experienced since March 31, 1932. A comparison of the latest returns with the figures recorded a year ago, reveals still more of an improvement in the position. The number in receipt of part time employment, under No. 5 scheme, or on sustenance, in lieu of relief work, as at October 27, 1934, was 37,003, as compared with 43,605 on October 28, 1933, or a decrease of 6602. The number in full time Employment, but assisted by wages subsidies from the Unemployment Fund, was 22,324 on the same date as compared with 31,641 a year ago, a decrease of 9317. This makes the total number who are a charge on the unemployment fund 59,327, compared with 75,246 a year ago, or a total reduction of 15,919.