UNEMPLOYED IN DOMINION
TOTAL 69,300 REGISTERED. OVER; 63,900 CHARGE ON BOARD. rpy Teiegmr>n—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. Registrations of unemployed for the week ended, on November 26 last totalled 69,311, according to the return issued by the New Zealand Unemployment Board. This figure represents a reduction of 2660 compared with the registrations a month previously. Of the 69,311 unemployed 5348 were ineligible for relief for various reasons: This leaves 63,963 men as a charge on the board’s funds. Of this number it is estimated that at least 32.000 men are engaged on work of a definitely reproductive and developmental nature in connection with the Dominion’s nrimary industries.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 7 December 1932, Page 9
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