UNEMPLOYMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

iiAPIDLY GROWING PROBLEM.

((special to. the Star) WELLINGTON, April L.. It is an unfortunate fact that tlie amount of unemployment in New Zealand to-day is larger than at the corresponding period of last year. The ngures have grown rapidly this month, and the Government's relief works ar» extending. There were over 1000 men on the State relief works at the be^in-' mng of April, but the total has grown' substantially since that date, and it is estimated that throughout the Dominion over 5000 men are without work ' lo provide them with employment wiii be a task fo r local authorities and pn- i vate individuals as well as the Govern-' ment which is limited by the funds available for this special purpose Pro vision has been made by the Government, however, to absorb another 1500 men on relief works as the pressure ot unemployment grows. i Analysis of the Dominion's unem-! ployed figures shows that Auckland is1 best off of the four large centres, and that laranaki and Wanganui districts have provided 200 of the total men on' relief works, equalling Wellington's Q uOu-ct, .