BRITISH INDUSTRY.
RECORD ABSORPTION. UNEMPLOYMENT DECLINES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 6. Continued economic improvement 16 evidenced in the latest unemployment returns, which shows an increase ot employment in the great majority oi the principal industries, with the number of persons in employment the highest ever recorded. The Ministry of Labour estimates that at March 23 there were approximately 10,630,000 insured persons in employment. This was 155.000 more than a month before and 411,000 more Ilian a year before. At the same date the numbers of unemployed on the registers were 1,881,531, comprising 1,560,574 wholly unemployed, 235,280 temporarily laid off and 85,677 normally in casual employment. The total was 143,490 less than on February 24 and 272,339 less than at the corresponding date of 1935.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1936, Page 9
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125BRITISH INDUSTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1936, Page 9
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