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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 9

Although unemployment in the Dominion increased from 1897 in Apri) last vear to 3114 oh June 4 last, the Secretary of Labour, reporting to Parliament, anticipates a decrease in the figures, due partly to the improved trade balance and to large numbers of applicants for work being sent to Government works by local bodies subsidised by the Government. “It is considered by commercial men,” he states, “that the restored favourable- trade balance should shortly have the effect of creatine a- demand for all the employable labour. It has been asserted that the actual number of unemployed is several times greater than that shown on the Department’s books. It is true that many workers, especially in country districts, havenot at first registered for various reasons*, in most cases because they have thought it useless to do so until there was a prospect of obtaining employment thereby. The result has therefore been that when employment lias been provided in sarnie of these places the number of applicants lias immediately increased.”