Unemployment at Home

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 105, 5 May 1937, Page 4

Unemployment at Home

MARKED FALL IN NUMBERS. (British Official Wireless.) Received Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. RUGBY, May 3. A marked fail in the numbers of unemployed is shown in the figures published to-night by the Ministry of Labour which estimates that at April 13 the number of insured persons iu employment in Britain, exclusive of persons within the agricultural scheme, was approximately 11,394,000. This was 152,000 more than a month before and 009,000 more than a year before. At the samo date the number of registered unemployed was 1,454,443, comX* rising 1,254,640 wholly unemployed, 128,655 temporarily laid off and 71,142 normally in casual employment. This was 146,758 less than at March 15 and 386,787 less than at April 27, 1936.

Pred '.ting he would live to see the day when 100,000 tourists came to the Dominion annually, Mr. Fitzhugh Green, a distinguished American author, expressed surprise at the average New Zealander’s lack of appreciation of the beauties of his own country, in an interview at Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Green have been spending the summer at Taupo and will return to the United States to-day. They built a bungalow near the Huka Falls, where they intend to reside for some months each year.