Unemployment Registrations
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION FOE NOVEMBER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. On November 21, 1936, the total number of males' -wholly or partly dependent on the employment promotion fund was 42,341. The following table shows the position at October 4, 1930, and November 21, 1936 respectively:— Registered but not eligible or not placed on relief, 2,173 and 2,258. Receiving rationed relief-work, 12,552 and 11,141. Receiving sustenance, without work, 24,301 and 22,065. Receiving full-time employment wholly or partly paid from the Employment Promotion Fund, 7,054 and 6,874. Totals, 46,140 and 42,341.
The decrease during four-weekly period ended November 21, 1936, was 3,799. A comparison between the figures for November 21, 1936, and those for November 23, 1935, shoivs a reduction of 14,905.
Britain's Unemployment Figures (British Official Wireless.) Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m, RUGBY, Dec. 7. The British Minister of Labour estimates that at November 20 the number of insured persons aged 17 to 64 in employment in Britain exclusive of agricultural workers, was approximately 11,200,000 or 17,000 more than the month before and 56,000 more than tho yeat before. At the same date the numbers registered as unemployed were 1,623,602, comprising 1,367,492 wholly unemployed and 158,643 temporarily laid off. Tho total w r as 31,792 more than at October 26 but 294,960 less than the year before. Of the increase of 11,792 over the previous month agricultural workers accounted, for approximately 9000 and part of tho increase may therefore be attributed to tho operation of the Act under which the benefit became payable as from November 5, 1936, to workers insured under the Agricultural Act. Occupations under the Act which showed the most marked change last month were in the building industry where unemployment increased by 18,488 and coal-mining in which there were 15,103 fewer unemployed. Both were seasonal movements.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 4
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