UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
Decrease of 5065 in Year IMPROVEMENT OF POSITION (By Telsgraph-Presi Association.) WELLINGTON, July 20. A report of the Unemployment Board on registrations of unemployed as at July 6 reveals an increase in the total number of males who are wholly or partly a charge on the Unemployment Fund. The present total of 55,568 represents an increase of 2327 on the corresponding figure recorded last month. The number in receipt of part-time employment under Scheme 5 or on sustenance in lieu of relief work as at July 6 was 38,085, compared with 37,151 on July 7, 1934, an increase of 034.
The number in full-time employment but assisted by wages-subsidies from the Unemployment Fund was 17,483, compared with 23,482 a year ago, a decrease of 5999. This makes the total number who are a charge on the Unemment Fund 55,568, compared with 69,633 a year ago, a reduction of 5065.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 182, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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